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 |
|---|---|
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| scuffle | to struggle at close quarters with disorder and confusion |
| prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |
| tenant | one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements of another |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| harangue | a speech addressed to a public assembly |
| venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
| fetid | having a heavy offensive smell |
| toxic | containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation |