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 |
|---|---|
| tension | inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| tumid | marked by swelling : swollen |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| mobile | capable of moving or being moved : movable |
| vivid | very strong : very high in chroma |