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 |
|---|---|
| tremor | a trembling or shaking usually from physical weakness, emotional stress, or disease |
| flamboyant | marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| trivia | unimportant matters : trivial facts or details |
| aromatic | of, relating to, or having aroma: |
| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |
| billow | wave |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |
| holster | a leather or fabric case for carrying a firearm on the person (as on the hip or chest), on a saddle, or in a vehicle |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |