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 |
|---|---|
| appreciate | to grasp the nature, worth, quality, or significance of |
| substantial | consisting of or relating to substance |
| beholden | being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted |
| braggadocio | empty boasting |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| feature | the structure, form, or appearance especially of a person |
| bogus | not genuine : counterfeit |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
