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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| paramount | superior to all others : supreme |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| leaven | a substance (such as yeast) used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid |
| heterodox | contrary to or different from an acknowledged standard, a traditional form, or an established religion : unorthodox |
| amphibian | an amphibious organism |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |
| drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |