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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| suitor | one that petitions or entreats |
| mediate | occupying a middle position |
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| tureen | a deep and usually covered bowl from which foods (such as soup) are served |
| extricate | to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty |
| molecule | the smallest particle of a substance that retains all the properties (see property |
| remediable | capable of being remedied |
| metrical | of, relating to, or composed in meter |