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
impassivegiving no sign of feeling or emotion : expressionless
oscillateto swing backward and forward like a pendulum
potiona mixture of liquids (such as liquor or medicine)
pell-mellin mingled confusion or disorder
azurethe blue color of the clear sky
outwitto get the better of by superior cleverness : outsmart
mutilateto cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect
excisean internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity
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
recuperateto get back : regain