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 |
|---|---|
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| mediate | occupying a middle position |
| morose | having a sullen and gloomy disposition |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| polar | of or relating to a geographic pole or the region around it |
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| rabid | extremely violent : furious |