GRE Word List
COLLOQUY
conversation
The meaning of the word colloquy is conversation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| definitive | serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation |
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| servile | of or befitting a menial position |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| regent | a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| litigation | the act, process, or practice of settling a dispute in a court of law : the act or process of litigating |
| raucous | disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse |
| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |