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 |
|---|---|
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| fissure | a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting |
| philatelist | a specialist in philately : one who collects or studies stamps |
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| accrue | to come into existence as a legally enforceable claim |
| carnivorous | subsisting or feeding on animal tissues |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |