GRE Word List
COLLOQUY
conversation
The meaning of the word colloquy is conversation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| buttress | a projecting structure of masonry or wood for supporting or giving stability to a wall or building |
| potpourri | a mixture of flowers, herbs, and spices that is usually kept in a jar and used for scent |
| supplicate | to make a humble entreaty |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| actuary | clerk |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| ominous | being or exhibiting an omen : portentous |
| bequeath | to give or leave by will (see will |