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 |
|---|---|
| rehabilitate | to restore to a former capacity : reinstate |
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| prosody | the study of versification |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| servile | of or befitting a menial position |
| impair | to diminish in function, ability, or quality : to weaken or make worse |
| shirk | to go stealthily : sneak |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |