vocabulary word
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A word which a student is expected to learn; a word included in a test of one's general vocabulary or of subject-specific terminology
American usage
noun
An ordinary dictionary word, as opposed to a name or neologism
Example Sentences
- "The teacher then held up a real food item of each vocabulary word and asked the students to repeat each word in Spanish."
- "In my 1st grade classroom, I use our read-alouds to introduce our weekly vocabulary words. Before reading, I pre-select five to seven words from the text that students really need to fully comprehend the text."
- "2020 July 15, "33 Middle School Vocabulary Words Adults Still Get Wrong" Reader's Digest"
- "They are — here's a new vocabulary word — anadromous, which means that when it's time for them to spawn, they return to the fresh water where they were born."
- "2016 January 29, Necco Ceresani, "You Are Ready for Continuous Delivery, Take the Leap" XebiaLabs Most people call this Continuous Integration, but like DevOps, it is just a vocabulary word for working together, and making sure everything works together.giphy (3)"
- "Although I have on occasion picked up a vocabulary word in years of reading Will’s columns (he may be the only person I read who regularly slips in the word “condign,” an adjective with which I was previously unfamiliar), ten-dollar words are not his norm."
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