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 |
|---|---|
| unsightly | not pleasing to the sight : not comely |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| brochure | pamphlet |
| carefree | free from care: such as |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| flagrant | conspicuously offensive |
| clap | to strike (two things, such as two flat, hard surfaces) together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| singular | of or relating to a separate person or thing : individual |
| menial | a person doing menial work |