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 |
|---|---|
| dainty | something delicious to the taste |
| discombobulated | characterized by confusion or disorder |
| spectral | of, relating to, or suggesting a specter : ghostly |
| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |
| cadence | the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity |
| obese | having excessive body fat |
| intoxicate | to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |