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 |
|---|---|
| impassive | giving no sign of feeling or emotion : expressionless |
| oscillate | to swing backward and forward like a pendulum |
| potion | a mixture of liquids (such as liquor or medicine) |
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| azure | the blue color of the clear sky |
| outwit | to get the better of by superior cleverness : outsmart |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| recuperate | to get back : regain |