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 |
|---|---|
| aria | air |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| minute | the 60th part of an hour of time : 60 seconds |
| pinnacle | an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress |
| subsume | to include or place within something larger or more comprehensive : encompass as a subordinate or component element |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| transport | to transfer or convey from one place to another |