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