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 |
|---|---|
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| transport | to transfer or convey from one place to another |
| coax | to influence or gently urge by caressing or flattering : wheedle |
| haggard | not tamed |
| fester | to generate pus |
| degradation | the act or process of degrading |
| institute | something that is instituted: such as |
| rapture | an expression or manifestation of ecstasy or passion |
| whine | to utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |