vocab
noun
vo·cab
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Definition of vocab
informal
: vocabulary
memorized the vocab for the quiz Take a break from your summer read to test your vocab with this sensational and mega-addicting app.— Ashley Macey … to go with my new French vocab, I went shopping for a French personality to match.— Brielle Saggese Brush up on your math vocab. There's a chance you have not seen terms such as factor or standard deviation for a while unless you are a math major.— Lauren Lambert
—often used before another noun vocab wordsa vocab lesson/test
Examples of vocab in a Sentence
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Plaza insisted that Lenny's original, somewhat gendered dialogue—smarmy, crass, with a barstool intellectual's love of old-timey vocab—be kept in tact. — Nojan Aminosharei, Marie Claire, "Aubrey Plaza Was Never April Ludgate," 13 June 2018 Stickies: Put up Post-its around the house with spelling words, science facts, foreign language vocab or whatever your kids need to memorize. — Staff, cleveland.com, "Comment here on cleveland.com court and crime stories for Sunday, Oct. 29, 2017," 29 Oct. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'vocab.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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