Essential English Collocations and Vocabulary List

Common English Collocations

• Do: course, aerobics, business, good, harm, homework, judo, some damage, voluntary work, well, your best
• Get: a girlfriend, a jacket, a job, a tattoo, angry, better, good grades, home, married, points, the bus, to the party
• Go: backpacking, camping, on a date, back, off, on, through, with, without
• Make: a call, a film, a fortune, a list, a meal, an effort, arrangements, decisions, excuses, friends, noise
• Play: chess

Future and Technology Vocabulary

• Alien, artificial intelligence, catastrophe, climate change, colony, crime wave, epidemic, hologram, optimistic, overpopulation, pessimistic, pollution, robot, space station, space travel, virtual world, war

Reflexive Verbs and Phrasal Verbs

• Reflexive: Arm yourself, call yourself, consider yourself, defend yourself, look after yourself, prepare yourself, teach yourself
• Phrasal: Bump into, come along, go along, come round, meet up with, stay in

Entertainment and Media Terms

• Adventure, album, audience, author, bestseller, blockbuster, box office, charts, comedy, costume drama, director, game show, genre, hit, horror, launch, listener, location, musical, producer, reader, reality show, romance, sci-fi, script, sports programme, stunt, talent show, track, viral video, western

Idioms and Facial Expressions

• Come face to face with, face lights up, face up to, hair-raising, hard to swallow, make your blood boil, pain in the neck, pull a face, put on a brave face

Prefixes and Negative Adjectives

• Inadequate, inappropriate, unbearable, unbelievable, uncensored, uncomfortable, indecent, unhelpful, incredible, illegal, illegible, illiterate, illogical, unloved, immature, immoral, unnatural, disobedient, inoffensive, disorganized, impatient, impersonal, unpopular, irrelevant

Social Issues and Human Behavior

• Indignity, undignified, discrimination, unequal, inequality, unequally, ungrateful, ungratefully, dishonest, dishonestly, dishonesty, inhumane, inhumanely, inhumanity, unkind, unkindly, unkindness, disloyal, disloyalty, prejudice, racism, disrespect, disrespectful, mistrust

Advanced Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

• Be fond of, be history, be sick of, down in the dumps, eyes meet, have something in common, in the doghouse, keep your cool, lose your head, love at first sight, on a roll, out of the blue, over the moon, through thick and thin, under the weather, end up, find out, put up with, square up, stand up for