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Word: patois

Definition: local or provincial dialect


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::: camaraderie - good-fellowship; CF. comrade
::: fractious - unruly; peevish; cranky; bad-tempered; Ex. fractious horse
::: collusion - conspiring in a fraudulent scheme to cheat or deceive others; V. collude
::: luscious - pleasing to taste or smell; delicious
::: engulf - surround and swallow up
::: glacial - like a glacier; of an ice age; extremely cold; Ex. glacial epoch; CF. iceberg
::: gross - total; fragrant; clearly wrong; (of people's behavior) coarse; corpulent; Ex. gross insolence/behavior; V: earn as a total amount; N: 12 dozens
::: centrifuge - machine that separates substances by whirling them
::: vehement - forceful; intensely emotional; with marked vigor; strong; N. vehemence
::: onomatopoeia - words formed in imitation of natural sounds