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 |
|---|---|
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| lout | to bow in respect |
| carefree | free from care: such as |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| yeoman | an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household |
| wrinkle | a small ridge or furrow especially when formed on a surface by the shrinking or contraction of a smooth substance : crease |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| atypical | not typical : irregular |
| acerbity | the quality of being acerbic |
| credential | warranting credit or confidence |