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 |
|---|---|
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
| myriad | ten thousand |
| epoch | an event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period or development |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| cache | a hiding place especially for concealing and preserving provisions or implements |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| affluence | abundance of property : wealth |
| prodigy | a highly talented child or youth |
| primal | original |