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.

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tensioninner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion
hysteriaa psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral
crevicea narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure
chimericalexisting only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary
tumidmarked by swelling : swollen
seinea large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore
bureaucracya body of nonelected government officials
frescothe art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments
mobilecapable of moving or being moved : movable
vividvery strong : very high in chroma