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 |
|---|---|
| wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |
| polyglot | one who is polyglot |
| merit | a praiseworthy quality : virtue |
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| whelp | any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog |
| aphasia | loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection) |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| uninhibited | free from inhibition |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |