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vocabulary

voh kab yuh le ree

  • 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.
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  • President Bush in International Herald Tribune
    One unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America's withdrawal was paid by millions of innocent citizens whose agonies would add to our vocabulary new terms like 'boat people,' 're-education camps' and 'killing fields,'Bush said.
  • John Bolton in 940 News
    Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "has a one-word vocabulary in this negotiation and that's 'carrots,"' Bolton says.
  • Roberto Cavalli in San Jose Mercury News
    As designer Cavalli said after the show, "Naivite is not part of my vocabulary."

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