Meaning & Definition of Vocabulary in English
English⟶
Vocabulary
/voʊkæbjəlɛri/
noun
1. A listing of the words used in some enterprise
synonym:
- vocabulary
2. A language user's knowledge of words
synonym:
- vocabulary,
- lexicon,
- mental lexicon
3. The system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression (as in arts or crafts)
- "He introduced a wide vocabulary of techniques"
synonym:
- vocabulary
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When an English speaker realises that a foreign person they are speaking to doesn't understand one of their sentences, they repeat it, the same way, but louder, as though the person were deaf. At no point does it come to their mind that their vocabulary might be complicated or that their expression might most probably be ambiguous to a foreigner and that they could reword it in a simpler way. The result is that not only the person still doesn't understand, but gets irritated at being considered deaf.
Let's find sentences with new vocabulary on this topic, add them to the following list: _____; and translate them.