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 |
|---|---|
| obviate | to anticipate and prevent (something, such as a situation) or make (an action) unnecessary |
| impuissance | weakness |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| prevail | to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| parochial | of or relating to a church parish |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| ennui | a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction : boredom |
| conspiracy | the act of conspiring together |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |