vocab
- noun
- /ˈvoʊkæb/
- Informal
- Plus, it was nice for an otaku (also known as an anime and manga freak) like me to get some more vocab.
I wouldn't have the vocabulary to say what I've just said.
- I wouldn't have the vocabulary to say what I've just said.
- Why are they still sticking with this old vocabulary?
- You know, he, he he has this vocabulary of his own.
- But when I sit alone with men, it's not because they don't have a vocabulary, that they don't have the feelings.
- Real revealed that they had outstanding vocabularies.
- What the the calisthenics that they have to go through with their diction and their vocab choices.
- And it's funny, you know, when you are with giant slayers, it's just a different vocabulary.
- OK, color concepts, color theory, color vocab and design principles are just intertwined like this.
- A couple things you might want to work on your vocabulary a little bit because you kind of defaulting to a small vocabulary.
- Like when characters start using slang and like new slang especially that just like hasn't really melded into my vocabulary yet.
- Built my vocabulary now, so like the words that I don't really catching right, I always say in English.
Examples
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The teacher assigned ten vocab words for homework.
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She wrote down new vocab words in her notebook.
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Good luck with your vocab lessons.
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Study for your vocab quiz!
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Yeah, but she missed myriad on the vocab test two weeks ago.
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But I'm loving the vocab and numbers and learning how to string sentences together!
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Given that tests have high-frequency words, you can learn a lot of relevant test vocab in this time.
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This helps dramatically with memorization of vocab and specifically retaining the tones.
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Make sure to review your vocab before the exam.
Synonyms
All the words and phrases used in a language or by a person
All the words used by a person, language, or field
All the words and word forms that make up a language
How Large
- Informal
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Vocab is short for vocabulary, from Latin vocare meaning 'to call' and related to English vocal and 'voice'. So your vocab is the collection of words you 'call' or use when you speak and write.