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    Synonyms and Definitions

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    vernacular


    1. To use the vernacular, she's been on a pretty bad trip, but with time and care there's no reason why she shouldn't make a full recovery


    2. His descriptions of war and the things of war were cast in the vernacular of his present or the past, as if the future would not change appreciably


    3. I could still hear Coughman and Blacklung cackling in the quiet hallways as I walked away, along with Cassandra and Anna’s ghetto fabulous vernacular


    4. This helped me to understand the concept of ghosts when I became aware of that rather frightening possibility, as the common vernacular presented it


    5. On the rare occasions that he might come into direct contact with it, this blinding visionary experience leaves him unprepared to describe it in any way but the vernacular of his tunneling techniques


    6. had now come into Man’s vernacular


    7. Man’s use of elaboration in his attempt to clarify what was almost impossible to translate into his human vernacular have many times so smothered any original revelation as to have hidden what was meant to have been opened


    8. In a vernacular that was even more profanity-laced than usual, Cory conveyed that he left the hospital because he was angry and wanted to get even with the sons of bitches that laid him out


    9. Speaking in a vernacular will actually assist in creating the best translation


    10. Catholic Church, Protestants were not only allowed to read the Bible (in the vernacular), but were expected to read the Bible

    11. access to the Bible was to prohibit translations into the vernacular


    12. In the Omjadda vernacular the blood slave is associated to the clan that spawned it to define ownership


    13. Liturgy in the vernacular would probably be the most obvious change, followed by a wide variety of ministries which opened up to laypeople


    14. Vernacular Press Act and the Arms Act of 1878


    15. "The place must look top notch and the same for the staff," he explained in the vernacular of the masses


    16. and Hebrew, from time to time he speaks in his vernacular


    17. He translated the Bible and many other religious works into the vernacular dialect of his day


    18. Paul speaks of famines, danger and swords! Shall a sword separate us from the love of Christ? Or, using modern vernacular, shall a gun pointed at our head separate us from the love of Christ? The answer of course is, No


    19. I couldn’t help but smile at his comparison of olden times with the vernacular of the present


    20. He was what’s referred to in PCT hiker vernacular as a trail angel, but I didn’t know that then

    21. Didn’t know, even, that there was a PCT hiker vernacular


    22. It's a patent absurdity on the face of it to hate people because they live round the corner and speak another vernacular, in the next house so to speak


    23. Working women, “Yoo Hoo Girls” in the local vernacular, hung out the upstairs windows of cheap hotels and dance halls and even the fire department, calling out to the men on the street below


    24. Emboldened by the observation that more risk equals more profits, let’s say you decide to, as we kindly say in the vernacular, “go nuts


    25. hit the bid Vernacular for selling (whether initiating a short or selling an existing long position) to the price on the bid


    26. When Gladys refers to giving Marilyn Christian Science treatments, she’s likely not suggesting that she was praying with her daughter (because that had never been the case) but rather praying—or to use Christian Science vernacular, “treating”—for Marilyn


    27. These consisted of the Arzamass, or French school, to which Pushkin himself together with his uncle Vassili Pushkin the "Nestor of the Arzamass" belonged, and their opponents who devoted themselves to the cultivation of the vernacular


    28. [Note 83: Shishkoff was a member of the literary school which cultivated the vernacular as opposed to the Arzamass or Gallic school, to which the poet himself and his uncle Vassili Pushkin belonged


    29. “Little old Broadway,” as it is affectionately toasted in the vernacular of its habitués, wherever rye whisky is drunk, and faithful homesick hearts recall its lights, its pleasures and its crowds


    30. Their brogue betrays that it is not their vernacular tongue

    31. Only when forced to do so, will they speak in other than their vernacular tongue


    32. The history of the past few months, and the famous order with regard to the use of the vernacular, ought to arouse the church to new efforts


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    Synonyms for "vernacular"

    vernacular argot cant jargon lingo patois slang common vulgar

    "vernacular" definitions

    a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)


    the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)


    being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language