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

WordMeaning
solaceto give comfort to in grief or misfortune : console
quixoticfoolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals
extrapolationto predict by projecting past experience or known data
slacknot using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent
derelictionan intentional abandonment
luminarya person of prominence or brilliant achievement
empathythe action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner
correlationthe state or relation of being correlated
drudgerydull, irksome, and fatiguing work : uninspiring or menial labor
authoritativehaving, marked by, or proceeding from authority