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 |
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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 |