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 |
|---|---|
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| plenary | complete in every respect : absolute |
| partial | of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total |
| elicit | to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) |
| debar | to bar from having or doing something : preclude |
| mendicant | beggar |
| quirk | an abrupt twist or curve |
| regimen | a systematic plan (as of diet, therapy, or medication) especially when designed to improve and maintain the health of a patient |