Vocabulary by category
18269 words · 490 lists · 19 topics
19 areas across 490 word lists and 18269 words. Each category can be practised as a whole — across its lists and across the levels.
The largest is “Technology and industry” with 1940 words, the smallest “Government, health care, education” with 150. Both numbers are calculated and nowhere typed by hand.
The 19 categories
- Basic words: numbers, time, verbsGreetings, pronouns, numbers, basic verbs, measures, linking words.
- Home, family and everyday lifeFamily, home, clothes, body, feelings, moving, repairs, neighbours.
- Food, weather and natureEating, cooking, restaurant, town, weather, animals, garden, festivals.
- Travel, errands and appointmentsTravel, car, plane, hotel, shopping, bank, school, applications.
- Work and the officeJob, applications, office, meetings, customers, marketing, contracts.
- Government, health care, educationPolitical institutions, health system, education system.
- Law and contractsCourts, contracts, employment, criminal, family and EU law.
- Buildings, cities and energyConstruction, property, city and transport planning, energy.
- History, research and dataHistory, sources, statistics, university, archives, libraries.
- Farming and food productionAgriculture, trade, cooking techniques, baking, wine, coffee.
- Natural sciencesBiology, physics, chemistry, geography, weather, forest, birds.
- Money, finance and economyAccounting, tax, banking, loans, insurance, stock market.
- Health and medicineDoctor, pharmacy, emergencies, hospital, care, medical fields.
- Technology and industryDigital tech, software, networks, engineering, robotics.
- Free time and sportFitness, beach, camping, hiking, climbing, festivals.
- Society and politicsMigration, news, politics, religion, volunteering, history.
- Language, style and argumentRegister, idioms, saying verbs, storytelling, ethics, logic, rhetoric.
- People and feelingsLife story, feelings, character, small talk, body language, pets.
- Art and cultureMusic, theatre, dance, opera, literature, crafts, typography.
Practise a category as a whole
Every category page has a quiz drawn from all its lists. If you would rather have the full choice — level, mode, length — you will also find the categories in the “Area” field of the practice page, each as the first entry of its group.