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 |
|---|---|
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| putrefy | to make putrid |
| sordid | marked by baseness or grossness : vile |
| brindled | having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground |
| frolicsome | full of gaiety : playful |
| disembark | to remove to shore from a ship |
| entrepreneur | one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise |
| inveterate | confirmed in a habit : habitual |
| totter | to move unsteadily : stagger |
| hurl | rush |