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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| delusive | likely to delude |
| olfactory | of or relating to the sense of smell |
| entomology | a branch of zoology that deals with insects |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| ferment | to undergo fermentation |
| emetic | an agent that induces vomiting |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| sere | being dried and withered |
| mischief | a specific injury or damage attributed to a particular agent |