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 |
|---|---|
| analgesic | an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia |
| optimum | the amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |
| dismiss | to permit or cause to leave |
| trifling | lacking in significance or solid worth: such as |
| guffaw | a loud or boisterous burst of laughter |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify |