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 |
|---|---|
| cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth : avarice |
| placid | serenely free of interruption or disturbance |
| wrench | to move with a violent twist |
| embroider | to ornament with needlework |
| illusion | a misleading image presented to the vision : optical illusion |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| guy | man |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| stem_from | arise from; originate from |