How to Use vocab in a Sentence

vocab

noun
  • From chirps to moans, this vet has your chatty cat’s vocab covered.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Here’s a look at the basic concepts and vocab needed to become crypto savvy.
    — Thalia Beaty, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Music, business and your social life had a completely new set of vocab words.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 22 Feb. 2021
  • This single vocab shift will unlock creative potential faster than a bank robber can crack a bike lock.
    — Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 3 Oct. 2020
  • An old Sega game that taught English vocab words to tech-savvy kids in the 1980s.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 25 June 2006
  • The star knows her fashion vocab, but design lingo might prove a little trickier.
    — Isabel Garcia, House Beautiful, 29 Apr. 2020
  • The pandemic has introduced a ton of new vocab words into common discourse.
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • One shows the mean vocab score for region and ethnicity (for whites) for those without college educations, and another shows those with college educations.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2011
  • Her workaholism, provincialism, and affinity for Starbucks strike them as trashy—or, in the one piece of foreign vocab the show drills into its English-speaking viewers, ringarde!
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2021

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