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 |
|---|---|
| dyspeptic | indigestion |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| bilk | to block the free development of : frustrate |
| marrow | bone marrow |
| elysian | of or relating to Elysium |
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| sleigh | an open usually horse-drawn vehicle with runners for use on snow or ice |
| cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty |
| gory | covered with gore : bloodstained |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |