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 |
|---|---|
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| vixen | a female fox |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| rightful | just |
| luminary | a person of prominence or brilliant achievement |
| depravity | a corrupt act or practice |
| reproach | an expression of rebuke or disapproval |