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 |
|---|---|
| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain |
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| impetus | a driving force : impulse |
| incredulity | the quality or state of being incredulous : disbelief |
| ejaculation | an act of ejaculating |
| panache | an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |