active vocabulary
Britishnoun
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All these have made or are making their way into the American active vocabulary as straightforward, uninflected phrases.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2011
At the end of the first year a college student ought to have mastered the elements of grammar and possess good pronunciation and an active vocabulary of about six hundred or eight hundred words.
From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Klapper, Paul
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