Globish Core Words
Globish Core Vocabulary (as at 31 August 2011)
At this time, there are 1500 words that have been in use for some time. As Globish moves towards an international standard, it is important that the set of words accommodates the needs of those who will be using them - from wherever they may come. For this reason, suggestions with respect to vocabulary are welcome from international English experts. They should be emailed to us only with a clear explanation as to why the words should be included or excluded.
The following list is the current list (bold font indicates what to stress):
| a | able | about | above |
| accept | according (to) | account | accuse |
| achieve | across | act | adapt |
| add | admit | adult | advertisement |
| advise | affect | afraid | after |
| again | against | age | agency |
| ago | agree | ahead | aid |
| aim | air | alive | all |
| allow | ally | almost | alone |
| along | already | also | although |
| always | among | amount | and |
| anger | angle | announce | another |
| answer | any | apartment | apologize |
| appeal | appear | apple | apply |
| appoint | approve | area | argue |
| arm | army | around | arrest |
| arrive | art | as | ask |
| assist | at | attach | attack |
| attempt | attend | attention | authority |
| automatic | autumn | available | average |
| avoid | awake | award | away |
| baby | back | bad | bag |
| balance | ball | ballot | ban |
| bank | bar | barrier | base |
| basket | bath | battle | be |
| bear | beat | beauty | because |
| become | bed | beer | before |
| begin | behind | believe | bell |
| belong | below | bend | beside |
| best | betray | better | between |
| big | bill | bird | birth |
| bit | bite | black | blade |
| blame | blank | blanket | bleed |
| blind | block | blood | blow |
| blue | board | boat | body |
| bomb | bone | bonus | book |
| boot | border | born | borrow |
| boss | both | bottle | bottom |
| box | boy | boycott | brain |
| brake | branch | brave | bread |
| break | breathe | brick | bridge |
| brief | bright | bring | broad |
| broadcast | brother | brown | brush |
| budget | build | bullet | burn |
| burst | bury | business | busy |
| but | butter | button | buy |
| by | cabinet | call | calm |
| camera | camp | campaign | can |
| cancel | capture | car | card |
| care | carriage | carry | case |
| cash | cat | catch | cause |
| celebrate | cell | center | century |
| ceremony | certain | chain | chair |
| chairman | challenge | champion | chance |
| change | channel | character | charge |
| chart | chase | cheap | check |
| cheer | cheese | chemical | chest |
| chief | child | choose | church |
| circle | citizen | city | civilian |
| claim | clash | class | clean |
| clear | climate | climb | clock |
| close | cloth | cloud | coal |
| coast | coat | code | cold |
| collect | college | colony | color |
| combine | come | comfort | command |
| comment | committee | common | communicate |
| community | company | compare | compete |
| complete | compromise | computer | concern |
| condemn | condition | conference | confirm |
| congratulate | congress | connect | consider |
| consumption | contact | contain | continent |
| continue | control | cook | cool |
| cooperate | copy | cork | corn |
| corner | correct | cost | cotton |
| count | country | course | court |
| cover | cow | crash | create |
| credit | crew | crime | crisis |
| criteria | criticize | crop | cross |
| crowd | crush | cry | culture |
| cup | cure | current | custom |
| cut | damage | dance | danger |
| dark | date | daughter | day |
| dead | deaf | deal | dear |
| debate | debt | decide | declare |
| decrease | deep | defeat | defend |
| define | degree | delay | delicate |
| deliver | demand | demonstrate | denounce |
| deny | departure | depend | deploy |
| depression | describe | desert* | design |
| desire | destroy | detail | develop |
| device | die | diet | differ |
| difficult | dig | dinner | diplomat |
| direct | dirt | disappear | discover |
| discuss | disease | disk | dismiss |
| dispute | distance | divide | do |
| doctor | document | dog | door |
| doubt | down | drain | draw |
| dream | dress | drink | drive |
| drop | drug | dry | during |
| dust | duty | each | ear |
| early | earn | earth | east |
| easy | eat | edge | education |
| effect | effort | egg | either |
| elastic | electricity | element | else |
| embassy | emergency | emotion | employ |
| empty | end | enemy | enforce |
| engine | enjoy | enough | enter |
| entertain | environment | equal | equate |
| equipment | erase | escape | especially |
| establish | estimate | ethnic | evaporate |
| even | event | ever | every |
| evidence | evil | exact | example |
| except | exchange | excuse | execute |
| exercise | exist | exit | expand |
| expect | expense | experience | experiment |
| expert | explain | explode | explore |
| export* | express | extend | extra |
| extreme | eye | face | fact |
| factory | fail | fair | fall |
| false | family | famous | far |
| fast | fat | father | fear |
| feather | feature | feed | feel |
| female | fertile | few | field |
| fierce | fight | figure | file |
| fill | film | final | finance |
| find | fine | finger | finish |
| fire | firm | first | fish |
| fist | fit | fix | flag |
| flat | float | floor | flow |
| flower | fluid | fly | fog |
| fold | follow | food | fool |
| foot | for | forbid | force |
| foreign | forest | forget | forgive |
| form | former | forward | frame |
| free | freeze | fresh | friend |
| frighten | from | front | fruit |
| fuel | full | fun | future |
| gain | gallon | game | gang |
| garden | gas | gather | general |
| gentle | get | gift | girl |
| give | glass | global | go |
| goal | god | gold | good |
| govern | grass | gray (grey) | great |
| green | ground | group | grow |
| guarantee | guard | guess | guide |
| guilty | gun | guy | hair |
| half | halt | hand | hang |
| happen | happy | hard | harm |
| hat | hate | have | he |
| head | heal | health | hear |
| heart | heat | heavy | help |
| her | here | hide | high |
| hijack | hill | him | hire |
| his | history | hit | hold |
| hole | holiday | hollow | holy |
| home | honest | hope | horrible |
| horse | hospital | hostage | hostile |
| hot | hour | house | how |
| however | huge | human | humor |
| hunger | hunt | hurry | hurt |
| husband | I | ice | idea |
| identify | if | ill | imagine |
| import* | important | improve | in |
| inch | incident | include | increase* |
| independent | indicate | individual | industry |
| infect | influence | inform | inject |
| injure | innocent | insane | insect |
| inspect | instead | insult* | insurance |
| intelligence | intense | interest | interfere |
| international | into | invade | invent |
| invest | investigate | invite | involve |
| iron | island | issue | it |
| item | jacket | jail | jewel |
| job | join | joint | joke |
| joy | judge | jump | jury |
| just | keep | key | kick |
| kid | kill | kind | king |
| kiss | kit | kitchen | knife |
| know | labor | laboratory | lack |
| lake | land | language | large |
| last | late | laugh | law |
| lay | lead | leak | learn |
| least | leave | left | leg |
| legal | lend | length | less |
| let | letter | level | lie |
| lie | life | lift | light |
| like | limit | line | link |
| lip | liquid | list | listen |
| little | live | load | loan |
| local | locate | lock | log |
| lone | long | look | loose |
| lose | lot | loud | love |
| low | luck | main | |
| major | make | male | man |
| manufacture | many | map | march |
| mark | market | marry | master |
| match | material | matter | may |
| mayor | me | meal | mean |
| measure | meat | media | meet |
| member | memory | mental | mercy |
| message | metal | method | middle |
| might | mile | military | milk |
| mind | mine | minister | minor |
| miscellaneous | miss | mistake | mix |
| mob | model | moderate | modern |
| money | month | moon | moral |
| more | morning | most | mother |
| motion | mountain | mouth | move |
| much | murder | muscle | music |
| must | my | mystery | nail |
| name | narrow | nation | native |
| navy | near | necessary | neck |
| need | neighbor | neither | nerve |
| neutral | never | new | news |
| next | nice | night | no |
| noise | noon | normal | north |
| nose | not | note | nothing |
| notice | now | nowhere | number |
| obey | object | observe | occupy |
| occur | of | off | offensive |
| offer | office | officer | often |
| oil | old | on | once |
| only | open | operate | opinion |
| opportunity | opposite | oppress | or |
| order | organize | other | ounce |
| our | ours | oust | out |
| over | owe | own | page |
| pain | paint | pan | pants |
| paper | parade | parcel | parent |
| parliament | part | party | pass |
| passenger | past | paste | path |
| patient | pattern | pay | peace |
| pen | pencil | people | percent |
| perfect | perform | perhaps | period |
| permanent | permit | person | physical |
| pick | picture | piece | pig |
| pilot | pint | pipe | place |
| plain | plan | plane | plant |
| plastic | plate | play | please |
| plenty | point | poison | |
| policy | politics | pollute | poor |
| popular | port | position | possess |
| possible | postpone | potato | pound |
| pour | powder | power | practice |
| praise | pray | pregnant | present |
| press | pretty | prevent | price |
| prison | private | prize | |
| problem | process | product | professor |
| profit | program | progress* | project* |
| property | propose | protect | protest |
| prove | provide | public | publish |
| pull | punish | purchase | pure |
| purpose | push | put | quality |
| quart | quarter | queen | question |
| quick | quiet | quit | quite |
| race | radiation | raid | rail |
| rain | raise | range | rare |
| rate | rather | ray | reach |
| react | read | ready | real |
| reason | receive | recognize | record* |
| recover | red | reduce | refugee |
| refuse* | regret | regular | reject |
| relation | release | remain | remember |
| remove | repair | repeat | report |
| represent | request | require | rescue |
| research | resign | resist | resolution |
| resource | respect | responsible | rest |
| restrain | result | retire | return |
| revolt | reward | rice | rich |
| ride | right | ring | riot |
| rise | risk | river | road |
| rob | rock | rocket | roll |
| roof | room | root | rope |
| rough | round | row | rub |
| rubber | ruin | rule | run |
| sad | safe | sail | salt |
| same | sand | satisfy | save |
| say | scale | scare | school |
| science | score | script | sea |
| search | season | seat | second |
| secret | section | security | see |
| seed | seek | seem | seize |
| seldom | self | sell | senate |
| send | sense | sentence | separate |
| series | serious | serve | set |
| settle | several | severe | sex |
| shade | shake | shall | shame |
| shape | share | sharp | she |
| sheet | shelf | shell | shelter |
| shine | ship | shirt | shock |
| shoe | shoot | shop | short |
| should | shout | show | shrink |
| shut | sick | side | sign |
| signal | silence | silk | silver |
| similar | simple | since | sing |
| single | sister | sit | situation |
| size | skill | skin | skirt |
| sky | slave | sleep | slide |
| slip | slow | small | smart |
| smash | smell | smile | smoke |
| smooth | snack | snake | sneeze |
| snow | so | soap | social |
| society | soft | soil | soldier |
| solid | solve | some | son |
| song | soon | sorry | sort |
| soul | sound | south | space |
| speak | special | speech | speed |
| spell | spend | spirit | spot |
| spread | spring | spy | square |
| stage | stairs | stamp | stand |
| star | start | starve | state |
| station | status | stay | steal |
| steam | steel | step | stick |
| still | stomach | stone | stop |
| store | storm | story | straight |
| strange | stream | street | stretch |
| strike | string | strong | structure |
| struggle | study | stupid | subject |
| substance | substitute | succeed | such |
| sudden | suffer | sugar | suggest |
| suit | summer | sun | supervise |
| supply | support | suppose | suppress |
| sure | surface | surprise | surround |
| survive | suspect | suspend | swallow |
| swear | sweet | swim | symbol |
| sympathy | system | table | tail |
| take | talk | tall | target |
| task | taste | tax | tea |
| teach | team | tear | tear |
| tell | term | terrible | territory |
| terror | test | than | thank |
| that | the | theater | their |
| theirs | them | then | theory |
| there | these | they | thick |
| thin | thing | think | third |
| this | those | though | thought |
| threaten | through | throw | thus |
| tie | tight | time | tin |
| tiny | tire | title | to |
| today | together | tomorrow | tone |
| tongue | tonight | too | tool |
| tooth | top | total | touch |
| toward | town | track | trade |
| tradition | traffic | train | transport* |
| travel | treason | treasure | treat |
| treaty | tree | trial | tribe |
| trick | trip | troop | trouble |
| truck | true | trust | try |
| tube | turn | twice | tyre |
| under | understand | unit | universe |
| unless | until | up | upon |
| urge | us | use | valley |
| value | vary | vegetable | vehicle |
| version | very | veto | vicious |
| victim | victory | view | violence |
| visit | voice | volume | vote |
| wage | wait | walk | wall |
| want | war | warm | warn |
| wash | waste | watch | water |
| wave | way | we | weak |
| wealth | weapon | wear | weather |
| week | weight | welcome | well |
| west | wet | what | wheat |
| wheel | when | where | whether |
| which | while | white | who |
| whole | why | wide | wife |
| wild | will | win | wind |
| window | wine | wing | winter |
| wire | wise | wish | with |
| withdraw | without | woman | wonder |
| wood | wool | word | work |
| world | worry | worse | worth |
| wound | wreck | write | wrong |
| yard | year | yellow | yes |
| yesterday | yet | you | young |