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 |
|---|---|
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| cardiologist | the study of the heart and its action and diseases |
| venturesome | inclined to court or incur risk or danger : daring |
| prelate | an ecclesiastic (such as a bishop or abbot) of superior rank |
| incubate | to sit on (eggs) so as to hatch by the warmth of the body |
| jumble | to move in a confused or disordered manner |
| schism | division |
| founder | one that founds or establishes |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |