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 |
|---|---|
| docile | easily taught |
| imperative | not to be avoided or evaded : necessary |
| wont | accustomed |
| indict | to charge with a crime by the finding or presentment of a jury (such as a grand jury) in due form of law |
| catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| relapse | the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding |
| warrant | sanction |