Essential Vocabulary: Buildings, Nature, and Everyday Life
Here’s a list of essential vocabulary related to buildings, nature, and everyday life:
- Bridge: Structure that provides a passage over an obstacle.
- Concrete: Construction material made out of a mixture of cement, stone, sand, and water.
- Engineer: Manager of a situation, system, etc.
- Glass: Hard, transparent, brittle solid.
- Iron: Malleable metallic element.
- Landmark: Well-known object or feature of a particular landscape.
- Office Block: Large building designed to provide office accommodation.
- Resort: Place which many people go for recreation.
- Ruler: Person who rules or commands.
- Shore: Land along the edge of a sea, lake, or wide river.
- Skyscraper: High multi-story building.
- Source: Point or place from which something originates.
- Steel: Alloy made out of iron and carbon.
- Stone: Hard non-metallic material rocks are made of.
- Storey: A floor or level of a building.
- Surface: Exterior part of an object.
Phrasal Verbs
- Reach for: Arrive at or get to.
- Run out: Expire, to become exhausted.
- Support: Give aid or supply.
- Tear down: Destroy or demolish.
Verbs
- Breed: Keep animal for the purpose of reproduction.
- Claim: Assert something as a fact.
- Hunt: Seek and kill or capture.
- Long for: Be looking forward to something.
- Miss: Feel sorrow due to the absence or loss of something.
- Misunderstand: Fail to understand properly.
- Pick up: Look for someone with the intention of taking them with you.
- Release: To free from captivity.
- Rent: Use something paid by periodic payments.
- Review: Look at or examine again.
- Underestimate: Think insufficiently highly of someone or something.
Adjectives
- Cosy: Warm and comfortable.
- Endangered: Said about species of animals in danger of extinction.
- Fierce: Violent and savage.
- Hectic: Extremely active.
- Illogical: Something with a lack of logic.
- Impossible: Something that cannot be done or achieved.
- Inconvenient: Something that causes problems or difficulties.
- International: Involving many nationalities.
- Irrelevant: Something not important in a particular case.
- Lifelong: Said about something that lasts or is supposed to remain forever.
- Overpopulated: That has more people than permitted or advisable.
- Tame: Change from wild to domesticate made by humans.
- Unfair: Something that is not honest or fair.
- Wild: Said of an animal living in its natural environment.
Nouns
- Ex-president: A person who has been the president but isn’t anymore.
- Fad: Something very popular for a period of time.
- Fee: Amount of money you pay for something.
- Habitat: Natural environment for an animal.
- Lifestyle: The way someone lives.
- Owner: The person who something belongs to.
- Predator: Animal that gets food from hunting other animals.
- Species: Class of plant or animal whose members have the same characteristics.
- Ancient: Something that’s very old or aged.
- Bare: Somebody without covering or clothing.
- Breathtaking: Something amazing or remarkable.
- Huge: Extraordinarily big in size, weight…
- Leisure: Freedom from the demands of work or duty.
- Luxury: Something that provides rich living, but is not necessary.
- Mayor: Someone or something that has the first grade of importance.
- Narrow: Something that is not wide.
- Spacious: Something that contains much space.
- Cage: A boxlike enclosure with bars forming the sides, for keeping birds or animals.
- Conservation: The controlled use of natural resources to preserve them.
- Cub: A young animal.
- Customer: A person who purchases goods or services from another.
- Disadvantage: Something that puts one in an unfavorable position.