English vocabulary upper-intermediate
This list contains vocabulary that appears in intermediate reading practice and may be new to students at this level of proficiency. The vocabulary is listed alphabetically for the eight lessons in the book.
Many of the words come from the Academic Word List (AWL), the University Word List, or the General Service List (GSL). Different forms of a word (for example: injure, injured, injury) are included when they are useful for communication or frequently used.
Because learners have different vocabulary knowledge and different native languages, the number of new words each student encounters may vary. Research also shows that knowing one form of a word does not necessarily mean that learners know all or most of its related forms. For example, even though injure and injury look similar, learners still need practice with each form.
200 English Words for Intermediate Learners
according to
accurate
accurately
acquire
acquisition
ancient
area
arithmetic
around
art
artist
assign
assignment
attack
attacker
attend
attendance
author
authority
average
behave
misbehave
bilingual
bilingualism
breathe
breath
burst
calculate
calculated
calendar
century
coherent
coherence
common
compare
comparison
comparable
incomparable
complete
incomplete
complicated
complication
conclude
conclusion
connected
connection
contain
container
containment
convince
copy
copier
couch
cursive
curve
death
decide
decision
depend
dependable
dependence
design
discover
discovery
dozen
draw
drawing
enjoy
enjoyment
entire
entirety
envelope
equip
equipment
equivalent
equivalence
erase
eraser
extreme
extremely
famous
famously
favorite
favoritism
fear
fearful
fly
flew
flight
frog
gallery
gather
gathering
guess
however
huge
in addition to
include
inclusion
injure
injured
injury
instead of
joke
kiss
know
knew
known
unknown
knowledge
label
legal
illegal
legible
illegible
literate
literature
main
mainly
manner
mannerism
mention
message
messenger
might
moral
mystery
mysterious
occasion
occasionally
opposite
order
orderly
original
originality
own
owner
patient
patience
perhaps
place
placement
poem
poet
poetry
polite
impolite
populate
population
postage
punch
raise
rapid
rapidly
request
responsible
responsive
review
the same
schedule
serious
seriousness
shout
sight
similar
similarity
solid
solve
solution
song
sing
sort
sufficient
insufficient
translate
translator
translation
unique
absent
absence
accident
act
action
actor
add
addition
adult
alike
alligator
almost
alone
although
ant
anybody
appliance
approximately
approximate
argument
argumentation
arrange
arranged
assassinate
assassination
ash
available
unavailable
aware
awareness
beach
because
belong
belonging
bite
blend
blender
blind
blindness
blood
bleed
bloody
bone
boneless
branch
broad
butterfly
camel
capital
capitalize
capitalization
careful
carefully
careless
caterpillar
choose
chose
chosen
choice
circular
classify
classification
climate
climb
climbing
continent
continental
controversial
controversy
cork
counterfeit
current
reptile
reserve
restrict
restriction
restrictive
result
resulting
resultant
routine
scissors
seed
seedless
shape
shapely
shapeless
sheep
sheepish
skill
skilled
skillful
skin
skinless
somebody
source
specific
specifically
texture
textured
achieve
achievement
actually
actual
adapt
adaptation
adhere
adhesive
advantage
allow
allowance
automatic
automatically
battery
better
best
biology
biological
boring
bother
bothersome
bulb
catalog
cement
certain
certainly
childhood
code
commit
commitment
condition
conditionally
distance
attempt
attract
assassination