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 |
|---|---|
| ensconce | shelter |
| somnambulist | an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (such as walking) are performed |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| facet | any of the definable aspects that make up a subject (as of contemplation) or an object (as of consideration) |
| subsidy | a grant or gift of money: such as |
| bulk | magnitude |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| appurtenances | accessory objects |