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 |
|---|---|
| matrimony | the state of being married : marriage |
| gourmet | a connoisseur of food and drink |
| missile | capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object |
| imperious | marked by arrogant assurance : domineering |
| quixotic | foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals |
| rooster | an adult male domestic chicken |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |
| manifold | marked by diversity or variety |
| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
| relegate | to send into exile : banish |