vocabulary
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- n a listing of the words used in some enterprise
- n a language user's knowledge of words
- n the system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression (as in arts or crafts)
he introduced a wide vocabulary of techniques
- The President announces a pandemic plan that draws its vocabulary from the War on Terror.
- Inexact vocabularians have reckoned the average intelligent adult's vocabulary at about 15,000 words.
- Four decades of ups and downs, seen through a special lexicon It is an adversary relationship unique in history and, appropriately, an entire new vocabulary has been created.