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 |
|---|---|
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| tender | marked by, responding to, or expressing the softer emotions : fond |
| endorse | to write on the back of |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |
| revulsion | a strong pulling or drawing away : withdrawal |
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
| confide | to have confidence : trust |
| supplant | to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |