Vocabulary – 1) the totality of words in a language; 2) individual vocabulary:
- - active vocabulary;
- - defining vocabulary;
- - distinctive vocabulary;
- - 'dramatic'/ distinctive vocabulary;
- - general vocabulary;
- - marginal vocabulary;
- - passive vocabulary;
- - specialised vocabulary;
- - working vocabulary;
Native words – words of the English word-stock which belong to the following etymological layers of the English vocabulary:
- - words of common Indo-European origin;
- - words of Common Germanic word-stock;
- - purely Anglo-Saxon words.