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Word hoard means Vocabulary; the totality of words of a language or a person..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Vocabulary; the totality of words of a language or a person..
Wordiness is not usually considered a virtue any more than impurity is; but words are the wealth of English, and the riches of its word-hoard are only paralleled by the riches of the Anglo-American nations.
Emerson came, unlocking his word hoard on nature and friendship and compensation, and irradiating his thoughts'with that peculiar slow smile that was like the emerging of the sun from behind a cloud.
Beowulf unlocked his word hoard. “We come, indeed, from across the sea.”
Primary additions to the wordhoard tend to come from commercial sources[.]
Still, in spite of the sensation of being caught between a ‘shield-wall’ of opaque references and a ‘word-hoard’ that is old and strange, such readers are also bound to feel a certain ‘shock of the new’.
Use word hoard when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Word hoard means Vocabulary; the totality of words of a language or a person..
Common synonyms include vocabulary, lexicon, word-stock.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Wordiness is not usually considered a virtue any more than impurity is; but words are the wealth of English, and the riches of its word-hoard are only paralleled by the riches of the Anglo-American nations.
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