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 |
|---|---|
| smart | having or showing a high degree of mental ability : intelligent |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| amicable | characterized by friendly goodwill : peaceable |
| jest | a joking or mocking remark |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| accord | to grant or give especially as appropriate, due, or earned |
| dingy | dirty |
| jumble | to move in a confused or disordered manner |
| advocate | one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal |
| abut | to border on : to touch along an edge |