Vocabulary Builder: Words and Phrases A-Z

A: Accurate, actually, advantageous, affectionate, aftermath, all over, alike, align, amazing, among, amount, ancestor, anxious, appreciate, appliance, argue, arrange, arrive, ascent, assistance, available.

B: Barefoot, bargain, bark, beyond, blanket, blend, breeze, brief, broad, brain, brave, brick.

C: Cage, caution, career, cater, ceiling, cheetah, choice, claim, climb, collapse, common, complain, concrete, cool, couch, courage, crucial, cute, curly, current.

D: Daily, damage, dangerous, date, death, deep, delayed, delighted, demanding, depth, develop, development, devote, disagree, disappointing, disease, display, disturb, diver, downward(s), drag, drop, drill, drink, drift, drought, duty.

E: Eager, edge, employee, encourage, engage, endurance, energy, enjoy, entice, eventually, examine, exhausted, exhaustion, experience, extended.

F: Fact, fall, fashion, faucet, fetch, feature, fill, finding, fin, flaw, flood, follow, fortunately, fox, freeze, free, fresh, frightening, fun, furniture, future.

G: Gather, gap, get, give, go, goods, grade, gratefully, greet, growth.

H: Handle, harvest, heel, highly, hold, hole, how, hunter.

I: Inaccuracy, industry, injury, inspiration, instead, instruct, involve, iron, issue.

J: Judge.

K: Keep, knee.

L: Lack, land, landfill, layer, lead, leak, leap, length, loan, local, location, long-term, look, loss, lure.

M: Make, manage, mandatory, market, matter, major, medical, mentally, metal, migrate, motion.

N: Narrow, neither, nearby, not, nothing.

O: Observe, obtain, occur, oil, once, one-way, opinion, opportunity, outcome, overcome, overweight, ownership.

P: Pat, patience, pave, pay, peaceful, peak, perception, persistent, pile, pioneer, pleasure, potential, praise, precious, prevent, privacy, problem, process, proper, prompt, prone, provide, proud, public, purchase.

Q: Quench.

R: Raise, rare, rate, realize, reassemble, rebuild, receive, recognize, recycle, reduce, resemble, resilient, reveal, reliable, remain, remarkably, remind, replace, report, require, research, resist, risk, rise, rough, roof, row, rule, run.

S: Safe, savings, scarce, schedule, scholar, school, science, scrape, search, season, seem, sense, seriously, shake, shallow, sharp, sheer, ship, shift, shock, shop, short-term, shy, sight, significant, silent, slight, smooth, soar, solely, source, space, spare, spark, sparingly, spot, spring, spread, startling, stagger, steel, step, steep, stunning, structure, struggle, study, stumble, success, successfully, suitable, sunrise, sunset, surgery, survival, suspicion, sweep, sweat, swift.

T: Tail, take, task, tax, terrific, threat, thrill, throw, tire, touch, trend, truly, turn, tyre.

U: Undergo, underneath, unlikely, unsafe, unpredictable, unfortunately, update, upper, upward(s), useful.

V: Vacation, value, variety, village, vision, vivid, voice, volunteer.

W: Wag, wealth, wealthy, weather, wedding, widely, wild, wisdom, withstand, wonder, worker, worth, worldwide, worry, writing.

Y: Year, youth.

Z (Phrases and Expressions with more than four words): A breath of fresh air, a matter of life and death, beyond sb’s means, come face-to-face with, common sense, draw inspiration from, fall into disrepair, fall in love, first step, follow suit, give (sth) a try, go on vacation, high-rise building, in a good mood, in close proximity to, in keeping with, look forward to, make do with, make sure, not stand a chance (of), nothing beats, over the years, run out of (sth), sweep away (swept-swept), take care (of), take place, to be accustomed to, to be hooked (on), to keep (sth) in mind, to lead to, to play a role, to turn out (to be).