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 |
|---|---|
| cleave | to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly |
| codify | to reduce to a code |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| imperious | marked by arrogant assurance : domineering |
| psychiatrist | a medical doctor who diagnoses and treats mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders : a specialist in psychiatry |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| thesis | a dissertation embodying results of original research and especially substantiating a specific view |
| retrench | cut down |
| indifferent | marked by a lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern for something : apathetic |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |