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 |
|---|---|
| negate | to deny the existence or truth of |
| proviso | an article or clause (as in a contract) that introduces a condition |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
| outgoing | going away : departing |
| gambol | to skip about in play : frisk |
| diatribe | a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |
| swathe | a band used in swathing |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| institution | an established organization or corporation (such as a bank or university) especially of a public character |