A-1
a (an), able, about, above, accept, accident, accuse, across, act, activist, actor, add, administration, admit, adult, advise, affect, afraid, after, againA-2
against, age, agency, aggression, ago, agree, agriculture, aid, aim, air, air force, airplane, airport, album, alcohol, alive, all, ally, almost, aloneA-3
along, already, also, although, always, ambassador, amend, ammunition, among, amount, anarchy, ancestor, ancient, and, anger, animal, anniversary, announce, another, answerA-4
any, apologize, appeal, appear, appoint, approve, archeology, area, argue, arms, army, around, arrest, arrive, art, artillery, as, ash, ask, assistA-5
astronaut, astronomy, asylum, at, atmosphere, attach, attack, attempt, attend, automobile, autumn, average, avoid, awake, award, away[Top]
B-1
baby, back, bad, balance, ball, balloon, ballot, ban, bank, bar, barrier, base, battle, be, beat, beauty, because, become, bed, beforeB-2
begin, behind, believe, bell, belong, below, best, betray, better, between, big, bill, biology, bird, bite, black, blame, blanket, bleed, blindB-3
block, blood, blow, blue, boat, body, boil, bomb, bone, book, border, born, borrow, both, bottle, bottom, box, boy, boycott, brainB-4
brave, bread, break, breathe, bridge, brief, bright, bring, broadcast, brother, brown, budget, build, building, bullet, burn, burst, bury, bus, business, busy, but, buy, by[Top]
C-1
cabinet, call, calm, camera, camp, campaign, can, cancel, cancer, candidate, capital, capitalism, capture, car, care, careful, carry, case (court), case (medical), catC-2
catch, cause, ceasefire, celebrate, center, century, ceremony, chairman, champion, chance, change, charge, chase, cheat, cheer, chemicals, chemistry, chief, child, childrenC-3
choose, circle, citizen, city, civilian, civil rights, claim, clash, clean, clear, clergy, climate, climb, clock, close, cloth, clothes, cloud, coal, coalitionC-4
coast, coffee, cold, collect, college, colony, color, combine, come, command, comment, committee, common, communicate, community, company, compare, compete, complete, complexC-5
compromise, computer, concern, condemn, condition, conference, confirm, conflict, congratulate, Congress, connect, conservative, consider, constitution, contain, container, continent, continue, control, conventionC-6
cook, cool, cooperate, copy, corn, correct, cost, cotton, count, country, court, cover, cow, crash, create, creature, credit, crew, crime, criminalC-7
crisis, criticize, crops, cross, crowd, crush, cry, culture, cure, curfew, current, custom, customs, cut[Top]
D-1
dam, damage, dance, danger, dark, date, daughter, day, dead, deaf, deal, debate, debt, decide, declare, decrease, deep, defeat, defend, deficitD-2
define, degree, delay, delegate, demand, democracy, demonstrate, denounce, deny, depend, deplore, deploy, depression, describe, desert, design, desire, destroy, detail, developD-3
device, dictator, die, diet, different, difficult, dig, dinner, diplomat, direct, direction, dirt, disappear, disarm, discover, discuss, disease, dismiss, dispute, dissidentD-4
distance, dive, divide, do, doctor, document, dog, dollar, door, down, dream, drink, drive, drop, drown, drug, dry, during, dust, duty[Top]
E-1
each, early, earn, earth, earthquake, ease, east, easy, eat, ecology, economy, edge, education, effect, effort, egg, either, elect, electricity, embassyE-2
emergency, emotion, employ, empty, end, enemy, energy, enforce, engine, engineer, enjoy, enough, enter, environment, equal, equipment, escape, especially, establish, estimateE-3
ethnic, evaporate, even, event, ever, every, evidence, evil, exact, examine, example, excellent, except, exchange, excuse, execute, exercise, exile, exist, expandE-4
expect, expel, experience, experiment, expert, explain, explode, explore, export, express, extend, extra, extreme, extremist[Top]
F-1
face, fact, factory, fail, fair, fall, false, family, famous, far, farm, fast, fat, father, fear, federal, feed, feel, female, fenceF-2
fertile, few, field, fierce, fight, fill, film, final, financial, find, fine, finish, fire, fireworks, firm, first, fish, fit, fix, flagF-3
flat, flee, float, flood, floor, floor, flower, fluid, fly, fog, follow, food, fool, foot, for, force, foreign, forest, forget, forgiveF-4
form, former, forward, free, freedom, freeze, fresh, friend, frighten, from, front, fruit, fuel, full, fun, funeral, future[Top]
G-1
gain, game, gas, gather, general, gentle, get, gift, girl, give, glass, go, goal, god, gold, good, goods, govern, government, grainG-2
granddaughter, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, grass, gray, great, green, grind, ground, group, grow, guarantee, guard, guerrilla, guide, guilty, gun[Top]
H-1
hair, half, halt, hang, happen, happy, hard, harm, harvest, hat, hate, have, he, head, headquarters, heal, health, hear, heat, heavyH-2
helicopter, help, here, hero, hide, high, hijack, hill, history, hit, hold, hole, holiday, holy, home, honest, honor, hope, horrible, horseH-3
hospital, hostage, hostile, hot, hotel, hour, house, how, however, huge, human, humor, hunger, hunt, hurry, hurt, husband[Top]
I-1
I, ice, idea, identify, if, illegal, imagine, immediate, import, important, improve, in, incident, incite, include, increase, independent, individual, industry, infectI-2
inflation, influence, inform, information, inject, injure, innocent, insane, insect, inspect, instead, instrument, insult, intelligence, intelligent, intense, interest, interfere, international, interveneI-3
invade, invent, invest, investigate, invite, involve, iron, island, issue, it[Top]
J-1
jail, jewel, job, join, joint, joke, judge, jump, jury, just[Top]
K-1
keep, kick, kidnap, kill, kind, kiss, knife, know, knowledge[Top]
L-1
labor, laboratory, lack, lake, land, language, large, last, late, laugh, launch, law, lead, leak, learn, leave, left, legal, legislature, lendL-2
less, let, letter, level, liberal, lie, life, lift, light, lightening, like, limit, line, link, liquid, list, listen, literature, little, liveL-3
load, loan, local, lonely, long, look, lose, loud, love, low, loyal, luck[Top]
M-1
machine, magazine, mail, main, major, majority, make, male, man, manufacture, many, map, march, mark, market, marry, mass, mate, material, mathematicsM-2
matter, may, mayor, meal, mean, measure, meat, media, medicine, meet, melt, member, memorial, memory, mental, mercy, message, metal, method, microscopeM-3
middle, militant, military, milk, mind, mine, mineral, minister, minor, minority, minute, miss, missile, missing, mistake, mix, mob, model, moderate, modernM-4
money, month, moon, moral, more, morning, most, mother, motion, mountain, mourn, move, movement, movie, much, murder, music, must, mystery[Top]
N-1
name, narrow, nation, native, natural, nature, navy, near, necessary, need, negotiate, neither, neutral, never, new, news, next, nice, night, noN-2
noise, nominate, noon, normal, north, not, note, nothing, now, nowhere, nuclear, number[Top]
O-1
obey, object, observe, occupy, ocean, of, off, offensive, offer, office, officer, official, often, oil, old, on, once, only, open, operateO-2
opinion, oppose, opposite, oppress, or, orbit, order, organize, other, our, oust, out, over, overthrow, owe, own[Top]
P-1
pain, paint, pan, paper, parachute, parade, pardon, parent, parliament, part, party, pass, passenger, passport, past, path, patient, pay, peace, peopleP-2
percent, perfect, perform, period, permanent, permit, person, physical, physics, picture, piece, pig, pilot, pipe, place, plan, planet, plant, plastic, playP-3
please, plenty, plot, poem, point, poison, police, policy, politics, pollute, poor, popular, population, port, position, possess, possible, postpone, pour, powerP-4
praise, pray, pregnant, prepare, present, president, press, pressure, prevent, price, prison, private, prize, probably, problem, process, produce, profession, professor, profitP-5
program, progress, project, propaganda, property, propose, protect, protest, prove, provide, public, publication, publish, pull, pump, punish, purchase, pure, purpose, push, put[Top]
Q-1
quality, question, quick, quiet[Top]
R-1
race, radar, radiation, radio, raid, railroad, rain, raise, rare, rate, reach, react, read, ready, real, realistic, reason, reasonable, rebel, receiveR-2
recent, recession, recognize, record, recover, red, reduce, reform, refugee, refuse, regret, reject, relations, release, religion, remain, remains, remember, remove, repairR-3
repeat, report, represent, repress, request, require, rescue, research, resign, resist, resolution, resource, responsible, rest, restrain, restrict, result, retire, return, revoltR-4
rice, rich, ride, right, riot, rise, risk, river, road, rob, rock, rocket, roll, room, root, rope, rough, round, rub, rubber, ruin, rule, run[Top]
S-1
sabotage, sacrifice, sad, safe, sail, sailor, salt, same, sand, satellite, satisfy, save, say, school, science, sea, search, season, seat, secondS-2
secret, security, see, seed, seek(ing), seem, seize, self, sell, Senate, send, sense, sentence, separate, series, serious, serve, service, set, settleS-3
several, severe, sex, shake, shape, share, sharp, she, sheep, shell, shelter, shine, ship, shock, shoe, shoot, short, should, shout, showS-4
shrink, sick, sickness, side, sign, signal, silence, silver, similar, simple, since, sing, single, sink, sister, sit, situation, size, skeleton, skillS-5
skin, sky, slave, sleep, slide, slow, small, smash, smell, smoke, smooth, snow, so, social, soft, soil, soldier, solid, solve, someS-6
son, soon, sort, sound, south, space, speak, special, speech, speed, spend, spill, spirit, split, sport, spread, spring, spy, square, stabS-7
stand, star, start, starve, state, station, statue, stay, steal, steam, steel, step, stick, still, stone, stop, store, storm, story, stoveS-8
straight, strange, street, stretch, strike, strong, structure, struggle, study, stupid, subject, submarine, substance, substitute, subversion, succeed, such, sudden, suffer, sugarS-9
suggest, summer, sun, supervise, supply, support, suppose, suppress, sure, surface, surplus, surprise, surrender, surround, survive, suspect, suspend, swallow, swear in, sweet, swim, sympathy, system[Top]
T-1
take, talk, tall, tank, target, taste, tax, tea, teach, team, tear, tears, technical, technology, telephone, telescope, television, tell, temperature, temporaryT-2
tense, term, terrible, territory, terror, terrorist, test, than, thank, that, the, theater, them, then, theory, there, these, they, thick, thinT-3
thing, think, third, this, threaten, through, throw, tie, time, tired, to, today, together, tomorrow, tonight, too, tool, top, torture, totalT-4
touch, toward, town, trade, tradition, traffic, tragic, train, transport, transportation, trap, travel, treason, treasure, treat, treatment, treaty, tree, trial, tribeT-5
trick, trip, troops, trouble, truce, truck, true, trust, try, tube, turn[Top]
U-1
under, understand, unite, universe, university, unless, until, up, urge, urgent, us, use, usual[Top]
V-1
valley, value, vegetable, vehicle, version, very, veto, vicious, victim, victory, village, violate, violence, visit, voice, volcano, vote[Top]
W-1
wages, wait, walk, wall, want, war, warm, warn, wash, waste, watch, water, wave, way, we, weak, wealth, weapon, wear, weatherW-2
week, weigh, welcome, well, west, wet, what, wheat, wheel, wheel, where, which, while, white, who, whole, why, wide, wife, wildW-3
will, willing, win, wind, window, winter, wire, wise, wish, with, withdraw, without, woman, wonder, wonderful, wood, word, work, world, worryW-4
worse, worth, wound, wreck, wreckage, write, wrong[Top]
X
NO ENTRIES[Top]
Y-1
year, yellow, yes, yesterday, yet, you, young[Top]
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COMMON EXPRESSIONS
a lot of, carry out, pass a bill, take steps
WORDS USED IN VOA SPECIAL ENGLISH SCIENCE PROGRAMS
antibodies, atom, bacteria, cell, chromosome, compound, dense, electron, element, enzyme fetus, fission, fusion, genes, genetic engineering, gravity, image, laser, magnet, molecule, nerve, nucleus, nucleic acid, nutrient, organ, organism, particle, proteins, robot, tissue, virus x-rays
THE PLANETS
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
SOME CHEMICAL ELEMENTS
hydrogen, helium, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, potassium, calcium, titanium, iron, nickel, copper, zinc, silver, tin, iodine, platinum, gold, mercury, lead, radon, radium, uranium, plutonium
ORGANS OF THE BODY
breast, heart, intestines, kidney, liver, lung, prostate, stomach, uterus
DISEASES
AIDS, Alzheimer's, botulism, cancer, chicken pox, cholera, cystic fibrosis, dengue fever, diabetes, diarrhea, encephalitis, hepatitis, influenza, leukemia, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, malaria, measles, meningitis, Parkinson's, polio, pneumonia, rheumatic fever, river blindness, syphilis, tetanus, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, yellow fever, whooping cough
PARTS OF THE BODY
head, face, ear, neck, shoulder, chest, arm, wrist, thumb, fingers, leg, ankle, foot, toes, knee, hand, elbow, chin, mouth, nose, eye, hair
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A-Z: 1,476 words, SP (Special Words): 136 words
(A) 96, (B) 84, (C) 134, (D) 80, (E) 74, (F) 77, (G) 38, (H)57, (I) 50,
(J) 10, (K) 9, (L) 52, (M)79, (N) 32, (O) 36, (P) 101, (Q) 4, (R) 83,
(S) 183, (T) 91, (U) 13, (V) 17, (W) 67, (X) 0, (Y) 7, (Z) 2(COMMON EXPRESSIONS) 4
(WORDS USED IN VOA SPECIAL ENGLISH SCIENCE PROGRAMS) 32
(THE PLANETS) 9
(SOME CHEMICAL ELEMENTS) 30
(ORGANS OF THE BODY) 9
(DISEASES) 30
(PARTS OF THE BODY) 22
Source: VOA Special English Word Book
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