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 |
|---|---|
| swerve | to turn aside abruptly from a straight line or course : deviate |
| tensile | capable of tension : ductile |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |
| sully | to make soiled or tarnished : defile |
| homily | a usually short sermon |
| kinetic | of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith |
| accommodate | to provide with something desired, needed, or suited |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |
| paltry | inferior |