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 |
|---|---|
| invincible | incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued |
| maniacal | affected with or suggestive of madness |
| promiscuous | having or involving many sexual partners : not restricted to one sexual partner or few sexual partners |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| enmity | positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| precept | a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action |
| contagion | a contagious disease |
| laceration | the act of lacerating |