GRE Word List
COLLOQUIAL
used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation
The meaning of the word colloquial is used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| plane | airplane |
| dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |
| politic | political |
| odium | the state or fact of being subjected to hatred and contempt as a result of a despicable act or blameworthy circumstance |
| dissemble | to hide under a false appearance |
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually : penniless |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |