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 |
|---|---|
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
| amoral | having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |
| impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch : intangible |
| raiment | clothing |
| herbivorous | feeding on plants |
| turbulence | the quality or state of being turbulent: such as |
| canard | a false or unfounded report or story |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| exclaim | to cry out or speak in strong or sudden emotion |