English Vocabulary

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Useful Word Lists | Practical Vocabulary | Dictionaries & Thesauri

	Without grammar very little can be conveyed; without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed.
	D.A. Wilkins, Linguistics in Language Teaching

English Alphabet (a, b, c)

English Phonetic Spelling (alpha, bravo, charlie)

Dictionary or thesaurus? What's the difference?
A dictionary tells you what a word means. It gives you a "definition" for each word. When you want to know what a word means, you look in a dictionary. A dictionary lists definitions. A thesaurus gives you words that mean the same as, or nearly the same as, another word. When you can't find the exact word you want, you look in a thesaurus. A thesaurus lists synonyms and similar words. (The plural of "thesaurus" is "thesauri" or "thesauruses".)

Synonyms and antonyms
A synonym is a word that means exactly the same as, or very nearly the same as, another word in the same language. For example, "close" is a synonym of "shut". An antonym is a word that means the opposite of another word, for example "good" and "bad".

Useful Word Lists

• Phrasal Verbs List Phrasal Verbs Quiz
• Prepositions List (at, by, concerning)
• Interjections List (oh!, um, ah!)
• Regular Verbs List (work, worked, worked)
• Irregular Verbs List (go, went, gone)
• 100 Commonest English Words (the, be, to)

Say or Tell? Say or Tell Quiz

Do or Make? Do or Make Quiz

Irregular Adjectives (good, better, the best)

Prefixes (non-, inter-, post-)

Contractions (I'm, aren't, here's)

Informal Contractions (gimme, gonna, wanna)

WH Question Words (WHo, WHat, HoW)

Figures of Speech (like a bat outta hell)

English Idioms (kill two birds with one stone)   Idioms Help Forum

Idioms Reference

Collocations (white coffee, make your bed, do your homework)

Illustrated Vocabulary

Computer Vocabulary (backup, cache, DOS)

Sports Vocabulary with Quizzes (award, champion, stadium)
includes Olympics Vocabulary, History and Quizzes

Christmas Vocabulary (holly, Santa, turkey)

British English/American English (lift/elevator)

Practical Vocabulary

Time

• Telling the Time (It's three o'clock)
• Day & Night (day/night, am/pm)
• Days of the Week (Mon., Tues., Wed)
• Months of the Year (January, February)
• Writing the Date (14th March 1999)
• Calendar of Holidays and Events

The World

• Continents (Asia, Africa)
• Countries (Finland, France)
• Nationality (Danish, a Dane)

Weather (rain, raining, rainy)

Numbers (1/one, 2/two, 3/three)

Roman Numbers (i, ii, iii, iv, v)
Latin Phrases (inter alia)

Colours (red, orange, yellow)

Shapes (square, circle, triangle)

Weight (grams, kilograms)

Male and Female (king, queen)

Animal Terms (lion, lions, lion, lioness, lion cub, a pride)

Criminals and Law Breakers (murderer, deliberately kills)

Ranks - British/American (captain, sergeant)

Top 20 Words
Abbreviations, Advertising, Air Travel, Banking, Company Structure, Computers, Contracts, Correspondence, CV/Resume, Employment, Import/Export, Insurance, Law, Marketing, Meetings, Money, Newspapers, Numbers, Presentations, Property, Publishing, Punctuation, Selling

English Vocabulary Links

1000 Phrasal Verbs in Context is a self-study guide for intermediate to advanced students. It contains 1,000 phrasal verbs with 2,000 example sentences plus 1,000 quiz questions and answers. Designed to help learners of English improve their knowledge of phrasal verbs, this e-book can be used as a self-study guide by learners, or the material can be used by teachers in class.

• 1000 Phrasal Verbs
• 2000 example sentences
• 1000 quiz questions
• with answers