vocabulary
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3.0
- noun
- /vəˈkæbjʊˌlɛri/
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vocabulario
- To improve your writing, it's essential to expand your vocabulary with new words and phrases.
- vocabulary words
- learn vocabulary
- use vocabulary
There's a lot of other vocabulary here, Andres, right.
- There's a lot of other vocabulary here, Andres, right.
- Is it possible to use a neutral vocabulary when describing migration?
- You know, the vocabulary tends to be smaller, I think.
- You don't need that vocabulary to defend free markets and freedom.
- You just kind of have your own vocabulary of how you like to hear things.
- The word comfort, relaxation is not in his vocabulary at all.
- And I think that that holds for our own moral vocabulary as well.
- The economics actually uses its vocabulary, uses the word host country.
- There's an entire vocabulary we have that is pre Copernican.
- This is a guy who has a vocabulary to express this miasma that I feel.
- And everyone just, you know, there, you don't have the vocabulary to even understand grief.
- I want you to replace the word failure from from your vocabulary, from your mind.
- I didn't have that vocabulary when I started experiencing these symptoms.
Examples
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Well, we will need to work on expanding that vocabulary of yours.
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Her vocabulary is rather extensive.
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It's not that anything goes, but the vocabulary has changed.
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And from there we just kept adding vocabulary as we went.
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What type of vocabulary are you using speaking with people?
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First of all, the dog has a vocabulary that is beyond Matt.
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In sum, students see, hear, say, and write their vocabulary words during initial word introduction.
Academic text (2015) -
The most obvious is the role of the oral vocabulary, which is extremely important.
Academic text (2012) -
Girls display greater skill in grammar and vocabulary, whereas boys have distinct advantages in math.
Academic text (2012) -
In addition, as always, Emily targeted the development of Marisa's vocabulary and English language structures.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
58
5.6
Words people use in a subject or job
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7.0
All the words used by a person, language, or field
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8.8
All the words and word forms that make up a language
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3.2
A list of words to learn for a test or lesson
A store in a person's mind of words they know and their meanings
How Large
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word vocabulary comes from the Latin vocabulum 'name' and vocare 'to call', so it originally pointed to the names people use for things. That's why vocabulary means all the words and phrases you know or use.