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 |
|---|---|
| dismiss | to permit or cause to leave |
| apolitical | having no interest or involvement in political affairs |
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out |
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| compilation | the act or process of compiling |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |
| shangri-la | a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection : utopia |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| awe | an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime |