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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recast | to cast again |
| execute | to carry out fully : put completely into effect |
| spontaneity | the quality or state of being spontaneous |
| languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |
| eulogy | a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| asteroid | any of the small rocky celestial bodies found especially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |