Wiktionary:List of English words all Wiktionaries should have
This is a list of 1,000 basic words every Wiktionary needs.
- food
- nutrition
- bread
- coffee
- maize
- cotton
- soya bean
- sorghum
- wheat
- barley
- oats
- fruit
- vegetable
- tobacco
- cheese
- alcohol
- tea
- potato
Drinks
[hindura]Basic concepts
[hindura]Philosophy
[hindura]- philosophy
- mind
- body
- soul
- will (n.)
- reality
- truth
- consciousness
- metaphysics
- ethics
- epistemology
- aesthetics
- life
- freedom
- profession
- job / work (n.)
- biography
- musician
- explorer
- scientist
- inventor
- writer
- thinker
- politician
- statesman
- carpenter
- driver
- mathematician
Literature
[hindura]Countries
[hindura]One sentence and the table on all countries in this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries
Geography
[hindura]At least three sentences on each of the continents
Other
[hindura]History
[hindura]- history
- prehistory
- dinosaur
- archaeology
- geologic era / prehistoric age
- Renaissance
- discovery
- slavery
- revolution
as well as a thorough history of all countries where the language of the particular Wikipedia is spoken as a native language.
Politics
[hindura]- politics
- anarchy
- Communist (adj.) / Communism
- fascist (adj.) / fascism
- democratic / democracy
- monarchy / dictatorship
- nationalistic / nationalism
- globalisation
- socialist (adj.) / socialism
- liberal / liberalism
- capitalist / capitalism
- imperialist / imperialism
- racist / racism
- feminist / feminism
- diplomacy
Human issues
[hindura]At least a five-sentence introduction to the major fields:
- physics
- heat
- electricity / electrical
- magnetism / magnetic
- gravity
- mass
- force
- time
- length
- area
- speed / velocity
- acceleration
- atom / atomic
- electron
- proton
- neutron
- quantum
- Chemical element
- Periodic table
- an article on every one of the chemical elements, with the properties table data
- chemical reaction
- molecule
- acid / acidity
- alkali
- pH
- salt
- compound
- organic chemistry
Elemental Category:Metals in common use
[hindura]Category:Alloys in common use
[hindura]Technology and Invention
[hindura]- technology
- invention
- agriculture
- Human use of fire
- metallurgy
- writing
- alphabet
- ship
- sail
- slope (n.) / inclined plane
- wheel
- pulley
- lever
- screw
- wedge
- weapon
- explosive
- gunpowder
- bicycle
- steam engine
- train
- automobile
- electricity
- radio
- television
Language
[hindura]- language / dialect
- English
- Mandarin
- Cantonese
- Arabic
- German
- Hindi
- Urdu
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Russian
- Spanish
- French
- Esperanto
- Sanskrit
- Latin
- Greek
- Japanese
- Korean
- Thai
- Vietnamese
- Portuguese
- Italian
- Dutch
- cube
- anatomy / medicine
- heart
- lungs
- vagina
- penis
- kidneys
- stomach
- liver
- spleen
- intestines
- skeleton
- breast
- skin
- head
- arm
- leg
Reproduction
[hindura]Study of Medicine
[hindura]Illness
[hindura]- sick / disease / illness
- blind / blindness
- deaf / deafness
- cancer
- malnutrition
- starvation
- obesity
- cholera
- tuberculosis
- AIDS
- smallpox
- malaria
- dysentery
- leprosy
- virus
Medical treatment
[hindura]- treatment
- medication
- preventive vaccination
- surgery
Disasters
[hindura]Colors
[hindura]Months of the year
[hindura]- zero
- one
- two
- three
- four
- five
- six
- seven
- eight
- nine
- ten
- eleven
- twelve
- thirteen
- fourteen
- fifteen
- sixteen
- seventeen
- eighteen
- nineteen
- twenty
- thirty
- forty
- fifty
- sixty
- seventy
- eighty
- ninety
- hundred
- thousand
- million
- billion
Units of measurement
[hindura]- to rain
- to be
- to begin
- to give birth
- to be born
- to come
- to count
- to dance
- to die
- to drink
- to eat
- to duck / to get down
- to stand / to get up
- to get into / to get onto / to mount
- to get out of / to get off of / to dismount
- to give
- to go
- to go away
- to hate
- to have / to own / to possess
- to leave
- to live
- to love
- to make / to build
- to marry
- to run
- to sing
- to sit
- to sleep
- to start / to begin
- to stay / to remain
- to smoke
- to use
- good
- bad
- small
- big
- long
- short
- large
- narrow
- deep
- shallow
- fast
- slow
- high
- low
- expensive
- cheap
- young
- aged
- new
- old
- used
- true
- false
Feelings and Emotions
[hindura]- emotion
- happy / happiness
- sad / sadness
- angry / anger
- afraid / fear
- tired / fatigue
- hungry / hunger
- thirsty / thirst
Adpositions, coverbs, etc.
[hindura]- (originating) from / starting at
- (headed) to / arriving at / destined for
- before / preceding in time
- after / succeeding in time
- in front of / preceding in space
- behind / following in space
- under / covered by
- over / on top of / covering
- next to / close to / bordering
- inside / within / enclosed by, or containing / enclosing
- outside / be apart from, or excluding / lacking
- (passing) through
- around / circumventing
- between / bounded by / delimited by, or bounding / delimiting
- (together) with
- against / versus
General list (dump) of words in alphabetical order
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