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  2. Category:Lists of English words of foreign origin - Wikipedia

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  3. Simplified Technical English - Wikipedia

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    A non-exhaustive list of the writing rules includes the concepts that follow: Use the approved words and only as the part of speech and meaning given in the dictionary. Make instructions as clear and specific as possible. Do not write noun clusters that have more than three words. Use the approved forms of the verb to make only: The infinitive

  4. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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    When the prefix "re-" is added to a monosyllabic word, the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb. Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing". There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or ...

  5. Morphology (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The word independent, for example, is derived from the word dependent by using the prefix in-, and dependent itself is derived from the verb depend. There is also word formation in the processes of clipping in which a portion of a word is removed to create a new one, blending in which two parts of different words are blended into one, acronyms ...

  6. A big list will constantly show you what words you don't know and what you need to work on and is useful for testing yourself. Eventually these words will all be translated into big lists in many different languages and using the words in phrase contexts as a resource.

  7. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of dictionaries considered authoritative or complete by approximate number of total words, or headwords, included. number of words in a language. [1] [2] In compiling a dictionary, a lexicographer decides whether the evidence of use is sufficient to justify an entry in the dictionary. This decision is not the same as determining ...

  8. Word list - Wikipedia

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    It includes the F.F.1 list with 1,500 high-frequency words, completed by a later F.F.2 list with 1,700 mid-frequency words, and the most used syntax rules. [12] It is claimed that 70 grammatical words constitute 50% of the communicatives sentence, [13] [14] while 3,680 words make about 95~98% of coverage. [15] A list of 3,000 frequent words is ...

  9. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    A part of speech is provided for most of the words, but part-of-speech categories vary between analyses, and not all possibilities are listed. For example, "I" may be a pronoun or a Roman numeral; "to" may be a preposition or an infinitive marker; "time" may be a noun or a verb. Also, a single spelling can represent more than one root word. For ...