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 |
|---|---|
| fiend | devil |
| machinations | an act of machinating |
| demolition | the act of demolishing |
| sacrilegious | committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object |
| aggregate | formed by the collection of units or particles into a body, mass, or amount : collective |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| impediment | something that impedes |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |