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 |
|---|---|
| loom | a frame or machine for interlacing (see interlace |
| prosperous | auspicious |
| itinerary | the route of a journey or tour or the proposed outline of one |
| reprobation | the act of reprobating : the state of being reprobated |
| prank | trick |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |
| psychosomatic | of, relating to, concerned with, or involving both mind and body |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |