GRE Word List
COLLOQUY
conversation
The meaning of the word colloquy is conversation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| elaboration | planned or carried out with great care |
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| generality | the quality or state of being general |
| headstrong | not easily restrained : impatient of control, advice, or suggestions |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| murky | characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| extirpate | to destroy completely : wipe out |