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Default Re: Active and Passive Vocabulary

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Originally Posted by Harry Smith View Post
There is a limit in vocabulary too. It's when you don't need any new words, because you don't use them often. In this case it's better to think of keeping the words in mind you already know.
That can become a self-fulfilling prophecy; one cannot use words one doesn't know.
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