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 |
|---|---|
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| arrogance | an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |
| insensate | lacking sense or understanding |
| reiterate | to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect |
| memorial | serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative |
| adamant | unshakable or insistent especially in maintaining a position or opinion : unyielding |
| fabricate | invent |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |