Department of English Language Teaching
Faculty of Arts & Culture
A List of Frequently Used Words and Phrases in the University Context
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001. Ability
002. Abroad
003. Absent
004. Absorb
005. Abstract
006. Abuse
007. Academic-year
008. Accept
009. Access
010. Accident
011. Accommodation
012. Account
013. Accreditation
014. Accurate
015. Achievement
016. Acid
017. Acknowledge
018. Acquire
019. Active
020. Activity
021. Actual
022. Addition
023. Adjust
024. Administration
025. Admission
026. Adult
027. Advance
028. Advantage
029. Advice
030. Advise
031. Affect
032. After-noon
033. Again
034. Agenda
035. Agent
036. Agreement
037. Agriculture
038. Aid
039. Aim
040. Air-conditioner
041. Allocate
042. Alternative
043. Amazing
044. Among
045. Amount
046. Analog
047. Analyze
048. Ancillary-subject
049. Animal-farm
050. Anniversary
051. Announce
052. Annual
053. Another
054. Answer
055. Anti-ragging
056. Apartment
057. Appearance
058. Application
059. Apply
060. Appointment
061. Appreciate
062. Apprentice-ship
063. Approach
064. Appropriate
065. Approval
066. Approximately
067. Aptitude
068. Arts and Culture
069. Aspect
070. Assessment
071. Assignment
072. Assistant
073. Association
074. Assume
075. Attendance
076. Attendance-sheet
077. Attention
078. Attitude
079. Audience
080. Audit-office
081. Auditorium
082. Author
083. Authority
084. Available
085. Average-marks
086. Avoid
087. Awareness
088. Bachelor's-degree
089. Balance
090. Bank
091. Batch
092. Batchmate
093. Batch-top
094. Bench
095. Benefit
096. Bicycle
097. Bio-data
098. Biological
099. Bio-technology
100. Board-meeting
101. Borrowing
102. Boss
103. Bottle
104. Box
105. Brain
106. Break-fast
107. Brief
108. Bright
109. Brilliant
110. Bristle-board
111. Bucket
112. Bucketing
113. Building
114. Bulb
115. Bursar
116. Bursary
117. Busy
118. Cable
119. Calculate
120. Calendar
121. Camera
122. Camp
123. Campaign
124. Campus
125. Campus-premises
126. Canteen
127. Capability
128. Capacity
129. Card-board
130. Career-guidance
131. Car-park
132. Category
133. Causal
134. Cause
135. Ceiling
136. Celebrate
137. Chain
138. Chair
139. Chairman
140. Challenge
141. Champion-ship
142. Chancellor
143. Channel
144. Chapter
145. Character
146. Characterize
147. Chart
148. Chemical
149. Cholesterol
150. Church
151. Circumstance
152. Clarify
153. Classmate
154. Cleaning-service
155. Clear
156. Climate
157. Close
158. Code
159. Cognitive
160. Collaboration
161. Collapse
162. Colleague
163. Collection
164. College
165. Commencement
166. Commerce-and Management
167. Commercial
168. Commission
169. Commitment
170. Committee
171. Communicate
172. Community
173. Competition
174. Complain
175. Complement
176. Component
177. Compound
178. Comprehension
179. Compulsory
180. Computer
181. Computer
182. Concentrate
183. Concept
184. Conclusion
185. Conduct
186. Confidence
187. Confirm
188. Conform
189. Connection
190. Consent
191. Consequence
192. Consideration
193. Consist
194. Constant
195. Construct
196. Consult
197. Context
198. Context
199. Continue
200. Continuous-assessment
201. Contract
202. Contribute
203. Convention
204. Convocation
205. Cooperation
206. Copy
207. Core-subject
208. Council
209. Counselling
210. Course
211. Cover page
212. Create
213. Creative-writing
214. Credit
215. Criteria
216. Criticism
217. Cultural-function
218. Culture
219. Cupboard
220. Currency
221. Curriculum
222. Curtain
223. Cycle
224. Dangerous
225. Data-collection
226. Day-scholar
227. Dead-line
228. Dean
229. Dear
230. Debate
231. Decline
232. Degree
233. Demonstrator
234. Deny
235. Department
236. Dependent
237. Deputy
238. Deputy-registrar
239. Design
240. Device
241. Diagram
242. Difference
243. Difficult
244. Digital
245. Dimension
246. Dining-table
247. Dinner
248. Direct
249. Director
250. Direct-senior
251. Dirty
252. Disability
253. Discipline
254. Discover
255. Discrimination
256. Discuss
257. Discussion
258. Dispenser
259. Displace
260. Distance-education
261. Distance-learning
262. Distribute
263. Document
264. Door
265. Dormitory
266. Down-stairs
267. Draft
268. Drama-and-theatre
269. Drawing
270. Due-date
271. Duration
272. Dustbin
273. Duster-cloth
274. Duty
275. Early
276. Eastern
277. Economy
278. Educate
279. Education
280. Effect
281. Efficient
282. Effort
283. Election
284. Elective
285. Electricity
286. Eligible
287. Emergency
288. Emotion
289. Employ
290. Employee
291. Employer
292. Employment
293. Encounter
294. Enough
295. Enrol
296. Ensure
297. Entertainment
298. Entrance
299. Entry-form
300. Environment
301. Eraser
302. Escape
303. Establishment
304. Ethics
305. Ethnic
306. Evaluation
307. Evening
308. Event
309. Evidence
310. Exam-hall
311. Examination
312. Examination-branch
313. Examiner
314. Exercise
315. Exhibition
316. Experience
317. Experiment
318. Expert
319. Expertise
320. Export
321. External
322. Face-mask
323. Facility
324. Factor
325. Faculty
326. Fail
327. Faithfully
328. Farm
329. Festival
330. Field
331. Field trip
332. File cover
333. Filter
334. Final
335. Financial-aid
336. First-degree
337. First-shy
338. First-year
339. Flag
340. Flash-drive
341. Flexible
342. Floor
343. Focus
344. Folder
345. Following
346. Food
347. Foreign
348. Formal-dress
349. Formal-education
350. Format
351. Formula
352. Foundation
353. Founder
354. Framework
355. Fresher
356. Friend
357. Full-time
358. Function
359. Funding
360. Furniture
361. Future
362. Garden
363. Gate
364. Gender
365. General-English
366. Generator
367. Globe
368. Glossary
369. Goal
370. Grade
371. Gradually
372. Graduate
373. Graduation-gown
374. Grant
375. Graph
376. Ground-floor
377. Group-work
378. Guide-line
379. Gymnasium
380. Hand-book
381. Hand-wash
382. Head
383. Head-of-the-department
384. Health-center
385. Helmet
386. High
387. Highlight
388. Holiday
389. Honest
390. Hostel
391. Hosteller
392. Hour
393. Hypothesis
394. Identical
395. Identification
396. Identity-card
397. Ideology
398. Illustrate
399. Image
400. Imagination
401. Immediate
402. Impact
403. Implement
404. Import
405. Income
406. Index-number
407. Indicate
408. individual
409. Informal-education
410. Informal-meeting
411. Information
412. Infra-structure
413. Initial
414. Injury
415. Insert
416. Inspect
417. Institution
418. Instruction
419. Instructor
420. Instrument
421. Insurance
422. Intellectual
423. Intelligence
424. Inter-act
425. Inter-faculty
426. Inter-mediate
427. Internal
428. Internet-connection
429. Interpret
430. Interval
431. Interview
432. Investigation
433. Investment
434. Invigilator
435. Involvement
436. Isolation
437. Issue
438. Journal
439. Junior
440. Key-board
441. know
442. Knowledge
443. Lab
444. Lab-assistant
445. Label
446. Labor
447. laboratory
448. Language
449. Lap
450. Large
451. Last
452. Last-year
453. Late
454. Law
455. Layer
456. Lead
457. Leader
458. Leader-ship
459. Learning
460. Leave
461. Lecture
462. Lecture-hall
463. Lecturer
464. Lectures
465. Legal
466. Lending
467. Librarian
468. Library
469. Links
470. Listening
471. Location
472. Loss
473. Loud-speaker
474. Lunch-packet
475. Machine
476. Madam
477. Magazine
478. Main-gate
479. Main-hall
480. Maintain
481. Major
482. Manage
483. Management
484. Manager
485. Manner
486. Manual
487. Manufacturing
488. Margin
489. Marker pen
490. Market
491. Marketing
492. Marks
493. Master
494. Master's-degree
495. Mattress
496. Mature
497. Maximum
498. Mechanism
499. Media
500. Medical
501. Medical-centre
502. Medical-certificate
503. Medical-leave
504. Medicine
505. Medium
506. Meet
507. Meeting
508. Member
509. Member-ship
510. Memorial-hall
511. Memory
512. Mental
513. Method
514. Mid
515. Middle
516. Mid-semester-test
517. Migrate
518. Minimum
519. Minor
520. Minute
521. Mirror
522. Mission
523. Mobile-phone
524. Mode
525. Module
526. Monitor
527. Morning
528. Mortar-board-cap
529. Mosque
530. Motion
531. Motivation
532. Motor
533. Motor-cycle
534. Mouse
535. Multimedia-projector
536. Mutual
537. Name-list
538. Narrative
539. Narrow
540. National
541. Native
542. Natural
543. Nature
544. Negative
545. Network-connection
546. Neutral
547. News
548. News-paper
549. New-wing
550. Nice
551. Night
552. Noise
553. Nomination
554. Non-academic
555. Normal
556. Note-book
557. Notes
558. Notice-board
559. Novels
560. Objective
561. Observation
562. observer
563. Obtain
564. Obvious
565. Occasion
566. Occupation
567. Occupy
568. Occur
569. Offer
570. Office
571. Officer
572. Official
573. Old-syllabus
574. On-going
575. On-line
576. Opening
577. Operation
578. Opinion
579. Opportunity
580. Oppose
581. Opposition
582. Optional
583. Oral-examination
584. Ordinary
585. Organic
586. Organization
587. Organize
588. Orientation
589. Original
590. Other
591. Other-wise
592. Out-come
593. Out-going
594. Out-of-bounds
595. Out-put
596. Over-all
597. Over-head-projector
598. Over-lap
599. Over-night
600. Package
601. Pair-work
602. Panel-of-judges
603. Pantry
604. Parallel
605. Park
606. Parking
607. Participant
608. Particular
609. Partner
610. Part-time
611. Pass
612. Passive
613. Pass-word
614. Pen-drive
615. Peon
616. Perfect
617. Perform
618. Period
619. Permanent
620. Permission
621. Permit
622. Person
623. Personal
624. Philosophy
625. Photo-copy
626. Photograph
627. Physical-education
628. Picture
629. Pillow
630. Pipeline
631. Placement
632. Plant
633. Plate
634. Platform
635. Play
636. Play-ground
637. Please
638. Pleasure
639. Plenty
640. Plot
641. Policy
642. Politician
643. Portico
644. Portion
645. Pose
646. Position
647. Positive
648. Possess
649. Possible
650. Post-graduate
651. Post-office
652. Power-cut
653. Power-point-slides
654. Practical
655. Practice
656. Predict
657. Premise
658. Present
659. Presentation
660. President
661. Previous
662. Primary
663. Principal
664. Principle
665. Print out
666. Printing-machine
667. Priority
668. Private
669. Problem
670. Procedure
671. Proceed
672. Process
673. Produce
674. Production
675. Profession
676. Professional
677. Professional
678. Professor
679. Profile
680. Profit
681. Program
682. Progress
683. Prohibit
684. Project
685. Prominent
686. Promise
687. Promote
688. Prompt
689. Proper
690. Property
691. Proportion
692. Proposal
693. Propose
694. Prosecutor
695. Prospect
696. Protect
697. Psychology
698. Public
699. Publication
700. Publish
701. Punishment
702. Purchase
703. Pure
704. Purpose
705. Pursue
706. Qualified
707. Quality
708. Quarantine
709. Quarters
710. Question
711. Quickly
712. Quiet
713. Quit
714. Quiz
715. Quote
716. Random
717. Range
718. Ratio
719. React
720. Reading
721. Really
722. Reason
723. Reasonable
724. Recall
725. Receive
726. Recent
727. Recipe
728. Recognition
729. Recommendation
730. Record
731. Record-book
732. Recording
733. Recover
734. Recovery
735. Recruitment
736. Rector
737. Refer
738. Reference
739. Referred
740. Refugee
741. Refuse
742. Region
743. Register
744. Registrar
745. Registration-number
746. Regular
747. Regulate
748. Regulation
749. Reinforce
750. Reject
751. Relation-ship
752. Relative
753. Relax
754. Release
755. Relevant
756. Remarkable
757. Remember
758. Remind
759. Remote
760. Remove
761. Repeat
762. Replace
763. Reply
764. Report
765. Represent
766. Requirement
767. Research
768. Residence
769. Resource
770. Respond
771. Re-submit
772. Reverse
773. Review
774. Revise
775. Road
776. Role
777. Room
778. Roommate
779. Route
780. Rules
781. Sample
782. Sanitizer
783. Scene
784. Schedule
785. Scheme
786. Scholar
787. Scholar-ship
788. Science
789. Scope
790. Screen
791. Seat
792. Secondary-education
793. Second-year
794. Secretary
795. Section
796. Sector
797. Security-guard
798. Semester
799. Senate
800. Send-off
801. Senior
802. Seniority
803. Sequence
804. Series
805. Serious
806. Serve
807. Service
808. Session
809. Sheet
810. Shift
811. Shoes
812. Short-stories
813. Shroff
814. Sick
815. Side-line
816. Sign
817. Signal
818. Significance
819. Silence
820. Sink
821. Sir
822. Skill
823. Soap
824. Social-distancing
825. Social-function
826. Sociology
827. Sound
828. Source
829. Speaking
830. Specific
831. Speech
832. Spoon
833. Sports
834. Sports-equipment
835. Square-academic-cap
836. Sri-Lanka
837. Staff
838. Stapler
839. State
840. Statement
841. Station
842. Statistics
843. Status
844. stay
845. Stone-bench
846. Straight-forward
847. Strategy
848. Stress
849. Strike
850. Strong
851. Structure
852. Struggle
853. Student-affairs
854. Student-counsellor
855. Student-union
856. Study-leave
857. Style
858. Subject
859. Submit
860. Sub-ordinate
861. Subsidy
862. Substitute
863. Sub-warden
864. Succeed
865. Success
866. Sufficient
867. Summary
868. Super
869. Supervision
870. Supervisor
871. Surname
872. Survey
873. Survive
874. Suspension
875. Switch
876. Syllabus
877. Symbol
878. Symptom
879. System
880. Table
881. Tailor
882. Tank
883. Tap water
884. Target
885. Task
886. Teacher
887. Teaching
888. Team
889. Technical
890. Technique
891. Technology
892. Telephone
893. Television
894. Temperature
895. Temple
896. Temporary
897. Term
898. Terminate
899. Tertiary
900. Text
901. Text-book
902. Theme
903. Theory
904. Thesis
905. Tile-floor
906. Time-table
907. Tippex
908. Toilet
909. Tooth-brush
910. Tooth-paste
911. Topic
912. Total-marks
913. Tour
914. Tournament
915. Trade
916. Tradition
917. Traffic
918. Tragedy
919. Training
920. Transcript
921. Transfer
922. Transform
923. Translate
924. Transport
925. Tree
926. Tuition
927. Tutor
928. undergo
929. Under-graduate
930. understand
931. Un-fortunately
932. uniform
933. Union
934. Unique
935. Unit
936. United
937. Universal
938. Universe
939. University
940. Untidy
941. Up-stairs
942. Useful
943. User-name
944. Usual
945. Utility
946. Vacation
947. Vaccine
948. Vehicle-park
949. via
950. Vice chancellor
951. Victim
952. Victory
953. Video
954. View
955. Virtual
956. Virus
957. Visible
958. Vision
959. Visit
960. Visiting
961. Visitor
962. Visual
963. Vital
964. Vocabulary
965. Voice
966. Vote of thanks
967. Voucher
968. Wall-clock
969. Warden
970. Wash-room
971. Water-cut
972. Water-dispenser
973. Water-tank
974. Web-site
975. Week
976. Week-end
977. Weigh
978. Weight
979. Welcome
980. Welfare
981. Wheel-chair
982. White-board
983. White-sheet
984. Win
985. Window
986. Wire
987. Wireless
988. Wisdom
989. Wish
990. Withdraw
991. Witness
992. Work-book
993. Work-load
994. Write
995. Written-examination
996. Written-report
997. Year
998. Year-end
999. Yours
1000. Zoom