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 |
|---|---|
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| gnome | maxim |
| bouillon | a clear seasoned soup made usually from lean beef |
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| veracious | truthful |
| sobriety | the quality or state of being sober |
| blowhard | an arrogantly and pompously boastful or opinionated person : braggart |
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |