SITEMAP: Vocabulary

• VOCABULARY:
  General vocabulary : Useful words and expressions for general conversations and special events, as well pronunciation pages.
  1. Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms with their meaning.
  2. Adjectives ending in '-less'
  3. Adjectives ending in '-some'
  4. Adjectives beginning with 'well'
  5. Adjectives to describe people (character, personality, feelings...)
  6. Amount-Number-Quantity (the difference between these words)
  7. Antonyms (words that are opposite in meaning to another)
  8. Because alternatives (words to avoid repeating 'because (of)')
  9. British slang (informal language in the UK)
  10. Binomial expressions (two words joined by a conjunction or preposition)
  11. Trinomial expressions (three-word expressions)
  12. Christmas vocabulary
  13. Collective nouns for animals, birds and insects
  14. Collective nouns for groups of people
  15. Collocations: list of collocation pages
  16. Collocations: adjectives + nouns
  17. Collocations: adjectives + prepositions
  18. Collocations: adverbs + adjectives
  19. Collocations: adverbs + verbs
  20. Collocations: nouns + prepositions
  21. Collocations: verbs + nouns
  22. Collocations: verbs + prepositions
  23. Collocations with 'beyond'
  24. Collocations with 'get'
  25. Collocations with 'go'
  26. Collocations with 'out'
  27. Collocations with 'take, 'give' and 'have'
  28. Confusing words (e.g. accept/except, coarse/course, lose/loose, waste/waist ...)
  29. Conversation topics for all levels
  30. Conversational expressions: phrases used in everyday conversation
  31. Diseases, illnesses and sickness (medical terms and words with their meaning.)
  32. Easter vocabulary (words relating to Easter beliefs, traditions and celebrations.)
  33. Else: Words and phrases with 'else' and 'or else' in English.
  34. Euphemisms (expressions used to avoid being too blunt or harsh)
  35. Everyday phrases (short phrases and expressions used in everyday conversational English)
  36. Expressions for everyday situations (useful phrases to deal with common situations).
      • Advice: asking for and giving advice
        
      • Agreeing and disagreeing: ways to express agreement or disagreement
        
      • Apologies: making and accepting apologies
        
      • Bad news: announcing and responding to bad news
        
      • Choices and options: expressions used when making choices
        
      • Clarifying information: checking that you have understood
        
      • Describing people: Words and expressions to describe people
      • Disappointment or frustration: ways to express disappointment or frustration
        
      • Decisions and choices: well-known expressions about reaching a decision
        
      • Encouragement or support: ways to encourage someone or show support
        
      • Excuses for being late: giving a reason for arriving late
        
      • Expressing concern: enquiring about someone and/or offering help
        
      • Expressing opinions: ways to replace 'I think...'
        
      • Expressions about secrets: ways to ask someone to keep a secret
        
      • Get well soon: other ways of wishing someone well
        
      • Remembering, forgetting, saying "I don't know" : useful phrases
        
      • Ways to end a conversation
        
      • Ways to say "I'm bored" or "I'm tired"
        
      • Ways to say something is difficult or easy.
        
      • Ways to say "Thank you" - expressing gratitude
        
      • Ways to say "Happy New Year" - New Year greetings
        
  37. Expressions with 'all'
  38. Expressions with 'as'
  39. Expressions with 'beyond'
  40. Expressions with 'can't'
  41. Expressions with 'catch'
  42. Expressions with 'change'
  43. Expressions with 'come'
  44. Expressions with 'deal'
  45. Expressions about 'doubt'
  46. Expressions with 'down'
  47. Expressions to describe people
  48. Expressions with 'first'
  49. Expressions with 'get'
  50. Expressions with 'give'
  51. Expressions with 'good'
  52. Expressions with 'hand'
  53. Expressions with 'high'
  54. Expressions 'incomprehension' (ways to say you don't understand)
  55. Expressions with 'just'
  56. Expressions with 'know'
  57. Expressions relating to lack of surprise (Ways to say you are not surprised)
  58. Expressions with 'matter'
  59. Expressions with 'meet'
  60. Expressions with 'mind'
  61. Expressions with 'money'
  62. Expressions with 'neck'
  63. Expressions with 'new'
  64. Expressions with 'on'
  65. Expressions with 'once'
  66. Expressions with 'out'
  67. Expressions with 'over'
  68. Expressions about 'persuasion, incitement and force'
  69. Expressions with 'point'
  70. Expressions with 'skin'
  71. Expressions with 'so'
  72. Expressions with 'stay'
  73. Expressions with 'stick'
  74. Expressions with 'think'
  75. Expressions with 'time'
  76. Expressions with 'touch'
  77. Expressions: two words (informal two-word expressions)
  78. Expressions with 'up'
  79. Expressions with 'well'
  80. Expressions with 'work'
  81. Expressions with 'work' + 'for-'as'-'in'-'at'' (talking about jobs)
  82. Expressions with 'world'
  83. Expressions with 'yourself'
  84. False Friends (Faux Amis) (appear similar but have a different meaning).
  85. Foreign words in English (words adopted from other languages)
  86. Formal vs informal letter writing
  87. Formal-informal expressions
  88. Golf vocabulary
  89. Halloween vocabulary
  90. Homonyms (homographs and homophones with examples of use)
  91. Hotels-rooms vocabulary (useful phrases)
  92. Informal contractions (in casual conversations)
  93. Invitations (ways to invite and accept or refuse politely)
  94. Latin words used in English
  95. Multiple-meaning words (words that have two or more meanings)
  96. Made of, from, with, out of, by
  97. New words in English (recently-coined words and phrases)
  98. Nouns ending in -hood
  99. Nouns ending in -ship
  100. Polite Requests (accepting or refusing)
  101. Political vocabulary
  102. Prefixes
  103. Negative prefixes
  104. Prepositional phrases (set phrases introduced by a preposition)
  105. Renting accommodation vocabulary
  106. Restaurants - food vocabulary
  107. Shopping vocabulary
  108. Silent letters (letters not pronounced)
  109. Similes and Metaphors with examples
  110. 'Sorry' to express apology or regret ('sorry' with 'about', 'to', 'for' and 'that')
  111. Successive events: (words and phrases to refer to successive or uninterrupted things and events)
  112. Suffix '-ish' (words ending in 'ish')
  113. Suggesting leisure activities (ways to make, accept or reject a suggestion)
  114. Synonyms (words that are similar in meaning to another word)
  115. Synonyms-Homonyms-Antonyms (comparative table)
  116. Text abbreviations abbreviations used in text messages
  117. Thanksgiving vocabulary
  118. Travel and transport vocabulary
  119. Travel phrases : airport - train - bus
  120. Travel words: travel, trip, journey, tour, voyage, trek, hike, expedition...
  121. Trinomial expressions (three-word expressions)
  122. UK-US differences (different words and spelling).
  123. Useful phrases (useful phrases and expressions for everyday situations)
  124. 'Very' replacements (words to replace very + adjective, from 'very angry' to 'very worried')
       
  125. Work and Employment vocabulary (vocabulary relating to work and employment)
  126. Words to use instead of others (words to avoid repetition, )
  127. Words to replace others (words to replace others, from 'angry' to 'useful')
       
       
  • Environent vocabulary:
    •  page 1:  from 'acid rain' to 'deforestation' 
    •  page 2:  from 'desalination' to 'ground water' 
    •  page 3:  from 'habitat' to 'wind turbine'
      
      
  • New Words in English
    Words, terms and expressions that have entered the English language in recent years.
    
    • New words in English, page 1: A-B
    • New words in English, page 2: C-D
    • New words in English, page 3: E-F
    • New words in English, page 4: G-H-I
    • New words in English, page 5: J-K-L-M-N
      
    • New words in English, page 6: O-P-Q-R
      
    • New words in English, page 7: S
      
    • New words in English, page 8: T-U
      
    • New words in English, page 9: V-W-Z
      
      
  • Pronunciation
    
  Explanation concerning intonation, silent letters, stress in words and sentences, and in nouns and verbs.
  • intonation
  • silent letters
  • stress
  • stress noun-verb

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