English Vocabulary for learners
Vocabulary in categories from A to E
General vocabulary: A to E :
Useful words and expressions for general conversations and special events
also: homonyms and synonyms.
- Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms with their meaning.
- Adjectives ending in '-less'
- Adjectives ending in '-some'
- Adjectives beginning with 'well'
- Adjectives to describe people (adjectives to describe character, personality, etc...)
- Amount-Number-Quantity (the difference between these words)
- Antonyms (words that are opposite in meaning to another)
- Because alternatives (words to avoid repeating 'because (of)')
- British slang (informal language in the UK)
- Binomial expressions (two words joined by a conjunction or preposition)
- Trinomial expressions (three-word expressions)
- Christmas vocabulary
- Collective nouns for animals, birds and insects
- Collective nouns for groups of people
- Collocations: list of collocation pages
- Collocations: adjectives-nouns
- Collocations: adjectives-prepositions
- Collocations: adverbs + adjectives
- Collocations: adverbs + verbs
- Collocations: nouns + prepositions
- Collocations: verbs + nouns
- Collocations: verbs + prepositions
- Collocations with 'beyond'
- Collocations with 'come'
- Collocations with 'get'
- Collocations with 'go'
- Collocations with 'out'
- Collocations with 'take', 'give' and 'have'
- Collocations with 'take', 'give' and 'have'
- Confusing words (e.g. accept/except, coarse/course, lose/loose, waste/waist ...)
- Conversational expressions: phrases used in everyday conversation
- Conversation topics (topics for discussion groups).
- Diseases, illnesses and sickness (medical terms and words with their meaning.)
- Easter vocabulary (words relating to Easter beliefs, traditions and celebrations.)
- Else: Words and phrases with 'else' and 'or else' in English.
- Environment vocabulary (words from 'acid rain' to 'wind turbine' with their meaning)
- Euphemisms (expressions used to avoid being too blunt or harsh)
- Everyday phrases (short phrases and expressions used in everyday conversational English)
- 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
- 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 avoid using 'I think...'
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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
- Expressions with 'all'
- Expressions with 'as'
- Expressions: business and work
- Expressions with 'can't'
- Expressions with 'catch'
- Expressions with 'change'
- Expressions with 'come'
- Expressions with 'deal'
- Expressions about 'doubt'
- Expressions with 'down'
- Expressions with 'first'
- Expressions with 'give'
- Expressions with 'good'
- Expressions with 'hand'
- Expressions with 'high'
- Expressions with 'just'
- Expressions with 'know'
- Expressions with 'matter'
- Expressions with 'meet'
- Expressions with 'mind'
- Expressions with 'money'
- Expressions with 'neck'
- Expressions with 'new'
- Expressions with 'once'
- Expressions with 'over'
- Expressions with 'point'
- Expressions with 'so'
- Expressions with 'stay'
- Expressions with 'stick'
- Expressions with 'think'
- Expressions with 'time'
- Expressions with 'touch'
- Expressions with 'up'
- Expressions persuasion-incitement-force
- Expressions with 'well'
- Expressions with 'world'
- Expressions: two words (informal two-word expressions)
- Expressions with 'work' + 'as'-'at'-'for'-'in' (talking about jobs)
- Expressions with 'yourself'
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