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- Never mind
What Is Active and Passive Vocabulary? Your passive vocabulary includes the words you can recognize and understand, but can't come up with on your own when writing and speaking. For its part, active vocabulary includes all words that you can think of and use right away when you're in the process of communicating. When learning a language, both your active and passive vocabularies change all the time. You use words, forget words, try out new words and review previously learned words.