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 |
|---|---|
| piecemeal | one piece at a time : gradually |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| delta | the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet see Alphabet Table |
| monetary | of or relating to money or to the mechanisms by which it is supplied to and circulates in the economy |
| prevail | to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph |
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| writ | something written : writing |