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 |
|---|---|
| migratory | of, relating to, or characterized by migration |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| debutante | one making a debut (see debut |
| nexus | connection |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength : flimsy |
| disconsolate | cheerless |
| mortar | a sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |