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 |
|---|---|
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| lampoon | satire |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| spate | freshet |
| gratis | without charge or recompense : free |
| consternation | amazement or dismay that hinders or throws into confusion |
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| speechless | unable to speak : dumb |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |