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 |
|---|---|
| novice | a person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community |
| ordinance | an authoritative decree or direction : order |
| travesty | a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |
| disclaim | to make a disclaimer |
| gentle | free from harshness, sternness, or violence |
| frantic | emotionally out of control |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| enjoin | to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition |