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 |
|---|---|
| pummel | pound |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| mincing | affectedly dainty or delicate |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| discourse | verbal interchange of ideas |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| grotto | cave |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| disport | sport |
| patent | open to public inspection |