My Arabic is limited to a vocabulary of my favorite foods, such as “I love chicken and rice.”
In an uncanny way, that describes the precise definition of the hipster, when the term first appeared in the American vocabulary.
Here, the vocabulary of fast food for many young Brazilians is temaki (hand rolls) instead of burgers and fries.
Without the freedom to act on moral values, there is not even a vocabulary for public virtue.
You have to have discipline in the words you use, in your vocabulary.
But it also serves to bring us finally to the vocabulary of Esmond.
But the shock to her feelings had loosed the good woman's vocabulary.
It was curious how the sense of evil had limited each one's vocabulary.
Chance is a word which ought to be banished from the Christian vocabulary.
For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin.
1530s, "list of words with explanations," from Medieval Latin vocabularium "a list of words," from Latin vocabulum "word, name, noun," from vocare "to name, call" (see voice (n.)). Meaning "range of language of a person or group" is first attested 1753.
