GRE Word List
COLLOQUY
conversation
The meaning of the word colloquy is conversation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shoddy | a reclaimed wool from materials that are not felted that is of better quality and longer staple than mungo |
| contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |
| concurrent | operating or occurring at the same time |
| glower | to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger |
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| analogy | a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect |
| distort | to twist (see twist |
| hirsute | hairy |