Which preposition to use with vocabularies

by Occurrences 200%

Edited with introd., notes, exercises and vocabulary by Elizabeth McGuire.

of Occurrences 151%

The creed-makers must have a thorough literary training; no mere vocabulary of philosophy will answer.

for Occurrences 35%

2. A Vocabulary for Speech or for Writing?

in Occurrences 10%

It must not be supposed that the conversation was conducted as simply and easily as has been narrated, for it needed all the efforts of the boys to make the Russian understand them, and they had to go over and over again many of the sentences, using their scanty vocabulary in every way, to convey their meaning to their hearer.

with Occurrences 9%

In each of the preceding exercises compare your vocabulary with that of the original as to size, precision, and the grace and ease with which words are put together.

to Occurrences 5%

With increasing enlightenment, however, it discerns five species, and distinguishes among them by swelling this branch of its vocabulary to five words: man (in the sense of adult male), woman, boy, girl, baby.

from Occurrences 4%

I am told that Mackenzie got his vocabulary from some of the priests in Lower Canada, who are versed in the Algonquin.

on Occurrences 2%

"Write it up as if it were a real society event, dear, and exhaust your vocabulary on the gowns.

before Occurrences 2%

The necessities of increasing civilisation had introduced many Aramaic words to the Arabic vocabulary before Muhammed's day: these importations increased considerably when the Arabs entered a wider and more complex civilisation and were especially considerable where intellectual culture was concerned.

into Occurrences 2%

Adelung, the highest authority, declares that all modern philology is founded on the translation of a Russian vocabulary into two hundred different dialects by Catherine II.

without Occurrences 1%

When after the lapse of years they finally did so, they have invariably asked me why I had not told them about it before, forgetting that I had exhausted my vocabulary without being able to make them understand.

alteredfor Occurrences 1%

"I find the very vocabulary alteredfor rest read change, for sleep read stimulation, etc, ad infin.

at Occurrences 1%

In this compact form they could be learned by heart, thus extending the vocabulary at his command, and making him independent of the interlinear glosses, and they could also be used in the school-teaching of pupils and neophytes, so as sensibly to enlarge their stock of Latin words and phrases.

during Occurrences 1%

Then he fell to asking little Melicent about how much she had missed Father while Father was away, and he dutifully kissed the two other children, and he duly admired the additions to Emmerick's vocabulary during Father's absence.

than Occurrences 1%

Kingdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house and common day's work: but the things of life are the same to both: the sum total of both is the same.

under Occurrences 1%

Pablo y Virginia: Paul and Virginia (cf. vocabulary under *Domingo*).

until Occurrences 1%

I took up the subject of the Indian language, after an interval of eight or nine days, and continued to transcribe into my vocabulary until after the hour of midnight.

in Occurrences 1%

The reader is referred to Dr. Latham's observations on my Vocabularies in the Appendix to this work.)

Which preposition to use with  vocabularies