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 |
|---|---|
| relapse | the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding |
| invidious | of an unpleasant or objectionable nature : obnoxious |
| silt | loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ¹/₂₀ millimeter or less in diameter |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| dauntless | incapable of being intimidated or subdued : fearless |
| forego | to go before : precede |
| accelerate | to move faster : to gain speed |
| chagrin | disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure |
| saunter | to walk about in an idle or leisurely manner : stroll |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |