Synonyms for vocabulary
voʊˈkæb yəˌlɛr ivo·cab·u·la·ry

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1. vocabulary

   An author's diction is strictly his choice and use of words, with no special reference to thought; expression regards the words simply as the vehicle of the thought. Phrase and phraseology apply to words or combinations of words which are somewhat technical; as, in legal phraseology; in military phrase. Diction is general; wording is limited; we speak of the diction of an author or of a work, the wording of a proposition, of a resolution, etc. Verbiage never bears this sense (see CIRCUMLOCUTION.) The language of a writer or speaker may be the national speech he employs; as, the English or French language; or the word may denote his use of that language; as, the author's language is well (or ill) chosen. Style includes diction, expression, rhetorical figures such as metaphor and simile, the effect of an author's prevailing tone of thought, of his personal traits — in short, all that makes up the clothing of thought in words; thus, we speak of a figurative style, a frigid or an argumentative style, etc., or of the style of Macaulay, Prescott, or others. An author's vocabulary is the range of words which he brings into his use. Compare LANGUAGE.

   Synonyms:
   diction, expression, language, phrase, phraseology, style, verbiage, wording

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1. vocabularynoun

   a listing of the words used in some enterprise

   Synonyms:
   mental lexicon, lexicon

2. vocabulary, lexicon, mental lexiconnoun

   a language user's knowledge of words

   Synonyms:
   mental lexicon, dictionary, lexicon

3. vocabularynoun

   the system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression (as in arts or crafts)

   "he introduced a wide vocabulary of techniques"

   Synonyms:
   mental lexicon, lexicon

Matched Categories

1. • Art
   • Cognition
   • Frame Of Reference
   • Wordbook

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1. vocab

   exercise;words

   Submitted by anonymous on April 2, 2020  

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1. vocabularynoun

   Synonyms:
   dictionary, glossary, lexicon, word-book, list of words

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1. List of paraphrases for "vocabulary":

   vocabularies, lexicon, terminology, glossary, language

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. vocabulary

   Synonyms:
   Terminology

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1. vocabulary

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How to use vocabulary in a sentence?

1. Jules Feiffer:

   I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.

2. Anatol Stefanowitsch:

   I can’t think of anything, at least since the Second World War, that would have changed the vocabulary as drastically, and at the same time as quickly, as the corona pandemic, i can think of many other examples of a huge cultural shift that changed the German vocabulary. But they didn’t happen within a few months.

3. Dr. Robert Schuller:

   Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary impossible.

4. Shelley Anderson:

   A cenotaph, a vocabulary word I learned from the governor of Texas ... When you put up a headstone, but there's no actual body buried, it's called a cenotaph.

5. Stephen Colbert:

   We had no vocabulary for what you showed us.