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 |
|---|---|
| perfunctory | characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical |
| legerdemain | sleight of hand |
| perigee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is nearest to the center of the earth |
| bastard | a child born to parents who are not married to each other |
| divulge | to make known (something, such as a confidence or secret) |
| impugn | to assail by words or arguments : oppose or attack as false or lacking integrity |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| surreptitious | done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine |
| finished | entirely done |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |