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 |
|---|---|
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| aspire | to seek to attain or accomplish a particular goal |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| insightful | exhibiting or characterized by insight |
| taut | having no give or slack : tightly drawn |
| corroborate | to support with evidence or authority : make more certain |
| integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |
| hazard | a source of danger |
| substantiate | to give substance or form to : embody |