A2Topic
Food & Eating
60 essential words for food, meals and eating out — the start of a thread that climbs all the way to C1.
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Vocabulary Hub · A2–C1
Words that grow with you
Free interactive vocabulary practice for every level — flashcards, word formation, collocations and quizzes. Meet a word at A2, then watch it climb.
One idea, four levels
walk
A2
the everyday word
walk A2→
wander B1→
trek B2→
traverse C1
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4 CEFR levels
1,220+ words & phrases
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1221 words indexed
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Level
Category
A2Topic
Family & People
Family members, appearance, personality and the big life events — the people words you use every day.
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B1Topic
Food & Eating
Eating out, diet and health — plus ten familiar A2 words that come back with wider meanings.
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B1Topic
Technology & Media
Devices, apps and online life — streaming, scrolling, passwords and the phrasal verbs that run them.
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B2Topic
Food & Eating
Idioms, rich collocations and restaurant-industry English — where a piece of cake stops being dessert.
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B2Topic
Work & Business
Recruitment, meetings and negotiation — the collocations and idioms of the modern workplace.
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C1Topic
Food & Eating
The thread completes: food language turns figurative — meal tickets, bitter pills and appetite for risk.
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C1Academic & professional
Academic & Rhetorical English
Precision verbs, hedging language and register — the vocabulary that carries an academic argument.
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C1Academic & professional
Education & Learning
The verbs behind serious study and the nouns that name how courses and research are built — assess vs. evaluate, qualitative vs. quantitative.
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C1Academic & professional
Business & Work
Strategy, finance and leadership vocabulary, with a warm-up recycling eight words from B2 Work & Business at a sharper, more abstract level.
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C1Academic & professional
Environment
Climate, ecology and sustainability vocabulary — the precision words behind a scientific report, a climate debate or a well-argued essay.
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B1Lexical set
Phrasal Verbs 1
50 everyday two-word verbs for daily routines, plans and small talk — wake up, look after, catch up, settle down.
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B2Lexical set
Everyday Idioms
50 idioms native speakers actually use in conversation — break the ice, hit a snag, on the fence.
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C1Functional language
Discourse Markers
The linking language of fluent argument — from “admittedly” to “that said”.
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C1Academic & professional
Crime & Law
Courts, evidence and criminal justice — the precision vocabulary behind a trial report, a legal case or a true-crime story.
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C1Academic & professional
Health & Medicine
Symptoms, diagnosis and treatment — the precision vocabulary behind a checkup, a health report or a medical drama.
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C1Lexical set
Phrasal Verbs
Business, academic and media-register phrasal verbs — the precision two- and three-word verbs of a confident C1 speaker.
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B2Topic
Geography
Landforms, climate zones and the human map — coastline, terrain and altitude alongside population, density and migration.
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B2Topic
Environment
Pollution, waste and renewable energy — the everyday vocabulary of a climate argument, one level below the C1 module.
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B2Academic & professional
Science & Innovation
How an experiment is run and how results are judged — plus the language of AI, genetics and space in the news.
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B2Topic
Media & Advertising
Campaigns, slogans and sponsorship on one side, journalists, ratings and bias on the other — with eight words recycled from B1 Technology & Media.
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A2Topic
Home & Daily Routines
Rooms, furniture and the machines that help you — plus the small jobs that come around every week.
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A2Topic
Town & Getting Around
The places you go, the ways you get there, and the words you need when somebody stops you for directions.
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B1Topic
Personality & Emotions
Steady character words on one side, changing feelings on the other — with eight words recycled from A2 Family & People.
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B1Topic
Travel & Tourism
Booking and paperwork, airports and delays — with eight words recycled from A2 Town & Getting Around.
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The recycling engine
One word, four lives
The same words come back at every level with deeper meanings, new collocations and shifted register. Pick a word and climb its ladder from A2 to C1.
Enable JavaScript to explore the word ladder — or browse the Food & Eating modules above to see the same words grow level by level.
Why words come back
Meet it once, master it four times
Research on vocabulary learning is clear: words stick when you meet them again in new contexts, not when you memorise them once. That principle is built into every module here.
1
Meet it at A2
You learn the concrete, physical sense first — taste is the flavour of food, nothing more.
2
Widen it at B1
The meaning stretches — taste becomes what you like in music and clothes, and the word family grows.
3
Collocate it at B2
The word settles into fixed company — an acquired taste, in good taste — the chunks fluent speakers reach for.
4
Master its register at C1
Fully figurative and precise — a scandal leaves a bad taste in the mouth, and you know exactly when to say it.
A2the taste of olives
→
B1taste in music
→
B2an acquired taste
→
C1leaves a bad taste
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