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 |
|---|---|
| libertine | a freethinker especially in religious matters |
| precursor | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| rabble | a disorganized or confused collection of things |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |
| doom | a law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England |
| feign | to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression |
| dispatch | to send off or away with promptness or speed |