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 |
|---|---|
| sublimate | sublime |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| legislature | a body of persons having the power to legislate |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |
| rectify | to set right : remedy |
| predicament | the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication |