English basic vocabular 1
Standard english vocabular for beginners and lower intermediate
Standard english vocabular for beginners and lower intermediate
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frightening off - (The dogs are very good at frightening off any unwelcome visitors.)
frying pan - (We never eat fried food, so we don't have a frying pan in our house.)
gale - (Many trees were blown down in the gale.)
gated community - (My aunt in America lives in a gated community and feels very safe.)
get to - (I'm under a lot of pressure at work, and sometimes it gets to me a bit.)
give up - (My father has given up smoking and eats chocolate all day.)
hang up - (You can hang up your coat in the hallway.)
house proud - (Nina is very house proud so she cleans and dusts her flat all the time.)
household - (I keep washing powder and other household products in the cupboard under the sink.)
interfere - (This has nothing to do with her – she's just interfering as usual!)
let in - (The thin curtains let in the light.)
linen - (The hotel changes the bed linen every day.)
magical - (I’ll never forget that magical evening we spent together.)
mansion - (The mansion is set in 5 acres of beautiful countryside.)
master bedroom - (The master bedroom is the biggest one, of course.)
microwave - (I'll heat it up in the microwave.)
moonlit - (Tom walked out at midnight into a moonlit garden.)
nursery - (They've turned the smallest bedroom into a nursery for the baby.)
obsessed - (As a football fan, I'm surrounded by people who are as obsessed as I am about the game!)
overcome - (He was finally able to overcome his shyness.)
overlooking - (At the hotel we had a room overlooking the pool.)
parkland - (The hotel is set in ten acres of parkland.)
pillow - (I'll be asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow.)
policy - (It's their policy to give work to older people.)
property - (The sign in the hotel said, 'We are not responsible for any loss or damage to guests' personal property'.)
range - (My gran used to cook everything over an old-fashioned kitchen range.)
resident - (Some of the residents decided to set up a Neighbourhood Watch scheme.)
rug - (The dog's asleep on the rug in front of the fire.)
semi-detached - (We live in a semi-detached house, and the people next door make a lot of noise.)
sink - (Dirty plates were piled high in the sink.)
sit - (The suitcases are sitting in the bedroom.)
society - (I was reading an article about technology and its effects on modern society.)
stool - (The little girl was sitting on a three-legged stool.)
swap - (The boys were swapping football cards.)
terraced house - (It was a street of terraced houses, but each house was a different colour!)
thrilled - (We were so thrilled to hear about Rachael's new baby.)
traffic - (The traffic noise kept me awake.)
turn up - (Turn the oven up to 220.)
wind-up - (We found an ancient wind-up gramophone in the loft.)
yurt - (We went on a yurt holiday in France – much more luxurious than camping!)