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 |
|---|---|
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| inestimable | incapable of being estimated or computed |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| nurse | a person who cares for the sick or infirm |
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| wary | marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger |
| mordant | biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : incisive |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |