Basic English

Basic English is a simplified form of English intended for international communication. It is limited to 850 selected words. "If one were to take the 25,000 word Oxford Pocket English Dictionary and take away the redundancies of our rich language and eliminate the words that can be made by putting together simpler words, we find that 90% of the concepts in that dictionary can be achieved with 850 words," said Charles K Ogden in his "Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar" (1930). The shortened list makes simpler the effort to learn spelling and pronunciation irregularities. The rules of usage are identical to full English so that the practitioner communicates in perfectly good, but simple, English.

Operations- 100 words
come, get, give, go, keep, let, make, put, seem, take, be, do, have, say, see, send, may, will, about, across, after, against, among, at, before, between, by, down, from, in, off, on, over, through, to, under, up, with, as, for, of, till, than, a, the, all, any, every, no, other, some, such, that, this, I, he, you, who, and, because, but, or, if, though, while, how, when, where, why, again, ever, far, forward, here, near, now, out, still, then, there, together, well, almost, enough, even, little, much, not, only, quite, so, very, tomorrow, yesterday, north, south, east, west, please, yes.

Things - 400 General words
account, act, addition, adjustment, advertisement, agreement, air, amount, amusement, animal, answer, apparatus, approval, argument, art, attack, attempt, attention, attraction, authority, back, balance, base, behaviour, belief, birth, bit, bite, blood, blow, body, brass, bread, breath, brother, building, burn, burst, business, butter, canvas, care, cause, chalk, chance, change, cloth, coal, colour, comfort, committee, company, comparison, competition, condition, connection, control, cook, copper, copy, cork, cotton, cough, country, cover, crack, credit, crime, crush, cry, current, curve, damage, danger, daughter, day, death, debt, decision, degree, design, desire, destruction, detail, development, digestion, direction, discovery, discussion, disease, disgust, distance, distribution, division, doubt, drink, driving, dust, earth, edge, education, effect, end, error, event, example, exchange, existence, expansion, experience, expert, fact, fall, family, father, fear, feeling, fiction, field, fight, fire, flame, flight, flower, fold, food, force, form, friend, front, fruit, glass, gold, government, grain, grass, grip, group, growth, guide, harbour, harmony, hate, hearing, heat, help, history, hole, hope, hour, humour, ice, idea, impulse, increase, industry, ink, insect, instrument, insurance, interest, invention, iron, jelly, join, journey, judge, jump, kick, kiss, knowledge, land, language, laugh, law, lead, learning, leather, letter, level, lift, light, limit, linen, liquid, list, look, loss, love, machine, man, manager, mark, market, mass, meal, measure, meat, meeting, memory, metal, middle, milk, mind, mine, minute, mist, money, month, morning, mother, motion, mountain, move, music, name, nation, need, news, night, noise, note, number, observation, offer, oil, operation, opinion, order, organization, ornament, owner, page, pain, paint, paper, part, paste, payment, peace, person, place, plant, play, pleasure, point, poison, polish, porter, position, powder, power, price, print, process, produce, profit, property, prose, protest, pull, punishment, purpose, push, quality, question, rain, range, rate, ray, reaction, reading, reason, record, regret, relation, religion, representative, request, respect, rest, reward, rhythm, rice, river, road, roll, room, rub, rule, run, salt, sand, scale, science, sea, seat, secretary, selection, self, sense, servant, sex, shade, shake, shame, shock, side, sign, silk, silver, sister, size, sky, sleep, slip, slope, smash, smell, smile, smoke, sneeze, snow, soap, society, son, song, sort, sound, soup, space, stage, start, statement, steam, steel, step, stitch, stone, stop, story, stretch, structure, substance, sugar, suggestion, summer, support, surprise, swim, system, talk, taste, tax, teaching, tendency, test, theory, thing, thought, thunder, time, tin, top, touch, trade, transport, trick, trouble, turn, twist, unit, use, value, verse, vessel, view, voice, walk, war, wash, waste, water, wave, wax, way, weather, week, weight, wind, wine, winter, woman, wood, wool, word, work, wound, writing, year.

Things - 200 Picturable words
angle, ant, apple, arch, arm, army, baby, bag, ball, band, basin, basket, bath, bed, bee, bell, berry, bird, blade, board, boat, bone, book, boot, bottle, box, boy, brain, brake, branch, brick, bridge, brush, bucket, bulb, button, cake, camera, card, cart, carriage, cat, chain, cheese, chest, chin, church, circle, clock, cloud, coat, collar, comb, cord, cow, cup, curtain, cushion, dog, door, drain, drawer, dress, drop, ear, egg, engine, eye, face, farm, feather, finger, fish, flag, floor, fly, foot, fork, fowl, frame, garden, girl, glove, goat, gun, hair, hammer, hand, hat, head, heart, hook, horn, horse, hospital, house, island, jewel, kettle, key, knee, knife, knot, leaf, leg, library, line, lip, lock, map, match, monkey, moon, mouth, muscle, nail, neck, needle, nerve, net, nose, nut, office, orange, oven, parcel, pen, pencil, picture, pig, pin, pipe, plane, plate, plough, pocket, pot, potato, prison, pump, rail, rat, receipt, ring, rod, roof, root, sail, school, scissors, screw, seed, sheep, shelf, ship, shirt, shoe, skin, skirt, snake, sock, spade, sponge, spoon, spring, square, stamp, star, station, stem, stick, stocking, stomach, store, street, sun, table, tail, thread, throat, thumb, ticket, toe, tongue, tooth, town, train, tray, tree, trousers, umbrella, wall, watch, wheel, whip, whistle, window, wing, wire, worm.

Qualities - 100 General
able, acid, angry, automatic, beautiful, black, boiling, bright, broken, brown, cheap, chemical, chief, clean, clear, common, complex, conscious, cut, deep, dependent, early, elastic, electric, equal, fat, fertile, first, fixed, flat, free, frequent, full, general, good, great, grey, hanging, happy, hard, healthy, high, hollow, important, kind, like, living, long, male, married, material, medical, military, natural, necessary, new, normal, open, parallel, past, physical, political, poor, possible, present, private, probable, quick, quiet, ready, red, regular, responsible, right, round, same, second, separate, serious, sharp, smooth, sticky, stiff, straight, strong, sudden, sweet, tall, thick, tight, tired, true, violent, waiting, warm, wet, wide, wise, yellow, young.

Qualities - 50 Opposites
awake, bad, bent, bitter, blue, certain, cold, complete, cruel, dark, dead, dear, delicate, different, dirty, dry, false, feeble, female, foolish, future, green, ill, last, late, left, loose, loud, low, mixed, narrow, old, opposite, public, rough, sad, safe, secret, short, shut, simple, slow, small, soft, solid, special, strange, thin, white, wrong.

Ogden's Basic English Word List - Alphabetic 850

A
a, able, about, account, acid, across, act, addition, adjustment, advertisement, after, again, against, agreement, air, all, almost, among, amount, amusement, and, angle, angry, animal, answer, ant, any, apparatus, apple, approval, arch, argument, arm, army, art, as, at, attack, attempt, attention, attraction, authority, automatic, awake .

B
baby, back, bad, bag, balance, ball, band, base, basin, basket, bath, be (are), beautiful, because, bed, bee, before, behavior, belief, bell, bent, berry, between, bird, birth, bit, bite, bitter, black, blade, blood, blow, blue, board, boat, body, boiling, bone, book, boot, bottle, box, boy, brain, brake, branch, brass, bread, breath, brick, bridge, bright, broken, brother, brown, brush, bucket, building, bulb, burn, burst, business, but, butter, button, by .

C
cake, camera, canvas, card, care, carriage, cart, cat, cause, certain, chain, chalk, chance, change, cheap, cheese, chemical, chest, chief, chin, church, circle, clean, clear, clock, cloth, cloud, coal, coat, cold, collar, color, comb, come, comfort, committee, common, company, comparison, complete, competition, complex, condition, connection, conscious, control, cook, copper, copy, cord, cork, cotton, cough, country, cover, cow, crack, credit, crime, cruel, crush, cry, cup, current, curtain, curve, cushion, cut .

D
damage, danger, dark, daughter, day, dead, dear, death, debt, decision, deep, degree, delicate, dependent, design, desire, destruction, detail, development, different, digestion, direction, dirty, discovery, discussion, disease, disgust, distance, distribution, division, do, dog, door, doubt, down, drain, drawer, dress, drink, driving, drop, dry, dust .

E
ear, early, earth, east, edge, education, effect, egg, elastic, electric, end, engine, enough, equal, error, even, event, ever, every, example, exchange, existence, expansion, experience, expert, eye .

F
face, fact, fall, false, family, far, farm, fat, father, fear, feather, feeble, feeling, female, fertile, fiction, field, fight, finger, fire, first, fish, fixed, flag, flame, flat, flight, floor, flower, fly, fold, food, foolish, foot, for, force, fork, form, forward, fowl, frame, free, frequent, friend, from, front, fruit, full, future .

G
garden, general, get, girl, give, glass, glove, go, goat, gold, good, government, grain, grass, great, green, grey/gray, grip, group, growth, guide, gun .

H
hair, hammer, hand, hanging, happy, harbor, hard, harmony, hat, hate, have, he, head, healthy, hearing, heart, heat, help, here, high, history, hole, hollow, hook, hope, horn, horse, hospital, hour, house, how, humor .

I
I, ice, idea, if, ill, important, impulse, in, increase, industry, ink, insect, instrument, insurance, interest, invention, iron, island .

J
jelly, jewel, join, journey, judge, jump .

K
keep, kettle, key, kick, kind, kiss, knee, knife, knot, knowledge .

L
land, language, last, late, laugh, law, lead, leaf, learning, leather, left, leg, let, letter, level, library, lift, light, like, limit, line, linen, lip, liquid, list, little (less,least), living, lock, long, look, loose, loss, loud, love, low .

M
machine, make, male, man, manager, map, mark, market, married, match, material, mass, may, meal, measure, meat, medical, meeting, memory, metal, middle, military, milk, mind, mine, minute, mist, mixed, money, monkey, month, moon, morning, mother, motion, mountain, mouth, move, much (more, most), muscle, music .

N
nail, name, narrow, nation, natural, near, necessary, neck, need, needle, nerve, net, new, news, night, no, noise, normal, north, nose, not, note, now, number, nut .

O
observation, of, off, offer, office, oil, old, on, only, open, operation, opinion, opposite, or, orange, order, organization, ornament, other, out, oven, over, owner.

P
page, pain, paint, paper, parallel, parcel, part, past, paste, payment, peace, pen, pencil, person, physical, picture, pig, pin, pipe, place, plane, plant, plate, play, please, pleasure, plough/plow, pocket, point, poison, polish, political, poor, porter, position, possible, pot, potato, powder, power, present, price, print, prison, private, probable, process, produce, profit, property, prose, protest, public, pull, pump, punishment, purpose, push, put .

Q
quality, question, quick, quiet, quite .

R
rail, rain, range, rat, rate, ray, reaction, reading, ready, reason, receipt, record, red, regret, regular, relation, religion, representative, request, respect, responsible, rest, reward, rhythm, rice, right, ring, river, road, rod, roll, roof, room, root, rough, round, rub, rule, run .

S
sad, safe, sail, salt, same, sand, say, scale, school, science, scissors, screw, sea, seat, second, secret, secretary, see, seed, selection, self, send, seem, sense, separate, serious, servant, sex, shade, shake, shame, sharp, sheep, shelf, ship, shirt, shock, shoe, short, shut, side, sign, silk, silver, simple, sister, size, skin, skirt, sky, sleep, slip, slope, slow, small, smash, smell, smile, smoke, smooth, snake, sneeze, snow, so, soap, society, sock, soft, solid, some, son, song, sort, sound, south, soup, space, spade, special, sponge, spoon, spring, square, stamp, stage, star, start, statement, station, steam, stem, steel, step, stick, sticky, still, stitch, stocking, stomach, stone, stop, store, story, strange, street, stretch, stiff, straight, strong, structure, substance, such, sudden, sugar, suggestion, summer, sun, support, surprise, sweet, swim, system .

T
table, tail, take, talk, tall, taste, tax, teaching, tendency, test, than, that, the, then, theory, there, thick, thin, thing, this, though, thought, thread, throat, through, thumb, thunder, ticket, tight, till, time, tin, tired, to, toe, together, tomorrow, tongue, tooth, top, touch, town, trade, train, transport, tray, tree, trick, trouble, trousers, true, turn, twist.

U
umbrella, under, unit, up, use.

V
value, verse, very, vessel, view, violent, voice.

W
waiting, walk, wall, war, warm, wash, waste, watch, water, wave, wax, way, weather, week, weight, well, west, wet, wheel, when, where, while, whip, whistle, white, who, why, wide, will, wind, window, wine, wing, winter, wire, wise, with, woman, wood, wool, word, work, worm, wound, writing, wrong.

X, Y, Z
year, yellow, yes, yesterday, you, young.

1000 Basic English Words

1000 Basic English words include these 150 words to the original list of 850 words.

INTERNATIONAL WORDS (50):
alcohol, aluminum, automobile, bank, bar, beef, beer, calendar, check, chemist, chocolate, chorus, cigarette, club, coffee, colony, dance, engineer, gas, hotel, influenza, lava, madam, nickel, opera, orchestra, paraffin, park, passport, patent, phonograph, piano, police, post, program, propaganda, radio, restaurant, sir, sport, taxi, tea, telegram, telephone, terrace, theater, tobacco, university, whisky, zinc.

GENERAL UTILIIY (50)
ammonia, asbestos, autobus, ballet, cafe, catarrh, champagne, chauffeur, circus, citron, cocktail, cognac, dynamite, encyclopedia, glycerin, hyena, hygiene, hysteria, inferno, jazz, liqueur, macaroni, malaria, mania, nicotine, olive, omelet, opium, paradise, penguin, platinum, potash, pajamas, pyramid, quinine, radium, referendum, rheumatism, rum, salad, sardine, tapioca, toast, torpedo, vanilla, violin, visa, vodka, volt, zebra.

TIME and NUMBERS (50)
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, twenty, twenty-one, thirty, forty, fifty, hundred, thousand, million, once, twice, half, quarter, third, fourth, fifth.

1200 Basic English words

These 350 words may be added to the original 850 to reach 1200 word level.
absence, accident, address, adventure, advice, age, agent, ago, along, also, always, ambition, anchor, ankle, arrangements, ash, awkward, balcony, barrel, beard, beat, behind, belt, bet, blame, blanket, both, bottom, brave, breakfast, breast, bubble, bud, bunch, burial, busy, calculation, call, capital, carpet, case, ceremony, chair, character, child, chimney, china, choice, civilization, clay, clever, collection, column, communications, concept, concrete, convenient, cool, corner, cost, crop, cross, cunning, date, demand, department, dew, difficulty, dinner, disgrace, dislike, ditch, dive, divorce, doll, dreadful, dream, dull, duty, each, easy, economy, effort, either, employer, empty, enemy, envelope, envy, evening, exact, excitement, exercise, explanation, explosion, expression, eyebrow, eyelash, failure, fair, famous, fan, fastening, fever, figure, financial, flash, flesh, flood, flour, forecast, forehead, foreign, forgiveness, fresh, frost, frozen, funny, fur, furniture, gate, generation, germ, god, grand, grateful, grease, grief, grocery, ground, guard, guess, gum, habit, handkerchief, handle, heavy, hedge, hill, holiday, home, honest, honey, human, hunt, hurry, hurt, husband, imagination, innocent, institution, intelligent, invitation, jam, jaw, jealous, jerk, joint, jug, juice, jury, justice, kennel, kidney, kitchen, knock, lace, lame, lamp, large, lawyer, lazy, lecture, legal, lesson, lever, license, lid, life, lime, liver, load, local, loop, luck, lump, lunch, lung, magic, manner, many, marble, marriage, mast, mattress, mean, meaning, medicine, member, mess, message, mill, mineral, model, modern, modest, mood, moral, moustache, mud, murder, nasty, nature, navy, neat, neglect, neighbor, nest, next, nice, nostril, nurse, obedient, officer, orchestra, organ, origin, oval, own, pad, pair, pan, paragraph, party, passage, patience, pedal, people, perfect, plaster, poetry, pool, practice, praise, prayer, prick, priest, progress, promise, proof, proud, pupil, pure, race, real, reference, remark, remedy, repair, result, revenge, rich, rise, rival, rude, rust, sale, satisfaction, saucer, scratch, screen, search, selfish, sentence, set, shave, sheet, shell, shoulder, show, sight, since, sleeve, social, soldier, sorry, spark, spirit, spit, splash, spot, stable, stair, steady, storm, strain, straw, stream, string, study, subject, success, sum, supply, surface, surgeon, suspicious, swing, sympathetic, tailor, tame, tap, tear, tent, thief, thimble, threat, tie, too, towel, tower, traffic, tragedy, trap, travel, treatment, truck, tube, tune, tunnel, twin, typist, ugly, understanding, universe, valley, vegetable, victim, victory, vote, weak, welcome, whether, widow, wife, wild, world, wreck, wrist, yawn.

1500 Basic English words

These words may be added to reach 1500 word level.
A
absence, absorption, acceleration, acceptance, accessory, accident, active, address, adjacent, adventure, advice, age, agent, agency, ago, allowance, along, also, alternative, always, ambition, amplitude, anchor, ankle, appendage, application, approximation, arbitration, arbitrary, arc, area, arrangement, ash, asset, assistant, average, awkward, axis.

B
balcony, bale, bankrupt, bark, barrel, beak, beaker, beard, beat, behind, belt, bet, bill, birefringence, blame, blanket, both, bottom, brave, break, breakfast, breast, broker, bubble, bud, budget, buoyancy, bunch, burial, busy.

C
calculation, call, capacity, capital, carpet, cartilage, case, cast, cave, cavity, cell, ceremony, certificate, chair, character, charge, child, chimney, china, choice, circulation, circuit, circumference, civilization, clay, claim, claw, cleavage, clever, client, climber, clip, code, coil, collision, collection, column, combination, combine, communications, complaint, component, compound, concept, concrete, conductor, congruent, conservation, consignment, constant, consumer, continuous, contour, convenient, conversion, cool, corner, correlation, corrosion, cost, court, creeper, crop, cross, cunning, cusp, customs.

D
damping, date, debit, deck, decrease, defect, deficiency, deflation, degenerate, delivery, demand, denominator, department, desert, density, deposit, determining, dew, diameter, difference, difficulty, drift, dike, dilution, dinner, dip, direct, disappearance, discharge, discount, disgrace, dislike, dissipation, disturbance, ditch, dive, divisor, divorce, doll, domesticating, dreadful, dream, duct, dull, duty.

E
each, easy, economy, efficiency, effort, either, elimination, employer, empty, enemy, envelope, environment, envy, equation, erosion, eruption, evaporation, evening, exact, excitement, experiment, exercise, explanation, explosion, export, expression, extinction, eyebrow, eyelash.

F
factor, failure, fair, famous, fan, fastening, fatigue, fault, ferment, fertilizing, fever, fiber, figure, fin, financial, flash, flask, flesh, flood, flour, focus, forecast, forehead, foreign, forgiveness, fraction, fracture, fresh, friction, flint, flood, flow, foliation, frost, frozen, fume, funnel, funny, fur, furnace, furniture, fusion.

G
gate, generation, germ, germinating, gill, glacier, gland, god, grand, grateful, grating, gravel, grease, grief, grocery, groove, gross, ground, guard, guarantee, guess, gum.

H
habit, handkerchief, handle, heavy, hedge, hill, hinge, hire, hold, holiday, home, honest, honey, hoof, host, human, hunt, hurry, hurt, husband.

I
igneous, image, imagination, import, impurity, inclusion, index, individual, inflation, infinity, inheritance, innocent, institution, insulator, integer, intelligent, intercept, interpretation, intersection, intrusion, investigation, investment, inverse, invitation.

J
jam, jaw, jealous, jerk, joint, jug, juice, jury, justice.

K
kennel, kidney, kitchen, knock.

L
lace, lag, lake, lamb, lamp, large, latitude, lawyer, layer, lazy, lecture, legal, length, lens, lesson, lever, liability, license, lid, life, lime, limestone, link, liver, load, local, load, loan, locus, loop, longitude, luck, lump, lunch, lung.

M
magic, magnitude, manner, many, marble, margin, marriage, mast, mattress, mature mean, meaning, medicine, medium, melt, member, mess, message, metabolism, mill, mineral, mixture, model, modern, modest, momentum, monopoly, mood, moral, moustache, mud, multiple, multiplication, murder.

N
nasty, nature, navy, neat, neglect, neighbor, nest, next, nice, node, nostril, nucleus, numerator, nurse.

O
obedient, oblique, officer, orchestra, ore, organ, origin, outcrop, outlier, overlap, oval, own, oxidation.

P
packing, pad, pair, pan, paragraph, parent, particle, partner, party, passage, path, patience, pedal, pendulum, pension, people, perfect, petal, piston, plain, plan, plaster, plug, poetry, pollen, pool, population, porcelain, practice, praise, prayer, pressure, prick, priest, prime, probability, product, progress, projectile, projection, promise, proof, proud, pulley, pupil, purchase, pure.

Q
quantity, quotient.

R
race, radiation, ratio, reagent, real, receiver, reciprocal, rectangle, recurring, reference, reflux, reinforcement, relative, remark, remedy, rent, repair, reproduction, repulsion, resistance, residue, resolution, result, retail, revenge, reversible, rich, rigidity, rise, rival, rock, rot, rotation, rude, rust.

S
sac, sale, sample, satisfaction, saturated, saucer, saving, scale, scarp, schist, scratch, screen, seal, search, security, secretion, section, sedimentary, selfish, sensitivity, sentence, sepal, service, set, shadow, shale, share, shave, shear, sheet, shell, shore, shoulder, show, sight, sill, similarity, since, skull, slate, sleeve, slide, social, soil, soldier, solution, solvent, sorry, spark, specialization, specimen, speculation, spirit, spit, splash, spot, stable, stain, stair, stalk, stamen, statistics, steady, stimulus, storm, strain, straw, stream, strength, stress, strike, string, study, subject, substitution, subtraction, success, successive, sucker, sum, supply, surface, surgeon, suspension, suspicious, swelling, swing, switch, sympathetic.

T
tailor, tame, tap, tear, tent, term, texture, thickness, thief, thimble, thorax, threat, thrust, tide, tie, tissue, tongs, too, total, towel, tower, traffic, tragedy, transmission, transparent, trap, travel, treatment, triangle, truck, tube, tune, tunnel, twin, typist.

U
ugly, unconformity, understanding, universe, unknown .

V
valency, valley, valve, vapor, variable, vascular, vegetable, velocity, vestigial, victim, victory, volume, vortex, vote.

W
weak, wedge, welcome, whether, wholesale, widow, wife, wild, world, wreck, wrist.

X, Y, Z
yawn.

Sixteen words overlap in the business area, which suggest they are particularly useful words :
asset, average, bill, broker, cost, guarantee, investment, liability, loan, partner, purchase, retail, sale, strike, supply, wholesale.

Other duplicates :
age, absorption, accident, address, arrangement, ash, barrel, bubble, bud, case, charge, clay, column, cross, demand, deposit, difficulty, effort, employer, exact, experiment, explanation, explosion, fan, fatigue, fresh, generation, ground, guard, habit, hill, interpenetration, jaw, joint, juice, kidney, license, liver, load, lung, mean, mud, origin, pair, proof, reference, screen, shell, show, sight, spark, stable, stimulus, strain, stream, surface, sum, trap, tube, twin, valley, wild.

Similarity : agent, agency ; arbitrary, arbitration ; combination, combine ;

The following 15 new words from a supplement for social science should probably be added : association, attitude, class, community, concentration, culture, decentralization, firm, heredity, incentive, integration, standardization, state, technology, wages

2000 Basic English words level: the threshold of standard English

Ogden considered the 2,000 word level the threshold of standard English. Here is a list of words that includes Ogden's 1500 words and Voice of America Special English list of 1500 words. This list approximates a minimum standard English from where a student can proceed on his own without difficulty.

A
Basic: a, able, about, account, acid, across, act, addition, adjustment, advertisement, agreement, after, again, against, air, all, almost, am, among, amount, amusement, an, and, angry, angle, animal, answer, ant, any, apparatus, apple, approval, arch, argument, arm, army, art, as, association, at, attack, attempt, attention, attitude, attraction, authority, automatic, awake.
International: alcohol, Algebra, aluminum, ammonia, anesthetic, April, Arithmetic, asbestos, August, autobus, automobile.
Next: absence, absorption, acceleration, acceptance, accessory, accident, active, address, adjacent, adventure, advice, age, agent, agency, ago, allowance, along, also, alternative, always, ambition, amplitude, anchor, ankle, appendage, application, approximation, arbitration, arbitrary, arc, area, arrangement, ash, asset, assistant, average, awkward, axis.
Compound: aftereffect, afftertaste, afterthought, aircushion, airman, airmen, airplane, airtight, another, anybody, anyhow, anyone, anything, anywhere, away.
Endings: actor, acting.

B
Basic: baby, back, bad, bag, balance, ball, band, base, basin, basket, bath, be, beautiful, because, bed, bee, been, before, behavior, belief, bell, bent, berry, best, better, between, bird, birth, bit, bite, bitter, black, blade, blood, blow, blue, board, boat, body, bone, book, boot, boiling, bottle, box, boy, brain, brake, branch, brass, bread, breath, brick, bridge, bright, broken, brother, brown, brush, bucket, building, bulb, button, burn, burst, business, but, butter, by.
International: ballet, Bang, bank, bar, beef, beer, Biology, bomb.
Next: balcony, bale, bankrupt, bark, barrel, beak, beaker, beard, beat, behind, belt, bet, bill, birefringence, blame, blanket, both, bottom, brave, break, breakfast, breast, broker, bubble, bud, budget, buoyancy, bunch, burial, busy.
Compound: backbone, backwoods, become, became, bedroom, beeswax, birthday, birthright, blackberry, blackbird, blackboard, bloodvessel, bluebell, bookkeeper, brushwood, buttercup.
Endings: basing, based, builder, burner, burned, burning.

C
Basic: cake, camera, canvas, card, care, carriage, cart, cat, cause, certain, chain, chalk, chance, change, cheap, cheese, chemical, chest, chief, chin, church, circle, class, clean, clear, clock, cloth, cloud, coal, coat, cold, collar, color, comb, come, comfort, committee, community, common, company, comparison, competition, complete, complex, computer, condition, connection, conscious, control, cook, copper, copy, cord, cork, cotton, cough, country, cover, cow, crack, credit, crime, cruel, crush, cry, culture, cup, custom, current, curtain, curve, cushion, cut.
International: cafe, calendar, catarrh, cent, centi-, champagne, chauffeur, chemist, Chemistry, check, chocolate, chorus, cigarette, circus, citron, club, coffee, cocktail, cognac, College, colony.
Next: calculation, call, came, capacity, capital, carpet, cartilage, case, cast, cave, cavity, cell, ceremony, certificate, chair, character, charge, child, chimney, china, choice, circulation, circuit, circumference, civilization, clay, claim, claw, cleavage, clever, client, climber, clip, code, coil, collision, collection, column, combination, combine, communications, complaint, component, compound, concept, concrete, conductor, congruent, conservation, consignment, constant, consumer, continuous, contour, convenient, conversion, cool, corner, correlation, corrosion, cost, court, creeper, crop, cross, cunning, cusp, customs.
Compound: cardboard, carefree, caretaker, clockwork, commonsense, copyright, cupboard.
Endings: carter, clothier, clothing, cooker, cooked, cooking, crying.

D
Basic: damage, danger, dark, daughter, day, dead, dear, death, debt, decision, deep, degree, delicate, dependent, design, desire, destruction, detail, development, did, different, digestion, direction, dirty, discovery, discussion, disease, disgust, distance, distribution, division, do, does, dog, done, door, down, doubt, drain, drawer, dress, drink, driving, drop, dry, dust.
International: dance, December, deci-, degree, dollar, Dominion, dynamite.
Next: damping, date, debit, deck, decrease, defect, deficiency, deflation, degenerate, delivery, demand, denominator, department, desert, density, deposit, determining, dew, diameter, difference, difficulty, drift, dike, dilution, dinner, dip, direct, disappearance, discharge, discount, disgrace, dislike, dissipation, disturbance, ditch, dive, divisor, divorce, doll, domesticating, dreadful, dream, duct, dull, duty.
Compound: daylight, downfall.
Endings: daily, dancer, dancing (to), designer, dressing (up), driver, dropped, dropper, duster.

E
Basic: ear, early, earth, east, edge, education, effect, egg, elastic, electric, end, engine, enough, environment, equal, error, even, event, ever, every, example, exchange, existence, expansion, experience, expert, eye.
International: eight, electricity, eleven, Embassy, Empire, encyclopedia, engineer, euro.
Next: each, easy, economy, efficiency, effort, either, elimination, employer, employment, empty, enemy, envelope, environment, envy, equation, erosion, eruption, evaporation, evening, exact, excitement, experiment, exercise, explanation, explosion, export, expression, extinction, eyebrow, eyelash.
Compound: ear-ring, earthwork, evergreen, everybody, everyday, everyone, everything, everywhere, eyeball.

F
Basic: face, fact, fall, false, family, far, farm, farther, fat, father, fear, feather, feeble, feeling, female, fertile, fiction, field, fight, finger, fire, first, fish, fixed, flag, flame, flat, flight, floor, flower, fly, fold, food, foolish, foot, for, force, fork, form, forward, fowl, frame, free, frequent, friend, from, front, fruit, full, further, future.
International: February, fifteen, fifth, fifty, five, four, fourteen, fourth, forty, Friday.
Next: factor, failure, fair, famous, fan, fastening, fault, ferment, fertilizing, fever, fiber, figure, fin, financial, flash, flask, flesh, flood, flour, focus, forecast, forehead, foreign, forgiveness, fraction, fracture, fresh, friction, flint, flood, flow, foliation, frost, frozen, fume, funnel, funny, fur, furnace, furniture, fusion.
Compound: fatherland, fingerprint, firearm, fire-engine, firefly, fireman, fireplace, firework, first-rate, football, footlights, footman, footnote, footprint, footstep.
Endings: farmer, fisher(man), folder, fired, firing.

G
Basic: gave, garden, general, get, girl, give, glass, glove, go, goat, goes, gold, gone, good, got, gat, government, grain, grass, great, green, grey/gray, grip, group, growth, guide, gun.
International: gas, Geography, Geology, Geometry, gram, glycerin.
Next: gate, generation, germ, germinating, gill, glacier, gland, god, grand, grateful, grating, gravel, grease, grief, grocery, groove, gross, ground, guard, guarantee, guess, gum.
Compound: gasworks, goldfish, goodlooking, good-morning, goodnight, gunboat, gun-carriage, gunmetal, gunpowder.
Endings: gardener.

H
Basic: had, hair, hammer, hand, hanging, happy, harbor, hard, harmony, has, hat, hate, hath, have, he, head, healthy, hearing, heart, heat, helicopter, help, her, here, heredity, high, him, history, hole, hollow, hook, hope, horn, horse, hospital, hour, house, how, humor.
International: half, hiss, hotel, hundred, hyena, hygiene, hysteria.
Next: habit, handkerchief, handle, heavy, hedge, hill, hinge, hire, hold, holiday, home, honest, honey, hoof, host, human, hunt, hurry, hurt, husband.
Compound: handbook, handwriting, headdress, headland, headstone, headway, hereafter, herewith, highlands, highway, himself, horseplay, horsepower, hourglass, houseboat, housekeeper, however.
Endings: hanger, heater, heated, heating.

I
Basic: I, ice, idea, if, ill, important, impulse, in, increase, industry, ink, insect, instrument, insurance, interest, invention, iron, is, island, it, its.
International: Imperial, inch, inferno, influenza, international.
Next: igneous, image, imagination, import, impurity, incentive, inclusion, index, individual, inflation, infinity, inheritance, innocent, institution, insulator, integer, integration, intelligent, intercept, internet, interpretation, intersection, intrusion, investigation, investment, inverse, invitation.
Compound: inasmuch, income, indoors, inland, inlet, input, inside, instep, into, itself.
Endings: inner

J
Basic: jelly, jewel, join, journey, judge, jump.
International: January, jazz, July, June.
Next: jam, jaw, jealous, jerk, joint, jug, juice, jury, justice.
Endings: jeweler, joiner.

K
Basic: keep, kept, kettle, key, kick, kind, kiss, knee, knife, knot, knowledge.
International: kilo-, King.
Next: kennel, kidney, kitchen, knock
Endings: keeper.

L
Basic: land, language, last, late, laugh, law, lead, leaf, learning, least, leather, leg, left, less, let, letter, level, library, lift, light, like, limit, line, linen, lip, liquid, list, little, living, lock, long, loose, loss, loud, love, low.
International: latitude, lava, liter, liqueur, longitude.
Next: lace, lag, lake, lame, lamp, large, latitude, lawyer, layer, lazy, lecture, legal, length, lens, lesson, lever, lever, liability, license, lid, life, lime, limestone, link, liver, load, local, load, loan, locus, look, longitude, luck, lump, lunch, lung.
Compound: landmark, landslip, lighthouse, looking-glass.
Endings: laughing (at), learner,likely, locker, locking (up).

M
Basic: machine, made, man, manager, make, male, map, mark, market, married, match, material, mass, may, me, meal, measure, meat, medical, meeting, memory, metal, middle, might, military, milk, mind, mine, minute, mist, mixed, money, monkey, month, moon, more, morning, most, mother, motion, mountain, mouth, move, much, muscle, music, my,.
International: macaroni, madam, magnetic, malaria, mania, March, Mathematics, May, meter, meow, micro-, microscope, mile, milli-, million, minute, Monday, Museum.
Next: magic, magnitude, manner, many, marble, margin, marriage, mast, mattress, mature, mean, meaning, medicine, medium, melt, member, mess, message, metabolism, mill, mineral, mixture, model, modern, modest, momentum, monopoly, mood, moral, moustache, mud, multiple, multiplication, murder.
Compound: manhole, maybe, myself.
Endings: marked, miner.

N
Basic: nail, name, narrow, nation, natural, near, necessary, neck, need, needle, nerve, net, never, new, news, night, no, noise, normal, north, nose, not, note, now, number, nut.
International: neutron, nickel, nicotine, nine, November.
Next: nasty, nature, navy, neat, neglect, neighbor, nest, next, nice, node, nostril, nuclear, nucleus, numerator, nurse.
Compound: network, newspaper, nobody, nothing, nowhere.
Endings: nearer, noted.

O
Basic: observation, of, off, offer, office, oil, old, on, one,only, open, operation, opinion, opposite, or, orange, order, organization, ornament, other, our, out, oven, over, owner.
International: October, olive, once, omelet, one, opera, opium, orchestra, organism.
Next: obedient, officer, orchestra, ore, organ, origin, outcrop, outlier, overlap, oval, own, oxidation.
Compound: offspring, oncoming, oneself, onlooker, onto, outburst, outcome, outcry, outdoor, outgoing, outhouse, outlaw, outlet, outline, outlook, output, outside, outskirts, outstretched, overacting, overall overbalancing, overbearing, overcoat, overcome, overdo, overdressed, overfull, overhanging, overhead, overland, overleaf, overloud, overseas, overseer, overshoe, overstatement, overtake, overtaxed, overtime overturned, overuse, overvalued, overweight, overworking.
Endings: outer

P
Basic: page, pain, paint, paper, parallel, parcel, part, past, paste, payment, peace, pen, pencil, person, physical, picture, pig, pin, pipe, place, plane, plant, plate, play, please, pleasure, plough/plow, pocket, point, poison, polish, political, poor, porter, position, possible, pot, potato, powder, power, present, price, print, prison, private, probable, process, produce, profit, property, prose, protest, public, pull, pump, punishment, purpose, push, put.
International: pajamas, paraffin, paradise, park, passport, patent, pence, penny, penguin, petroleum, phonograph, Physics, Physiology, piano, platinum, police, post, potash, pound, President, Prince, Princess, program, propaganda, Psychology, Purr, pyramid.
Next: packing, pad, pair, pan, paragraph, parent, particle, partner, party, passage, path, patience, pedal, pendulum, pension, people, perfect, petal, piston, plain, plan, plaster, plug, poetry, pollen, pool, population, porcelain, practice, praise, prayer, pressure, prick, priest, prime, probability, product, progress, projectile, projection, promise, proof, proud, pulley, pupil, purchase, pure.
Compound: pincushion, plaything, policeman, postman, postmark, postmaster, postoffice.
Endings: painter, painting, parting, playing, played, pleased (with), pointer, pointing (at), potter, printer, prisoner, producer,

Q
Basic: quality, question, quick, quiet, quite.
International: Quack, quarter, Queen, quinine.
Next: quantity, quotient.

R
Basic: rail, rain, range, rat, rate, ray, reaction, red, reading, ready, reason, receipt, record, regret, regular, relation, religion, representative, request, respect, responsible, rest, reward, rhythm, rice, right, ring, river, road, rod, roll, roof, room, root, rough, round, rub, rule, run.
International: radio, radium, referendum, restaurant, rheumatism, Royal, rum.
Next: race, radiation, ratio, reagent, real, receiver, reciprocal, rectangle, recurring, reference, reflux, reinforcement, relative, remark, remedy, rent, repair, reproduction, repulsion, resistance, residue, resolution, result, retail, revenge, reversible, rich, rigidity, rise, rival, rock, rot, rotation, rude, rust.
Compound: reasonable, runaway.
Endings: raining, reader, reading, roller, ruler, rubber

S
Basic: sad, said, safe, sail, salt, same, sand, saw, say, scale, school, science, scissors, screw, sea, seat, second, secret, secretary, see, seed, seen. seem, selection, self, send, sense, sent, separate, serious, servant, sex, shade, shake, shame, sharp, she, sheep, shelf, ship, shirt, shock, shoe, short, shut, side, sign, silk, silver, simple, sister, size, skin, skirt, sky, sleep, slip, slope, slow, small, smash, smell, smile, smoke, smooth, snake, sneeze, snow, so, soap, society, sock, soft, solid, some, son, song, sort, sound, soup, south, space, spade, special, sponge, spoon, spring, square, stage, standard, stamp, star, start, statement, station, steam, steel, stem, step, stick, sticky, stiff, still, stitch, stocking, stomach, stone, stop, store, story, straight, strange, street, strong, structure, substance, such, sudden, sugar, suggestion, summer, sun, support, surprise, sweet, swim, system.
International: salad, sardine, Saturday, second, September, serum, seven, sir, six, sixteen, sport, Sunday.
Next: sac, sale, sample, satisfaction, saturated, saucer, saving, scale, scarp, schist, scratch, screen, seal, search, security, secretion, section, sedimentary, selfish, sensitivity, sentence, sepal, service, set, shadow, shale, share, shave, shear, sheet, shell, shore, shoulder, show, sight, sill, similarity, since, skull, slate, sleeve, slide, social, soil, soldier, solution, solvent, sorry, spark, specialization, specimen, speculation, spirit, spit, splash, spot, stable, stain, stair, stalk, stamen, statistics, steady, stimulus, storm, strain, straw, stream, strength, stress, strike, string, study, subject, substitution, subtraction, success, successive, sucker, sum, supply, surface, surgeon, suspension, suspicious, swelling, swing, switch, sympathetic.
Compound: seaman, secondhand, shorthand, sideboard, sidewalk, somebody, someday, somehow, someone, something, sometime, somewhat, somewhere, suchlike, sunburn, sunlight, sunshade, sweetheart.
Endings: sailor, shocking, shocked, snowing, steamer, stopper, stopping (up), stretcher,.

T
Basic: table, tail, take, talk, tall, taste, tax, teaching, technology, tendency, test, than, that, the, their, them, then, theory, there, these, they, thick, thin, thing, this, those, though, thought, thread, throat, through, thumb, thunder, ticket, tight, tired, till, time, tin, to, toe, together, tomorrow, tongue, took, tooth, top, touch, town, trade, train, transport, tray, tree, trick, trousers, true, trouble, turn, twist.
International: tapioca, taxi, tea, telegram, telephone, television, ten, terrace, theater, thermometer, third, thirteen, thirty, thousand, three, Thursday, toast, tobacco, torpedo, Tuesday, turbine, twenty-one, twelve, twenty, twice, two.
Next: tailor, tame, tap, tear, tent, term, texture, thickness, thief, thimble, thorax, threat, thrust, tide, tie, tissue, tongs, too, total, towel, tower, traffic, tragedy, transmission, transparent, trap, travel, treatment, triangle, truck, tube, tune, tunnel, twin, typist.
Compound: today, tonight, tradesman.
Endings: talking (of), teacher, touching (up), trader, trainer, training, troubling, troubled, turning (over).

U
Basic: umbrella, under, unit, up, us, use.
International: university.
Next: ugly, unconformity, understanding, universe, unknown.
Compound: underclothing, undercooked, undergo, undergrowth, undermined, undersigned, undersized, understatement, undertake, undervalued, undo, upkeep, uplift, upon, upright, uproot, uptake.
Endings: used (to).

V
Basic: value, verse, very, vessel, view, violent, voice.
International: vanilla, violin, visa, vitamin, vodka, volt.
Next: valency, valley, valve, vapor, variable, vascular, vegetable, velocity, vestigial, victim, victory, volume, vortex, vote.
Compound: viewpoint.

W
Basic: walk, wall, waiting, war, warm, was, wash, waste, watch, water, wave, wax, way, we, weather, week, weight, well, went, were, west, wet, what, wheel, when, where, which, while, whip, whistle, white, who, whom, whose, why, wide, will, wind, window, wine, wing, winter, wire, wise, with, woman, wood, wool, word, work, worm, would, wound, writing, wrong.
International: Wednesday, whisky.
Next: weak, wedge, welcome, whether, wholesale, widow, wife, wild, world, wreck, wrist.
Compound: waterfall, weekend, well-being, well-off, whatever, whenever, whereas, whereby, wherever, whichever, whitewash, whoever, windpipe, within, without, woodwork, workhouse.
Endings: waiter, worker, working (on, out, up), writer, waiting, wasted.

X, Y, Z
Basic: year, yellow, yes, yesterday, you, young, your, yours.
International: zebra, zinc, Zoology.
Next: yawn.
Compound: x-ray, yearbook, yourself, zookeeper

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