GRE Word List
PATOIS
a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect
The meaning of the word patois is a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| proscenium | the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theater |
| incessant | continuing or following without interruption : unceasing |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| motley | variegated in color |
| boor | peasant |
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |