GRE Word List

COLLOQUY

conversation

The meaning of the word colloquy is conversation.

Random words

WordMeaning
alchemya medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life
maniacalaffected with or suggestive of madness
flightyswift
unctuoushaving, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality
authenticateto prove or serve to prove to be real, true, or genuine
cresta showy tuft or process on the head of an animal and especially a bird see bird illustration
penancean act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification
incapacitateto deprive of capacity or natural power : disable
factitiousproduced by humans rather than by natural forces
abutto border on : to touch along an edge