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 |
|---|---|
| narcissist | an individual showing symptoms of or affected by narcissism: such as |
| fissure | a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting |
| demise | death |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |