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 |
|---|---|
| dossier | a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject |
| pontifical | episcopal attire |
| phenomena | phenomenon |
| urchin | hedgehog |
| rue | to feel penitence, remorse, or regret for |
| vilify | to utter slanderous and abusive statements against : defame |
| concise | marked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all elaboration and superfluous detail |
| geniality | marked by or freely expressing sympathy or friendliness |
| appease | pacify |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |