GRE Word List
COLLOQUY
conversation
The meaning of the word colloquy is conversation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| defunct | no longer living, existing, or functioning |
| residual | remainder |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
| carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |