Words to add to your English
Each word with pronunciation, definition, and real example sentences. Bookmark the ones you want to remember.
Building an English vocabulary is not about memorising long lists — it is about meeting the right words often enough that they start to feel like yours. The words collected here are the ones that quietly do the most work in real conversations and writing: not rare, showy words, but the mid-level ones that make you sound clear, precise and confident. Think pragmatic, resilient, leverage — words you have probably seen but might hesitate to use yourself.
Every word on this page comes with more than a definition. You get how it actually sounds when a native speaker says it, where it comes from, five example sentences set in different real-life situations, the words it naturally pairs with, and the one mistake learners most often make with it. The goal is that you leave each page able to use the word, not just recognise it.
A simple way to learn from this list: pick one word, read its page, then try to use it in a sentence about your own day before you close the tab. Come back tomorrow, add one more, and quietly review yesterday's. A word a day, actually used, adds up to hundreds a year.