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 |
|---|---|
| libidinous | having or marked by lustful desires : lascivious |
| sly | wise in practical affairs |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| gaffe | a social or diplomatic blunder |
| necromancy | conjuration (see conjure |
| auxiliary | offering or providing help |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| sensual | relating to or consisting in the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of appetite : fleshly |