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 |
|---|---|
| aphorism | a concise statement of a principle |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| requite | to make return for : repay |
| surfeit | an overabundant supply : excess |
| unregenerate | not regenerate |
| restitution | an act of restoring or a condition of being restored: such as |
| kleptomaniac | a person evidencing kleptomania |
| impropriety | an improper or indecorous act or remark |
| succor | relief |