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 |
|---|---|
| outrage | an act of violence or brutality |
| paramour | lover |
| ordination | the act or an instance of ordaining : the state of being ordained |
| acetic | vinegary |
| vivacious | lively in temper, conduct, or spirit : sprightly |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| agrarian | of or relating to fields or lands or their tenure |
| flourish | to grow luxuriantly : thrive |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |