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 |
|---|---|
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| gruff | rough, brusque, or stern in manner, speech, or aspect |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| metropolis | the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |
| embellish | to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate |
| mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |