lexis
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
lexis
- (linguistics) The set of all words and phrases in a language.
- (pedagogy, TEFL) Words, collocations, and common phrases in a language; vocabulary and word combinations.
- The vocabulary used by a writer
- In this broadsheet newspaper, the reporter uses a complicated and formal lexis which I find hard to understand.
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