Synonym: lexicon, mental lexicon. Similar words: tabula rasa, irrevocably, irrevocable, globular, vocal, fabulous, advocate, fantabulous. Meaning: [vəʊ'kæbjələrɪ /-bjʊl-] n. 1. a listing of the words used in some enterprise 2. a language user's knowledge of words 3. the system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression (as in arts or crafts).
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91 Blairites could take a harder look at a rhetorical vocabulary in which every single item was anticipated by totalitarianism.
92 Children learn vocabulary from talking, reading, writing, and from playing with words.
93 The latter is a developmental vocabulary primarily used with deaf children with learning difficulties.
94 Mingus' sense of sound and feeling for rhythm expanded the vocabulary of jazz.
95 Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
96 The rest of this section will illustrate various types of mismatch of vocabulary.
97 Moreover, the practice of building vocabulary through weekly spelling tests in elementary school has been largely abandoned.
98 Attention to discourse does not necessarily entail sacrificing the traditional emphasis on pronunciation and writing, grammar and vocabulary.
99 It also helps students to expand and develop vocabulary, which is one of the key needs at this level.
100 He speaks with really quite a small vocabulary which suggests he is unused to expressing himself eloquently.
101 Most tourist snapshots also use a vocabulary of photographic practice which is embedded in power relations.
102 Hence the definitions aim to be very clear and precise,[www.Sentencedict.com] perhaps produced using a restricted defining vocabulary.
103 These post-demonstration activities provide students with an opportunity to review the demonstration and the new vocabulary.
104 Peter had no vocabulary in his head with which to encompass the scope of his loathing for that man.
105 This may be based on the core vocabulary, or a subset thereof.
106 Gradually, he confounded everyone with his burgeoning vocabulary and tactical nous.
107 Effects Over the last twenty-five years the choral vocabulary has been considerably expanded to explore many sound effects never conventionally used before.
108 I had nothing in my vocabulary of human behavior to explain him.
109 Admittedly the descriptive technique is a matter of exploiting a ready-made emotive vocabulary.
110 Some typical vocabulary words of this creole are listed in table 7. 2.
111 Develops intensive reading skills and reading for gist, gives practice in business vocabulary and revises grammatical structures.
112 No one was actually prepared to say the word revolution-the one word in their vocabulary softened by success.
113 To do this you can read texts, making systematic changes of person, tense,(Sentencedict.com) and vocabulary items.
114 Their very vocabulary was unfamiliar to him, and seemed to belong to fiction and the stage.
115 The whole vocabulary of the press, as well as popular slogans, was drawn from that source.
116 Ogwen apprenticeships had their uses, and maybe one of them was to bestow a wider vocabulary.
117 Further vocabulary items which can also be employed in the drills may also be included.
118 Shape too has some new imperatives: designers have learnt the vocabulary of active sportswear shapes.
119 The goal, then, should be not a strong vocabulary but a strong engagement with the world.
120 As indicated earlier, it is one of the most nebulous terms in the vocabulary of politics.
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