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 |
|---|---|
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong feeling |
| blemish | to spoil by a flaw |
| piscatorial | piscatory |
| formality | compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony |
| saturate | to satisfy fully : satiate |
| convulsion | an abnormal violent and involuntary contraction or series of contractions of the muscles |
| conformity | correspondence in form, manner, or character : agreement |
| candor | unreserved, honest, or sincere expression : forthrightness |