GRE Word List
VERNACULAR
using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language
The meaning of the word vernacular is using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| brandish | to shake or wave (something, such as a weapon) menacingly |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| indomitable | incapable of being subdued : unconquerable |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| tantamount | equivalent in value, significance, or effect |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| penetrate | to pass into or through |
| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |