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 |
|---|---|
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
| vehement | marked by forceful energy : powerful |
| fiend | devil |
| aberrant | deviating from the usual or natural type : atypical |
| sentient | responsive to or conscious of sense impressions |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| cohabit | to live together as or as if a married couple |
| bolster | a long pillow or cushion |
| jaunt | a usually short journey or excursion undertaken especially for pleasure |