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 |
|---|---|
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| apiary | a place where bees are kept |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |
| reactionary | relating to, marked by, or favoring reaction |
| vintner | a wine merchant |
| acetic | vinegary |
| nirvana | the final beatitude (see beatitude |
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |