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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apparent | open to view : visible |
| obstetrician | a physician specializing in obstetrics |
| nuptial | of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony |
| unimpeachable | not impeachable: such as |
| console | an architectural member projecting from a wall to form a bracket or from a keystone for ornament |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |
| cryptic | secret |
| motility | the quality or state of being motile : capability of movement |
| abdicate | to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |