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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| minute | the 60th part of an hour of time : 60 seconds |
| viscid | having an adhesive quality : sticky |
| distill | to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate |
| divulge | to make known (something, such as a confidence or secret) |
| lament | to mourn aloud : wail |
| invulnerable | incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed |
| indigent | suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished |
| residual | remainder |