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 |
|---|---|
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| crinkle | to form many short bends or ripples |
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| predispose | to dispose in advance |
| nourish | nurture |
| arboreal | of, relating to, or resembling a tree |
| figure | a number symbol : numeral |