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 |
|---|---|
| geniality | marked by or freely expressing sympathy or friendliness |
| juridical | of or relating to the administration of justice or the office of a judge |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| pallet | a straw-filled tick or mattress |
| scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| guileless | innocent |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |