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- noun The
collection ofwords andphrases that someonecommonly uses inspeech andwriting .
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takchess commented on the word active vocabulary
A link to an article about the numbers of words in the English language and active vocabulary.
http://www.davidcrystal.com/DC_articles/English83.pdf
February 27, 2012