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 |
|---|---|
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| summation | the act or process of forming a sum : addition |
| kismet | fate |
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
| sanguinary | bloodthirsty |
| perforate | to make a hole through |
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| indenture | a document or a section of a document that is indented |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |