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 |
|---|---|
| limber | having a supple and resilient quality (as of mind or body) : agile |
| vitreous | resembling glass (as in color, composition, brittleness, or luster) : glassy |
| levy | the imposition or collection of an assessment |
| murky | characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| fusion | the act or process of liquefying or rendering plastic by heat |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| callow | lacking adult sophistication : immature |
| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |