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. Antonyms (words that are opposite in meaning to another)
  6. Because alternatives (words to avoid repeating 'because (of)')
  7. British slang (informal language in the UK)
  8. Binomial expressions (two words joined by a conjunction or preposition)
  9. Trinomial expressions (three-word expressions)
  10. Christmas vocabulary
  11. Collective nouns for animals, birds and insects
  12. Collective nouns for groups of people
  13. Collocations: list of collocation pages
  14. Collocations: adjectives + nouns
  15. Collocations: adjectives + prepositions
  16. Collocations: adverbs + adjectives
  17. Collocations: adverbs + verbs
  18. Collocations: nouns + prepositions
  19. Collocations: verbs + nouns
  20. Collocations: verbs + prepositions
  21. Collocations with 'beyond'
  22. Collocations with 'get'
  23. Collocations with 'go'
  24. Collocations with 'out'
  25. Collocations with 'take, 'give' and 'have'
  26. Confusing words (e.g. accept/except, coarse/course, lose/loose, waste/waist ...)
  27. Diseases, illnesses and sickness (medical terms and words with their meaning.)
  28. Easter vocabulary (words relating to Easter beliefs, traditions and celebrations.)
  29. Else: Words and phrases with 'else' and 'or else' in English.
  30. Euphemisms (expressions used to avoid being too blunt or harsh)
  31. Everyday phrases (short phrases and expressions used in everyday conversational English)
  32. 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
        
      • Conversational expressions: phrases used in everyday conversation
        
      • 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
        
  33. Expressions with 'all'
  34. Expressions with 'as'
  35. Expressions with 'can't'
  36. Expressions with 'catch'
  37. Expressions with 'change'
  38. Expressions with 'come'
  39. Expressions with 'deal'
  40. Expressions about 'doubt'
  41. Expressions with 'down'
  42. Expressions to describe people
  43. Expressions with 'first'
  44. Expressions with 'give'
  45. Expressions with 'good'
  46. Expressions with 'hand'
  47. Expressions with 'high'
  48. Expressions with 'just'
  49. Expressions with 'know'
  50. Expressions with 'matter'
  51. Expressions with 'meet'
  52. Expressions with 'mind'
  53. Expressions with 'money'
  54. Expressions with 'neck'
  55. Expressions with 'new'
  56. Expressions with 'once'
  57. Expressions with 'over'
  58. Expressions about 'persuasion, incitement and force'
  59. Expressions with 'point'
  60. Expressions with 'skin'
  61. Expressions with 'stay'
  62. Expressions with 'stick'
  63. Expressions with 'think'
  64. Expressions with 'time'
  65. Expressions with 'touch'
  66. Expressions with 'up'
  67. Expressions with 'well'
  68. Expressions with 'world'
  69. Expressions: two words (informal two-word expressions)
  70. Expressions with 'work' + 'as'-'at'-'for'-'in' (talking about jobs)
  71. Expressions with 'yourself'
  72. False Friends (Faux Amis) (appear similar but have a different meaning).
  73. Foreign words in English (words adopted from other languages)
  74. Formal vs informal letter writing
  75. Formal-informal expressions
  76. Golf vocabulary
  77. Halloween vocabulary
  78. Homonyms (homographs and homophones with examples of use)
  79. Hotels-rooms vocabulary (useful phrases)
  80. Informal contractions (in casual conversations)
  81. Invitations (ways to invite and accept or refuse politely)
  82. Latin words used in English
  83. Multiple-meaning words (words that have two or more meanings)
  84. Made of, from, with, out of, by
  85. New words in English (recently-coined words and phrases)
  86. Nouns ending in -hood
  87. Nouns ending in -ship
  88. Polite Requests (accepting or refusing)
  89. Political vocabulary
  90. Prefixes
  91. Negative prefixes
  92. Prepositional phrases (set phrases introduced by a preposition)
  93. Renting accommodation vocabulary
  94. Restaurants - food vocabulary
  95. Shopping vocabulary
  96. Silent letters (letters not pronounced)
  97. Similes and Metaphors with examples
  98. Suffix '-ish' (words ending in 'ish')
  99. Suggesting leisure activities (ways to make, accept or reject a suggestion)
  100. Synonyms (words that are similar in meaning to another word)
  101. Synonyms-Homonyms-Antonyms (comparative table)
  102. Text abbreviations abbreviations used in text messages
  103. Thanksgiving vocabulary
  104. Travel and transport vocabulary
  105. Travel phrases : airport - train - bus
  106. Travel words: travel, trip, journey, tour, voyage, trek, hike, expedition...
  107. Trinomial expressions (three-word expressions)
  108. UK-US differences (different words and spelling).
  109. Useful phrases (useful phrases and expressions for everyday situations)
  110. 'Very' replacements (words to replace very + adjective, from 'very angry' to 'very worried')
       
  111. Work and Employment vocabulary (vocabulary relating to work and employment)
  112. Words to use instead of others (words to avoid repetition, )
  113. 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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