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 |
|---|---|
| hoard | a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away |
| inroad | an advance or penetration often at the expense of someone or something |
| prank | trick |
| pilfer | steal |
| cohorts | companion |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| innovation | a new idea, method, or device : novelty |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |