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 |
|---|---|
| frivolous | of little weight or importance |
| revulsion | a strong pulling or drawing away : withdrawal |
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| congenial | pleasant |
| mannered | having manners of a specified kind |
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |
| annul | to declare or make legally invalid or void |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |