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 |
|---|---|
| solace | to give comfort to in grief or misfortune : console |
| quixotic | foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| luminary | a person of prominence or brilliant achievement |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| drudgery | dull, irksome, and fatiguing work : uninspiring or menial labor |
| authoritative | having, marked by, or proceeding from authority |