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 |
|---|---|
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| phenomena | phenomenon |
| nib | bill |
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |
| terminus | either end of a transportation line or travel route |
| defunct | no longer living, existing, or functioning |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| bugaboo | an imaginary object of fear |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| institute | something that is instituted: such as |