GRE Word List
ARGOT
the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group
The meaning of the word argot is the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shoddy | a reclaimed wool from materials that are not felted that is of better quality and longer staple than mungo |
| delusive | likely to delude |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| verge | brink |
| plumage | the feathers of a bird |
| viscid | having an adhesive quality : sticky |
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |
| denizen | inhabitant |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |