NGSL 1000 — Most Common English Words

The name of the Latin script letter A/a; To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto; He, she, they: the third-person singular or plural nominative

The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power

To make ready; Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task

To change the course of (a ship) to the other tack; to bring (a ship) about; Moving around or in motion; astir; On all sides, or in every or any direction from a point; around

Something, especially a person's name in legal documents, that appears higher on the same page or on a preceding page; Of heaven; heavenly; Directly overhead; vertically on top of

To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval; Something that is accepted

To gain or obtain access to; A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage

To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action

To provide explanation; A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review

To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance

(crosswords, often in combination) A word that runs horizontally in the completed puzzle grid or its associated clue; From one side to the other; To, toward or from the far side of (something that lies between two points of interest)

To do something; Something done, a deed

To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect; Something done so as to accomplish a purpose

The state or quality of being active; activeness

(modal) In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively

To join or unite (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars) so as to increase the number, augment the quantity or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to...; The addition of a song to a station's playlist

The act of adding anything

To prepare oneself

To (cause to) be or become an adult; A fully grown human or animal; Fully grown

To promote or advantage; A forward move; improvement or progression; Completed before necessary or a milestone event

To provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to; Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end

To influence or alter; A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs

Of before-and-after images: the one that shows the difference after a specified treatment; Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequent; Behind; later in time; following

The part of the day from noon or lunchtime until sunset, evening, or suppertime or 6pm; (more often in the plural) In the afternoon

Another time; once more; (obsolete or dialectal) Against

In a contrary direction to; By the time that (something happened); before

To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; The amount of time that some being has been alive, or that some thing has been in existence, as measured from its birth or origin until the present or until...

The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power

One who exerts power, or has the power to act

Gone; gone by; gone away; passed; passed away