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 |
|---|---|
| caption | the part of a legal document that shows where, when, and by what authority it was taken, found, or executed |
| transmute | to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form |
| codify | to reduce to a code |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| erratic | having no fixed course : wandering |
| travesty | a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation |
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
| estimable | capable of being estimated |
| armada | a fleet of warships |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |