GRE Word List
COLLOQUY
conversation
The meaning of the word colloquy is conversation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sublimate | sublime |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| behoove | to be necessary, proper, or advantageous for |
| dispense | to divide and share out according to a plan : to deal out in portions |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| amity | friendship |
| nomadic | of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads |