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 |
|---|---|
| hortatory | hortative |
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |
| demolition | the act of demolishing |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| droll | having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality |
| tome | book |
| exude | to ooze out |
| carnage | the flesh of slain animals or humans |
| eulogy | a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased |