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 |
|---|---|
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| mischance | bad luck |
| glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| viable | capable of living |
| dismiss | to permit or cause to leave |
| hummock | a rounded knoll or hillock |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| peevish | querulous in temperament or mood : fretful |
| bid | to offer (a price) whether for payment or acceptance |