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 |
|---|---|
| lineaments | an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure and especially of a face |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
| bode | to indicate (something, such as a future event) by signs : presage |
| unassuming | not assuming : modest |
| sensuous | of or relating to the senses or sensible objects |
| necromancy | conjuration (see conjure |
| bulk | magnitude |
| choir | an organized company of singers (as in a church service) |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |