English Vocabulary Word List
Ogden's Basic English - Things - General Words (400 Words)
- account
- act
- addition
- adjustment
- advertisement
- agreement
- air
- amount
- amusement
- animal
- answer
- apparatus
- approval
- argument
- art
- attack
- attempt
- attention
- attraction
- authority
- back
- balance
- base
- behavior
- belief
- birth
- bit
- bite
- blood
- blow
- body
- brass
- bread
- breath
- brother
- building
- burn
- burst
- business
- butter
- canvas
- care
- cause
- chalk
- chance
- change
- cloth
- coal
- color
- comfort
- committee
- company
- comparison
- competition
- condition
- connection
- control
- cook
- copper
- copy
- cork
- cotton
- cough
- country
- cover
- crack
- credit
- crime
- crush
- cry
- current
- curve
- damage
- danger
- daughter
- day
- death
- debt
- decision
- degree
- design
- desire
- destruction
- detail
- development
- digestion
- direction
- discovery
- discussion
- disease
- disgust
- distance
- distribution
- division
- doubt
- drink
- driving
- dust
- earth
- edge
- education
- effect
- end
- error
- event
- example
- exchange
- existence
- expansion
- experience
- expert
- fact
- fall
- family
- father
- fear
- feeling
- fiction
- field
- fight
- fire
- flame
- flight
- flower
- fold
- food
- force
- form
- friend
- front
- fruit
- glass
- gold
- government
- grain
- grass
- grip
- group
- growth
- guide
- harbor
- harmony
- hate
- hearing
- heat
- help
- history
- hole
- hope
- hour
- humor
- ice
- idea
- impulse
- increase
- industry
- ink
- insect
- instrument
- insurance
- interest
- invention
- iron
- jelly
- join
- journey
- judge
- jump
- kick
- kiss
- knowledge
- land
- language
- laugh
- law
- lead
- learning
- leather
- letter
- level
- lift
- light
- limit
- linen
- liquid
- list
- look
- loss
- love
- machine
- man
- manager
- mark
- market
- mass
- meal
- measure
- meat
- meeting
- memory
- metal
- middle
- milk
- mind
- mine
- minute
- mist
- money
- month
- morning
- mother
- motion
- mountain
- move
- music
- name
- nation
- need
- news
- night
- noise
- note
- number
- observation
- offer
- oil
- operation
- opinion
- order
- organisation
- ornament
- owner
- page
- pain
- paint
- paper
- part
- paste
- payment
- peace
- person
- place
- plant
- play
- pleasure
- point
- poison
- polish
- porter
- position
- powder
- power
- price
- process
- produce
- profit
- property
- prose
- protest
- pull
- punishment
- purpose
- push
- quality
- question
- rain
- range
- rate
- ray
- reaction
- reading
- reason
- record
- regret
- relation
- religion
- representative
- request
- respect
- rest
- reward
- rhythm
- rice
- river
- road
- roll
- room
- rub
- rule
- run
- salt
- sand
- scale
- science
- sea
- seat
- secretary
- selection
- self
- sense
- servant
- sex
- shade
- shake
- shame
- shock
- side
- sign
- silk
- silver
- sister
- size
- sky
- sleep
- slip
- slope
- smash
- smell
- smile
- smoke
- sneeze
- snow
- soap
- society
- son
- song
- sort
- sound
- soup
- space
- stage
- start
- statement
- steam
- steel
- step
- stitch
- stone
- stop
- story
- stretch
- structure
- substance
- sugar
- suggestion
- summer
- support
- surprise
- swim
- system
- talk
- taste
- tax
- teaching
- tendency
- test
- theory
- thing
- thought
- thunder
- time
- tin
- top
- touch
- trade
- transport
- trick
- trouble
- turn
- twist
- unit
- use
- value
- verse
- vessel
- view
- voice
- walk
- war
- wash
- waste
- water
- wave
- wax
- way
- weather
- week
- weight
- wind
- wine
- winter
- woman
- wood
- wool
- word
- work
- wound
- writing
- year
Words from a simplified language by Charles K. Ogden (1930) - Only included American Spellings on this list.