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 |
|---|---|
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| plane | airplane |
| whit | the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit |
| affiliation | the state or relation of being closely associated or affiliated with a particular person, group, party, company, etc. |
| maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly |
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| renounce | to give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration |
| husband | a male partner in a marriage |