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 |
|---|---|
| trek | to make one's way arduously |
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| equilibrium | a state of intellectual or emotional balance : poise |
| apiary | a place where bees are kept |
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| tickle | to touch (a body part, a person, etc.) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements |
| expunge | to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| usury | the lending of money with an interest charge for its use |
| immobility | not moving : motionless |