General Vocabulary

Modern English Words Used in Conversation

Here’s a collection of important words that will come in handy in your everyday lexicon and help you speak English with confidence:

Absence Justify Academic kitchen

Accompany knee Accomplish knife

Acknowledge knock Adapt know

Administration Knowledge Affect land

Afford landscape Analysis language

Apparently lap Background large

Balance largely Besides Last

Beside manufacture Beyond many

Borrow map Boundary margin

Budget mark Building market

Business Marketing Calculate negotiation

Campaign neighbor Campus neighborhood

Capability neither Capacity Nerve

Category objective Challenge obligation

Characteristic observation Civil Observe

Coalition opportunity Colonial Oppose

Deal porch Defensive port

Democracy portion Description portrait

Dialogue portray Dimension pose

Discrimination Position Distinction qualify

Distinguish quality elementary Quarter

eliminate quit elite quite

else Quote elsewhere recipe

e-mail Recognition embrace refugee

emerge refuse emergency Regard

emission scientist Emotion scope

fewer score fiber scream

fiction screen Field Script

foreign tactic forest tail

forever take forget tale

form Talent formal ultimately

Formation unable gaze uncle

gear under gender undergo

gene Understand general victory

generate video generation view

genetic viewer highlight village

highly violate Highway Violation

holiday wealthy holy weapon

Home wear illustrate weather

image wedding Imagination Week

impact yard implement yeah

Implication year income yell

Incorporate yellow journalist yes

journey Yesterday joy Zone

Judge Zany