Essential English Vocabulary and Irregular Plurals

Essential English Vocabulary

• Enlist (alistarse), enrol (matricularse), matriculate (matricularse), mark (nota), note (apunte)
• Qualification (título), work (trabajar), employment (empleo), notice (percibir), realize (llegar a la conclusión)
• Wait (esperar), hope (confiar en que), expect (anticipar), desire (ansiar), look forward to (esperar con ansiedad)
• Wish (desearle algo a alguien), would like (me gustaría), promote (promocionar), enhance (mejorar)
• Foster (ayudar), encourage (dar ánimos), hear (oír), win (ganar una competición), earn (ganar un sueldo)
• Listen to (escuchar), see (ver), look at (mirar), watch (observar con atención), get (conseguir), obtain (obtener)
• Achieve (lograr), criticise (criticar), accuse somebody of something (acusar), face (enfrentarse a un problema)
• Treat (manejar), deal with (ocuparse), notice (aviso), news (noticias), advertisement (anuncio)
• Announcement (anuncio, información), bother (molestar), disturb (interrumpir), annoy (enfadarse)
• Criticism (crítica), comment (comentario), publish (publicar), print (imprimir), send (enviar), broadcast (emitir)
• Transmit (transmitir), show (mostrar), question (pregunta), issue (tema), matter (asunto), ask (preguntar)
• Ask for (pedir), lend (prestar), borrow (tomar prestado), let (permitir), leave (dejar), remember (recordar)
• Remind (hacer recordar), raise (levantar), rise (levantarse), safe (seguridad física), actual (real), assist (ayudar)
• Actually (en realidad), pretend (fingir), sensible (razonable), succeed (triunfar), present (actual)
• Language (idioma), attend (asistir a un acto), subjects (asignaturas), favourite (preferido), intend (pretender)
• Career (profesión), sensitive (sensible), happen (suceder)

Latin Plurals

• Addendum - addenda
• Alga - algae
• Alumnus - alumni
• Amoeba - amoebae
• Antenna - antennae
• Bacterium - bacteria
• Cactus - cacti
• Curriculum - curricula
• Datum - data
• Fungus - fungi
• Genus - genera
• Larva - larvae
• Memorandum - memoranda
• Stimulus - stimuli
• Syllabus - syllabi
• Vertebra - vertebrae

Irregular Plural Rules

• -o becoming -oes
• -f becoming -ves
• -is becoming -es
• -ix becoming -ices

Changing Vowel Sounds

• Foot - feet
• Goose - geese
• Louse - lice
• Man - men
• Mouse - mice
• Tooth - teeth
• Woman - women

Unchanged Plurals

• Barracks, deer, fish, gallows, means, offspring, series, sheep, species