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 |
|---|---|
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| contention | a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument |
| psychic | of or relating to the psyche : psychogenic |
| silt | loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ยน/โโ millimeter or less in diameter |
| privy | private |
| trickster | one who tricks: such as |
| deliberate | to think about or discuss issues and decisions carefully |
| fiasco | a complete failure |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| vehement | marked by forceful energy : powerful |