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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WordMeaning
carousala wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse
complaisantmarked by an inclination to please or oblige
tarryto delay or be tardy in acting or doing
discrepancythe quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance
amenableliable to be brought to account : answerable
compassionsympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it
mammothany 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
meagerhaving little flesh : thin
tatterto make ragged
siltloose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ¹/₂₀ millimeter or less in diameter