GRE Word List
COLLOQUY
conversation
The meaning of the word colloquy is conversation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| fleece | the coat of wool covering a wool-bearing animal (such as a sheep) |
| dys- | abnormal |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| hybrid | an offspring of two animals or plants of different subspecies, breeds, varieties, species, or genera |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| unerringly | committing no error : faultless |