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 |
|---|---|
| arcade | a long arched building or gallery |
| obeisance | a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| fete | festival |
| ragamuffin | a ragged often disreputable person |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| incessant | continuing or following without interruption : unceasing |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| reputed | having a good repute : reputable |