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
aversiona feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it
tremulouscharacterized by or affected with trembling or tremors
environencircle
impromptumade, done, or formed on or as if on the spur of the moment : improvised
historichistorical
palliddeficient in color : wan
rationalean explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena
institutesomething that is instituted: such as
intelligentsiaintellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite
rabblea disorganized or confused collection of things