English vocabulary
The 8,500 most useful English words, grouped by level, with pronunciation and meanings. Add words to your list and practise them with flashcards.
- v. make an investment
- n. a telegram sent abroad
- prep. In the direction of
- n. the exposure of an impostor or a fraud
- adj. living in or characteristic of farming or country life
- n. a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water
- n. the best people or things in a group
- n. a person who is head of an administrative department of government
- n. a movable barrier in a fence or wall
- n. matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure
- n. sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)
- adv. in a typical manner
- n. narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
- n. headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
- adv. by bad luck
- n. law enacted by a legislative body
- v. attain success or reach a desired goal
- v. have a celebration
- n the action of accomplishing something
- n. the act of someone who fishes as a diversion
- v. bring an accusation against; level a charge against
- adj. being of use or service
- v. refuse to accept or acknowledge
- n. a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity
- n. the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
- n. a distinguishing quality
- n. a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
- n. the act of escaping physically
- n. the actors in a play
- n. a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language
- adj. not usual or common or ordinary
- adv. in a close relation or position in time or space
- v make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something
- n. the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top
- n a licensed medical practitioner
- v. charge (a person or a property) with a payment, such as a tax or a fine
- n. a full supply
- adv. in essence or effect but not in fact
- n. a component that is added to something to improve it
- n. a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
- adj. having the ability or power to create
- v. move something or somebody to a lower position
- v. give sanction to
- n. a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.
- adj. full of or showing high-spirited merriment
- n. the state of being honored
- adj. marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness
- n. a field on which the buildings of a university are situated
- adj. responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act
- v. locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar
- n. a pickup truck with a gun mounted on it
- v. compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
- adj. on the positive side or higher end of a scale
- n. a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there
- adj. wanting in physical strength
- adj. prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules
- n an expression of greeting
- adj. necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities
- n. a line of units following one after another
- n. a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting
Word lists, pronunciations and meanings: ECDICT (MIT licence) and WordNet (Princeton University). Levels follow how common each word is in modern English.