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 |
|---|---|
| carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
| complaisant | marked by an inclination to please or oblige |
| tarry | to delay or be tardy in acting or doing |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| mammoth | any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| tatter | to make ragged |
| silt | loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ¹/₂₀ millimeter or less in diameter |