GRE Word List
COLLOQUY
conversation
The meaning of the word colloquy is conversation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| maniacal | affected with or suggestive of madness |
| flighty | swift |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| authenticate | to prove or serve to prove to be real, true, or genuine |
| crest | a showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird see bird illustration |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| abut | to border on : to touch along an edge |