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 |
|---|---|
| defray | to provide for the payment of : pay |
| purge | to clear of guilt |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| score | twenty |
| regent | a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign |
| fusillade | a number of shots fired simultaneously or in rapid succession |
| amplify | to expand (something, such as a statement) by the use of detail or illustration or by closer analysis |
| forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |
| resentment | a feeling of indignant displeasure or persistent ill will at something regarded as a wrong, insult, or injury |
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |