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 |
|---|---|
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |
| disabuse | to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| decree | an order usually having the force of law |
| cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with |
| commonwealth | a nation, state, or other political unit: such as |
| forswear | to make a liar of (oneself) under or as if under oath |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |