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 |
|---|---|
| devious | wandering |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| oblivion | the fact or condition of not remembering : a state marked by lack of awareness or consciousness |
| carnivorous | subsisting or feeding on animal tissues |
| veer | to change direction or course |
| riveting | having the power to fix the attention : engrossing |
| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |
| illusive | based on or producing illusion : illusory |
| relapse | the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |