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 |
|---|---|
| stentorian | extremely loud |
| epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| hue_and_cry | outcry; loud cry or clamor; strong protest; Ex. hue and cry against the new rule |
| jurisprudence | the science or philosophy of law |
| supererogatory | observed or performed to an extent not enjoined or required |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| fluster | to put into a state of agitated confusion : upset |