Vocabulary - Knowing and Using A Word

Knowing and Using A Word

Vocabulary is commonly defined as "all the words known and used by a particular person". Knowing a word, however, is not as simple as simply being able to recognize or use it. There are several aspects of word knowledge which are used to measure word knowledge.

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Famous quotes containing the words knowing and/or word:

    “I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “But to wish is first to think,
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