GRE Word List
JARGON
the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group
The meaning of the word jargon is the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| broach | brooch |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| carafe | a bottle with a flaring lip used to hold beverages and especially wine |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| demeanor | behavior toward others : outward manner |
| glow | to shine with or as if with an intense heat |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |