GRE Word List
COLLOQUY
conversation
The meaning of the word colloquy is conversation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| offensive | making attack : aggressive |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| premonitory | giving warning |
| fulsome | characterized by abundance : copious |
| pusillanimous | lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| winsome | generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence |
| gangrene | local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |