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 |
|---|---|
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |
| optional | involving an option : not compulsory |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |
| musky | having an odor of or resembling musk |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| peddle | to travel about with wares for sale |
| cliche | a trite phrase or expression |
| outlaw | a person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law |