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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ennui | a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction : boredom |
| lateral | of or relating to the side |
| litter | a covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger |
| machiavellian | of or relating to Machiavelli or Machiavellianism |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| unguent | a soothing or healing salve : ointment |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |