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 |
|---|---|
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| felicity | the quality or state of being happy |
| vindictive | disposed to seek revenge : vengeful |
| pilfer | steal |
| preposterous | contrary to nature, reason, or common sense : absurd |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| acuity | keenness of perception |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| reciprocal | inversely related : opposite |