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 |
|---|---|
| seminary | an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated |
| bliss | complete happiness |
| residual | remainder |
| sadistic | of, relating to, or characterized by sadism |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| defer | put off |
| epithet | a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing |
| dumbfound | to confound (see confound |
| oversee | survey |