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 |
|---|---|
| libretto | the text of a work (such as an opera) for the musical theater |
| airy | of or relating to air : atmospheric |
| exuberance | the quality or state of being exuberant |
| sustain | to give support or relief to |
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| espionage | the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government or a competing company |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |