3000 Words Oxford

The keywords of the Oxford 3000 have been carefully selected by a group of language experts and experienced teachers as the words which should receive priority in vocabulary study because of their importance and usefulness.
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3000 Words Oxford The Oxford 3000™ d The keywords of the Oxford 3000 have derived from them, or are used in a variety of The Oxford 3000 been carefully selected by a group of language patterns. All of this means that each one of the experts and experienced teachers as the words keywords repays close study. which should receive priority in vocabulary study because of their importance and The list covers British and American English. usefulness. The selection is based on It is arranged to emphasize the connections three criteria. between words, so that words which are very closely related (including adverbs ending in -ly The words which occur most frequently in and opposites starting with un-) are grouped English are included, based on the information together. Some basic phrases are also included. in the British National Corpus and the Oxford Proper names (names of people, places, etc. Corpus Collection. (A corpus is an electronically beginning with a capital letter) and numbers held collection of written or spoken texts, often are not included in the main list. consisting of hundreds of millions of words.) However, being frequent in the corpus alone A separate list of words which are important for is not enough for a word to qualify as a keyword: language study, but less important in everyday it may be that the word is used very frequently, life, follows the main list. Knowing these words but only in a narrowly defined area, such as will help you to understand more of the informa- newspapers or scientific articles. In order to tion given in the entries, especially regarding the avoid including these restricted words, we word’s grammar and register (whether it is for- include as keywords only those words which are mal, informal, etc.). frequent across a range of different types of text. In order to make the definitions in this In other words, keywords are both frequent and dictionary easy to understand, we have written used in a variety of contexts. In addition, the list them using the keywords of the Oxford 3000. includes some very important words which All words used in normal definition text are happen not to be used frequently, even though keywords, or are on the list of language study they are very familiar to most users of English. terms. Numbers and proper names are also used These include, for example, words for parts of in definitions. When it has been necessary to use the body, words used in travel, and words which a specialist term which is not in the Oxford are useful for explaining what you mean when 3000, the word is shown in small capitals , you do not know the exact word for something. and in blue on the CD-ROM. If you do not know These words were identified by consulting a the meaning of this word, look it up in the panel of over seventy experts in the fields of dictionary: it will help you to understand the teaching and language study. definition that you are interested in, and The words of the Oxford 3000 are shown in the will probably be a useful word to learn main section of the dictionary in larger print, because it will be related to the original word and with a key symbol immediately you looked up. d following. On the CD-ROM the keywords are shown in red. The most useful parts of the entries (particular parts of speech, meanings, phrasal verbs and idioms) are marked with a small key symbol. The entries for keywords often have extra information in the form of more examples of use, special notes explaining synonyms or related words, or helpful illustrations. This means that the keywords make an excellent starting point for expanding your vocabulary. With most keywords, there is far more to learn about them than the first meaning in the entry: often these words have many meanings, have a large family of words a, an indefinite article advertisement an i a, an arrest v., n. abandon v. (also ad, advert) n. analyse (BrE) arrival n. d abandoned adj. ability n. advice n. advise v. (NAmE analyze) v. analysis n. arrive v. arrow n. able adj. affair n. ancient adj. art n. unable adj. affect v. and conj. article n. The Oxford 3000 about adv., prep. affection n. anger n. artificial adj. above prep., adv. afford v. angle n. artificially adv. abroad adv. afraid adj. angry adj. artist n. absence n. after prep., conj., adv. angrily adv. artistic adj. ...