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The Vocabulary.com Top 1000

May 19, 2011
The top 1,000 vocabulary words have been carefully chosen to represent difficult but common words that appear in everyday academic and business writing. These words are also the most likely to appear on the SAT, ACT, GRE, and ToEFL.
To create this list, we started with the words that give our users the most trouble and then ranked them by how frequently they appear in our corpus of billions of words from edited sources. If you only have time to study one list of words, this is the list.

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Thursday September 15th 2011, 12:42 AM
Comment by: varun J.
well done!
Friday September 23rd 2011, 1:05 AM
Comment by: Hyuna K.
good job
Thursday September 29th 2011, 1:30 PM
Comment by: masoud Osmanzade
fantastic
Sunday October 2nd 2011, 3:34 AM
Comment by: Rohit S.
cool :)
Sunday October 9th 2011, 1:16 PM
Comment by: Aditya B.
I like it
Wednesday October 12th 2011, 8:08 PM
Comment by: Rosemarie C.
i like it. knowlegible.
Friday October 14th 2011, 5:42 PM
Comment by: Giedre R.
offidavit
Sunday October 16th 2011, 11:37 PM
Comment by: jane C.
how do i study this list in the challenge?
Thursday October 20th 2011, 9:58 AM
Comment by: Barak S.
I would like to repeat to Jane C.'s question. Is it possible to force "the challenge" to choose new words from this list?
Thursday October 20th 2011, 12:17 PM
Comment by: Ben Zimmer (New York, NY)Visual Thesaurus ContributorVisual Thesaurus Moderator
Jane and Barak: We're actually working on making word lists available in the Challenge. Stay tuned for further developments!
Monday October 31st 2011, 6:40 PM
Comment by: Vanya M. (London United Kingdom)
useful !
Saturday November 5th 2011, 1:39 PM
Comment by: Alexander H.
perfect.
Wednesday November 9th 2011, 11:17 AM
Comment by: srinu D.
its very helpful
Tuesday November 15th 2011, 1:47 PM
Comment by: Bjorn N. (Riyadh Saudi Arabia)
You make my day. Every day.
Tuesday November 15th 2011, 5:22 PM
Comment by: rahul B.
^ ^
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Sunday November 20th 2011, 2:06 AM
Comment by: pooyan M.
i cant afford better one!
Thursday November 24th 2011, 11:37 PM
Comment by: piyush V.
This site is awesome.. and made our life so easy to learn these word.. Great Job..
Friday November 25th 2011, 9:18 AM
Comment by: Thomas W.
Good Job..
Monday November 28th 2011, 2:42 AM
Comment by: jaggrat S.
it is a noble work...great job ...can u guys please do a favor for me by making a list of words that can help me in CAT Exam (Common Aptitude Test).....
Saturday December 10th 2011, 7:40 PM
Comment by: armi
Great!
Wednesday December 14th 2011, 5:02 AM
Comment by: Janak A.
You are making it is easy to improve vocabulary
Tuesday December 20th 2011, 5:36 AM
Comment by: Fairuz A.
super like:)
Wednesday December 28th 2011, 3:56 AM
Comment by: h T.
Very cool. Does anybody know how to add ALL of these to the challenge? Thanks in advance.
Wednesday January 11th, 2:19 AM
Comment by: Ranjani K.
simply superb
Saturday January 14th, 2:11 AM
Comment by: komal A.
nice :)
Tuesday January 17th, 12:14 PM
Comment by: Dani O.
Quick question -- does anyone know if there is a way to add an entire LIST of words to the words you want to learn? I'd love to give this to my students to assist in their vocab mastery, but also want a way to know what words they are learning!
Great list of words!
Thursday January 19th, 6:37 PM
Comment by: Chaz
Great!
Wednesday February 1st, 4:07 AM
Comment by: Elijah L.
Wow!!! How much you needed to put up with, will shroud me with mystery, I fear, but I will try studying it all! Amazing!!!
Friday February 10th, 12:31 PM
Comment by: Ahmad Siyar J.
great.... but i know almost all of them...!
Friday February 10th, 2:19 PM
Comment by: Rosemary H.
Have you considered if it's possible, to organize these words by grade level?
Tuesday February 14th, 7:27 PM
Comment by: hannah T.
really helpful
Wednesday February 15th, 8:38 AM
Comment by: v K.
very nice
Sunday March 4th, 3:49 PM
Comment by: Sarah R.
Awesome! Love it!
Sunday March 4th, 3:50 PM
Comment by: Sarah R.
loving it!
Sunday March 4th, 3:51 PM
Comment by: Sarah R.
hi
Saturday April 7th, 10:49 AM
Comment by: Apple F.
cool list and I like it.
Monday April 9th, 6:52 PM
Comment by: Janusz B.
Is it possible to put "Listen" button somewhere on question board.
It is a good idea to read and listen the word.
Tuesday May 1st, 4:11 AM
Comment by: Hüseyin Z.
Exciting!
Friday May 4th, 12:34 PM
Comment by: JP R.
Can you tell us what percentage of the words correspond with those on the AWL, GSL, etc?
Saturday May 5th, 12:55 AM
Comment by: Abhay K.
Really appreciate your effort...but you do understand that learning a 1000 word list using the Learn List feature can be a pain. Having a feature to extract only the words I do not know would be useful.
Monday May 7th, 2:06 AM
Comment by: Dylan L.
knowledgeable!
Saturday May 12th, 7:45 AM
Comment by: Sana A.
I am learning The Vocabulary.com Top 1000 word list, and I would have seen perhaps 40 Assessment Question in that list. I haven’t seen again any of them yet as Review Question. It seems to me that if the words come the same way, I perhaps will see the first word that I saw as Assessment Question in that list, as Review Question after the 900th Assessment Question. What do you think? Will I remember them if the words will come after that much time? I am not criticizing. I just want to know.

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