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 |
|---|---|
| enrapture | to fill with delight |
| reverent | expressing or characterized by reverence : worshipful |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| aloft | at or to a great height |
| fester | to generate pus |
| ghastly | terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening |
| excoriate | to wear off the skin of : abrade |
| nausea | a stomach distress with distaste for food and an urge to vomit |
| heresy | adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma |