The Learner’s Lexicon of North American English
Absent / absence
Absolutely
Accept / acceptance
Accident(al)
According to
Account
Accuse / accusation
Ache
Actually
Ad(vertisement) / advertise
Add
Adjective
Admire / admiration
Admit / admission
Adopt(ion)
Adult
Advance
Advantage
Adventure / adventurous
Adverb
Advice / advise / advisor
Affect
Afford
Afraid
Against
Agency / agent
Agree(ment)
Agriculture
Ahead
Aim
Air
Alarm
Alcohol
Alike
Alive
Allow
Almost
Alone
Alone
Aloud
Already
(al)though
Amaze / amazing
Ambition / ambitious
Ambulance
Among(st)
Amount
Amuse(ment)
Ancient
Angle
Angry
Ankle
Annoy
Another
Answer
Antique
Anxiety / anxious
Anyways
Apart
Apology / apologize
Appear / appearance
Apply / application
Approve / approval
Area
Argue / argument
Army
Arrange / arrangement
Arrest
Arrive / arrival
Arrow
Artist / artistic
Article
Artificial
Ashamed
Asleep
Aspirin
Assign(ment)
Assist(ance)
Association
Attack
Attempt
Attend / attendance
Attract /attraction /attractive
Audience
Autumn
Automobile
Avenue
Average
Avoid
Awake
Awful / awfully
Axe
Bad / worse / worst
Baggage
Balance
Band
Bandage
Bar
Barber
Bare
Barely
Bargain
Barn
Barrel
Base
Basement
Basket
Battle
Bay
Bean
Beard
Beast
Beat
Become / became
Beef
Beer
Beg
Behave / behavior
Believe
Bell
Belong
Belt
Bend / bent
Beneath
Beside
Besides
Bet
Beyond
Bite / bit / bitten
Bitter
Blame
Blank
Blanket
Bleed
Blind
Block (city)
Block – v
Blood
Blouse
Blow / blew / blown
Blow up (explode)
Blow out (extinguish)
Board (wooden)
Body
- Anybody
- Everybody
- Nobody
- Somebody
Boil
Bold
Bone
Boot
Border
Bore / bored / boring
Borrow
Bother
Bottle
Bottom
Bounce
Boundary
Bow (knot)
Bowl
Bra
Brain
Brake
Branch
Brave(ry)
Break / broke/ broken
Break down (fail)
Break into (intrude)
Break up with (separate)
Breast
Breath / breathe
Brick
Bridge
Bright
Bring / brought
Bring up (raise children)
Broad
Brush
Bug (insect)
Bug (bother)
Build / built
Building
Bump
Bunch
Burn
Bury / burial
Bush
Business
Busy
Butter
Button
Buy / bought
Cab (taxi)
Cabbage
Cabin
Cable (TV)
Café
Calculate / calculation /
Calculation
Call off (cancel)
call up (phone)
calm
camera
camp
canal
cancel / cancellation
cap
capital
captain
care
careful / careless
carry
in case
case
cash
cassette
catch / caught
Cause
Caution / cautious
Ceiling
Cell
Cellar
Cent
Center
Century
Ceremony
Certainly
Certificate / certify
Chain
Chair
Chalk
Chance
Change
Character
Charge
Charming
Chart
Cheap
Cheat
Check
Check in / out
Check up (medical exam)
Cheek
Cheer / cheerful
Cheer up
Cheers
Chest
Chief
Chilly
Chimney
Chin
Choose / choice
Chop
Church
Cigar / cigarette
Cinema
Circle
Citizen / citizenship
Civilization
Claim
Clap
Classic / classical
Classify / classification
Clerk
Clever / cleverly
Cliff
Climate
Climb
Closely
Cloth
Cloud / cloudy
Coach
Coast / coastal
Coat
Cocktail
Coin
Collar
Collect / collection / collector
Column / columnist
Comb
Combine / combination
Come back (return)
Come over (visit)
Comfort / comfortable
Command / commander
Commerce
Commercial
Committee
Common
Communist
Commute / commuter
Companion
Compare / comparison
Compete / competition
Complain / complaint
Complete / completion
Complicate / complication
Compliment
Composition
Compound
Concern
Concert
Condition / conditional
Confess / confession
Conquer
Conserve / conservation /
Conservative
Conscience / conscientious
Conscious
Consider / considerable
Consul
contain / container
content / contents
convenient / convenience
correspond / correspondence
/ correspondent
Cotton
Cough
Courage / courageous
Court
Cover
Coward / cowardly
Crack / cracker
Cram
Crash
Cream
Creature
Credit
Creep
Crime / criminal
Critical / criticize
Crook
Crooked
Cross out
Crowd
Cruel
Crush
Cupboard
Cure
Curious / curiosity
Currency
Current
Curse
Curtain
Cushion
Curve
Custom / customary
Cut out (stop)
Dairy
Damp
Dare
Dark
Date (romantic)
Dawn
Deaf
Deal
Dear
Debt
Decimal
Declare / declaration
Decrease
Deed
Deep / depth
Deer
Defeat
Defend / defense
Define / definition
Degree
Delay
Delight / delighted
Demand
Democracy / democratic
Demonstrate / demonstration
Depend on
Deserve
Describe / description
Desert (land)
Desire
Dessert (food)
Destroy / destruction
Detail
Determine
Develop
Devil
Dew
Dial
Dialect
Diamond
Dictate / dictation
Dictator / dictatorship
Different / difference
Dig / dug
Digit / digital
Disappoint / disappointment
Discount
Discuss / discussion
Disease
Disgust
Disturb / disturbance
Dive
Donkey
Do over
Dot
Doubt
Dozen
Drag
Draw
Drawer
Drown
Drum
Due
Dull
During
Dust / dusty
Duty
Eager
Earn
Easter
Ecology / ecological
Edge
Effective / effectively
Efficient / efficiently /
Efficiency
Effort
Either
Elbow
Elect / election
Electricity
Element
Elementary
Else
Embassy
Empty
Enclose
Encourage
Enemy
Energy / energetic
Entire / entirely
Envelope
Envy / envious
Errand
Escape
Essential
Ever
- However
- Whatever
- Whenever
- Wherever
- Whoever
Evil
Except
Exchange
Exist / existence
Expect
Explode / explosion
Export
Express
Extend / extension
Extraordinary
Extreme / Extremely
Fade
Fail / failure
faint
Fair / fairly
Faithful
False
Familiar / familiarity
Fan / fanatic
Fancy
Fare
Fasten
Fate
Fault
Favor
Feast
Feather
Feed
Feedback
Fellow
Fence
Field
Fierce
Figure
Figure out (understand)
Find out (discover)
Fine ($)
Fire (from job)
Firm
Flame
Flash
Flat
Flavor
Float
Flood
Flour
Flow
Flush
Focus
Fog / foggy
Fold
Fond of (admire)
Forbid / forbade / forbidden
Force
Forehead
Foreign
Forest
Forgive / forgave / forgiven
Fork
Form
Formal
Former
Forth
Fortune
Forward
Fraction
Frame
Freeze / froze / frozen
Frequent / frequently /
Frequency
Fresh
Frighten
Frost / frosty
Fry
Funeral
Funny
Fur
Furnished
Furthermore
Gain
Gallon
Gamble / gambler
Gap
Garage
Gas / gasoline
Gate
Gather
Gay
Gear
Gender
Generous / generosity
Gentle
Gentleman / gentlemen
geography
gesture
get along with
get by (survive)
Get over (recover)
Get through
Get up (wake up)
give up (quit)
Glad
Glance
Glove
Goat
Go away
Gold
Go over (review)
Goods
Gossip
Grab
Graceful / gracefully
Gradual
Grain
Grass
Grateful
Grave
Grease / greasy
Greed / greedy
Greet
Grill
Grind
Ground
Guard
Guess
Guest
Guide / guidance
Guilt / guilty
Guitar
Gun
Habit / habitual
Had better
Hail
Half
Hall
Hammer
Hand in / hand out
Handkerchief
Handle
Hang up
Harbor
Hardly (barely)
Harm
Harvest
Haste / hasty
Hay
Heal
Heap
Heel
Hesitate / hesitation
Hide
hire
Hit
Hobby
Hold / held
Hole
Hollow
Holy
Honest / honesty / honestly
Honor / honorable
Hook
Horizon
Horizontal
Host
Hum
Hut
Ideal
Imitate / imitation
Include
Income
Increase
Indeed
Independent / independence
Industry / industrial
Initial (name)
Initial (first)
Injure / injury
Ink
Inn
Inquire
Insect
Inspect / inspection
Instant / instantly
Instead of
Institute / institution
Instrument
Insult
Insure / insurance
Intend / intention
Interest ($)
Interfere / interference
interrupt / interruption
invent / invention
iron
itch / itchy
jail
jaw
jar
jealous / jealousy
jerk
jet
jog
join
joke
journey
joy / joyful
judge
justice
keep up
keep on
kick
kind of
kneel
knife
knock
knot
labor
laboratory
lack
ladder
lamb
lamp
landlord
lane
lap
laugh
launch
law / lawyer
lawn
lay
leaf / leaves
leak
lean
leap
least
leather
leave out
lend
Lesbian
Let down (disappoint)
License
Lid
Lie (not true)
Lie / lay
Lift
Lightning
Likely
Limb
Limit / limitation
Limp
Lip
Liquid
Liquor
Literature
Load
Loaf
Loan
Local
Locate / location
Lock
Lonely
Look into (investigate)
Look like (resemble)
Look over (peruse)
Look up
Look up to (dmire)
Loose
Lose / lost
Loss
Lounge
Loyal
Lump
Lung
Mad
Make out (see)
Match
Match (flame)
Material
Meal
Mean (not nice)
Meantime
Meanwhile
Measure
Melt
Mend
Mention
Merry
Method
Midnight
Mild
Mill
Mineral
Minister
Mirror
Miserable / misery
Missile
Mistake
Mix / mixture
Model
Moderate
Modern
Modest
Monitor
Moral
Morale
Moreover
Mosquito
Motion
Motor
Mud / muddy
Mug
Multiply
Mumble
Murder
Mystery / mysterious
Nail
Napkin
Narrow
Native
Nearly
Neat
Needle
Neglect
Nest net
Niece
Nightmare
Nod
Nonsense
Noon
Notice
Nowadays
Nuisance
numerous
obey
objection
occasion / occasional
occupy / occupation
odd
odds
offend / offensive
offer
omelet
omit / omission
operate / operation
orbit
ordinary / ordinarily
otherwise
ought to
overcome
owe
pace
pad
pail
pair of / pair up
pale
pardon
particular / particularly
pass out (faint)
passage
paste
pat
patch
path
pattern
pause
peak
pearl
peculiar
pedestrian
peek
peel
permanent / permanently
permit / permission
persuade / persuasion
pet
physician
pigeon
pile
pin
pinch
pint
pipe
pity / pitiful
plaid
plenty
plug
pocket
pond
pork
port
position
possess / possession /
possessive
postage
poster
postpone
poverty
powerful
practical
praise
precious
predict / prediction
prefer / preference
primary
prejudice
prescribe / prescription
preserve / preservation
pressure
pretend
prevent / prevention
pride
priest
prison
process
profit / profitable
progress
prompt / promptly
prove / proof
proud
puddle
pull
punch
punish / punishment
pupil
puppy
pure / purity
Purpose
Purse
Push
Put away
Put off (postpone)
Put on (dress)
Put out (extinguish)
Put up with (accept)
Puzzle
Quantity
Quarrel
Quart
Quite
Rabbit
Race
Railroad
Rainbow
Raincoat
Raise
Rank
Rare / rarely
Rate
Raw
Razor
Reach
Reality
Realize
Rear
Recent / recently
Recognize / recognition
Reduce / reduction
Refer / reference
Reflect / reflection
Refreshment
Refuse / refusal
Relatives
Regardless
Region
Regret
Relive / relief
Remain / remainder
Remark
Remind
Reply
Represent / representative
Reproduce / reproduction
Republic
request
require / require
rescue
resign / resignation
resist / resistance
respect / respectable
rest
the rest
result
retire / retirement
revenge
reward
ribbon
ring
rip
ripe
rip off
risk / risky
rival / rivalry
roar
roast
rocket
roll
roof
root
rope
rot / rotten
rough
round
route
row
royal
rub
rubber
rude
rug
ruin
run across (find)
run into (meet unexpectedly)
run out of (use all)
run over (hit by car)
runway
rush
rust / rusty
sacred
sail / sailor
salary
sample
sand / sandy
satellite
satisfy / satisfaction
sauce
sausage
scale
scarce / scarcely
scene / scenery / scenic
scissors
scrape
scratch
scream
screen
screw
scribble
search
season
seat
secretary
section
secure / securely
seed
seem
seize
seldom
select / selection
sell
sense / senseless / sensible
separate / separately /
separation
settle
severe / severely
sew
sex / sexy / sexual
shade / shady
shadow
shake
shall
shape
share
sharp / sharpen
shave
sheet (bed)
sheet (paper)
shelf / shelves
shift
Shine / shiny
Shoot / shot
Shore
Shout
Show up (appear)
Shut
Sidewalk
Sight
Sign
Signal
Silent / silence
Silk
Silver
Similar / similarly / similarity
Sincere / sincerely
Sink (kitchen)
Sink (hole)
Singular
Sir
Situation
Size
Skill
Skim
Skin
skip
skirt
slap
slave
sleeve
slice
slide
slight / slightly
slip
smash
smell
smog / smoggy
smooth
snack
socialist
society
soil
soldier
solid
solve / solution
somehow
somewhat
sore
sort
soul
sour
souvenir
space
speed / sped
spend
spice
spill
spin
spirit / spiritual
apit
splash
splendid
split
spoil
spot
spray
spread
square
squash
squeeze
stadium
stage
stain
standard
stare
statement
stationary
steady
steam / steamy
steel
steep
steer
stereo
stick / sticky
stick (wood)
sting
stir
stone
storm / stormy
strap
straw
stream
stretch
strict / strictly
string
structure / structural
stove
stuff
subject
substitute / substitution
subtract
subway
suck
suffer
suggest / suggestion
suit
suitcase
support
suppose
supposed to (have to)
surface
surname (last name)
surround
suspect
swallow
swear (curse)
sweat
sweep / swept
swell (increase)
swing
symbol / symbolic / symbolize
sympathy / sympathetic /
sympathize
systematic
tack
tail
tailor
take after (similar)
take off (undress)
take off (airplane)
take out
take over (control)
take up (talk to)
tame
tap
tape
target
tear / tore / torn
temper
temple
tempt / temptation
tend to
Tender
Tent
Term
Terrific
Terror / terrorist
Thick / thickly
Thief
Thorough / thoroughly
Thread
Threat / threaten
Thrill
Throughout
Throw away
Throw out (discard)
Throw up (vomit)
Thumb
Thunder
Tide
Tidy
Tie
Tight
Tiny
Tip ($)
Tip over
Tire (car)
Title
Tobacco
Toe
Toilet
Ton
Tone
Tongue
Tool
Top
Topic
Tough
Towel
Toy
Track
Trade
Trap
Tray
Treat
Tremble
Trial
Triangle
Tribe
trick / tricky
trouble
trunk
trust / trustworthy
try on (clothes)
try out (test)
tube
tune
twist
union
unit / united
universe / universal
unless
upper
upset
urge
useful / useless
use up (all gone)
vacuum
vain
vanilla
variety / various
vase
veil
verse
victory / victorious
village
virtue / virtuous
vowel
voyage
wage
wagon
waist
wait on (serve)
wallet
wander
warm
warn
wave (hand)
wave (ocean
wax
wealth / wealthy
weapon
web
weed
weep
weigh / weight
weird
whale
wheat
wheel
whether
whip
whiskey (alcohol)
whisper
whistle
whole
wicked
wide / width
widow / widower
wild
wildlife
windy
wing
wink
wipe
wise / wisdom
wish
withdraw
within
witness
wolf
wonder
wood
wool
worm
worship
worth
worthwhile
would rather
wound
wrap
wreck
wrestle
wrist
wrong
yard (3 feet)
yard (outside)
yawn
yell
yield
young
youth
zip code
zipper
Zone