750+ Most Common English Words Used in Daily Life

Learning English can be tough considering the vast vocabulary. However, learning commonly used English words is an excellent way to improve your conversation skills and confidence in speaking. Knowing at least 500 words is enough to begin conversing at a beginner level. This approach is more effective and helps build a solid foundation for English proficiency tests. With over 1.5 billion people speaking English globally, mastering these common English words is crucial for effective communication in various situations, such as shopping, writing, and conversing. The provided list of daily used English words with examples and meanings is an excellent starting point for anyone looking to improve their English vocabulary.

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25+ English Words Used in Daily Life with Meaning

Word	Meaning	Usage
Admission	The process of entering into an organization.	I got admission to the best engineering college.
Adolescent	Process of developing from a child to an adult.	The adolescent boy was excited to get to college.
Belt	A strip of material worn around the waist.	He wore a belt to tighten his pants.
Bench	A long seat for people.	They sat on the bench in the park.
Ceremony	An occasion celebrating an event.	The graduation ceremony was held yesterday.
Chain	A series of linked metal rings.	The bike chain had to be replaced.
Depict	Represent	The painting depicted the second world war.
Depression	A feeling of severe sadness.	Many people in this world suffer from depression.
Effort	A determined attempt	You should put more effort to achieve your goals.
Egg	An oval object laid by a female bird for reproduction.	I had eggs for breakfast.
Fate	Development of events outside a person's control.	He believes in his fate.
Fault	A defect or imperfection	He finds fault with everything he sees.
Gift	A present	I got a wonderful gift on my birthday.
Glad	Experience joy	I am glad to spend time with you.
Heel	The back part of the foot below the ankle.	Her heel was severely injured after the game.
Height	The measurement of someone from head to foot.	The height of the mountain is jaw-dropping.
Impress	Feel admiration	I don't want to impress anyone.
Improve	Become better	You have to improve your grades in the next exam.
Legitimate	Conforming to the law	I think his excuse is legitimate.
Learn	Gain knowledge	Age is not a reason to stop learning.
Market	A place where people purchase things.	The market was crowded today.
Marriage	Formal recognition of the union of two people as partners	Their marriage function was held at a beautiful place.
Newspaper	Printed publication	It is good to develop the habit of reading newspapers daily.
Nomination	Formally enter as candidate	The nomination for the Oscar Award was fair this year.
Odor	An unpleasant smell	The room freshener helped in removing the odor from the room.
Pacify	To calm someone	The mother tried to pacify the baby when she was crying.
Radiation	The emission of electromagnetic waves.	The radiation from that device is harmful to our health.
Sacrifice	Give up for the sake of something.	She had to sacrifice her career for her family.
Tactful	Showing skill and sensitivity in difficult situations.	She was tactful in expressing her opinion to the manager.

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List of Common English Words used in Daily Life

A

• Abandon
• ability
• able
• abortion
• about
• Above
• Abroad
• absence
• absolute
• absolutely
• absorb
• abuse
• academic
• accept
• Access
• accident
• accompany
• Accomplish
• according
• account
• accurate
• accuse
• Achieve
• Achievement
• acid
• acknowledge
• Acknowledgement
• acquire
• across
• act
• Action
• active
• activist
• activity
• actor
• actress
• actual
• actually
• ad
• adapt
• Add
• addition
• Additional
• address
• adequate
• Adjust
• adjustment
• administration
• administrator
• admire

B

• Baby
• Back
• background
• bad
• badly
• bag
• bake
• Balance
• ball
• ban
• Banana
• band
• bank
• bar
• barely
• Bark
• barrel
• barrier
• base
• baseball
• basic
• basically
• basis
• Basket
• basketball
• bathroom
• battery
• battle
• be
• Beach
• bean
• bear
• Beat
• Beautiful
• beauty
• Because
• become
• Bed
• bedroom
• beer
• Before
• begin
• beginning
• behaviour
• behind
• being
• Belated
• belief
• Believe
• Bell

C

• Cabin
• cabinet
• cable
• cake
• calculate
• call
• camera
• camp
• campaign
• campus
• can
• Canadian
• cancer
• candidate
• Cap
• capability
• capable
• capacity
• Capital
• Captain
• Captivate
• Capture
• Car
• carbon
• card
• Cardiac
• care
• career
• careful
• carefully
• Careless
• Carnival
• carrier
• Carry
• case
• Cash
• cast
• Casual
• cat
• Catastrophe
• Catch
• Categorise
• category
• Catholic
• cause
• ceiling
• celebrate
• celebration
• celebrity
• Cell

D

• Dad
• daily
• damage
• Dance
• danger
• dangerous
• dare
• Dark
• darkness
• data
• date
• daughter
• Day
• dead
• deal
• dealer
• dear
• Death
• debate
• debt
• decade
• Decide
• decision
• deck
• declare
• decline
• decrease
• Deep
• deeply
• deer
• Defeat
• defend
• defendant
• defense
• defensive
• deficit
• define
• definitely
• definition
• degree
• delay
• deliver
• delivery
• demand
• democracy
• Democrat
• democratic
• demonstrate
• demonstration
• deny
• department
• Depend

E

• E-mail
• Each
• eager
• ear
• early
• earn
• earnings
• earth
• ease
• easily
• East
• eastern
• easy
• Eat
• economic
• economics
• economist
• economy
• edge
• edition
• editor
• educate
• education
• educational
• educator
• Effect
• effective
• effectively
• efficiency
• Efficient

F

• Fabric
• Fabulous
• Face
• facility
• Fact
• factor
• factory
• faculty
• fade
• fail
• failure
• fair
• fairly
• faith
• Fake
• fall
• familiar
• Family
• famous
• Fan
• Fantastic
• fantasy
• Far
• Farm
• farmer
• Farmers
• fashion
• Fast
• Fasten
• Fat

G

• Gain
• galaxy
• gallery
• Game
• gang
• gap
• garage
• garden
• garlic
• Gas
• gate
• gather
• gay
• gaze
• gear
• gender
• gene
• general
• generally
• generate
• generation
• genetic
• gentleman
• gently
• Genuine
• German
• gesture
• get
• ghost
• Giant

H

• Habit
• habitat
• hair
• half
• hall
• hand
• handful
• handle
• Hang
• happen
• Happy
• hard
• hardly
• Harsh
• hat
• hate
• Have
• He
• Head
• headline
• headquarters
• Health
• healthy
• hear
• hearing
• heart
• heat
• heaven
• heavily
• Heavy

I

• Ice
• Idea
• ideal
• identification
• identify
• identity
• ie
• if
• Ignore
• ill
• illegal
• illness
• Illuminate
• illustrate
• image
• imagination
• imagine
• immediate
• immediately
• immigrant
• immigration
• impact
• implement
• implication
• imply
• Import
• importance
• Important
• impose
• Impossible

J

• Jacket
• jail
• Japanese
• jet
• Jew
• Jewish
• job
• join
• joint
• joke
• journal
• journalist
• journey
• joy
• judge
• judgment
• juice
• jump
• junior
• jury
• just
• justice
• Justify

K

• Keep
• key
• Kick
• Kid
• kill
• killer
• killing
• kind
• king
• kiss
• Kitchen
• knee
• knife
• knock
• know
• Knowledge

L

• Lab
• label
• labor
• laboratory
• lack
• lady
• lake
• Land
• landscape
• Language
• lap
• Large
• largely
• Last
• late
• later
• Latin
• latter
• Laugh
• Launch
• Lavish
• law
• lawn
• lawsuit
• lawyer
• lay
• layer
• lead
• Leader
• Leadership

M

• Machine
• mad
• Made
• magazine
• Magnificent
• mail
• Main
• mainly
• maintain
• maintenance
• major
• majority
• make
• maker
• makeup
• male
• mall
• man
• manage
• management
• manager
• manner
• manufacturer
• manufacturing
• many
• Map
• March
• margin
• Marine
• Mark

N

• Naked
• Name
• narrative
• narrow
• nation
• national
• native
• natural
• naturally
• nature
• Near
• nearby
• nearly
• necessarily
• necessary
• neck
• Need
• negative
• negotiate
• negotiation
• neighbor
• neighborhood
• neither
• nerve
• nervous
• net
• network
• Never
• nevertheless
• New

O

• Object
• objective
• obligation
• observation
• observe
• observer
• obtain
• obvious
• obviously
• occasion
• occasionally
• occupation
• occupy
• occur
• ocean
• odd
• odds
• of
• Off
• offense
• offensive
• offer
• Office
• officer
• Official
• Often
• oh
• oil
• ok
• Okay

P

• Pace
• pack
• package
• page
• pain
• painful
• Paint
• painter
• painting
• Pair
• pale
• Palestinian
• palm
• Pamper
• pan
• panel
• pant
• paper
• Paragraph
• parent
• Park
• parking
• part
• participant
• participate
• participation
• particular
• particularly
• partly
• Partner

Q

• Qualify
• quality
• quarter
• quarterback
• question
• quick
• quickly
• quiet
• quietly
• quit
• quite
• Quote

R

• Race
• racial
• Rack
• radical
• radio
• Raft
• rail
• Rain
• raise
• Random
• Range
• rank
• rapid
• rapidly
• rare
• rarely
• Rat
• rate
• rather
• rating
• ratio
• raw
• Ray
• Reach
• react
• reaction
• read
• reader
• reading
• Ready

S

• Sacred
• Sad
• Safe
• safety
• Sail
• sake
• salad
• salary
• sale
• sales
• salt
• same
• sample
• sanction
• Sand
• satellite
• satisfaction
• satisfy
• sauce
• save
• saving
• Saw
• Say
• scale
• scandal
• Scare
• scared
• scenario
• scene
• Schedule

T

• Table
• tablespoon
• Tackle
• tactic
• tail
• take
• tale
• Talent
• Talk
• tall
• tank
• tap
• tape
• target
• Task
• taste
• tax
• taxpayer
• tea
• Teach
• teacher
• teaching
• Team
• tear
• teaspoon
• technical
• technique
• technology
• teen
• Teenage

U

• Ugly
• ultimate
• ultimately
• unable
• uncle
• under
• undergo
• understand
• understanding
• unfortunately
• uniform
• union
• unique
• unit
• United
• universal
• universe
• university
• unknown
• unless
• unlike
• unlikely
• until
• unusual
• Up
• upon
• upper
• urban
• urge
• Us

V

• Vacation
• valley
• valuable
• Value
• Vanish
• variable
• variation
• variety
• Various
• vary
• vast
• vegetable
• Vegetables
• Vehicle
• venture
• version
• versus
• very
• vessel
• veteran
• via
• victim
• Victory
• video
• view
• viewer
• village
• violate
• violation
• violence

W

• Wage
• wait
• wake
• Walk
• wall
• Wander
• want
• Wanted
• war
• Warm
• warn
• warning
• wash
• waste
• Watch
• Water
• wave
• Waves
• Way
• We
• weak
• wealth
• wealthy
• weapon
• wear
• weather
• wedding
• week
• weekend
• Weekly

Y

• Yard
• Yawn
• yeah
• year
• yell
• yellow
• Yes
• Yesterday
• yet
• yield
• You
• young
• your
• yours
• yourself
• Youth

Z

• Zone

FAQ

1. Why should I learn new words in English?

English is necessary to understand, communicate and be aware of the world around us. It helps us to speak, write, and read English in a better way.

2. What are some uncommon words in English?

Here are some lesser-used words in English:

1. Petrichor - The pleasant smell of Earth that accompanies the first rain.
2. Defenestration - The act of someone/something out of the window.
3. Mellifluous - A pleasant musical sound.
4. Serendipity - The occurrence of good events by luck.
5. Limerence - A state of mind resulting from romantic feelings.

3. How can I improve my English vocabulary?

Learn new words and their meanings daily. Develop the habit of reading books and newspapers. Use the words that you learned while speaking and writing.

4. How can I speak fluent English?

Practice speaking in English more often. You can record your talk and then listen to it and improve your vocabulary. Learn to deliver what you say confidently without being afraid of making mistakes.

5. What are the 5 words that can help me write a better email?

1. Expedite - make something happen quickly.
2. Resolute - determined
3. Tenacious - firm
4. Prudent - showing care
5. Sincere - expressing genuine concern