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 |
|---|---|
| list | a simple series of words or numerals (such as the names of persons or objects) |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| homogeneous | of the same or a similar kind or nature |
| countenance | look |
| stealth | a cautious, unobtrusive, and secretive way of moving or proceeding intended to avoid detection |
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
| parchment | the skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on |
| tension | inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |
| squelch | to fall or stamp on so as to crush |