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 |
|---|---|
| chastise | to censure severely : castigate |
| marrow | bone marrow |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| verbalize | to express something in words |
| addle | rotten |
| gourmet | a connoisseur of food and drink |
| stereotype | to make a stereotype from |
| frolic | full of fun : merry |
| reverie | daydream |