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  1. person

    a human being

  2. case

    an occurrence of something

  3. subject

    some situation or event that is thought about

  4. article

    one of a class of artifacts

  5. series

    similar things placed in order or one after another

  6. sentence

    a string of words satisfying grammatical rules of a language

  7. formal

    in accord with established conventions and requirements

  8. singular

    being a single and separate person or thing

  9. mood

    a characteristic state of feeling

  10. phrase

    an expression consisting of one or more words

  11. fragment

    a piece broken off or cut off of something else

  12. modify

    cause to change; make different

  13. compound

    a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts

  14. negative

    characterized by denial or opposition or resistance

  15. irony

    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs

  16. exclamation

    an abrupt excited utterance

  17. clause

    a separate section of a legal document

  18. syllable

    a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme

  19. noun

    a content word referring to a person, place, thing or action

  20. adjective

    the word class that qualifies nouns

  21. verbal

    of or relating to or formed from words in general

  22. conjunction

    the state of being joined together

  23. plural

    of a grammatical category referring to two or more items

  24. informal

    not in accord with established conventions and requirements

  25. ambiguous

    having more than one possible meaning

  26. complement

    something added to embellish or make perfect

  27. contraction

    the act of decreasing in size or volume or quantity or scope

  28. antecedent

    a preceding occurrence or cause or event

  29. pronoun

    a function word that is used in place of a noun

  30. capitalize

    write in large alphabetic characters

  31. jargon

    technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject

  32. predicate

    involve as a necessary condition or consequence

  33. punctuation

    the use of marks to clarify meaning of written material

  34. superlative

    highest in quality

  35. demonstrative

    a pronoun that points out an intended referent

  36. redundant

    more than is needed, desired, or required

  37. participle

    a form of the verb used as an adjective

  38. adverb

    a word that modifies something other than a noun

  39. abbreviation

    shortening something by omitting parts of it

  40. preposition

    a word before a noun or pronoun connecting to another word

  41. nomenclature

    a system of words used to name things in a discipline

  42. infinitive

    the uninflected form of the verb

  43. cliche

    a trite or obvious remark

  44. wordy

    using or containing too many words

  45. interjection

    an abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion

  46. capital letter

    one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis

  47. stilted

    artificially formal or stiff

  48. ligature

    the act of tying or binding things together

  49. part of speech

    a class of words distinguished by its function in a sentence

  50. ellipsis

    a mark indicating that words have been omitted

  51. acronym

    a word formed from the initial letters of several words

  52. objective case

    the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb

  53. modifier

    a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb

  54. possessive case

    the case expressing ownership

  55. nominative case

    the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb

  56. gerund

    a noun formed from a verb

  57. relative pronoun

    a pronoun (as `that’ or `which’ or `who’) that introduces a relative clause referring to some antecedent

  58. direct object

    the object that receives the direct action of the verb

  59. transitive verb

    a verb that requires an object in order to be grammatical

  60. transitive verb

    a verb that requires an object in order to be grammatical

  61. subjunctive mood

    a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible

  62. proper noun

    a word that denotes a particular person, place, or thing

  63. passive voice

    when the subject of a sentence is a recipient of the action

  64. auxiliary verb

    a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with

  65. indicative mood

    a mood that represents the act or state as an objective fact

  66. imperative mood

    a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener’s behavior

  67. intransitive verb

    a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object

  68. direct quotation

    a report of the exact words used in a discourse

  69. clam chowder

    chowder containing clams

  70. compound sentence

    a sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses

  71. onomatopoeia

    using words that imitate the sound they denote

  72. comparative degree

    the comparative form of an adjective or adverb

  73. subordinate clause

    a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb

  74. dependent clause

    a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb

  75. imperfect tense

    a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going

  76. wordiness

    boring verbosity

  77. complex sentence

    a sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause

  78. independent clause

    a clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence

  79. declarative sentence

    a sentence (in the indicative mood) that makes a declaration

  80. indirect object

    the object that is the recipient or beneficiary of the action of the verb

  81. positive degree

    the primary form of an adjective or adverb

  82. nonstandard

    varying from or not adhering to a standard

  83. prepositional phrase

    a phrase beginning with a preposition

  84. interrogative sentence

    a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply

  85. main clause

    a clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence

  86. appositive

    relating to or being in apposition

  87. reflexive pronoun

    a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent’s action affects the agent

  88. parenthetical expression

    an expression in parentheses

  89. schwa

    a neutral middle vowel that occurs in unstressed syllables

  90. dangling modifier

    a word or phrase unclearly or illogically describing a noun

  91. misplaced modifier

    a word or phrase apparently modifying an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence: e.g., `when young’ in `when young, circuses appeal to all of us’

  92. subordinating conjunction

    a conjunction that introduces a dependent clause

  93. run-on sentence

    an ungrammatical sentence in which two or more independent clauses are conjoined without a conjunction

  94. linking verb

    an equating verb (such as `be’ or `become’) that links the subject with the complement of a sentence

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This is a short list of grammar terms and definitions. We have a longer list of grammar terms here.

active voice
In the active voice, the subject of the verb does the action (e.g. They killed the President). See also Passive Voice.

adjective
A word like big, red, easy, French etc. An adjective describes a noun or pronoun.

adverb
A word like slowly, quietly, well, often etc. An adverb modifies a verb.

article
The «indefinite» articles are a and an. The «definite article» is the.

auxiliary verb
A verb that is used with a main verb. Be, do and have are auxiliary verbs. Can, may, must etc are modal auxiliary verbs.

clause
A group of words containing a subject and its verb (for example: It was late when he arrived).

conjunction
A word used to connect words, phrases and clauses (for example: and, but, if).

infinitive
The basic form of a verb as in to work or work.

interjection
An exclamation inserted into an utterance without grammatical connection (for example: oh!, ah!, ouch!, well!).

modal verb
An auxiliary verb like can, may, must etc that modifies the main verb and expresses possibility, probability etc. It is also called «modal auxiliary verb».

noun
A word like table, dog, teacher, America etc. A noun is the name of an object, concept, person or place. A «concrete noun» is something you can see or touch like a person or car. An «abstract noun» is something that you cannot see or touch like a decision or happiness. A «countable noun» is something that you can count (for example: bottle, song, dollar). An «uncountable noun» is something that you cannot count (for example: water, music, money).

object
In the active voice, a noun or its equivalent that receives the action of the verb. In the passive voice, a noun or its equivalent that does the action of the verb.

participle
The -ing and -ed forms of verbs. The -ing form is called the «present participle». The -ed form is called the «past participle» (for irregular verbs, this is column 3).

part of speech
One of the eight classes of word in English — noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction and interjection.

passive voice
In the passive voice, the subject receives the action of the verb (e.g. The President was killed). See also Active Voice.

phrase
A group of words not containing a subject and its verb (e.g. on the table, the girl in a red dress).

predicate
Each sentence contains (or implies) two parts: a subject and a predicate. The predicate is what is said about the subject.

preposition
A word like at, to, in, over etc. Prepositions usually come before a noun and give information about things like time, place and direction.

pronoun
A word like I, me, you, he, him, it etc. A pronoun replaces a noun.

sentence
A group of words that express a thought. A sentence conveys a statement, question, exclamation or command. A sentence contains or implies a subject and a predicate. In simple terms, a sentence must contain a verb and (usually) a subject. A sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop (.), question mark (?) or exclamation mark (!).

subject
Every sentence contains (or implies) two parts: a subject and a predicate. The subject is the main noun (or equivalent) in a sentence about which something is said.

tense
The form of a verb that shows us when the action or state happens (past, present or future). Note that the name of a tense is not always a guide to when the action happens. The «present continuous tense», for example, can be used to talk about the present or the future.

verb
A word like (to) work, (to) love, (to) begin. A verb describes an action or state.

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  1. Domestic animals and farm animals
  2. Zoo animals
  3. The birds
  4. The insects
  5. Aquatic animals
  6. Nature
  7. Feelings and emotions
  8. The environment
  9. Hospitality
  10. Clothing
  11. Transportation
  12. The family
  13. Politics & Government
  14. Travel & tourism
  15. The human body
  16. Physical description: the face
  17. Health and Medicine
  18. The astrological signs
  19. Halloween
  20. Business
  21. Fruits and vegetables
  22. The Weather
  23. Movies & cinema
  24. Christmas
  25. The House
  26. Real estate
  27. Marketing
  28. Finance
  29. IT & internet
  30. Job interview
  31. Immigration
  32. Sciences
  33. Journalism & press
  34. Good and bad qualities
  35. Money and banking
  36. Photography
  37. The religion 
  38. The five senses
  39. Love and wedding
  40. Beach and seaside 
  41. War and peace 
  42. History and past 
  43. Sport
  44. Cycling
  45. Trains and railways
  46. Trees, plants and gardening
  47. Mythology and heroes
  48. Music
  49. Hobbies
  50. The city
  51. Architecture and construction 
  52. Bathroom items
  53. Education and school
  54. Soccer
  55. Wine
  56. Kitchen utensils
  57. Routine & daily life
  58. Communication
  59. Food & nutrition
  60. Gestures and positions
  61. Personality: character and behavior
  62. Astronomy, space and universe
  63. Natural disasters
  64. Accidents and injuries
  65. Crimes 
  66. The quantities
  67. List of jobs in English
  68. Expressing opinion
  69. At the airport
  70. Logistics
  71. Food & drinks
  72. Linking words
  73. Accounting
  74. Materials
  75. Law and Legal terms
  76. Business and Economics
  77. Useful adjectives (A to C)
  78. Useful adjectives (D to H)
  79. Useful adjectives (I to O)
  80. Useful adjectives (P to S)
  81. Useful adjectives (T to Z)
  82. 100 most common Phrasal verbs list
  83. List of adverbs
  84. 100 most used English verbs
  85. 100 English verbs of body movement and action
  86. 100 most common English adverbs

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List of English Vocabulary Words

English Vocab

English Vocab

Word Meaning
1 Signalized Highlighted
2 Ruthless Merciless
3 Extermination Vanishing
4 Victor Champion
5 Aquiline Eagle lake
6 Exceptional Excellent
7 Wiped out Eliminated
8 Escape Running away
9 Bedouin An Arab of the desert
10 Dash Rush, hurry
11 Evidently Clearly
12 Heed Attention
13 Reassurance Guarantee
14 Gain Attain
15 Penniless Without a penny
16 Set out Journey
17 Barely Hardly
18 Assassination Murder
19 Pursed Chased
20 Refused Shelter
21 Strait Arm of the sea
22 Persist Continue
23 Contest Challenge
24 Comfort Preserver
25 Foe Enemy
26 Fervent Emotional
27 Rejoinder Response
28 Subdue Defeat
29 Monarch Ruler
30 Inhabitant Resident
31
Basin Bowl
32 Statue Sculpture
33 Present Gift
34 Excavated Dugout
35 Treason Traitorousness
36 Brigandage Attack
37 Flourish Grow
38 Revenue Income
39 Suffice Be enough
40 Reserve Stock
41
Prosperous Flourishing
42 Triumphant Victorious
43 Malignant Serious
44 Dynasty Reign
45 Accession Inheritance
46 Awe Fear
47 Border Boundary
48 Subsequently Later
49 Threshold Doorstep
50 Saxon Prehistoric
51
Monopoly Service
52 Thrive Flourish
53 Pottery Stoneware
54 Ruby Seed pearl
55 Inlay Decorate
56 Plain Lowland
57 Peninsula Almost an island
58 Peasantry Small farmer
59 Glory Splendor
60 Cascade Water fall
61
Adversity Misfortune
62 Favor Goodwill
63 Sermon Address
64 Delivered Expressed
65 Title Designation
66 Successor Heir
67 Contented Satisfied
68 Shake off Cut off relations
69 Recognized Admitted
70 Realm Kingdom
71 Consolidated Stable
72 Domain Kingdom
73 Aqueduct Watercourse
74 Erect Construct
75 Imitation Resemblance
76 Ancestor Forerunners
77 Villa Cottage
78 Exotic Foreign
79 Verse Lyric
80 Found Lay the foundation
81
Rival Equal
82 Shrine Temple
83 Column Pillar
84 Cathedral Pertaining to a bishop’s throne
85 Boast Enjoy
86 Arch Archway
87 Initiate Start off
88 Glorious Magnificent
89 Envoys Ambassadors
90 Byzantine Constantinople
91
Ripe age Old age
92 Sovereignty Supremacy
93 Unstable Unsteady
94 Nominal Symbolic
95 Impose Enforce
96 Ascension Succeed to the throne
97 Outstanding Well known
98 Predecessor Ancestor
99 Sagacity Wisdom
100 Proclamation Announcement

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Words synonyms
– superb magnificent
– sunrise dawn
– sundown sunset
–  suggest propose
–  sufficient ample
–  successful prosperous
–  substantially considerably
–  stupid silly
–  stupid dense
–  steady regular
–  stationary fixed
–  stable steady
–  stable steady
–  spotlight highlight
–  spontaneous automatic
–  special exceptional
–  soiled dirty
–  skull cranium
–  sincere honest
–  silly foolish
–  significant meaningful
–  signal sign
–  self-assured confident
–  selection choice
–  second moment
–  scrumptious delicious
–  scarcity shortage
–  satisfied convinced
–  sacristy vestry
–  rude impolite
–  rubbish nonsense
–  revolting disgusting
–  repute reputation
–  removable detachable
–  remoted isolated
–  remorse regret
–  reminiscence memory
–  remark comment
–  remainder the rest
–  religious devout
–  reliable dependable
–  refrain chorus
–  reasonable fair
–  quite fairly
–  provided if
–  prosperous affluent
–  prompt immediate
–  priority precedence

English Vocab words

Words Synonym
–  previous preceding
–  pressing urgent
–  precis summary
–  precept principle
–  precedence priority
–  praise compliment
–  practically virtually
–  possibility opportunity
–  poisonous toxic
–  pocket book notebook
–  phantasm illusion
–  perception insight
–  peaceable peaceful
–  pattern sample
–  passable satisfactory
–  particular specific
–  paper money notes
–  painting portray
–  overseas abroad
–  outside external
–  ornament decoration
–  organic biological
–  omnipotent all-powerful
–  off-season low season
–  obsolete out of date
–  oblique indirect
–  obligatory compulsory
–  object thing
–  obdurate stubborn
–  numerous many
–  nugatory worthless
–  notwithstanding however
–  noted famous
–  noon midday
–  non-stop continuous
–  nobility the Aristocracy
–  nightfall dusk
–  nice pleasing
–  new fresh
–  neutral impartial
–  nervous perturbed
–  negligent inattentive
–  necessary essential
–  neat tidy
–  naughty disobedient
–  napkin serviette
–  nameless anonymous
–  naked bare
–  mysterious occult
–  murderer assassin
–  movie film
–  mourn grieve
–  morose sullen
–  moreover in addition
–  more and more increasingly
–  morbid awful
–  moral ethical
–  monotonous boring
–  momentous powerful
–  moment occasion
–  modern contemporary
–  moderately reasonably
–  moderate lenient
–  mobile moveable
–  mistrust distrust
–  missing lost
–  misread misinterpret
–  misfortune mishap
–  misery distress
–  miserable depressing
–  mischievous impish

English Vocab words

Words

Synonyms

–  mirth Fun
  minor lesser
–  mindless senseless
–  mind intellect
–  militant combative
–  mild gentle
–  migrant drifting
–  midway halfway
–  middleman intermediary
–  merciless cruel
–  mendacity lying
–  mend repair
–  meeting assembly
–  mediocre fair
–  measure degree
–  mean unkind
–  meager scanty
–  maybe perhaps, possibly
–  maximum uppermost
–  matters things
–  material fabric
–  mannequin model
–  manmade artificial
–  maneuver manipulate
–  mandatory required
–  magnify expand
–  magistrate Justice of the Peace
–  magician conjuror
–  madness insanity
–  mackintosh waterproof coat
–  lucid clear
–  loveable habitable
–  lousy awful
–  loopy crazy
–  livid furious
–  lethal deadly
–  legitimate valid, leva
–  leading main
–  last final
–  lacking missing
–  knowingly deliberately
–  joy delight
–  jealous envious
–  isolated lonely
–  invoice bill
–  inventory stock
–  intriguing fascinating
–  intolerant bigoted
–  interplay interaction
–  internal inner
–  intellectual mental
–  insurgent rebel
–  insupportable intolerable
–  insufficient inadequate
–  insufferable unbearable
–  instructions directions
–  instinct intuition
–  insolvent bankrupt
–  innocent harmless
–  inheritor heir
–  infuriate enrage
–  infrequent rare
–  informal casual
–  inflow influx
–  inflexible rigid
–  inferior substandard
–  infantile childish
–  infamous notorious
–  indisputable undeniable
–  independent autonomous
–  inconsiderate thoughtless
–  incidentally by the way
–  in the meantime meanwhile
–  important meaningful
–  impolite rude
–  impetuous reckless
–  imperfect faulty
–  imperative vital
–  imperative crucial
–  impediment obstacle

basic English Vocab words

Words

Synonyms

–  impatient eager
–  impassive emotionless
–  impasse deadlock
–  impartial neutral
–  impartial neutral
–  immune exempt
–  immodest conceited
–  immoderate excessive
–  immobile motionless
–  immediate instant
–  immature inexperienced
–  immaculate spotless
–  illiberal intolerant
–  ignorant unaware
–  if whether
–  idler loafer
–  idle lazy
–  identical duplicate
–  hypothesis speculation
–  hunger starvation
–  humble modest
–  huge vast
–  housebreaking burglary
–  hostile antagonistic
–  hospitable cordial
–  honest truthful
–  homicide murder
–  home domestic
–  hole gap
–  hold grasp
–  hint trace, tip
–  highbrow intellectual
–  high elevated
–  hermetic airtight
–  help aid
–  hearsay rumor
–  hate loathe
–  hashish cannabis
–  hard tough
–  hard firm
–  happily fortunately
–  hang-out haunt
–  handsome good-looking
–  hall corridor
–  gut intestine

basic English Vocab words

Words Synonyms
–  gravestone headstone
–  gratuity tip
–  gratis free of charge
–  grasping greedy
–  gay homosexual
–  garbage can trashcan
–  french dressing vinaigrette
–  fragrance perfume
–  foyer lobby
–  foxy cunning
–  fortunate lucky
–  formerly previously
–  forehead brow
–  foolish silly
–  fool idiot
–  fantastic great, brilliant
–  fanatic enthusiast
–  famous famed, renowned
–  extra additional
–  except apart from
–  exactly precisely
–  everlasting eternal
–  especially particularly
–  equity fairness
–  enormous huge, immense
–  enemy opponent
–  encourage support
–  empty drain
–  egocentric selfish
–  ecstasy joy
–  economic profitable
–  eccentric unusual
–  easy simple
–  earth soil
–  early premature
–  eager keen
–  dumb stupid
–  dull (person) stupid
–  dull blunt
–  dubious doubtful
–  dubious doubtful
–  dry arid
–  dreadful terrible
–  drastic extreme
–  drab dull
–  doubt mistrust
–  dossier file
–  dormant inactive
–  domesticate cultivate

basic English Vocab words

Words Synonyms
–  docile tame
–  divide split
–  diverse distinct
–  dispute debate
–  disgrace shame
–  discount reduction
–  disaster catastrophe
–  disagreeable unpleasant
–  disagree differ
–  disadvantaged deprived
–  dirty soiled
–  diminish curtail
–  dilute weaken, thin
–  difficult hard
–  dicey risky
–  devil Satan
–  detached indifferent
–  destiny fate
–  deserted abandoned
–  depraved wicked, evil

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