VOCABULARY LIST - STARTING FROM "C"
cab (n) cabbage (n) cabin (n) cabinet
(n) cable (n) cafe/cafe (n) cafeteria (n) cage (n) cake (n) calculator (n) calendar (n) calf (n)
call (n & v) call for (phr v)
• I'll call for you at 7. call in (phr v)
• She called in
to see a friend. calm (adj)
camel (n) camera (n) camp (n & v) camping (n) campsite (n) can (n & mv)
canal (n) cancel (v) candidate (n) candle (n) candy (n) canteen (n) cap (n)
capital
(adj & n)
•
capital city
•
capital letter
• the capital of Italy captain (n)
car(n)
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card (n)
•
birthday card
•
credit card
• card game cardboard (adj & n) care (n & v)
•
take care of someone (n)
• to care (about/for) someone/something (v)
career (n) careful (adj) carefully
(ad) careless (adj)
car park (n) (Br Eng) (Am Eng: parking lot)
carpet (n) carrot
(n) carry (v)
carry on (phr v)
• He carried on walking
despite the rain.
carry out (phr v)
• She carried out the
plan according to the instructions.
cartoon
(n) case (n)
• Would you like me to carry
your case?
• I'll make an exception in this case.
cash (n) cashpoint (n) castle (n)
casual (adj)
• casual clothes cat (n)
catch (v)
cathedral (n)
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cattle (n) cave (n) CD (n)
CD player (n) CD-Rom (n) ceiling (n) celebrate (v) celebration (n)
celebrity (n) cell phone (n) cent (n)
centimetre I centimeter (em) (n) central (adj)
central heating (n) centre/center (n) century (n)
cereal (n) ceremony (n) certain (adj) certainly (not)
(adv) certificate (n)
chain (n) chair (n) challenge (n)
challenging (adj) champion (n) championship (n) chance
(n) change (n & v) changing
room (n) channel (n) chapter (n) character (n) charge (n & v) charity (n) charming (adj) chat (n)
chatroom (n)
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chat show (n) (Br Eng) (Am Eng: talk show)
cheap (adj) cheat (v) check (n & v)
check in (phr v)
• They checked in to a hotel. check-in (n)
• Your keys are at the check-
in desk.
check out (phr v)
• He checked out of the
hotel at the end of his stay.
checkout (n) cheek(n) cheerful (adj) cheers! (exclam) cheese (n)
chef (n) chemist
(n) chemistry (n) cheque (n) chess(n)
chest of drawers (n) chicken (n)
child (n) childhood (n) chilli (n)
chin (n) chip (n)
• I
love fish and chips. chocolate (n)
choice (n) choose (v)
cinema (n) circle (n) circus
(n) city (n) clap (v) class (n)
•
language class
|
•
first class, second
class classical (adj)
·
classical music classmate (n) classroom (n) clean (adj & v) cleaner (n)
clear (adj & v) clearly
(adv) clever (adj) click (n & v) cliff
(n) climate (n) climb (v) climbing
(n) clinic (n) clock (n)
close (adj, adv & v) closed (adj)
clothes (n pi) cloud (n) cloudy (adj) clown (n) club (n)
•
to join a club coach (n)
coast (n) coat (n) coconut (n) cod (n) coffee (n) coin (n) cola (n)
cold (adj & n) collar(n) colleague (n) collect (v)
collection (n) college (n) colour (n &
v)
colourful (adj)
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comb (n & v) come (v) comedy (n) come on (phr v)
• Come on or we'll miss the bus.
comfort (n) comfortable (adj) comic (adj & n) comma
(n) common (adj)
•
a common surname
• have something in common communicate (v) communication (n)
company (n) compare (v) compete (v) competition (n)
competitor (n) complain (v) complaint (n) complete (adj & v) complicated
(adj) composition (n) computer (n) concentrate (v) concert (n) conclusion (n)
condition (n)
• in good condition conference (n) confident (adj) confirm(v)
confused (adj) confusing (adj)
congratulations! (exclam)
connect (v)
connection (n) consider (v)
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consist (v) consonant (n) contact (n & v) contain (v)
contents (n) contest (n) continent (n) continue (v) contract (n) control (n
& v)
•
a remote control
• Control your dog! convenient
(adj) conversation (n) convince (v)
cook (n & v) cooker (n)
cookie (n) (Am Eng) (Br Eng: biscuit)
cooking (n)
cool (adj, exclam & v) copy (n & v)
corn (n) corner (n) correct (adj)
correction (n) cost (n & v) costume (n)
• I forgot my swimming
costume.
•
national costume
• a
Halloween costume cosy (adj)
cottage (n) cotton (n)
cough (n & v)
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could (mv) count (v) country (n) countryside (n) couple
(n) courage (n) course (n)
•
English course
•
main course
• of course (exclam) court (n)
•
law
court
• tennis court cousin (n) cover (n & v) cow (n)
crash (n & v) crazy (adj) cream (adj & n) create
(v) creative (adj) creature (n) credit (n)
credit card (n) crew (n)
• cabin crew cricket
(n) crime (n) criminal (n) crop (n)
cross (n & v) crossing (n)
• pedestrian crossing cross out (phr v)
•
Cross it out and write it
again.
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crossroads (n) crowd (n) crowded (adj) cruel (adj) cruise
(n)
cry (n & v) cucumber (n) cultural (adj) culture (n)
cup (n) cupboard (n) cure (n & v) curious (adj)
curiously (adv)
•
'Why?' she asked him curiously.
curly (adj) currency (n)
curriculum (n) curry (n) curtain (n) cushion (n) custom (n) customer (n)
customs (n pi) cut (n & v) cute
(adj)
cut up (phr v)
•
She cut up the cake into small pieces.
CV (Curriculum Vitae) (n) cycle (n & v)
cycling (n) cyclist (n)
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NOTE
Abbreviations used in the Preliminary and Preliminary for Schools Vocabulary List are:
abbrev
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abbreviation or acronym
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mv n
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modal verb
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adj
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adjective
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phrv
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noun
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adv
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adverb
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pi
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phrasal verb
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av
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auxiliary verb
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prep
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plural preposition
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Am Eng
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American English
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prep phr
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prepositional phrase
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Br Eng
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British English
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pron
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pronoun
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conj det
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conjunction
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sing
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singular
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exclam
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determiner
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v
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verb
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exclamation
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SOURCE - https://www.cambridgeenglish.org
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