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 |
|---|---|
| naivete | a naive remark or action |
| ingrained | forming a part of the essence or inmost being : deep-seated |
| glaze | to furnish or fit with glass |
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |
| gust | the sensation of taste |
| hamper | to restrict the movement of by bonds or obstacles : impede |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| gaudy | ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented |
| idolatry | the worship of a physical object as a god |
| malign | evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious |