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Common Words in English (A)
- A
- Abandon
- Ability
- Able
- About
- Above
- Abroad
- Absence
- Absolute
- Absorb
- Abuse
- Academic
- Accept
- According
- Account
- Across
- Act
- Action
- Activity
- Actually
- Add
- Address
- Administration
- Admit
- Adult
- Affect
- After
- Again
- Against
- Age
- Agency
- Agent
- Ago
- Agree
- Agreement
- Ahead
- Air
- All
- Allow
- Almost
- Alone
- Along
- Already
- Also
- Alternative
- Although
- Always
- American
- Among
- Amount
- Analysis
- And
- Animal
- Another
- Answer
- Any
- Anyone
- Anything
- Appear
- Apply
- Approach
- Appropriate
- Approval
- Approve
- Approximately
- Architect
- Area
- Argue
- Arm
- Around
- Arrive
- Art
- Article
- Artist
- As
- Ask
- Assume
- At
- Attack
- Attention
- Audience
- Author
- Authority
- Auto
- Available
- Avoid
- Away
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Common Words in English (B)
- Baby
- Back
- Bad
- Bag
- Ball
- Bank
- Bar
- Base
- Be
- Beat
- Beautiful
- Because
- Become
- Bed
- Before
- Begin
- Behavior
- Behind
- Believe
- Benefit
- Best
- Better
- Between
- Beyond
- Big
- Bill
- Billion
- Bit
- Black
- Blood
- Blue
- Board
- Body
- Book
- Born
- Both
- Box
- Boy
- Break
- Bring
- Brother
- Budget
- Build
- Building
- Business
- But
- Buy
- By
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Common English Words (C)
- Call
- Camera
- Campaign
- Can
- Cancer
- Candidate
- Capital
- Car
- Card
- Care
- Career
- Carry
- Case
- Catch
- Cause
- Cell
- Center
- Century
- Central
- Certain
- Certainly
- Citizen
- City
- Civil
- Claim
- Class
- Clear
- Clearly
- Close
- Coach
- Cold
- Collection
- College
- Color
- Come
- Commercial
- Common
- Community
- Company
- Compare
- Computer
- Concern
- Condition
- Conference
- Consider
- Construction
- Consultant
- Consume
- Consumer
- Consumption
- Contact
- Contain
- Container
- Continue
- Control
- Congress
- Cost
- Could
- Country
- Couple
- Course
- Court
- Cover
- Create
- Crime
- Cultural
- Culture
- Cup
- Current
- Customer
- Cut
- Chair
- Challenge
- Chance
- Change
- Character
- Charge
- Check
- Child
- Choice
- Choose
- Church
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Common Words (D)
- Dead
- Deal
- Death
- Debate
- Decade
- Decide
- Decision
- Deep
- Defend
- Defendant
- Defense
- Defensive
- Deficit
- Define
- Definitely
- Definition
- Degree
- Delay
- Deliver
- Delivery
- Demand
- Democracy
- Democrat
- Democratic
- Depict
- Describe
- Description
- Design
- Despite
- Detail
- Determine
- Develop
- Development
- Device
- Devote
- Die
- Difference
- Different
- Difficult
- Dinner
- Direction
- Director
- Discover
- Discuss
- Discussion
- Disease
- Do
- Doctor
- Dog
- Door
- Down
- Draw
- Dream
- Drive
- Drop
- Drug
- During
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Common Words in English (E)
- Each
- Early
- East
- Easy
- Eat
- Economic
- Economy
- Edge
- Education
- Effect
- Effort
- Eight
- Either
- Election
- Else
- Employee
- End
- Energy
- Enjoy
- Enough
- Enter
- Entire
- Environment
- Environmental
- Episode
- Equal
- Especially
- Establish
- Even
- Evening
- Event
- Everybody
- Everyone
- Everything
- Evidence
- Exactly
- Example
- Executive
- Exist
- Expect
- Experience
- Expert
- Explain
- Eye
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Most Common English Words (F)
- Face
- Fact
- Factor
- Fail
- Fall
- Family
- Far
- Fast
- Father
- Fear
- Federal
- Feel
- Feeling
- Few
- Field
- Fight
- Figure
- Fill
- Film
- Final
- Finally
- Financial
- Find
- Fine
- Finish
- Finger
- Fire
- Firm
- First
- Fish
- Five
- Floor
- Fly
- Focus
- Follow
- Food
- Foot
- For
- Force
- Foreign
- Forget
- Form
- Former
- Forward
- Four
- Free
- Friend
- From
- Front
- Full
- Fund
- Future
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Common English Words (G)
- Game
- Garden
- Gas
- General
- Generation
- Get
- Glass
- Go
- Goal
- Good
- Government
- Great
- Green
- Ground
- Group
- Grow
- Growth
- Guess
- Gun
- Guy
- Girl
- Give
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Common Words in English (H)
- Hair
- Half
- Hand
- Hang
- Happen
- Happy
- Hard
- Have
- He
- Head
- Health
- Hear
- Heart
- Heat
- Heavy
- Help
- Her
- Here
- Herself
- High
- Him
- Himself
- His
- History
- Hit
- Hold
- Home
- Hope
- Hospital
- Hot
- Hotel
- Hour
- House
- How
- However
- Huge
- Human
- Hundred
- Husband
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Most Common English Words (I)
- Idea
- Identify
- If
- Image
- Imagine
- Impact
- Important
- Improve
- Include
- Including
- Increase
- Indeed
- Indicate
- Individual
- Industry
- Information
- Inside
- Instead
- Institution
- Interest
- Interesting
- International
- Interview
- Into
- Introduce
- Introduction
- Investment
- Involve
- Issue
- It
- Item
- Its
- Itself
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Common Words in English (J)
- Job
- Join
- Just
- Jack
- January
- Japan
- Jeep
- Jelly
- Jet
- Jigsaw
- Jingle
- Jockey
- Jolt
- Journal
- Journey
- Joy
- Judge
- Juice
- Jumble
- Jump
- Jungle
- Junior
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Common Words in English (K)
- Keep
- Key
- Kid
- Kill
- Kind
- Kitchen
- Know
- Knowledge
- King
- Kiss
- Kick
- Kernel
- Keyboard
- Knot
- Knock
- Kale
- Kangaroo
- Kite
- Knapsack
- Kinetic
- Kettle
- Khaki
- Kit
- Knight
- Knead
- Kneel
- Knit
- Knowledgeable
- Krypton
- Kiosk
- Kerchief
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Common Words in English (L)
- Land
- Language
- Large
- Last
- Late
- Later
- Laugh
- Law
- Lawyer
- Lay
- Lead
- Leader
- Learn
- Least
- Leave
- Left
- Leg
- Legal
- Less
- Let
- Letter
- Level
- Lie
- Life
- Light
- Like
- Likely
- Line
- List
- Listen
- Little
- Live
- Local
- Long
- Look
- Lose
- Loss
- Lot
- Love
- Low
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Common English Words (M)
- Machine
- Magazine
- Main
- Maintain
- Major
- Majority
- Make
- Man
- Manage
- Management
- Manager
- Many
- Market
- Marriage
- Material
- Matter
- May
- Maybe
- Me
- Mean
- Measure
- Media
- Medical
- Meet
- Meeting
- Member
- Memory
- Mention
- Message
- Method
- Middle
- Might
- Military
- Million
- Mind
- Minute
- Miss
- Mission
- Model
- Modern
- Moment
- Money
- Month
- More
- Morning
- Most
- Mother
- Mouth
- Move
- Movement
- Movie
- Mr
- Mrs
- Much
- Music
- Must
- My
- Myself
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Most Common Words in English (N)
- Name
- Nation
- National
- Natural
- Nature
- Near
- Nearly
- Necessary
- Need
- Network
- Never
- New
- News
- Newspaper
- Next
- Nice
- Night
- No
- None
- Nor
- North
- Not
- Note
- Notice
- Nothing
- Now
- Number
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Most Common Words in English (O)
- Occur
- Of
- Off
- Offer
- Office
- Officer
- Official
- Often
- Oh
- Oil
- Ok
- Old
- On
- Once
- One
- Only
- Onto
- Open
- Operation
- Opportunity
- Option
- Or
- Order
- Organization
- Other
- Others
- Our
- Out
- Outside
- Over
- Own
- Owner
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Common Words in English (P)
- Page
- Pain
- Painting
- Paper
- Parent
- Part
- Participant
- Particular
- Particularly
- Partner
- Party
- Pass
- Past
- Patient
- Pattern
- Pay
- Peace
- People
- Per
- Perform
- Performance
- Perhaps
- Period
- Person
- Personal
- Pick
- Picture
- Piece
- Place
- Plan
- Plant
- Play
- Player
- Pm
- Point
- Police
- Policy
- Political
- Politics
- Poor
- Popular
- Population
- Position
- Positive
- Possible
- Power
- Practice
- Prepare
- Present
- President
- Pressure
- Pretty
- Prevent
- Price
- Private
- Probably
- Problem
- Process
- Produce
- Product
- Production
- Professional
- Professor
- Program
- Project
- Property
- Protect
- Prove
- Provide
- Public
- Pull
- Purpose
- Push
- Put
- Phone
- Physical
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Most Common English Words (Q)
- Quality
- Question
- Quickly
- Quite
- Quick
- Queen
- Quarter
- Quote
- Quiet
- Quit
- Quiz
- Quaint
- Quack
- Quad
- Quarry
- Quake
- Quasar
- Quaver
- Quasi
- Quench
- Quintet
- Quotient
- Quibble
- Quiche
- Quid
- Quiff
- Quilt
- Quip
- Quirk
- Quitter
- Quiver
- Quintuplet
- Queue
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Most Common English Words (R)
- Race
- Radio
- Raise
- Range
- Rate
- Rather
- Reach
- Read
- Ready
- Real
- Reality
- Realize
- Really
- Reason
- Receive
- Recent
- Recently
- Recognize
- Record
- Red
- Reduce
- Reflect
- Region
- Relate
- Relationship
- Religious
- Remain
- Remember
- Remove
- Report
- Represent
- Republican
- Require
- Research
- Resource
- Respond
- Response
- Responsibility
- Rest
- Result
- Return
- Reveal
- Rich
- Right
- Rise
- Risk
- Road
- Rock
- Role
- Room
- Rule
- Run
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Common Words (S)
- Safe
- Same
- Save
- Say
- Scene
- Science
- Scientist
- Score
- School
- Sea
- Season
- Seat
- Second
- Section
- Security
- See
- Seek
- Seem
- Sell
- Send
- Senior
- Sense
- Series
- Serious
- Serve
- Service
- Set
- Seven
- Several
- Sex
- Sexual
- Shake
- Share
- She
- Shoot
- Short
- Shot
- Should
- Shoulder
- Show
- Side
- Sign
- Significant
- Similar
- Simple
- Simply
- Since
- Sing
- Single
- Sister
- Sit
- Site
- Situation
- Six
- Size
- Skill
- Skin
- Small
- Smile
- So
- Social
- Society
- Soldier
- Some
- Somebody
- Someone
- Sometimes
- Something
- Son
- Song
- Soon
- Sort
- Sound
- Source
- South
- Southern
- Space
- Speak
- Special
- Specific
- Speech
- Spend
- Sport
- Spring
- Staff
- Stage
- Stand
- Standard
- Star
- Start
- State
- Statement
- Station
- Stay
- Step
- Still
- Stock
- Stop
- Store
- Story
- Student
- Study
- Stuff
- Style
- Strategy
- Street
- Strong
- Structure
- Subject
- Success
- Successful
- Such
- Suddenly
- Suffer
- Suggest
- Summer
- Support
- Sure
- Surface
- System
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Most Common English Words (T)
- Table
- Take
- Talk
- Task
- Tax
- Teach
- Teacher
- Team
- Technology
- Television
- Tell
- Ten
- Tend
- Term
- Test
- Time
- To
- Today
- Together
- Tonight
- Too
- Top
- Total
- Tough
- Toward
- Town
- Turn
- TV
- Twenty
- Twice
- Twin
- Two
- Type
- Typical
- Than
- Thank
- That
- The
- Their
- Them
- Themselves
- Then
- Theory
- There
- These
- They
- Think
- Thing
- Third
- This
- Those
- Though
- Thought
- Thousand
- Threat
- Three
- Through
- Throughout
- Throw
- Thus
- Trade
- Traditional
- Training
- Travel
- Treat
- Treatment
- Tree
- Trial
- Trip
- Trouble
- Truck
- Truth
- Try
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English Words (U)
- Under
- Understand
- Unit
- United
- Universal
- Universe
- University
- Unknown
- Unless
- Unlikely
- Until
- Unusual
- Up
- Upon
- Use
- Usually
- Umbrella
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English Words (V)
- Valley
- Valuable
- Value
- Variety
- Various
- Very
- Victim
- View
- Village
- Violence
- Visit
- Voice
- Vote
- Variation
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Common English Words (W)
- Wait
- Walk
- Wall
- Want
- War
- Watch
- Water
- Way
- We
- Wealth
- Weapon
- Wear
- Week
- Weight
- Welcome
- Well
- West
- Western
- Wet
- What
- Whatever
- When
- Where
- Whether
- Which
- While
- White
- Who
- Whole
- Whom
- Whose
- Why
- Wide
- Wife
- Will
- Win
- Wind
- Window
- Wish
- With
- Within
- Without
- Woman
- Wonder
- Word
- Work
- Worker
- World
- Worry
- Would
- Write
- Writer
- Wrong
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Common Words in English (Y)
- Yard
- Yeah
- Year
- Yes
- Yet
- You
- Young
- Your
- Yourself
- Yesterday
- Yellow
- Youth
- Yacht
- Yoga
- Yield
- Yawn
- Yummy
- Yearly
- Yell
- Yolk
- Yahoo
- Yelp
- Yonder
- Yule
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English Words (Z)
- Zone
- Zero
- Zoo
- Zen
- Zest
- Zebra
- Zigzag
- Zinc
- Zany
- Zipper
- Zoom
- Zucchini
- Zillion
- Zeus
- Zonal
- Zygote
- Zombie
- Zenith
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Question 1: Which common English word means 'the power or skill to do something'?
Q2
Question 2: The word 'kitchen' is a common English word that refers to a room where food is prepared and cooked.
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Question 4: Match each common English word to its correct meaning.
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