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 |
|---|---|
| spoilsport | one who spoils the sport or pleasure of others |
| purse | a small bag for money |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| glower | to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger |
| inveterate | confirmed in a habit : habitual |
| ooze | a soft deposit (as of mud, slime, or shells) on the bottom of a body of water |
| precise | exactly or sharply defined or stated |
| sober | not intoxicated |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |