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ADVANCED ENGLISH: The 100 Most Important Words to Learn in English.

Recently one of my students asked me if I could tell them what the most important, or commonly used words in the English language are.

Well, that's one hell of a question to answer, there are so many variables to consider but it intrigued me quite a bit so I decided to research it and try to come up with an answer.

I searched the internet using questions such as "The most common words searched for in Google", "The most common words search for in online Dictionaries" as well as other general questions until I could come up with a list of the 100 most common, or important words in the English Language.

Now, as vocabulary is the foundation of any language, and the variety used by individuals will always vary depending upon their profession or interests, the vocabulary in the list below is specifically based upon general English rather than topic-specific words.

This is important because as I researched the answer to this question, I realized that the most important words were not the complex, or topic-specific words, but all of the general words that connect all of the more complex vocabularies together into something that we can understand. 

  1. The 60 Most Important Phrasal Verbs for Achieving a B2 to C2 Level of English.

I also realized that for any English language learner to achieve a proficient level of the language, that these are without a doubt the most important words to learn as they will form the foundation of everything that they do in English. 

I hope that this list of 100 most important English words helps you to achieve your goal of reaching a truly proficient level of English.

Good luck and good studying.

  1. Amount
  2. Argument
  3. Art
  4. Be
  5. Beautiful
  6. Belief
  7. Cause
  8. Certain
  9. Chance
  10. Change
  11. Clear
  12. Common
  13. Comparison
  14. Condition
  15. Connection
  16. Copy
  17. Decision
  18. Degree
  19. Desire
  20. Development
  21. Different
  22. Do
  23. Education
  24. End
  25. Event
  26. Examples
  27. Existence
  28. Experience
  29. Fact
  30. Fear
  31. Feeling
  32. Fiction
  33. Force
  34. Form
  35. Free
  36. General
  37. Get
  38. Give
  39. Good
  40. Government
  41. Happy
  42. Have
  43. History
  44. Idea
  45. Important
  46. Interest
  47. Knowledge
  48. Law
  49. Let
  50. Level
  51. Living
  52. Love
  53. Make
  54. Material
  55. Measure
  56. Mind
  57. Motion
  58. Name
  59. Nation
  60. Natural
  61. Necessary
  62. Normal
  63. Number
  64. Observation
  65. Opposite
  66. Order
  67. Organization
  68. Part
  69. Place
  70. Pleasure
  71. Possible
  72. Power
  73. Probable
  74. Property
  75. Purpose
  76. Quality
  77. Question
  78. Reason
  79. Relation
  80. Representative
  81. Respect
  82. Responsible
  83. Right
  84. Same
  85. Say
  86. Science
  87. See
  88. Seem
  89. Sense
  90. Sign
  91. Simple
  92. Society
  93. Sort
  94. Special
  95. Substance
  96. Thing
  97. Thought
  98. True
  99. Use
  100. Way
  101. Wise
  102. Word
  103. Work

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  107. The 100 Most Important Slang Words for Achieving a B2 to C2 Level of English.

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