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 |
|---|---|
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| overweening | arrogant |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
| marrow | bone marrow |
| venial | of a kind that can be remitted : forgivable |
| indefatigable | incapable of being fatigued : untiring |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |