How many words are in the English language 2023?
It has been estimated that the vocabulary of English includes roughly 1 million words (although most linguists would take that estimate with a chunk of salt, and some have said they wouldn't be surprised if it is off the mark by a quarter-million); that tally includes the myriad names of chemicals and other scientific terms too.
List of English Vocabulary Words
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Abnormal: Not normal Abrade: Wear away Acquit: Free from a criminal
charge by a verdict of not guilty Abject: Miserable |
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Callous: Insensitive Cantankerous: Quarrelsome, Irascible Clandestine: Kept secret or done secretively, especially
because illicit. Cumbersome: Heavy or large & therefore difficult to
carry or use |
Debility: Physical weakness, especially as a result of
illness
Denunciation: public condemnation of someone or something /
informing against someone
Dormant: Having normal physical functions suspended or
slowed down for a period of time; in or as if in a deep sleep
Elucidate: To make clear
Fastidious: Careful in all details, meticulous, very
difficult to please
Formidable: Overwhelming, alarming, dreadful
Forsake: To abandon
Fraught: causing or affected by anxiety or stress, filled
with something undesirable
Gauche: Tactless
Haughty: Proud
Hovered: Remain in one place in the air
Impasse: A situation in which no progress is possible
Incorrigible: Not able to be changed or reformed
Inextricable: Cannot be taken out, irredeemable
Knotty: Puzzling
Ligature: Something that is used to bind
Macabre: Horrible
Modalities: A Specific mode in which something is expressed
or is experienced something exists
Nullify: Make void
Ostensible: Apparent
Oust: To eject
Overt: In the open
Pacify: To calm
Palatial: Like a palace
Penance: Punishment inflicted on oneself for expressing
repentance for any wrongdoing of one’s own
Pretence: An attempt to make something that is not the case
appears true
Query: Question
Queue: Line
Quiet: Making no noise
Quintessential: Representing the most perfect or typical
example of a quality or class
Quip: Witty remark
Radical: Extreme
Rampage: Violence
Rapid: Having great speed
Rapport: Harmony
Recalcitrant: Obstinately defiant of authority, difficult to
manage
Reliant: having or showing dependence on something
Robust: Sturdy in construction (in case of objects); strong
and rich in flavor and smell (in case of wine or food)
Rogue: A dishonest or unprincipled person.
Sanguine: Optimistic or positive, especially in an
apparently bad situation
Startling: very surprising, astonishing or remarkable
Stationary: Unchanging
Stealth: Secret
Unravelled: investigated or solved and explained something
complicated and difficult / undo twisted or knotted or woven threads
Uproarious: Noisy
Urbane: Courteous
Urgent: Required immediately
Wretchedness: Extreme misery or unhappiness
Wrought: Worked into shape by artistry or effort, fashioned,
formed
Wry: Twisted
Zany: Silly, crazy
Zenith: Peak
Zombie: A frightening person
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