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 |
|---|---|
| appurtenances | accessory objects |
| intimidate | to make timid or fearful : frighten |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |
| headlong | headfirst |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging |
| attest | to affirm to be true or genuine |
| warrant | sanction |
| fickle | marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |
| relegate | to send into exile : banish |