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 |
|---|---|
| flagrant | conspicuously offensive |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| visionary | having or marked by foresight and imagination |
| slander | to utter slander against : defame |
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| cajole | to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance : coax |
| imply | to express indirectly |
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |