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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salubriousfavorable to or promoting health or well-being
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bacchanalorgy
secularof or relating to the worldly or temporal
abdicateto renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function
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