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adjective
1.
of or pertaining to the words or vocabulary of a language, especially as distinguished from its grammatical and syntactical aspects.
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Lexical
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Example Sentences
- Lexical chunks have entered the house of language teaching, and they're making themselves at home.
- They are imaginative attempts at relating something heard to lexical material already known.
- But those tasks may say more about lexical ability than true insight.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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