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 |
|---|---|
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |
| impediment | something that impedes |
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| spin | to draw out and twist fiber into yarn or thread |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| ruthless | having no pity : merciless |
| querulous | habitually complaining |