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 |
|---|---|
| mortician | undertaker |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| puissant | having puissance : powerful |
| elysian | of or relating to Elysium |
| ample | generous or more than adequate in size, scope, or capacity |
| acerbity | the quality of being acerbic |
| chagrin | disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure |
| intransigence | the quality or state of being intransigent |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |