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  2. Category:Lists of English words - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Some lists of English words are categorised under Category: ...

  3. Word list - Wikipedia

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    A word list (or lexicon) is a list of a language's lexicon (generally sorted by frequency of occurrence either by levels or as a ranked list) within some given text corpus, serving the purpose of vocabulary acquisition.

  4. International English Language Testing System - Wikipedia

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    International English Language Testing System (IELTS / ˈ aɪ. ɛ l t s /) [6] is an international standardized test of English language proficiency for non-native English language speakers. It is jointly managed by the British Council, IDP and Cambridge English, [6] and was established in 1989. IELTS is one of the major English-language tests ...

  5. Vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    A vocabulary (also known as a lexicon) is a set of words, typically the set in a language or the set known to an individual. The word vocabulary originated from the Latin vocabulum, meaning "a word, name". It forms an essential component of language and communication, helping convey thoughts, ideas, emotions, and information.

  6. Category:Vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Category: Vocabulary. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This category deals with articles associated with specific words and lists of words.

  7. American English vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    American English has always shown a marked tendency to use nouns as verbs. [13] Examples of verbed nouns are interview, advocate, vacuum, lobby, pressure, rear-end, transition, feature, profile, spearhead, skyrocket, showcase, service (as a car), corner, torch, exit (as in "exit the lobby"), factor (in mathematics), gun ("shoot"), author (which disappeared in English around 1630 and was ...

  8. Defining vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    A defining vocabulary is a list of words used by lexicographers to write dictionary definitions. The underlying principle goes back to Samuel Johnson's notion that words should be defined using 'terms less abstruse than that which is to be explained', [1] and a defining vocabulary provides the lexicographer with a restricted list of high-frequency words which can be used for producing simple ...

  9. Controlled vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Defining vocabularyList of words used by lexicographers to write dictionary definitions; IMS Vocabulary Definition Exchange – Mark-up language – or grammar – for controlled vocabularies developed by IMS Global; Named-entity recognition – Extraction of named entity mentions in unstructured text into pre-defined categories