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English Vocabulary Words with Meaning and Sentence

Accomplish Achieve or complete successfully

Attain Succeed in achieving

Adapt - Make something suitable for a new use or purpose

Affordable - Reasonably priced

Accompany - go somewhere with someone as a companion

Analyse - examine methodically and in detail

Admire - regard an object quality or person with respect or warm approval

Associate - connect someone or something with something else in one’s mind

Artificial - made by human beings rather than occurring naturally

Apparently - as far as one knows or can see

Beside - at the side of; next to

Balance - an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady

Benefit - an advantage or profit gained from something

Boundary - a line that marks the limits of an area

Borrow - take and use something that belongs to someone else with the intention of returning it

Better - of a more excellent or effective type or quality

Babysitting - the care of a child or children while the parents are out

Backup - help or support

Backdrop - provide a background or setting for

Bucketlist - a number of experiences or achievements that a person hopes to have or accomplish during their lifetime

Charge - demand an amount as a price from someone for a service rendered or goods supplied

Categorise - place in a particular class or group

Calculate - determine the amount or number of something mathematically

Conclusion - the end or finish of an event or process

Contrast - the state of being strikingly different from something else in juxtaposition or close association

Collide - hit with force when moving

Confuse - cause someone to become bewildered or perplexed

Cordially - in a warm and friendly way

Chase - pursue in order to catch or catch up with

Cast - register

Conference - a formal meeting for discussion

Challenge - a call to take part in a contest or competition especially a duel

Dare - have the courage to do something

Delete - remove or obliterate

Defend - resist an attack made on someone or something

Detect - discover or identify the presence or existence of

Detach - leave or separate oneself from

Destroy - put an end to the existence of something by damaging or attacking it

Differentiate - recognize or ascertain what makes someone or something different

Discrimination - the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things especially on the grounds of race age or sex

Distinguish - recognize or treat someone or something as different

Efficient - achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense

Effective - successful in producing a desired or intended result

Enormous - very large in size quantity or extent

Evidence - the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid

Eliminate - completely remove or get rid of something

Engagement - an arrangement to do something or go somewhere at a fixed time

Elementary - relating to the basic elements of a subject

Enigmatic - difficult to interpret or understand

Friction - conflict or animosity caused by a clash of wills temperaments or opinions

Fraction - a small or tiny part of something

Function - an activity or purpose natural to or intended for a person or thing

Fund - a sum of money saved or made available for a particular purpose

Frequent - happening often

Fable - a short story typically with animals as characters conveying a moral

Fabulous - extraordinary

Fantastic - extraordinarily good or attractive

Foreign - belonging to a country other than one’s own

General - affecting or concerning all or most people places or things

Generous - showing kindness toward others

Gratitude - the quality of being thankful

Grateful - feeling or showing an appreciation of kindness

Genetic - relating to genes or heredity

Gigantic - of very great size

Gaze - look steadily and intently

Game - a competitive form of play played according to rules and decided by skill strength or luck

Gorgeous - very attractive

Genre - a style or category of art music or literature

Hurry - move or act with great speed

Holy - dedicated to God or a religious purpose

Hallucination - an experience involving the apparent perception of something not present

Heavenly - of heaven divine

Harmony - the quality of forming a pleasing and consistent whole

Hilarious - extremely amusing

Heartfelt - sincere

Harvest - the product or result of an action

Humanitarian - concerned with or seeking to promote human welfare

Highlight - an outstanding part of an event or period of time

Illuminate - make something visible or bright by shining light on it

Illustrate - provide with pictures

Imagination - the action of forming new ideas or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses

Inferior - lower in rank status or quality

Impactful - having a major effect

Interior - relating to the inside

Improper - not in accordance with accepted rules or standards

Impossible - not able to occur exist or be done

Invisible - unable to be seen

Incentive - a thing that motivates or encourages one to do something

Iconic - relating to or of the nature of an icon

Jolly - happy and cheerful

Justice - just behaviour or treatment

Judicial - relating to or done by a court or judge

Judgement - the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions

Junior - denoting young or younger people

Knowledge - the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject

Kind - having or showing a friendly generous and considerate nature

Keen - having or showing eagerness or enthusiasm

Keep - have or retain possession of

Lavish - spending or using things that are more than necessary

Luxurious - extremely comfortable elegant or enjoyable especially in a way that involves great expense

Long-lasting - enduring or having endured for a long period of time

Lovable - inspiring or deserving love or affection

Late - doing something or taking place after the expected proper or usual time

Linguistic - relating to language

Legend - an extremely famous or notorious person especially in a particular field

Loot - goods especially private property taken from an enemy in war

Loud - producing or capable of producing much noise

Luminous - giving off light

Levitate - rise or cause to rise and hover in the air especially by means of supernatural or magical power

Leave - go away from

Marginal - relating to or situated at the edge of something

Majestic - having or showing impressive beauty

Magnetic - the ability to attract substances possessing a magnetic quality (eg: iron)

Masculine - having qualities or appearance traditionally associated with men

Maternal - relating to a mother

Minimal - of a minimum amount quantity or degree

Manufacturing - producing something on a large scale using machinery

Materialistic - excessively concerned with material possessions

Neighbour - a person living near or next door

Native - associated with the place or circumstances of a person’s birth

Narration - the action or process of narrating a story

Normal - the usual or typical state or condition

National - relating to a nation

Optimistic - hopeful and confident about the future

Optional - available to be chosen but not obligatory

Objective - something that is planned aimed at or sought

Ordinary - Without any special or distinctive features

Opportunity - a set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something

Practical - concerned with the actual doing or use of something rather than with theory and ideas

Publish - prepare and issue for public sale distribution or readership

Permit - give authorization or consent to someone to do something

Ultimately - in the end

Victory - an act of defeating an enemy or opponent in a battle

Idiom & Colloquial Expression

Kick the bucket: To die or pass away.
Hit the hay: To go to bed or go to sleep.

Break the ice: To initiate a conversation in a social setting.

Bite the bullet: To endure a painful or difficult situation with courage.

Burn the midnight oil: To work late into the night or early morning hours.

Cry over spilled milk: To be upset about something that has already happened and cannot be changed.

Piece of cake: Something very easy to do.

Cost an arm and a leg: To be very expensive.

Jump on the bandwagon: To adopt a popular activity or trend.

The ball is in your court: It's now your responsibility to take action or make a decision.

Hit the nail on the head: To describe exactly what is causing a situation or problem.

Bite off more than you can chew: To take on a task that is way too big or beyond one's capabilities.

Burn bridges: To damage relationships or cut off ties with people.

A piece of the pie: A share in something, especially profits.

Break a leg: A way to wish someone good luck, especially before a performance or event.

Cut to the chase: To get to the main point without wasting time.

Keep an eye on the ball: To stay focused on a particular task or goal.

Hit the jackpot: To achieve a great success or make a significant discovery.

Let the cat out of the bag: To reveal a secret.

All ears: To be fully focused and eager to hear about something.

Burn the candle at both ends: To work excessively hard or stay up very late working.

Throw in the towel: To give up or surrender.

Cost a pretty penny: To be very expensive.

Raining cats and dogs: A heavy rainstorm.

Under the weather: Feeling sick or unwell.

Cry over spilled milk: To be upset about something that has already happened and cannot be changed.

Hit the ground running: To start a new activity with great energy and enthusiasm.

A dime a dozen: Something common and easy to find.

Back to the drawing board: To start over after a failure or setback.

Break a leg: A way of wishing someone good luck, especially in a performance or endeavor.

Hang out: Spend time with someone casually.
Hit the road: Leave or start a journey.
Cool beans: Something excellent or great.
Chill out: Relax or calm down.
Bite the bullet: Endure a painful situation with courage.
Piece of cake: Something very easy to do.
Take the plunge: Make a significant decision or commitment.
Give it a shot: Try something.
Cut to the chase: Get to the main point without wasting time.
Buckle up: Get ready or prepare for something.
Throw in the towel: Give up or surrender.
Couch potato: A lazy person who spends a lot of time sitting and watching TV.
Hit the hay: Go to bed or go to sleep.
Spill the beans: Reveal a secret or disclose information.
Bite off more than you can chew: Take on a task that is too big or beyond your capabilities.
Go the extra mile: Put in additional effort or work beyond what is required.
Kick the bucket: Pass away or die.
Get the ball rolling: Start a process or activity.
Up in the air: Uncertain or undecided.
Hustle and bustle: Busy and noisy activity.

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