GRE Word List
COLLOQUY
conversation
The meaning of the word colloquy is conversation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| dishonor | lack or loss of honor or reputation |
| ebb | the reflux of the tide toward the sea |
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| compartment | a separate division or section |
| plebeian | a member of the Roman plebs |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| disgorge | to discharge by the throat and mouth : vomit |