GRE Word List
COLLOQUY
conversation
The meaning of the word colloquy is conversation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| vivid | very strong : very high in chroma |
| occult | to shut off from view or exposure : cover |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
| lunar | crescent |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| ravine | a small narrow steep-sided valley that is larger than a gully and smaller than a canyon and that is usually worn by running water |