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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| demolition | the act of demolishing |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| liaison | a binding or thickening agent used in cooking |
| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| torso | the human body apart from the head, neck, arms, and legs : the human trunk |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| phalanx | a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files |