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 |
|---|---|
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| affirmation | the act of affirming |
| eclipse | the total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another |
| larder | a place where food is stored : pantry |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| allege | to assert without proof or before proving |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |
| betray | to lead astray |