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 |
|---|---|
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| simper | to smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner |
| spectral | of, relating to, or suggesting a specter : ghostly |
| convoke | to call together to a meeting |
| incumbent | the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| bogus | not genuine : counterfeit |
| filial | of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter |