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 |
|---|---|
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| scavenge | to remove (dirt, refuse, etc.) from an area |
| moratorium | a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debt |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| gerrymander | the act or method of gerrymandering |
| belittle | to speak slightingly of : disparage |
| disproportion | lack of proportion, symmetry, or proper relation : disparity |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| fastidious | showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care |