GRE Word List
COLLOQUY
conversation
The meaning of the word colloquy is conversation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| scourge | whip |
| lachrymose | given to tears or weeping : tearful |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| largess | liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior |
| taper | to become progressively smaller toward one end |