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 |
|---|---|
| sparse | of few and scattered elements |
| ecliptic | of or relating to the ecliptic or an eclipse |
| enjoin | to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition |
| palimpsest | writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased |
| commonwealth | a nation, state, or other political unit: such as |
| emasculate | to deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken |
| defame | to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel |
| nomenclature | name |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |