Vocabulary Lists

Food Idioms

bread-and-butter issue

duck soup

big enchilada

wine and dine

chew the fat

couch potato

spill the beans

salt mine

take the cake

hot potato

butter up

top banana

good egg

meal ticket

big cheese

bring home the bacon

gravy train

bad egg

kettle of fish

sweet tooth

pea soup

free lunch

meat and potatoes

salad days

piece of cake

half-baked

eat up

forbidden fruit

in a nutshell

silver spoon

food for thought

1000 Basic English words A to L, Part 1

a

about

above

across

act

active

activity

add

afraid

after

again

age

ago

agree

air

all

alone

along

already

always

amount

android

angry

another

answer

any

anyway

any

anywhere

appear

apple

are

area

arm

army

around

arrive

art

as

ask

at

attack

aunt

autumn

away

baby

back

bad

bag

ball

bank

base

basket

bath

be

bean

bear

beautiful

bed

bedroom

beer

behave

before

begin

behind

bell

below

besides

best

better

between

big

bird

birth

birthday

bit

bite

black

bleed

block

blood

blow

blue

board

boat

body

boil

bone

book

border

born

borrow

both

bottle

bottom

bowl

box

boy

branch

brave

bread

break

breakfast

breathe

bridge

bright

bring

brother

brown

brush

build

burn

business

bus

busy

but

buy

by

cake

call

can

candle

cap

car

card

care

careful

careless

carry

case

cat

catch

central

century

certain

chair

chance

change

chase

cheap

cheese

chicken

child

childhood

chocolate

choice

choose

circle

city

class

clever

clean

clear

climb

clock

cloth

clothes

cloud

cloudy

close

coffee

coat

coin

cold

collect

colour

comb

comfortable

common

compare

come

complete

computer

condition

continue

control

cook

cool

copper

corn

corner

correct

cost

contain

count

country

course

cover

crash

cross

cry

cup

cupboard

cut

dance

dangerous

dark

daughter

day

dead

decide

decrease

deep

deer

depend

desk

destroy

develop

die

different

difficult

dinner

direction

dirty

discover

dish

direction

do

dog

door

double

down

draw

dream

dress

drink

drive

drop

dry

duck

dust

duty

each

ear

early

earn

earth

east

easy

eat

education

effect

egg

eight

either

electric

elephant

effect

empty

end

enemy

enjoy

enough

enter

equal

entrance

escape

even

evening

event

ever

every

everyday

exact

everywhere

examination

example

except

excited

exercise

expect

expensive

explain

extremely

eye

face

fact

fail

fall

false

family

famous

far

farm

father

fast

fat

fault

fear

feed

feel

female

fever

few

fight

fill

film

find

fine

finger

finish

fire

first

fit

five

fix

flag

flat

float

floor

flour

flower

fly

fold

food

fool

foot

football

force

foreign

forest

forget

forgive

fork

form

fox

four

free

freedom

freeze

fresh

friend

friendly

front

fruit

full

fun

funny

furniture

further

future

game

garden

gate

general

gentleman

get

gift

give

glad

glass

go

goat

god

gold

good

goodbye

grandfather

grandmother

grass

grave

great

green

grey

ground

group

grow

gun

H

hair

half

hall

hammer

hand

happen

happy

hard

hat

hate

have

he

head

healthy

hear

heavy

hello

help

heart

heaven

height

help

hen

here

hero

hide

high

hill

history

hit

hobby

hold

hole

holiday

home

hope

horse

hospital

hot

hotel

house

hundred

hungry

hour

hurry

husband

hurt

I

ice

idea

important

in

increase

inside

introduce

invent

iron

invite

island

jelly

job

join

juice

jump

just

keep

key

kill

kind

king

kitchen

knee

knife

knock

know

ladder

lady

lamp

land

large

last

late

lately

laugh

lazy

lead

leaf

learn

leave

leg

left

lend

length

less

lesson

let

letter

library

lie

life

light

like

lion

lip

list

listen

little

live

lock

lonely

long

look

lose

lot

love

low

lower

luck

drunken

nudity

sacrament

50 Words Beginning with A

aardvark

abdicate

abhor

abstract

abstract

adamant

adverb

advice

advise

advocate

aesthetic

aesthetics

affable

affect

affect

affinity

affinity

aggregate

agnostic

ajar

akimbo

akin

allegory

alliteration

allusion

aloof

ambiguous

amiable

antagonist

antonym

aorta

apathy

apex

appreciate

aquatic

aqueous

arbitrary

aroma

aromatic

arrogant

articulate

assuage

astute

avarice

avaricious

avatar

aversion

awe

awesome

azure

Criminology Vocabulary Words

law

statutory law

penal code

case law

common law

rule of law

jurisprudence

criminal law

civil law

tort

administrative law

precedent

felony

misdemeanor

offense

infraction

treason

espionage

actus reus

mens rea

criminal negligence

motive

concurrence

ex post facto

elements

corpus delicti

Islamic law

Tazir crime

defense

alibi

justification

excuse

self-defense

entrapment

double jeopardy

substantive

inchoate

culpable

collateral

estoppel

vagrancy

conspiracy

negligent

mitigate

lewd

lascivious

duress

fraud

conflagration

inducement

incompetent

alter ego

Hamlet Vocabulary Words

dirge

mirth

mottle

suspicious

frailty

mourn

crow

wring

thaw

jocund

obsequious

commendable

obstinate

impious

vulgar

absurd

suspiration

supposal

jailed

coronation

gait

pester

suicidal

melancholy

juvenile

misogynistic

auspicious

canon

stale

satyr

discourse

dexterity

incestuous

truant

truncheon

countenance

grizzled

convoy

trifle

primly

virtue

sustain

importunity

prodigal

calumnious

canker

imminent

springer

scant

tether

sanctified

pious

bawd

reckless

prudish

goblin

artery

petty

duffer

purgatory

lustfulness

sulphurous

torment

sulphurous

torment

harrow

quill

fretful

serpent

prophetic

traitorous

wretch

lewdness

radiant

sate

celestial

prey

vial

porch

enmity

contrive

pernicious

arrant

knave

perchance

antic

perturbed

rein

avert

lunacy

expostulate

declension

maggot

carrion

strumpet

dungeon

airy

modesty

sterile

promontory

canopy

firmament

fretted

pestilent

congregation

quintessence

swaddle

clout

bison

rheum

diadem

mincing

clamour

milch

epitaph

rogue

conceit

cleave

pate

tweak

remorseless

treacherous

lecherous

vengeance

drab

scullion

blench

potent

enigmatic

soliloquy

contemplative

obsessed

plague

premeditation

innuendo

repudiate