Take your English to the next level with over 900 words designed for upper-intermediate (B2) learners. Each entry features a contextual example sentence, native-speaker audio pronunciation, and a translation into your language. Covering 29 topics — from business and politics to science, culture, and abstract ideas — this course helps you express complex thoughts with precision and nuance. Built-in spaced repetition and interactive exercises ensure lasting retention. Ideal for professionals, students, and confident speakers ready to communicate fluently in demanding real-world situations.
Curriculum
- 29 Sections
- 29 Lessons
- Lifetime
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- Stages in Life, Family and PeopleI know these words: ancestor; applicant; commander; crew; date; discipline; divorce; elderly; ethnic; fellow; gender; inhabitant; junior; loyal; master; observer; patient; peer; presence; privacy; professional; proposal; propose; reputation; resident; retirement; senior; transition1
- Feelings and EmotionsI know these words: alarm; anger; anxiety; anxious; attraction; bold; commitment; depressed; desperate; devote; disappointment; fond; furious; humorous; humour; impatient; isolated; joy; miserable; negative; pity; romance; scare; sensitive; sincere; strict; tears1
- Senses, Reactions and ImpressionsI know these words: amusing; ashamed; bug; characteristic; comfort; concern; concern; confidence; conscious; delight; delight; delighted; disturb; evil; feel; fulfil; honesty; hurt; impress; inspire; monitor; motivate; nerves; observe; regret; relief; scream; spot; trait; trust; visible1
- Speech and CommunicationI know these words: accent; assure; beg; command; criticism; criticize; cue; declare; emphasis; emphasize; enquiry; excuse; excuse; input; insist; interact; interaction; praise; praise; prompt; put forward; remark; remark; signature; silence; speculate; stress; tone; whisper1
- Thinking and Mental ProcessesI know these words: anticipate; associate; assumption; certainty; comparative; consideration; convinced; distinguish; distract; estimate; exception; existence; expectation; fantasy; figure out; hesitate; indication; infer; insight; intend; interpret; justify; mistake; notion; parallel; perceive; perception; perspective; picture; reinforce; suspect; tendency1
- Opinion, Importance and ProbabilityI know these words: back up; bring about; comparable; crucial; discretionary; distinctive; insignificant; judgement; necessity; negligible; notable; obligatory; optional; outweigh; point out; pragmatic; predictable; prioritize; priority; provisional; random; realistic; relative; significance; significant; specific; tentative1
- Agreeing and DisagreeingI know these words: approval; argument; compromise; confess; consent; debate; debate; decline; deny; disapprove; dispute; guarantee; negotiation; object; objection; opponent; oppose; opposed; permit; permit; proof; proposal; propose; resist; resistance; resolution; resolve; respond; threaten; viewpoint; withhold1
- Cities, Travel, and PlacesI know these words: aircraft; booking; border; complex; cruise; district; diving; downtown; harbour; host; infrastructure; isolated; landing; lane; licence; motor; nearby; overnight; overseas; passage; regional; resort; rural; stretch; suburbs; surround; tank; temple; territory; tropical; urban; zone1
- Home and Things around usI know these words: abstract; accommodate; blanket; brick; candle; chain; cleaning; colourful; comfort; concrete; corridor; decoration; envelope; estate; extension; fragment; hook; house; household; ladder; load; load; opening; pile; pile; possess; settle; stuff; sweep; switch1
- Describing ThingsI know these words: absorb; associated; bent; brief; charming; compound; comprehensive; core; curve; cute; dull; dynamic; fake; fundamental; grand; hidden; hollow; identical; inevitable; lively; loose; massive; material; mechanical; pure; shallow; shaped; slight; steel; thorough; thoroughly; ultimate; universal; widespread1
- Health and the BodyI know these words: addiction; beneficial; blind; breast; burn; clinic; cure; cure; diagnose; disability; disorder; elbow; fever; gesture; healthcare; hearing; inner; joint; obesity; organ; pills; pregnant; recovery; rub; scratch; stimulate; stretch; therapist; therapy; thumb; upper; vital; wrist1
- Sport, Leisure, CelebrationsI know these words: ceremony; challenging; commemorate; compete; competitive; contest; contest; defeat; defeat; demanding; determination; dive; dive; endurance; festive; hunting; improve; injury; observe; participant; participation; penalty; referee; rival; rival; round; stamina; strength; take up; well-being; work out1
- Food and CookingI know these words: appetite; artificial; balanced; bitter; bland; crispy; dairy; delicious; eat out; flavour; greasy; herb; hunger; lavish; leftovers; nutrition; nutritious; organic; protein; raw; reservation; sample; savoury; season; shot; sour; spicy; spoil; spread; stand; starve; sticky1
- ExperienceI know these words: astonishing; bear; carry on; convenience; depressing; encounter; enthusiasm; enthusiastic; expose; fabulous; failure; fault; flash; flash; go through; look back; memorable; mysterious; nasty; nightmare; panic; progressive; reasonably; ridiculous; rush; satisfaction; satisfied; satisfy; shocking; spectacular; struggle; struggle; sum up; try; unfortunate1
- Accidents, Problems and IssuesI know these words: abandon; address; assistance; blow; chief; circumstance; collapse; collapse; conflict; conflict; crash; disrupt; eliminate; extent; fortunate; impact; incident; implication; luck; obstacle; obstruction; pose; primary; puzzle; rescue; restore; slide; tragedy; trap; trap; trigger1
- Rise, Fall, Success and ChangeI know these words: accelerate; achieve; achievement; adapt; adjust; alter; blame; bound; breakthrough; challenge; completion; contract; cope; decline; downwards; enhance; exceed; expand; expansion; failed; gain; honour; maintain; narrow; overcome; pace; probable; pursue; reduction; reward; sharp; shift; steadily; steady; strengthen; transfer; transform; upwards1
- Money and ShoppingI know these words: affordable; asset; auction; bargain; basket; bid; bill; budget; calculate; credit; debt; expense; finance; funding; grant; grocery; hire; incentive; income; inflation; loan; lottery; membership; mortgage; outfit; owe; ownership; pension; retail; reward; savings; stall; stock; tag; wage; welfare; withdraw1
- School, Education and ScienceI know these words: accuracy; assess; assessment; certificate; compulsory; concept; criteria; curriculum; degree; demonstrate; draft; elementary; extract; graduate; graduation; guideline; illiterate; institution; lecture; qualification; qualify; requirement; revision; rocket; scenario; scholarship; seminar; suspend; thesis; tutor; vocational; workshop1
- Time, Frequency and SpeedI know these words: advance; afterwards; annual; beyond; bring forward; close; deadline; delay; delay; distant; duration; era; frequent; increasingly; initially; instant; lately; lifetime; long-term; monthly; newly; occasionally; pause; phase; postpone; precede; probability; rapid; rapidly; rush; schedule; session; short-term; subsequent; subsequently; timing1
- Measurement, Numbers and SizeI know these words: actual; amount; approximately; bunch; capacity; combination; considerable; dimension; equivalent; extend; fraction; level; litre; low; lower; majority; margin; mass; measurement; minimum; minor; multiple; output; precise; principal; project; range; rate; rating; roughly; scale; shortage; statistics; sufficient; surpass; threshold; tonne; variation1
- Work and CareerI know these words: accomplish; agenda; analyst; cancel; consult; delete; dismiss; distribute; document; equip; establish; expertise; file; framework; full-time; handle; implement; labour; obligation; occupation; part-time; permanent; proceed; promotion; recruit; recruitment; register; register; retain; specialize1
- BusinessI know these words: advance; agency; chair; committee; consumption; corporate; economics; enterprise; executive; found; headquarters; incorporate; industrial; investment; launch; loss; manufacturing; mission; objective; operate; partnership; profit; reimburse; ship; sponsor; strike; subsidiary; supervise; survey; workplace1
- Art and MediaI know these words: ballet; beat; broadcast; cast; choir; classic; classic; comic; compose; composer; creation; creativity; edit; editorial; entertaining; exhibit; fame; genre; gig; graphics; illustration; journalism; leaflet; medium; metaphor; novelist; opera; popularity; rhythm; screen; slogan; spectator; stage1
- Information TechnologyI know these words: access; advanced; artwork; attachment; automatic; automatically; chart; circuit; cybersecurity; database; display; display; encryption; failure; innovation; innovative; install; mode; operate; panel; process; protection; satellite; store; usage; wire1
- Social and Political LifeI know these words: association; civilization; conservative; conspiracy; contribute; controversy; convention; defence; democracy; division; empire; equal; ethic; faith; favour; federal; free; globalization; govern; governor; impose; justice; liberal; military; military; minister; mosque; parliament; plot; racism; radical; reform; regulate; revolution; troops1
- Nature and the EnvironmentI know these words: agriculture; bacteria; biological; bug; bush; canal; carbon; cave; cell; conservation; creature; darkness; desert; drought; dump; emission; evolution; forecast; fossil; habitat; hunt; landscape; lighting; mineral; radiation; reserve; root; shade; slope; solar; species; steam; sustainable; vast; warming1
- Crime, Law and OrderI know these words: appeal; armed; bar; bullet; capture; chase; civil; crack down; defend; deliberate; exploit; fraud; fraudulent; gang; get away with; investigation; jail; jail; jury; obey; offender; restriction; rob; sentence; survivor; suspect; target; trial; turn in; verdict; witness1
- Positive and Negative QualitiesI know these words: accurate; adequate; ambiguous; appropriate; complicated; confusing; consistent; constructive; credible; decent; deficient; deprived; efficient; excessive; extraordinary; genuine; harmful; illogical; inaccurate; inconsistent; incorrect; insufficient; intellectual; invalid; legitimate; promising; reliable; satisfactory; sophisticated; straightforward; transparent; useless1
- ActionsI know these words: arise; assemble; attract; combat; conduct; depart; drag; exclude; facilitate; grant; insert; intervene; modify; obstruct; obtain; occur; optimize; reach; restrict; rotate; secure; seek; simulate; spring; strike; tap; tear; terminate; undertake; unfold; utilize; verify1
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