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 |
|---|---|
| viand | an item of food |
| deposition | a testifying especially before a court |
| sordid | marked by baseness or grossness : vile |
| execute | to carry out fully : put completely into effect |
| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |
| hortatory | hortative |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| defer | put off |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| feral | of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast |