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 |
|---|---|
| hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |
| fashion | the prevailing style (as in dress) during a particular time |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| consensus | general agreement : unanimity |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| notch | a V-shaped indentation |
| fluted | having or marked by grooves |
| transcendental | transcendent |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |