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 |
|---|---|
| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |
| manumit | to release from slavery |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| exacerbate | to make more violent, bitter, or severe |
| apogee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth |
| glaze | to furnish or fit with glass |
| irrevocable | not possible to revoke : unalterable |
| compress | to press or squeeze together |
| boon | a timely benefit : blessing |
| uninhibited | free from inhibition |