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 |
|---|---|
| mausoleum | a large tomb |
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |
| ignite | to set afire |
| amalgamate | to unite in or as if in an amalgam |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| alloy | the degree of mixture with base metals : fineness |
| armada | a fleet of warships |
| resilient | characterized or marked by resilience: such as |
| document | proof |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |