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.
- n. a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed
- adj. deviating widely from a norm of physical or mental ability; used especially of children below normal in intelligence
- n. a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
- adj. marked by keen caution and watchful prudence
- n. a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing
- adj. being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance
- v. attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war
- n an employee who is a member of a staff of workers (especially a member of the staff that works for the President of the United States)
- n. a fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant
- n. a colorless gas (O3) soluble in alkalis and cold water; a strong oxidizing agent; can be produced by electric discharge in oxygen or by the…
- n. larceny by threat of violence
- adj. worth remembering
- n. equipment for making records
- adv. in a nice way
- n. the act of taking a step in walking
- n. a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
- n. flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
- n. aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice
- v surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
- v give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- v. make loose or looser
- adj. produced by or subjected to forcing
- n. an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container
- n. information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events
- n. something that is regarded as a chance event
- n a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- n. one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light
- n. someone who visits stores in search of articles to buy
- s relatively long in duration; tediously protracted
- n. a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
- n. a drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters
- adj. well below normal (especially in price)
- n. property that is leased or rented out or let
- n. the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature
- n (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically
- v. speak softly or indistinctly
- n. a female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign)
- n. a variable color averaging a deep pink
- n. a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- n. a female domestic
- n. a travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals
- n. a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
- n. a periodic count of the population
- n. (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature)
- n. an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support
- n. a commissioned military officer
- v. be present in
- n. an unjust act
- n. a prescribed number
- n. significant progress (especially in the phrase "make strides")
- n. a passage selected from a larger work
- n. a motor vehicle with two wheels and a strong frame
- n. a source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food
- n. painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts)
- n a financial institution that sells insurance
- n. an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something
- n. the new sounds added by dubbing
- n. a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work
- n. a party of former associates who have come together again
- adj. fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
Word lists, pronunciations and meanings: ECDICT (MIT licence) and WordNet (Princeton University). Levels follow how common each word is in modern English.