Essential English Vocabulary List for Advanced Learners

Essential English Vocabulary Definitions

Common Synonyms and Phrases

• Actually: Really
• Blind: Unable to see
• Broke out: To start a war
• Concessions: Favourable responses
• Cruelly: Brutally
• Despair: Extreme frustration
• Disobedience: Resistance
• Eventually: In the end
• However: Nevertheless
• To book: Reserve
• Large: Big
• Miserable: Wretched
• Murdered: Assassinated
• Not accepting: Refuse
• Nowadays: At present
• Peaceful: Non-violent
• Refusing: Not accepting
• Spilt: Divided
• Theft: Robbery
• To continue: Carry on
• To divide: Break up
• To murder: To kill
• To repair: To fix
• To return: To give back
• To spilt: To discord
• To state: To declare
• To struggle: To fight
• To sum up: Summarize
• To surrender: Give up
• Very angry: Furious
• Went back: Returned

Legal and Social Terminology

• Arrest: To catch someone using the power of the law.
• Borrow: To obtain something with a promise to return it.
• Burglar: Person who breaks into houses, shops, etc., with the intention of stealing.
• Can’t bear: Can’t stand.
• Convictions: Firm and sincere beliefs.
• Disobedience: Deliberate acts that show you don’t want to follow the rules.
• Furthermore: In addition.
• Goal: The aim or object towards which an endeavour is directed.
• Greed: Excessive or overly strong desire.
• Hijacking: To stop a moving vehicle in order to rob it or to make political demands.
• Injustice: To show disagreement with.
• Intolerant: Not accepting opinions or behaviour different from one’s own.
• Judge: To make an official decision about someone in court.
• Kidnapping: To hold a person against that person’s will.
• Muslim: Of or relating to the religion.
• Lend: Loan something with the condition it be returned to you.
• Refugee: A person who flees for refuge or safety.
• Refuse: To say “no” to something or someone.
• Rights: Something due to anyone by a just claim, moral principles, etc.
• Thief: Person who steals without using violence.
• To realize: To grasp with the mind, believe, or understand clearly.
• To rush: To move with great or too much speed.
• To take off: To remove.
• To wonder: To think about and ask oneself about something.
• To threaten: To make a statement or promise that one will punish or harm.
• Xenophobia: Dislike of foreign people.