Vocabulate

The act of expressing an abstract idea in words and sentences. This pins it down into manageable terms for further use and analysis.

It can be difficult to vocabulate complex emotional ideas.

by kZard June 30, 2017

vocabulism

n. The process of making up words from parts of other words.

Sarah Palin's creation of the word "refudiate" shows that her while her skill in vocabulism is adept, her attempt at tweeting in actual English is lacking.

by GiraffeBoy March 13, 2011

vocabulator

When you adopt someone's vocabulary from hangin with em for a while.

When she talks her vocabulator is so obvious, it gives away who she hangs with and stuff. She's been vocabulating hard on that dude.

by Bootybarn January 3, 2013

vocabulous

a person with an excellent command of the urban lexicon.

damn, that vocabulous lady rocks the slang

by kc March 18, 2004

vocabulator

A word calculator.

I used my vocabulator on all my english tests

by Ryan Stoker June 2, 2003

vocabulator

n. The part of the human brain responsible for storage and, more importantly, retrieval of all the words learned over the course of a lifetime.

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Vocabulator failures, in which the correct or perfect word ( le mot juste ou parfait), which may have spent years collecting dust in the less-travelled regions of a surgeon's mind, is badly routed and ends up dangling uselessly at the tip of his tongue, can be both annihilatory and devastative.

by gnostic3 November 24, 2022

Vocabulate

(V) To use the SAT vocabulary you learn in school in everyday speech

Example of a vocabulation:
Number 5 on the test was very ambiguous.

Instead of:
Number 5 on the test had two answers that looked right.

by Marianne October 4, 2003