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 |
|---|---|
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| seasonal | of, relating to, or varying in occurrence according to the season |
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |
| forestall | to exclude, hinder, or prevent (something) by prior occupation or measures |
| prate | to talk long and idly : chatter |
| accord | to grant or give especially as appropriate, due, or earned |
| imperial | of, relating to, befitting, or suggestive of an empire or an emperor |
| irascible | marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger |