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 |
|---|---|
| immolate | to kill or destroy especially by fire |
| outwit | to get the better of by superior cleverness : outsmart |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| odoriferous | yielding an odor : odorous |
| repose | a state of resting after exertion or strain |
| hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| uniformity | the quality or state of being uniform |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |