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 |
|---|---|
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |
| vindicate | to free from allegation or blame |
| congruent | congruous |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| tactful | having or showing tact |
| plebeian | a member of the Roman plebs |
| reconnaissance | a preliminary survey to gain information |