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 |
|---|---|
| incisive | impressively direct and decisive (as in manner or presentation) |
| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
| leaven | a substance (such as yeast) used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid |
| prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |
| efficacy | the power to produce an effect |
| weary | exhausted in strength, endurance, vigor, or freshness |
| galvanize | to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| implication | something implied: such as |
| outcast | one that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society) : pariah |