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 |
|---|---|
| voluble | easily rolling or turning : rotating |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |
| bloated | overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc. |
| negligence | the quality or state of being negligent |
| hoodwink | to deceive by false appearance : dupe |
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
| castigation | to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |