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 |
|---|---|
| ovoid | resembling an egg in shape : ovate |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| inductive | of, relating to, or employing mathematical or logical induction |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| fiasco | a complete failure |
| edict | a proclamation having the force of law |
| implode | to burst inward |
| pedestrian | commonplace |