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 |
|---|---|
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| missile | capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object |
| trifling | lacking in significance or solid worth: such as |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
| nemesis | the Greek goddess of retributive justice |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| forego | to go before : precede |
| concord | a state of agreement : harmony |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| couple | two persons married, engaged, or otherwise romantically paired |