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 |
|---|---|
| underhand | in a clandestine manner |
| microcosm | a little world |
| redoubtable | causing fear or alarm : formidable |
| demographic | the statistical characteristics of human populations (such as age or income) used especially to identify markets |
| bifurcated | divided into two branches or parts |
| descry | to catch sight of |
| chide | to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |
| cohabit | to live together as or as if a married couple |
| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |