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 |
|---|---|
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| eulogy | a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| warrant | sanction |
| trifling | lacking in significance or solid worth: such as |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |