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 |
|---|---|
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| occident | west |
| internecine | of, relating to, or involving conflict within a group |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| imbue | endow |
| recluse | marked by withdrawal from society : solitary |
| random | a haphazard course |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |