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 |
|---|---|
| jaunt | a usually short journey or excursion undertaken especially for pleasure |
| forfeit | something forfeited or subject to being forfeited (as for a crime, offense, or neglect of duty) : penalty |
| distraught | agitated with doubt or mental conflict or pain |
| flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn |
| substantiate | to give substance or form to : embody |
| illicit | not permitted : unlawful |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| untenable | not able to be defended |