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 |
|---|---|
| shambles | a meat market |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| vertex | the top of the head |
| aegis | a shield or breastplate emblematic of majesty that was associated with Zeus and Athena |
| denotation | an act or process of denoting |
| discourse | verbal interchange of ideas |
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |
| dapper | neat and trim in appearance |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |
| pedagogue | teacher |