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 |
|---|---|
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
| incite | to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on |
| colossal | of, relating to, or resembling a colossus |
| repulse | to drive or beat back : repel |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| felicity | the quality or state of being happy |
| tryst | an agreement (as between lovers) to meet |
| unfrock | defrock |
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |