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 |
|---|---|
| elaborate | planned or carried out with great care |
| hirsute | hairy |
| betoken | to typify beforehand : presage |
| juncture | a point of time |
| gaffe | a social or diplomatic blunder |
| torpedo | a weapon for destroying ships by rupturing their hulls below the waterline: such as |
| temperament | characteristic or habitual inclination or mode of emotional response |
| dorsal | an ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar |
| loom | a frame or machine for interlacing (see interlace |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |