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 |
|---|---|
| squash | to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |
| nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |
| metallurgical | the science and technology of metals |
| hostility | deep-seated usually mutual ill will |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| circuit | a usually circular line encompassing an area |
| motley | variegated in color |
| inherent | involved in the constitution or essential character of something : belonging by nature or habit : intrinsic |
| idyll | a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment |