passive vocabulary

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all the words, collectively, that a person can understandCompare active vocabulary

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beryl

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Words nearby passive vocabulary

passive safety, passive smoke, passive smoking, passive transfer, passive tremor, passive vocabulary, passive voice, passivism, passivity, passkey, pass law

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How to use passive vocabulary in a sentence

If we want to prevent others from your fate, we need to stop being so passive on these issues.
Dear Leelah, We Will Fight On For You: A Letter to a Dead Trans Teen|Parker Molloy|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In a rather passive aggressive letter, the House Minority Leader wrote.
Nancy Pelosi Plays Hardball On Cromnibus|Ben Jacobs|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
These “smart benches” can do more than simply serve as passive producers of electricity.
Parks and Regeneration|The Daily Beast|November 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
My Arabic is limited to a vocabulary of my favorite foods, such as “I love chicken and rice.”
Middle East Goes Monty Python on ISIS|Dean Obeidallah|October 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

It turned Web surfers into passive consumers of published content.
You Can Look It Up: The Wikipedia Story|Walter Isaacson|October 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Passive hyperemia occurs most commonly in diseases of the heart and liver and in pregnancy.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
In conversation their minds are apt to remain in a recipient passive state.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
I hope you are able to bear the brunt of the battle, for my vocabulary will scarcely carry me through ten words.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
A purely passive defence is not possible for us; it implies losing ground by degrees—and we have not a yard to lose.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
This word, as well as the one last-named, is very expressive in the vocabulary of the vulgar.
Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853|Various