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 |
|---|---|
| reserve | to hold in reserve : keep back |
| hostility | deep-seated usually mutual ill will |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| incompatible | not compatible: such as |
| slipshod | wearing loose shoes or slippers |
| prune | a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation |
| nutrition | the act or process of nourishing or being nourished |
| mannered | having manners of a specified kind |
| lineaments | an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure and especially of a face |