GRE Word List
COLLOQUY
conversation
The meaning of the word colloquy is conversation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| centurion | an officer commanding a Roman century |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| semblance | outward and often specious appearance or show : form |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |
| paradigm | example |
| protuberance | something that is protuberant |
| acclaim | applaud |
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |