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 |
|---|---|
| provenance | origin |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| brave | having or showing mental or moral strength to face danger, fear, or difficulty : having or showing courage |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| foolhardy | foolishly adventurous and bold : rash |
| conservatory | a greenhouse for growing or displaying plants |
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| necromancy | conjuration (see conjure |
| ebb | the reflux of the tide toward the sea |