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 |
|---|---|
| credulity | readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence |
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |
| guy | man |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
| amulet | a charm (such as an ornament) often inscribed with a magic incantation or symbol to aid the wearer or protect against evil (such as disease or witchcraft) |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| hazardous | involving or exposing one to risk (as of loss or harm) |
| dyspeptic | indigestion |
| disengage | to release from something that engages or involves |