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 |
|---|---|
| purchase | to obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy |
| skittish | lively or frisky in action : capricious |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| consanguineous | of the same blood or origin |
| forthcoming | being about to appear or to be produced or made available |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| clime | climate |
| deify | to make a god of |
| ascribe | to refer to a supposed cause, source, or author : to say or think that (something) is caused by, comes from, or is associated with a particular person or thing |