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 |
|---|---|
| monumental | serving as or resembling a monument : massive |
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |
| fledgling | a young bird just fledged (see fledge |
| novelty | something new or unusual |
| musty | impaired by damp or mildew : moldy |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| wholesome | promoting health or well-being of mind or spirit |
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |