basic vocabulary

noun Linguistics.
the set of lexical items in a language that are most resistant to replacement, referring to the most common and universal elements of human experience, such as parts of the body (foot, eye ), universal features of the environment (water, star ), common activities (eat, sleep ), and the lowest numerals.
Also called core vocabulary.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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We have provided basic vocabulary necessary to provide a foundation for
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Overall, students understood a large proportion of individual words and simple
  sentences drawn from a fairly basic vocabulary.
Unless the basic vocabulary is extremely limited, maintenance of the auxiliary
  dictionary is impracticable.
He began with the basic vocabulary, tools and techniques that are part of this
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