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 |
|---|---|
| funereal | of or relating to a funeral |
| predicament | the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |
| chaplain | a clergyman in charge of a chapel |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| hothead | a hotheaded person |
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| deplore | to feel or express grief for |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |