What is a Professional Grade vocabulary?
There are over 600,000 words in English. To learn the meaning of all the words would take a lifetime. Fortunately, there is no need to learn them all. That’s because the vast majority of words are specialized terms that are seldom used outside the specific fields of study to which they belong such as medicine, law, economics, computers etc. The backbone of English is made up by a relatively small number of general purpose words that comprise 99+% of all written or oral communications. Verbocity identified these 9,100 terms using computerized frequency analysis. It is these general purpose words that every English user needs to learn in order to read effortlessly, understand complex text and communicate with precision and clarity. That’s why we refer to these words as a “Professional Grade” vocabulary.
