GRE Word List

COLLOQUY

conversation

The meaning of the word colloquy is conversation.

Random words

WordMeaning
jetsamthe 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
fleecethe coat of wool covering a wool-bearing animal (such as a sheep)
dys-abnormal
predetermineforeordain
etymologythe 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
immutablenot capable of or susceptible to change
apocryphalof doubtful authenticity : spurious
hybridan offspring of two animals or plants of different subspecies, breeds, varieties, species, or genera
construeto analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part)
unerringlycommitting no error : faultless