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 |
|---|---|
| expertise | the skill of an expert |
| checkered | marked by alternating squares of different colors, shades, or materials |
| senility | the quality or state of being senile : the physical and mental decline associated with old age |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| chant | to make melodic sounds with the voice |
| induce | to move by persuasion or influence |
| sumptuous | extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| bemused | marked by confusion or bewilderment : dazed |