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 |
|---|---|
| liability | the quality or state of being liable |
| fiend | devil |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| calligraphy | artistic, stylized, or elegant handwriting or lettering |
| exalt | to raise in rank, power, or character |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| bewitch | to influence or affect especially injuriously by witchcraft |
| gouge | a chisel with a concavo-convex cross section |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |