GRE Word List
COLLOQUY
conversation
The meaning of the word colloquy is conversation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cantata | a composition for one or more voices usually comprising solos, duets, recitatives, and choruses and sung to an instrumental accompaniment |
| whimsy | whim |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| virile | having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree |
| recount | to relate in detail : narrate |
| skulk | to move in a stealthy or furtive manner |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| smirk | to smile in a smug or condescending way |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| dart | a light spear |