A2 CEFR Vocabulary Word List
Here are the words for A2 CEFR level. This list builds on the words that are in the A1 level word list. For the next level of words, see the B1 level word list.
In our Word Bank, A2 words are divided into word types, with examples, collocations and IPA phonetic transcription.
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ability (n) able (adj) abroad (adv) to accept (v) accident (n) to achieve (v) to act (v) active (adj) actually (adv) advantage (n) adventure (n) to advertise (v) advertisement (n) advertising (n) advice (n) to affect (v) after (prep / conj) against (prep) to agree (v) ah (interj) airline (n) alive (adj) all (det / pron) to allow (v) almost (adv) alone (adj / adv) along (prep / adv) already (adv) although (conj) among (prep) amount (n) ancient (adj) ankle (n) |
any (det / pron) anybody (pron) any more (adv) anyway (adv) anywhere (adv) app (n) to appear (v) appearance (n) to apply (v) architect (n) architecture (n) to argue (v) argument (n) army (n) around (adv) to arrange (v) arrangement (n) as (prep / conj) asleep (adj) assistant (n) athlete (n) attack (n) / to attack (v) to attend (v) attention (n) attractive (adj) audience (n) author (n) available (adj) average (n / adj) to avoid (v) award (n) awful (adj) |
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background (n) badly (adv) baseball (n) basketball (n) bass (n) (guitar/music) bean (n) bear (n) (animal) to beat (v) beef (n) before (prep / conj / adv) to behave (v) to belong (v) belt (n) benefit (n) best (adj / adv) better (adj / adv) between (prep) billion (num) bin (n) biology (n) birth (n) biscuit (n) bit (n) |
blank (adj) blood (n) to blow (v) board (n) to boil (v) bone (n) to book (v) to borrow (v) boss (n) bottom (n / adj) bowl (n) brain (n) bridge (n) bright (adj) brilliant (adj) broken (adj) brush (n) / to brush (v) buddy (n) to burn (v) businessman (n) butterfly (n) button (n) |
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camp (n) / to camp (v) camping (n) can (n) (container) care (n) / to care (v) careful (adj) carefully (adv) carpet (n) cartoon (n) case (n) cash (n) casino (n) castle (n) to catch (v) to cause (v) / cause (n) to celebrate (v) celebrity (n) certain (adj) certainly (adv) chance (n) character (n) charity (n) chat (n) / to chat (v) chef (n) chemistry (n) chip (n) choice (n) church (n) cigarette (n) circle (n) classical (adj) clear (adj) clearly (adv) clever (adj) climate (n) close (adj / adv) closed (adj) clothing (n) cloud (n) coach (n) (bus) coast (n) code (n) coin (n) colleague (n) |
to collect (v) column (n) comedy (n) comfortable (adj) common (adj) comment (n) to communicate (v) community (n) to compare (v) to compete (v) competition (n) to complain (v) completely (adv) condition (n) conference (n) to connect (v) connected (adj) to consider (v) to contain (v) continent (n) to continue (v) conversation (n) control (n) / to control (v) cook (n) (person) cooker (n) (appliance) copy (n) / to copy (v) corner (n) correctly (adv) to count (v) couple (n) crazy (adj) creative (adj) crime (n) criminal (n / adj) cross (n) / to cross (v) crowd (n) crowded (adj) to cry (v) cupboard (n) curly (adj) cute (adj) cycle (n) / to cycle (v) |
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daily (adj / adv) danger (n) dark (adj / n) dead (adj) to deal with (v) death (n) decision (n) deep (adj) definitely (adv) degree (n) dentist (n) department (n) to depend (v) to describe (v) description (n) desert (n) design (n) / to design (v) designer (n) to destroy (v) detective (n) to develop (v) device (n) diary (n) difference (n) differently (adv) digital (adj) |
direct (adj / v) direction (n) director (n) to disagree (v) to disappear (v) disaster (n) to discover (v) discovery (n) discussion (n) disease (n) distance (n) divorced (adj) document (n) double (adj / det / v) to download (v) downstairs (adv / adj) drama (n) drawing (n) dream (n) / to dream (v) drive (n) (journey) driving (n) (activity) to drop (v) drug (n) dry (adj / v) duck (n) |
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to earn (v) earth (n) easily (adv) education (n) either (det / pron / adv) electric (adj) electrical (adj) electricity (n) electronic (adj) to employ (v) employee (n) employer (n) empty (adj) ending (n) energy (n) engine (n) engineer (n) enormous (adj) to enter (v) enough (adv) |
equipment (n) error (n) especially (adv) essay (n) everyday (adj) everywhere (adv) exact (adj) exactly (adv) excellent (adj) except (prep / conj) to exist (v) to expect (v) experience (n) experiment (n) expert (n / adj) explanation (n) to express (v) expression (n) extreme (adj) extremely (adv) |
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factory (n) to fail (v) fair (adj) fan (n) farming (n) fashion (n) fat (adj / n) fear (n) feeling (n) female (adj / n) fiction (n) field (n) fight (n) / to fight (v) figure (n) film (n) / to film (v) finally (adv) finger (n) first (adj / adv) firstly (adv) to fish (v) |
fishing (n) fit (adj) (healthy) flag (n) flat (adj) flu (n) flying (n / adj) to focus (v) following (adj) foreign (adj) forest (n) fork (n) formal (adj) fortunately (adv) forward (adv) fresh (adj) fridge (n) frog (n) furniture (n) further (adv) |
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gallery (n) gap (n) gas (n) gate (n) general (adj) gift (n) goal (n) goat (n) god (n) gold (n / adj) |
golf (n) government (n) grape (n) grass (n) to greet (v) ground (n) guest (n) guide (n) / to guide (v) gun (n) guy (n) |
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habit (n) half (n / det) hall (n) happily (adv) headache (n) heart (n) heat (n) heavy (adj) height (n) helpful (adj) hero (n) hers (pron) herself (pron) to hide (v) |
high (adj / adv) hill (n) himself (pron) his (det / pron) hit (n) / to hit (v) hockey (n) to hold (v) hole (n) hope (n) horn (n) huge (adj) human (n / adj) to hurry (v) / hurry (n) to hurt (v) |
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ideal (adj) idiot (n) ill (adj) illness (n) image (n) to imagine (v) immediately (adv) impossible (adj) included (adj) including (prep) to increase (v) incredible (adj) independent (adj) individual (n / adj) industry (n) informal (adj) injury (n) |
ink (n) insect (n) inside (adv / prep) instead (adv) instruction (n) instructor (n) instrument (n) intelligent (adj) international (adj) introduction (n) to invent (v) invention (n) invitation (n) to invite (v) to involve (v) item (n) itself (pron) |
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jam (n) jazz (n) jewellery (n) |
joke (n) journalist (n) to jump (v) |
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to kick (v) kid (n) to kill (v) king (n) to kiss (v) / kiss (n) |
knee (n) knife (n) to knock (v) knowledge (n) |
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lab (n) lady (n) lake (n) lamp (n) to land (v) laptop (n) last (adj / adv) laughter (n) law (n) lawyer (n) lazy (adj) to lead (v) / lead (n) leader (n) learning (n) least (det / pron / adv) lecture (n) lemon (n) to lend (v) less (det / pron / adv) level (n) |
lifestyle (n) lift (n) / to lift (v) light (adj) (not heavy) likely (adj) link (n) / to link (v) listener (n) litre (n) little (adj / det) local (adj) lock (n) / to lock (v) look (n) lorry (n) lost (adj) loud (adj) loudly (adv) lovely (adj) low (adj) luck (n) lucky (adj) |
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mail (n) / to mail (v) major (adj) male (adj / n) to manage (v) manager (n) manner (n) mark (n) / to mark (v) to marry (v) mask (n) material (n) mathematics (n) maths (n) matter (n) / to matter (v) may (v) media (n) medical (adj) medicine (n)memory (n) |
to mention (v) metal (n) middle (n / adj) might (v) mind (n) / to mind (v) mine (pron) mirror (n) missing (adj) mobile (adj) monkey (n) moon (n) mostly (adv) motorcycle (n) movement (n) musical (adj / n) musician (n) myself (pron) |
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narrow (adj) national (adj) natural (adj) nature (n) near (adv) nearly (adv) necessary (adj) neck (n) need (n) neither (det / pron) nervous (adj) nest (n) |
net (n) network (n) noise (n) noisy (adj) none (pron) normal (adj) normally (adv) notice (n) / to notice (v) novel (n) nowhere (adv) nut (n) |
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ocean (n) offer (n) / to offer (v) officer (n) oil (n) onto (prep) option (n) ordinary (adj) |
organisation (n) to organise (v) original (adj / n) ourselves (pron) outside (adv / prep / adj / n) oven (n) owner (n) |
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pack (n) / to pack (v) pain (n) painter (n) palace (n) pants (n) parking (n) particular (adj) to pass (v) passenger (n) past (adj / n / prep) patient (n) pattern (n) peace (n) pear (n) penny (n) per (prep) per cent (n) to perform (v) perhaps (adv) permission (n) personality (n) pet (n) petrol (n) to photograph (v) physical (adj) physics (n) to pick (v) pilot (n) pirate (n) planet (n) to plant (v) plastic (n / adj) plate (n) platform (n) pleased (adj) |
plug (n) pocket (n) polite (adj) pollution (n) pond (n) pop (n / v) (music/sound) population (n) position (n) possession (n) possibility (n) poster (n) power (n) to predict (v) to prefer (v) to prepare (v) present (n / adj) president (n) to prevent (v) to print (v) printer (n) prison (n) prize (n) professional (adj / n) professor (n) profile (n) program (n) progress (n) promise (n) / to promise (v) to pronounce (v) to protect (v) pub (n) public (adj / n) to publish (v) to pull (v) to push (v) |
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quality (n) quantity (n) |
queen (n) quietly (adv) |
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race (n) (run) railway (n) to raise (v) rat (n) rate (n) rather (adv) to reach (v) to react (v) to realise (v) to receive (v) recent (adj) recently (adv) reception (n) recipe (n) to recognise (v) to recommend (v) record (n) / to record (v) recording (n) to recycle (v) to reduce (v) to refer (v) to refuse (v) region (n) regular (adj) |
relationship (n) to remove (v) to repair (v) to replace (v) reply (n) / to reply (v) to report (v) reporter (n) request (n) / to request (v) researcher (n) rest (n) / to rest (v) review (n) / to review (v) ride (n) ring (n) (jewellery) to ring (v) (phone/bell) rock (n) (music) role (n) roof (n) round (adj / prep) routine (n) rubbish (n) rude (adj) run (n) runner (n) running (n) |
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sadly (adv) safe (adj) sail (n) / to sail (v) sailing (n) salary (n) sale (n) sauce (n) to save (v) scared (adj) scarf (n) scary (adj) scene (n) schedule (n) score (n) / to score (v) screen (n) search (n) / to search (v) season (n) seat (n) second (adj / adv) (next) secondly (adv) secret (n / adj) secretary (n) to seem (v) to sell (v) sense (n) separate (adj) series (n) serious (adj) to serve (v) service (n) several (det) to shake (v) shall (v) to share (v) shape (n) sheet (n) ship (n) shoulder (n) to shout (v) to shut (v) side (n) sign (n) silver (n / adj) similar (adj) simple (adj) since (prep / conj) singing (n) single (adj) sir (n) site (n) size (n) ski (n) / to ski (v) skiing (n) skin (n) sky (n) slowly (adv) |
smartphone (n) smell (n) / to smell (v) smile (n) / to smile (v) smoke (n) / to smoke (v) smoking (n) soap (n) soccer (n) social (adj) sock (n) soft (adj) soldier (n) solution (n) somewhere (adv) sort (n) speaker (n) specific (adj) speech (n) speed (n) spider (n) spoon (n) square (n / adj) squirrel (n) stage (n) stair (n) stamp (n) star (n) state (n) statement (n) to stay (v) to steal (v) step (n) / to step (v) still (adv) stomach (n) stone (n) store (n) storm (n) straight (adj / adv) strange (adj) strawberry (n) stress (n) stupid (adj) to succeed (v) successful (adj) such (det) suddenly (adv) to suggest (v) suggestion (n) suit (n) support (n) / to support (v) to suppose (v) surprise (n) / to surprise (v) surprised (adj) surprising (adj) sweet (adj) swing (n) / to swing (v) |
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tablet (n) talk (n) target (n) task (n) taste (n) / to taste (v) teaching (n) technology (n) teenage (adj) temperature (n) tent (n) term (n) to text (v) themselves (pron) thick (adj) thief (n) thin (adj) thinking (n) third (num) thought (n) to throw (v) tidy (adj / v) tie (n) / to tie (v) tiger (n) |
tip (n) toe (n) tool (n) top (n / adj) total (adj) to touch (v) tour (n) tourism (n) towards (prep) towel (n) tower (n) toy (n) track (n) tradition (n) traditional (adj) trainers (n) training (n) transport (n) traveller (n) trouble (n) truck (n) twin (n) typical (adj) |
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underground (adj / adv) understanding (n) unfortunately (adv) unhappy (adj) uniform (n) unit (n) united (adj) unusual (adj) |
upset (adj) upstairs (adv / adj) use (n) used to (v) useful (adj) user (n) usual (adj) |
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valley (n) van (n) variety (n) |
view (n) virus (n) voice (n) |
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war (n) washing (n) wave (n) / to wave (v) weak (adj) web (n) wedding (n) weight (n) welcome (n / adj / v) wet (adj) wheel (n) while (conj) whole (adj) whose (det / pron) |
wide (adj) wild (adj) wind (n) winner (n) wish (n) / to wish (v) wood (n) wooden (adj) working (adj) worried (adj) to worry (v) / worry (n) worse (adj / adv) worst (adj / adv) wow (interj) |
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yet (adv) yours (pron) |
zero (num) |
