GRE Word List
DICHOTOMY
a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities
The meaning of the word dichotomy is a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| unison | identity in musical pitch |
| habituate | to make used to something : accustom |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| elixir | a substance held capable of changing base metals into gold |
| anthology | a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music |
| philanthropist | one who makes an active effort to promote human welfare : a person who practices philanthropy |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| whittle | a large knife |
| anesthetic | of, relating to, or capable of producing anesthesia |