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 |
|---|---|
| enervate | lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor : enervated |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| cleave | to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| brim | an upper or outer margin : verge |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| stun | to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze |
| prurient | marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire |
| reciprocate | to give and take mutually |