GRE Word List
COLLOQUY
conversation
The meaning of the word colloquy is conversation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| legend | a story coming down from the past |
| 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 |
| leash | a line for leading or restraining an animal |
| glutinous | having the quality of glue : gummy |
| somnolent | of a kind likely to induce sleep |
| assimilate | to take into the mind and thoroughly understand |
| inestimable | incapable of being estimated or computed |
| discourse | verbal interchange of ideas |
| aristocracy | government by the best individuals or by a small privileged class |