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    [Noun]  | "vo*cab*u*lary" | \ vō-ˈka-byə-ˌler-ē \


    1: a list or collection of words or of words and phrases usually alphabetically arranged and explained or defined : lexicon

    2: a sum or stock of words employed by a language, group, individual, or work or in a field of knowledge

    3: a list or collection of terms or codes available for use (as in an indexing system)

    Origin: 1532 ;

     Middle French vocabulaire, probably from Medieval Latin vocabularium, from neuter of vocabularius verbal, from Latin vocabulum;

    [Noun]  | "vocabulary entry" 


    1: a word (such as the noun shift), hyphenated or open compound (such as the verb shape-shift or the noun shift key), word element (such as the affix pro-), abbreviation (such as ave), verbalized symbol (such as Na), or term (such as time out of mind) entered alphabetically in a dictionary for the purpose of definition or identification or expressly included as an inflected form (such as the noun mice or the verb saw) or as a derived form (such as the noun blissfulness or the adverb globally) or related phrase (such as one for the books) run on at its base word and usually set in a type (such as boldface) readily distinguishable from that of the lightface running text which defines, explains, or identifies the entry

    Origin: circa 1934 ;

    [Noun]  | "International Scientific Vocabulary" 


    1: a part of the vocabulary of the sciences and other specialized studies that consists of words or other linguistic forms current in two or more languages and differing from New Latin in being adapted to the structure of the individual languages in which they appear —abbreviation ISV

    Origin: circa 1959 ;

    [Noun]  | "active vocabulary" 


    1: the words one regularly uses

    [Noun]  | "passive vocabulary" 


    1: the words one understands as distinguished from the words one actively uses

    [Idiom]  | "not in someone's vocabulary" 


    1: not a word that someone knows and uses —sometimes used in an exaggerated way to make a forceful statement

    [Noun]  | "vocabulary" 


    1: the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field;


      * e.g., " ... scientific vocabulary "



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    2: the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication;


      * e.g., " ... children learn enough of the common vocabulary to make themselves understood by around the age of two "



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     [ "vocabulary" ]

    1: Those words that we speak

      * e.g.,  ... "My vocabulary is.... um... yeah..." 

     [ "vocabulary" ]

    1: The words, riffs, moves, notes, experiences, or songs that we can use to express ourselves.

      * e.g.,  ... The drummer's vocabulary is full of great riffs and beats. 

     [ "Vocabulary" ]

    1: The only place where marriage still comes before sex

      * e.g.,  ... You've got a rich vocabulary. 

     [ "Vocabularious" ]

    1: Adjective. Having an impressively thorough vocabulary or knowledge of a language, but feeling the need to illustrate that to all persons with which one comes into contact.

      * e.g.,  ... Person 1: "How was your date last night?" 

     [ "Vocabularious" ]

    2:  Showing sesquipedalianism.

      * e.g.,  ... Person 2: "Good, though he was a bit vocabularious." Person 1: "I find gregarious pedantism unnecessary in the utilization of Socartic didacticism." 

     [ "Vocabulary" ]

    1: A word bank in your head

      * e.g.,  ... "You've got a strange vocabulary. Must be great for those essays." 

     [ "vocabularial" ]

    1: in relation to having a cool vocabulary and using it in practice..

      * e.g.,  ... Neckros has vocabularial prowess when he says Spitroast.. 

     [ "Vocabulary" ]

    1: A bunch of words.

      * e.g.,  ... “Vocabulary words, are words”. 

     [ "vocabulary workshop" ]

    1: One of the absolute gayest books assigned to complete in highschool. It has words you must learn and it asks questions about those words and it is a complete pain in the ass. There were sites where you could find answers to these but they quickly got shut down. All these books are are a pain in the ass.

      * e.g.,  ... Jeff- "Hey Jim, do you want to go catch a movie?" Jim-"No, sorry Jeff I have to go do vocabulary workshop for 2 hours maybe in a year or so" 

     [ "vocabulary dropping" ]

    1: This is the dropping of large words to demonstrate a large vocabulary rather than to communicate clearly and simply.

      * e.g.,  ... Amy was vocabulary dropping before the students, trying to appear intellectual. 

     [ "vocabulary communist" ]

    1: A person who tells you better, more complicated words you could have used in your previous sentence. Often a grammar nazi as well. Always annoying.

      * e.g.,  ... Person 1: "Dude, that was totally not needed!" Person 2: "I think you should have said 'that was totally superfluous'." Person 2: "Stop being such a vocabulary communist." 

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