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 |
|---|---|
| cloister | a monastic establishment |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| scuttle | a shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce) |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| circlet | a little circle |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| wreak | bring about |