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 |
|---|---|
| ragamuffin | a ragged often disreputable person |
| pillory | a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked |
| dour | stern |
| impetus | a driving force : impulse |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| feign | to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| warp | a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft |