In spite of all the killings, the movement was becoming more and more a matter of these abstract words.

In particular, children begin to learn abstract words.

By age 10, children's vocabulary development through reading moves away from learning concrete words to learning abstract words.

On the one hand, it can be described as a linguistic text: X contains simple words, more abstract than concrete nouns, etc.

Semantic memories are abstract words, concepts, and rules stored in long-term memory.

The difficulty of deep dyslexics in reading abstract words has been referred to as the "imageability effect".

How do you expect me to draw upon her page in the registry a name symbol of abstract words?

They may form natural combinations with abstract words, analogous to such Basic English constructions.

It is the fate of many abstract words to be used in two senses, one good and the other bad.

It was only then that I fully understood how the terribly abstract word "infrastructure" could come to feel like life itself.