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 |
|---|---|
| gambit | a chess opening in which a player risks one or more pawns or a minor piece to gain an advantage in position |
| halfhearted | lacking heart, spirit, or interest |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| waffle | a crisp cake of batter baked in a waffle iron |
| hurl | rush |
| premeditate | to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand |
| disarray | a lack of order or sequence : confusion |
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |