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 |
|---|---|
| conducive | tending to promote or assist |
| rampart | a protective barrier : bulwark |
| encumber | weigh down |
| catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |
| gaffe | a social or diplomatic blunder |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |
| ejaculation | an act of ejaculating |