GRE Word List
COLLOQUY
conversation
The meaning of the word colloquy is conversation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
| insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |
| quarantine | a period of 40 days |
| outmoded | not being in style |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| circumspect | careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences : prudent |
| sound | a particular auditory impression : tone |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| sluice | an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow |