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 |
|---|---|
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| institute | something that is instituted: such as |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| fathomless | incapable of being fathomed : immeasurable |
| loquacious | full of excessive talk : wordy |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |