Did you ever think about the amount of words you know, not just their definitions but their different uses based on context?
What's even more interesting to me is the fact that we weren't taught these definitions and usages, we intuited them from being around other people that talk.
In fact it'd be impossible to teach every word in your vocabulary. And it's likely that the method in which you learn something plays a major part in your relationship to that concept.
Por ejemplo, if someone teaches you the definition of a word, the likelihood is that teaching is really just an authoritative gesture meant to instill in you fealty to that person's preferred definition. Whereas a natural definition arising of experience is one in which the subjective mind develops a definition that is determined by the context and allows the word to maintain plasticity in the mind.
To make it simpler: when a definition is taught, it is bound inextricably to the authority from which it arose and it remains an essentially fixed string of words. When a word is learned in the fashion in which humans have been learning language for the last however long, it's definition is determined by the person in possession of it, and it remains an eternally mutable concept.
