basic vocabulary
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbasicandvocabulary
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basic
adjective
uk/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/us/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/
simple and not complicated, so able to provide the base or starting point from which something ...
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vocabulary
noun
uk/vəˈkæb.jə.lər.i/us/voʊˈkæb.jə.ler.i/
all the words known and used by a ...
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(Definition ofbasicandvocabularyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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For all eight bilingual subgroups, the basic reading score greatly exceeded thebasicvocabularyscore.
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All verbs were high frequency,basicvocabularylexical items.
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Basicvocabularyinstruction: teaching strategies or teaching words?
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They do not involvebasicvocabularyat all, but solely specialized vocabulary.
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Before defining localist and distributed representations, we establish some morebasicvocabulary.
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Therefore, students with high levels of communication apprehension appear to be disadvantaged from the outset becausebasicvocabularylearning and production are impaired.
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Similarly, we reasoned that picture-naming scores were the best choice as a proxy forbasicvocabulary capability, for both theoretical and practical reasons.
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In all eight bilingual subgroup comparisons, the basic reading score exceeded thebasicvocabularyscore (average = 18.1 points).
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The list of source items recurring in grammaticalization processes has much in common with 'basicvocabulary ', that is, lexical items that are less likely to be replaced by others.
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Consequently, we deemed picture naming to be the most appropriate proxy for the construct ofbasicvocabularyknowledge.
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Incidental gaps notwithstanding, the base language already has perfectly good words for the concepts encoded by suchbasicvocabulary.
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Both composers use the samebasicvocabularyof essential and inessential sevenths and ninths and 'sur prise' modulations; both produce bland or sour-sweet clichés for much of the time.
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That is how children learn theirbasicvocabulary.
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I would go further and call it part of thebasicvocabularyof the just price, because the just price must be fair to seller as well as to buyer.
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Through music, songs and games, children begin to learn thebasicvocabularyand pronunciation.
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There are many similarities in thebasicvocabulary.
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