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 |
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slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
prime | the second of the canonical hours |
demented | mad |
quizzical | comically quaint |
impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
inveterate | confirmed in a habit : habitual |
lank | not well filled out : slender |
arboreal | of, relating to, or resembling a tree |
sully | to make soiled or tarnished : defile |
primal | original |