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 |
|---|---|
| escapade | a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct |
| desperate | having lost hope |
| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| prong | fork |
| inundate | overwhelm |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| prophetic | of, relating to, or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| pilfer | steal |