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 |
|---|---|
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| actuary | clerk |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| malfeasance | wrongdoing or misconduct especially by a public official |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| conscientious | meticulous |
| witticism | a cleverly witty and often biting or ironic remark |
| hummock | a rounded knoll or hillock |