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 |
|---|---|
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| optimum | the amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end |
| virile | having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree |
| imprudent | not prudent : lacking discretion, wisdom, or good judgment |
| equilibrium | a state of intellectual or emotional balance : poise |
| advert | to turn the mind or attention |
| fluke | flatfish |
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| shed | to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted |