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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WordMeaning
rabblea disorganized or confused collection of things
pinnacea light sailing ship
doteto exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage
censurea judgment involving condemnation
antecedentsa substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him")
floraa treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period
mustera representative specimen (see specimen
foreshadowto represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure
stealtha cautious, unobtrusive, and secretive way of moving or proceeding intended to avoid detection
gyroscopea wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin