vocabulary

My Arabic is limited to a vocabulary of my favorite foods, such as “I love chicken and rice.”

In an uncanny way, that describes the precise definition of the hipster, when the term first appeared in the American vocabulary.

Here, the vocabulary of fast food for many young Brazilians is temaki (hand rolls) instead of burgers and fries.

Without the freedom to act on moral values, there is not even a vocabulary for public virtue.

Off camera, Rooney was growing up fast, ditching school and developing an impressive vocabulary of curse words.

I hope you are able to bear the brunt of the battle, for my vocabulary will scarcely carry me through ten words.

This word, as well as the one last-named, is very expressive in the vocabulary of the vulgar.

The strength, the originality, the true raison d'être of the Provençal speech resides in its rich vocabulary.

We remark elsewhere the lack of independence in the dialect of Avignon, that its vocabulary alone gives it life.

But in Scotland you will hear the people using numbers of modern French words, which are no part of the English vocabulary.