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Default Re: Active and Passive Vocabulary

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Originally Posted by Avalon View Post
Winston Churchill was famous for his particularly large vocabulary,he used 60,000 words in his writing(? what writing?)
Apart from everything else he won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature for his many books on English and world history.
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