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 |
|---|---|
| inevitable | incapable of being avoided or evaded |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| dysentery | a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection |
| prepossessing | creating prejudice |
| extrude | to force, press, or push out |
| concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |