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 |
|---|---|
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| hibernate | to pass the winter in a torpid or resting state |
| piebald | composed of incongruous parts |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| seethe | to suffer violent internal excitement |
| opprobrium | something that brings disgrace |
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |
| paragon | a model of excellence or perfection |
| denomination | an act of denominating |
| inroad | an advance or penetration often at the expense of someone or something |