GRE Word List
COLLOQUY
conversation
The meaning of the word colloquy is conversation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| witless | destitute of wit or understanding : foolish |
| despondent | feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |
| infantile | of or relating to infants or infancy |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| sarcasm | a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| peddle | to travel about with wares for sale |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |