GRE Word List
COLLOQUY
conversation
The meaning of the word colloquy is conversation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conspire | plot |
| amity | friendship |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| infer | to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises |
| wisp | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |