stock of words

Old father Elliot had a great stock of words and could shout - and didn't mind who he shouted at either.

The propensity for using his stock of words and rhymes forces Frazier to misstate the action before him (and us).

Urdu has drawn inspiration from Persian literature and has now an enormous stock of words from that language.

The lexical structure of a language, its stock of words and expressions and its established patterns of collocation, provides its speakers with ready-made ways of analysing and reporting experience.

A.W. Moore noted that the dialect varied to some slight extent from parish to parish and from individual to individual, but in the main the same turns of phrase and the same foundational stock of words pervaded the whole Island.