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 |
|---|---|
| consign | to give over to another's care |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| caldron | a large kettle or boiler |
| parched | deprived of natural moisture |
| controvert | to dispute or oppose by reasoning |
| marrow | bone marrow |
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| warp | a series of yarns extended lengthwise in a loom and crossed by the weft |
| patrician | a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome |