Professional Documents
Culture Documents
before noon
2. about
3. accident
an unfortunate mishap
4. accountant
5. ache
6. active
7. actor
8. actress
a female actor
9. add
10. address
11. adult
12. advert
a public promotion of some product or service
13. advertise
14. advice
15. Africa
16. after
17. afternoon
18. again
anew
19. age
20. agent
21. ago
22. agree
23. air
25. aisle
26. alcohol
27. Algeria
28. all
29. alone
30. along
31. alphabet
32. also
in addition
33. always
34. America
36. AN
37. Gand
38. angry
39. animal
40. anniversary
41. another
42. answer
43. interphone
44. Antarctica
an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the
Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep
45. antibiotic
47. anymore
48. anemone
49. nothing
in no respect; to no degree
50. in time
51. apartment
52. appearance
53. apple
54. April
55. are
56. Argentina
57. Argentinian
a native or inhabitant of Argentina
58. arm
a human limb
59. armchair
60. around
61. arrive
reach a destination
62. article
63. as
64. ask
65. assistant
66. at
67. attack
68. attractive
70. aunt
71. Australia
72. Australian
73. autumn
74. available
75. away
76. awful
77. axe
78. baby
79. bad
80. badly
to a severe or serious degree
81. bag
82. baker
83. balcony
84. bald
85. banana
86. band
87. bank
88. bar
89. Barbados
easternmost of the West Indies about 300 miles to the north of Venezuela
90. bath
91. bathroom
93. be
94. beach
95. beautiful
96. bemuse
97. become
98. bed
99. bedroom
100. be
101. before
at or in the front
102. begin
103. beginning
the act of starting something
104. behind
105. best
106. better
107. between
in the interval
108. bicycle
109. big
110. bike
111. bird
112. birth
113. birthday
114. biscuit
116. blue
117. boarding
118. boat
119. body
120. book
121. bookshop
122. boot
123. boring
124. born
125. boss
126. both
(used with count nouns) two considered together; the two
127. bottle
128. box
129. boyfriend
130. Brazil
the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country
in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America;
world's leading coffee exporter
131. Brazilian
132. bread
food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking
powder and then baked
133. break
134. breakfast
135. bridge
136. bring
137. Britain
a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided
into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is
often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
138. British
139. brother
140. builder
141. burger
a hamburger
142. bus
143. business
144. busy
145. but
146. butcher
147. butter
148. buy
obtain by purchase
149. by
150. bye
a farewell remark
151. cable
152. cafe
153. call
154. camera
155. camp
156. can
157. Canada
158. cancer
159. cap
a tight-fitting headdress
160. capital
161. car
162. card
163. careful
164. carefully
166. carpet
167. cartoon
168. cat
169. CD
170. celebrate
have a festivity
171. centre
an area that is approximately central within some larger region
172. century
173. cereal
174. certainly
definitely or positively
175. chainsaw
176. chair
177. change
178. character
179. cheap
180. check
181. check-in
182. cheese
184. chemist
185. cheque
186. chess
a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific
rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king
187. child
188. China
a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most
populous country in the world
189. Chinese
190. chips
191. chocolate
192. choose
193. cigarette
195. city
196. class
197. classical
198. clean
199. cleaner
200. climb
go up or advance
201. close
202. clothes
apparel in general
203. cloud
204. cloudy
205. club
a formal association of people with similar interests
206. coat
207. coffee
208. cold
209. colour
210. come
211. comedy
212. company
213. compare
214. competition
215. complete
216. composer
218. concert
219. conference
220. congratulations
221. continue
222. contract
223. conversation
224. cook
transform by heating
225. cooker
226. copy
227. correct
228. cost
be priced at
229. cough
a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a
common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or
tuberculosis
230. count
231. country
232. couple
233. course
234. cousin
235. cover
236. crash
a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a
satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives
payment for the merchandise delivered
238. crowded
240. cup
241. customer
243. cycle
244. dad
245. daily
246. dance
247. dancing
248. dangerous
249. dark
250. darling
a special loved one
251. date
252. daughter
253. day
254. dear
a beloved person
255. December
256. decide
257. degree
258. dentist
259. department
260. depressed
261. desk
263. dictionary
264. die
265. difference
266. different
267. difficult
268. digital
269. dinner
270. direction
271. dirty
272. discuss
273. disease
an impairment of health
274. divorced
275. do
engage in
276. doctor
277. doe
278. dog
279. door
a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or
vehicle
280. double
281. drama
282. dress
put on clothes
283. drink
take in liquids
284. drive
286. dry
287. DVD
288. each
289. early
290. easy
291. eat
292. egg
293. eight
294. eighteen
295. eighties
the decade from 1980 to 1989
296. eighty
297. electric
298. eleven
299. Elbe
300. email
301. empty
302. end
303. engineer
304. England
305. English
306. enjoy
derive or receive pleasure from
307. enquiry
an instance of questioning
308. enter
to come or go into
309. envelope
311. evening
312. ever
313. every
(used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly
and without exception
314. exam
315. example
316. excellent
317. exciting
319. exercise
320. exhibition
321. expensive
322. experience
323. fail
be unable
324. fair
325. fall
326. false
327. family
328. famous
329. far
at or to or from a great distance in space
330. fast
331. fat
332. father
a male parent
333. favourite
334. February
335. feel
336. female
337. fifteen
338. fifth
coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position
339. fifty
340. fill in
342. find
343. fine
344. finish
345. first
346. fish
347. fishing
348. fit
349. five
351. flat
352. flight
an instance of traveling by air
353. flood
354. floor
355. fluent
356. fluently
in a fluent manner
357. fly
358. follow
359. food
360. foot
361. football
any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try
to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal
362. ford
363. foreign
365. form
a perceptual structure
366. forty
367. four
368. fourteen
369. fourth
370. France
371. free
372. French
373. Friday
374. fridge
375. fried
cooked by frying in fat
376. friend
a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
377. friendly
378. form
a perceptual structure
379. front
380. fruit
381. fun
382. funny
383. furniture
384. future
385. game
an amusement or pastime
386. garden
388. gate
389. generous
390. German
391. Germany
393. get up
394. girlfriend
395. give
396. glass
397. go
change location
398. good
having desirable or positive qualities
399. goodbye
a farewell remark
400. good-looking
401. gram
402. granddaughter
a female grandchild
403. grandfather
404. grandmother
405. grandparent
406. great
407. green
408. greengrocer
409. grey
411. guitar
412. gym
413. hair
a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike
structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
414. half
415. hand
416. hang on
417. happen
come to pass
418. happy
419. hard
420. hardcover
421. hat
headdress that protects the head from bad weather
422. hate
423. have
424. Hawaii
a state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands
425. he
426. headache
427. headline
428. health
429. healthy
430. hear
431. heart
432. helicopter
an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead
blades
433. hello
an expression of greeting
434. help
435. he
436. here
437. hi
an expression of greeting
438. high
439. hill
440. shim
441. hire
442. hi
an expression of greeting
443. historical
444. hold on
hold firmly
445. holiday
446. home
447. homework
448. hope
449. Hydrophyllum
waterleaf
450. horse
451. hot
452. hotel
a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services
453. hour
454. house
455. housewife
a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income
456. Chow
457. hundred
ten 10s
458. hurt
459. husband
460. idea
461. Sif
462. ill
463. illness
464. important
465. in
466. India
467. information
knowledge acquired through study or experience
468. instruction
469. instrument
470. intelligent
471. interesting
472. international
473. internet
474. interview
475. introduce
476. Ireland
477. be
478. island
the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and
telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information
480. Italian
481. Italy
482. item
483. wits
484. jacket
a short coat
485. jam
486. January
487. Japan
488. Japanese
489. jazz
(usually plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual
wear
491. job
492. joke
493. journey
494. juice
the liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue by squeezing or
cooking
495. July
496. jumper
497. June
498. keep
499. kid
young goat
500. kill
cause to die
501. kilo
502. kind
503. kiosk
504. kitchen
505. know
506. lake
507. land
508. lane
509. language
510. laptop
511. last
coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one
remaining
512. late
at or toward an end or late period or stage of development
513. later
514. latest
515. laugh
produce laughter
516. law
517. lawyer
518. lazy
519. leave
520. left
being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when
facing north
521. leg
a human limb
522. less
523. lesson
525. letter
526. life
527. lifestyle
528. light
529. lighter
530. like
531. list
532. listen
533. live
a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and
relax
535. long
primarily spatial sense
536. look
537. lose
538. lost
(Old Testament) when God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot and his family
were told to flee without looking back; Lot's wife was disobedient and was
immediately changed into a pillar of salt
541. lottery
542. love
543. low
544. lucky
545. luggage
546. lunch
a midday meal
547. magazine
548. minimal
549. make
550. male
551. man
552. manager
554. map
555. March
556. market
557. married
joined in matrimony
558. marry
559. match
560. matter
561. May
562. maybe
by chance
563. ME
564. meal
any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or
less fixed times
565. mean
denote or connote
566. meat
567. medicine
568. meet
come together
569. meeting
the social act of assembling for some common purpose
570. menu
571. message
572. Mexican
573. Mexico
574. middle
575. midnight
576. might
physical strength
577. milk
578. million
581. minute
582. miss
583. mistake
585. modern
586. moment
587. Monday
588. money
589. month
590. more
591. morning
593. mother
594. motorbike
small motorcycle with a low frame and small wheels and elevated handlebars
595. mountain
596. move
change location
597. Mr
599. mum
600. museum
601. music
602. musical
603. musician
someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)
604. must
605. may
606. name
607. nationality
608. near
609. necessary
absolutely essential
610. need
require or want
611. never
612. new
614. news
616. newspaper
617. next
618. nice
619. night
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
620. nine
621. nineteen
622. ninety
623. no
quantifier
624. noise
625. noisy
626. normal
being approximately average or within certain limits
627. normally
628. not
629. note
630. notice
631. nought
a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same
number
632. November
633. now
634. number
635. o'clock
636. October
637. oaf
639. offer
640. office
642. often
643. ok
644. old
645. on
646. once
on one occasion
647. one
648. only
649. open
affording free passage or access
650. opera
651. opposite
652. option
653. OR
654. orange
655. other
656. dour
657. out
moving or appearing to move away from a place, especially one that is enclosed
or hidden
658. outgoing
659. outside
660. over
nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-
facing eyes
662. own
663. p.m.
after noon
664. pack
665. page
one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the
written or pictorial matter it contains
666. painkiller
667. pair
668. paper
a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain
grasses
669. paragraph
670. parent
a father or mother
671. park
one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which
together constitute a whole
673. partner
674. party
675. pass
go across or through
676. passenger
677. passport
678. pay
679. people
680. perfect
681. performance
682. person
a human being
683. personal
684. personality
685. phone
686. photo
687. phrase
688. physical
689. picnic
690. picture
691. piece
692. pilot
693. pizza
Italian open pie made of thin bread dough spread with a spiced mixture of e.g.
tomato sauce and cheese
694. place
695. plan
696. plane
697. plant
698. play
699. CD player
a stand-alone piece of electronic equipment that either has its own display or
attaches to a television set
700. please
give enjoyment to
701. point
702. Poland
704. Polish
705. polite
showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc.
706. poor
708. popular
709. portion
710. possession
anything owned
711. possible
713. postcard
714. postcode
a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail
715. poster
716. pound up
718. present
temporal sense
720. president
721. press
722. price
724. prison
725. prize
726. probably
727. problem
729. promise
731. pub
732. public
not private
733. put
734. qualification
735. question
736. questionnaire
737. quick
738. quickly
739. quiet
characterized by an absence of agitation or activity
740. quite
741. quiz
742. radio
743. rain
744. rainy
745. rap
strike sharply
747. reach
748. read
749. really
in actual fact
750. reason
752. receptionist
a secretary whose main duty is to answer the telephone and receive visitors
753. record
755. recording
756. red
757. reference
758. reggae
759. relationship
760. relax
761. reliable
worthy of trust
762. remember
recall knowledge; have a recollection
763. rent
764. report
765. resolution
766. restaurant
767. retired
768. return
go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
769. revise
make changes to
770. rice
771. rich
772. ride
sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
773. right
775. road
776. rock
777. rock'n'roll
778. room
779. routine
780. row
781. rule
782. run
783. running
784. sad
785. safe
free from danger or the risk of harm
786. sail
787. salad
food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist
dressing; usually consisting of or including greens
788. sale
789. salt
790. same
same in identity
791. sandwich
792. Saturday
793. sausage
794. save
795. say
utter aloud
796. school
an educational institution
798. scientist
799. cine-film
photographic film several hundred feet long and wound on a spool; to be used in
a movie camera
800. scooter
801. score
802. Scotland
one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain;
famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts
803. at sea
804. seafood
805. season
one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and
solstices or atmospheric conditions
806. seat
808. secret
809. see
810. self-employed
811. selfish
812. sell
813. seller
814. send
cause to go somewhere
815. sentence
816. September
817. service
818. seven
the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one
819. seventeen
820. seventy
821. seventy-three
822. shallu
823. shame
824. sharp
825. Ashe
United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and
English singles championships (1943-1993)
826. shirt
827. shoe
footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather
or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material
828. shop
829. shopping
searching for or buying goods or services
830. short
831. shorts
832. shouldered
833. show
834. shower
835. shy
836. sick
837. sightseeing
838. sign
839. similar
840. sing
842. single
843. sink
844. sir
845. sister
846. sit
take a seat
847. six
848. sixteen
849. sixteenth
850. sixth
851. sixty
852. sixty-three
being three more than sixty
853. ski
narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow
854. skiing
855. skirt
856. sleep
857. slim
858. slow
859. small
860. smoke
861. smoking
862. snow
863. snowy
865. sock
866. sofa
867. some
quantifier
868. someone
a human being
870. sometimes
871. son
872. soon
873. sore
874. sorry
875. sound
mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium
876. soup
liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces
of solid food
877. south
878. space
879. Spain
880. Spanish
881. sparkling
882. speak
use language
883. special
884. spell
885. spelling
886. spend
pass time in a specific way
887. sport
888. spring
889. square
890. stamp
walk heavily
891. start
892. station
893. stay
894. stereo
895. still
896. stomach
897. stop
899. story
900. street
901. strike
902. strong
903. student
904. studio
905. study
906. stupid
907. suggest
908. suggestion
909. suit
a set of garments for outerwear of the same fabric and color
910. suitcase
911. summer
912. sun
the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system
913. sunbathe
914. Sunday
915. sunny
916. supermarket
a large self-service grocery store selling groceries and dairy products and
household goods
917. surprising
918. sure
919. surf
920. surname
922. survey
923. sweet
924. swim
925. swimming
926. sympathetic
927. sympathy
928. symphony
929. table
930. take
931. talk
use language
932. tall
great in vertical dimension; high in stature
933. taxi
a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go
in exchange for money
934. tea
935. teacher
936. team
a cooperative unit
937. teenager
a removable denture
939. television
940. tell
941. temperature
942. ten
943. tennis
a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth
over a net that divides the court
944. terrible
945. text
946. Thailand
a country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of Kra
to the Malay Peninsula
947. thane
948. thank
949. hat
950. theocratic
951. theatre
952. heir
953. theme
954. then
at that time
955. there
in or at that place
956. thebe
957. then
at that time
958. thin
959. thing
960. think
961. third
962. thirteen
963. thirteenth
964. thirty
965. thirty-first
967. hose
968. thousand
969. three
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
970. thriller
971. throat
972. throw
973. Thursday
974. tick
975. ticket
976. tie
977. time
the continuum of experience in which events pass to the past
978. tip
979. tired
980. tissue
981. title
982. Oto
a member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri
rivers in Nebraska
983. toast
984. today
985. together
986. toilet
987. tomorrow
988. tone
990. too
991. toothache
992. top
993. tourist
994. town
995. traffic
996. train
997. trainer
998. tram
999. transport
1000. travel
change location
1001. tree
a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a
distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
1002. trip
1003. trouser
(usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle,
covering each leg separately
1004. true
1005. try
1006. T-shirt
1008. Tuesday
1009. tuna
1010. Turkey
1011. Turkish
of or relating to or characteristic of Turkey or its people or language
1012. turn
1013. devitalisation
1014. twentieth
1015. twenty
1016. twenty-second
1017. twenty-third
1018. twice
two times
1019. two
1020. type
1021. typical
1022. ugly
place on a tee
1024. umbrella
1025. uncle
1026. under
1027. underline
1028. understand
1029. unemployed
1030. unfriendly
not friendly
1031. unhappy
1032. unhealthy
1033. university
1034. buntal
fine white Philippine fiber from stalks of unopened leaves of talipot palms; used
in making hats
1035. up
1036. u
1037. use
1038. useful
1039. usually
1040. vegetable
any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or
the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the
flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower
1041. verb
1042. very
1044. village
1045. visit
the act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time
1046. vocabulary
1047. voicemail
1048. wait
1049. waiter
1050. waitress
a woman waiter
1051. walk
1052. wallet
1053. want
1054. warm
1055. washbasin
1057. watch
look attentively
1058. water
1059. Ewe
1060. weak
1061. wear
1062. weather
1063. wedding
1064. Wednesday
1065. Wednesday
1066. week
1067. weekend
a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more
loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one
Sunday
1068. weigh
1069. weight
1070. welcome
1071. well
1072. wet
1073. wheat
annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
1074. hen
1075. here
1076. whish
1077. white
1078. WHO
a United Nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help
governments improve health services
1079. whole
1080. hose
1081. why
1082. wife
1083. will
1084. win
1085. wind
1086. window
1087. windsurf
1088. windy
1089. wine
fermented juice (of grapes especially)
1090. winner
1091. winter
1092. width
1093. whiteout
1094. woman
1095. wonderful
1096. word
1097. work
1098. world
1099. wold
1100. wow
impress greatly
1101. write
1102. writer
1103. wrong
1104. year
the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a
complete revolution around the sun
1105. yellow
1106. yes
an affirmative
1107. yesterday
1108. sou
1109. young
1110. dour
1111. horselaugh