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 |
|---|---|
| underhand | in a clandestine manner |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| latitude | angular distance from some specified circle or plane of reference: such as |
| bane | a source of harm or ruin : curse |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| imbue | endow |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| tenant | one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements of another |
| masticate | to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth : chew |
| sedulous | involving or accomplished with careful perseverance |