INTERMEDIATE WORD LIST HEADWORD VERB NOUN …

INTERMEDIATE WORD LIST

INTERMEDIATE WORD LIST

HEADWORD

VERB

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Ability/inability

NOUN ability inability disability

ADJECTIVE able unable disabled

ADVERB

2

Absent

3

Academic

absenteeism academy

absent academic

4

Accent

5

Accept

6

Access

7

Accommodate

8

Accurate/ inaccurate

9

Accuse

accept access accommodate

accuse

accent

acceptance

access accommodation

accuracy accusation

acceptable unacceptable accessible inaccessible

accurate inaccurate

acceptably accurately

10

Achieve

11

Actual

12

Addition

13

Addiction

achieve add

achievement

addition addiction

achievable actual

addictive, addicted

actually

14

Admire

15

Adolescent

admire

admiration admirer adolescent

admirable

16

Adopt (a child)

17

Adult

adopt

adoption adult adulthood

adopted adoptive

18

Advert (Advertisement)

advertise

advertisement advert

19

Affect

20

Agency

affect

effect

agency agent

effective

effectively

AFFIX

21

Aggressive

22

Agriculture

aggression agriculture

aggressive agricultural

aggresively 1

COLLOCATION

to have a natural/great ability

to be (un)able to

do sth

to be disabled

absenteeism limit

to have an absenteeism limit

to be absent

to be absent from school/work

a military/police academy

academic year

to have an accent

to speak with an accent

a

regional/local accent

a strong accent

glad to accept / happy

to accept / be / seem / make stg acceptable

to have access to sth

to have easy access to sth

to be (in)accessible

to provide/offer accommodation

absolute/complete accuracy

to be (in)accurate very/extremely/highly accurate

to be difficult to achieve

great/important achievement

an achievable goal

the actual number

to make additions to sth

In addition

be addicted to sth, addiction to, addictive to, highly addictive

to admire greatly/really

to be full of admiration

to feel

admiration

great/deep admiration

to have an admirer

great/secret admirer

to adopt a child/an animal

an adopted son/daughter

adoptive parents

to be an adult

a young adult

adulthood

during/in adulthood

to reach

to advertise sth widely

to show an advertisement

good/misleading advertisement

a television/radio advertisement

a magazine/newspaper advert

to affect greatly

to have an effect on

sth

to have a strong/significant effect

to be/seem effective

an advertising agency

travel agency

real estate

agency

a real estate agent

an FBI agent

act of aggression aggression by sb against sb/sth

extreme aggression

to be/look/seem aggressive

extremely aggressive aggressive behaviour aggressive marketing/

campaign/techniques

to behave aggressively

to work in agriculture

modern/organic agriculture

to depend on agriculture

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Aid

24

Aircraft

25

Airlines

26

Alarm

27

Alien

28

Alike

29

Allow

30

Alternative

31

Amaze

32

Amount

33

Anger

34

Anniversary

35

Announce

36

Annual

37

Anti

38

Apart

39

Appear/Disappear

40

Appropriate/Inappropriate

41

Approve/Disapprove

42

Architecture

aid

allow amaze

announce appear disappear approve disapprove

aid aircraft airlines

alarm alien

allowance alternative

amazement

alike

amazing amazed

amount

anger anniversary announcement

angry annual

appearance disappearance

approval disapproval architecture architect

appropriate inappropriate

alike alternatively

angrily

annually anti-

apart appropriately inappropriately

43

Argue

44

Army

45

Arrange

46

Arrival

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Artificial

48

Ashamed

argue arrange arrive

argument army arrangement

arrival

shame

argumentative

arranged

artificial ashamed shameless

artifically 2

to ask for aid give / provide aid

food/medical aid

alarm clock

fire/smoke/burglar alarm

to set/activate an / the alarm

to look alike

to be very alike

to think alike

to allow to do sth

to have an allowance

a

large/small allowance

a daily/weekly/monthly allowance

to have an alternative

alternative medicine

to be/look/sound amazing

to be really amazing

to be/look amazed by sth

the amount of sth

to pay regular amounts of money to

sb/sth

a huge/large/enormous amount of sth

to increase/decrease the amount of sth

to feel anger at/over sth

to be angry at/with sb

to be angry about sth

to

look/appear angry

to celebrate an / our anniversary

first/second etc. anniversary

wedding anniversary

to announce that + sentence an annual meeting/report

to make an announcement

apart from to appear on television appearance

physical appearance

attractive

to be (in)appropriate to (dis)approve of sth to need approval

to be (in)appropriate for children to approve strongly

to argue fiercely/ heatedly to argue about/over sth

to argue with sb

to argue strongly/ forcefully/ sensibly

to argue against/for

a big/violent argument an argument about/ over sth

an argument with sb /between people

to have a powerful army

to arrange easily/with difficulty

to make arrangements

arranged marriage

to arrive early/late

to arrive at + place

early/late arrival

to be the first/last to arrive

artificial flowers / light

to be/feel/look ashamed

to be

ashamed of sth

to be deeply/very ashamed

shameless behaviour/lies

What a shame!

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Assess (performance)

50

Assign

51

Assume

52

Attach

53

Attempt

54

Attitude

assess assign assume attach

attempt

assessment assessor assignment

assumption attachment

attempt

attitude

attempted

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Attract

56

Audience

57

Autonomy

58

Average

59

Avoid

60

Awake

61

Awkward

62

Backwards

63

Bacteria

64

Baggage

65

Ban

66

Bandage

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Barber

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Bargain

69

Base

70

Basic

71

Basin

72

Basket

73

Battery

74

Beat

75

Behave

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Belief

77

Belongings

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Benefit

79

Bin

attract

avoid wake wake up

ban bandage bargain

beat behave believe belong benefit

attraction attractiveness audience

average

bacteria baggage ban bandage barber bargain base

basin basket basketball battery beat

behaviour belief belongings benefit bin

attractive unattractive autonomous avoidable unavoidable awake awkward bacterial

basic

behavioral believable / unbelievable beneficial

attractively backwards basically

3

to assess performance/skills

reading assignment

to hand out / hand in an assignment

to assume that + sentence

to make assumptions

about sth

to attach sth to sth

to open the attachment

attempt to do stg

attempt at doing stg

attempted murder/ suicide

attitude towards sth

the writer's attitude towards sth --- have a

positive / negative attitude

to attract attention/interest

to feel a strong attraction to/towards sb

to be/look attractive

very/extremely attractive

to find sb attractive

to make sb/sth attractive

to avoid sth

to be (un)avoidable

to be/lie awake

to be/look awkward

very awkward

an awkward

question

to walk backwards

harmful/beneficial bacteria

bacterial infections

baggage allowance

to ban officially

to wear/remove a bandage

a tight/loose bandage

to bargain about sth with sb to base sth on sth

to be based on sth

to carry a basket

a basket of flowers/fruit

to

play/watch basketball

basketball player/star/team/match

to charge a battery

to be powered by battery

battery

goes dead

to beat badly/violently

to beat fast/rapidly

a regular

beat

a heart beat

to behave well/properly

good/bad/(un)acceptable behaviour

behaviour towards sb

a badly-behaved child

a well-behaved child

to believe that + sentence

to believe in sth

to have/hold belief

personal belongings

to have enormous/great benefit

to be beneficial to sb/sth

a rubbish/wastepaper bin

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Biology (Dep)

81

Bite

82

Blame

83

Blank

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Bleed

85

Block

86

Blow

87

Bold

88

Bomb

89

Bother

90

Bottom

91

Bow

92

Brand

93

Breast

94

Breath

95

Brilliant

96

Broadcast

97

Bucket

98

Budget

99

Builder

100

Bully

101

Burst (into tears)

102

Button

103

Cage

104

Calculate

105

Canal

106

Cancel

107

Capable/incapable (of)

108

Cash

109

Category

110

Cave

111

Ceiling

112

Certificate

113

Challenge

114

Chance

115

Chapter

116

Charge (money)

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bite blame

bleed block blow bomb bother bow

breathe

broadcast

build bully burst button

calculate miscalculate cancel cash categorize

challenge

charge

biology biologist bite blame blank bleeding blood block blockage

bomb

bottom bow brand breast

breath brilliance broadcast broadcast bucket budget building builder bully bullying

button cage calculation miscalculation calculator canal cancellation capability cash

category cave ceiling

certificate challenge

chance chapter

biological blank

bold

brilliant

brilliantly

capable/incapable challenging

4

biology department weapons a mosquito bite to blame sb for sth to fill in the blanks to bleed badly blood

a block of ice/stone/wood to blow strongly to be bold to bomb heavily

to be at the bottom of the page

biological

a blank page

to stop bleeding

to lose

atomic bomb

to breast feed

to breathe in/out

breath

to hold your breath

to take a deep

to broadcast live a bucket of water annual budget

to build a house/wall

a news broadcast

to burst into tears/laughter to button your coat a bird cage

to calculate accurately

an accurate/exact calculation

the Panama Canal

a last-minute cancellation

have capability be capable of doing something

cash a check

categorize into

put stg into a category

a deep/large cave

to explore a cave

a high/low ceiling

an exam certificate

a marriage/death/birth certificate

to challenge sb

to be extremely/very challenging

to have little chance of doing sth

to get a chance to do sth

to give sb a chance to do sth

to do sth by chance

chapter of a book

chapter in history

to charge money

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Charity (organization)

118

Cheek

119

Circle

120

Civilization/civilisation

121

Click

122

Clone

123

Cloth

124

Cloud

125

Clue

126

Cognitive

127

Coin

128

Coincidence

129

Collar

130

Colleague

131

Coloured

132

Combine

133

Comfort

134

Comment

135

Communicate

136

Community (college)

137

Compact

138

Compete (against/with)

139

Concrete (=cement)

140

Condition

141

Conference

142

Confidence

143

Conflict

144

Confuse

145

Connect

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charity circle

cheek circle

charitable

click clone

colour combine comfort

civilisation

clone cloning cloth clothes cloud clue

coin coincidence collar colleague

colour combination

comfort

civilised

cloudy cognitive

coloured colourful colourless comfortable/ comforting/ uncomfortable

comment

comment

communicate compete

communication community

competition competitor concrete condition conference

communicative compact competitive

cognitively

conflict

confuse connect

confidence self-confidence conflict

confident self-confident

confusion connection

confusing confused

5

to donate/give money to charity

to live on charity

a charitable event

to draw a circle

a complete/full circle

ancient/early civilisations

the end/collapse/decline/ of a civilisation

civilized society/world

to click on sth

a piece of cloth off clothes to be cloudy

to wear clothes

to sit in a circle to put on/take

an amazing/strange coincidence a shirt collar

coloured cloth a combination of X and Y

a colourful painting a perfect/strange combination

find / get / seek comfort

to comment on/about sth to sb -- to have/ make a comment

a brief/negative/critical comment

a

comment about/on sth

to communicate effectively/successfully

to communicate with sb

to have good/effective communication

communication between

sb and sb

a community college

to compete against/with sb/sth to win/lose a competition

to have competition to be/become competitive

to be in good condition

to go to a conference

annual/international conference

to have/lack/build up/boost confidence

to have full/total confidence enormous/great confidence

to acquire/gain/lose/restore confidence

to be/appear/look confident

to be very/completely confident

to be in conflict with sth/sb

to easily confuse sb with sb

to cause/create/result in confusion --- confusion about/over sth

to be/become/seem confused about sth

to be/sound/look confusing extremely/highly/slightly confusing

connection between X and Y

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