OPERATIONS - 100 words
come, get, give, go, keep, let, make, put, seem, take,
be, do, have, say, see, send, may, will,
about, across, after, against, among, at, before, between, by,
down, from, in, off, on, over, through, to, under, up, with,
as, for, of, till, than,
a , the, all, any, every, little, much, no, other, some, such, that, this,
I , he, you, who,
and, because, but, or, if, though, while, how, when, where, why,
again, ever, far, forward, here, near, now, out, still, then,
there, together, well,
almost, enough, even, not, only, quite, so, very,
tomorrow, yesterday,
north, south, east, west, please, yes .
THINGS - 400 General words
account, act, addition, adjustment, advertisement, agreement, air,
amount, amusement, animal, answer, apparatus, approval, argument, art,
attack, attempt, attention, attraction, authority,
back, balance, base, behavior, belief, birth, bit, bite, blood, blow,
body, brass, bread, breath, brother, building, burn, burst, business,
butter,
canvas, care, cause, chalk, chance, change, cloth, coal, color, comfort,
committee, company, comparison, competition, condition, connection,
control, cook, copper, copy, cork, cotton, cough, country, cover,
crack, credit, crime, crush, cry ,current, curve,
damage, danger, daughter, day, death, debt, decision, degree, design,
desire, destruction, detail, development, digestion, direction,
discovery, discussion, disease, disgust, distance,
distribution, division, doubt, drink, driving, dust,
earth, edge, education, effect, end, error, event, example, exchange,
existence, expansion, experience, expert,
fact, fall, family, father, fear, feeling, fiction, field, fight, fire,
flame, flight, flower, fold, food, force, form, friend, front, fruit,
glass, gold, government, grain, grass, grip, group, growth, guide,
harbor, harmony, hate, hearing, heat, help, history, hole, hope, hour, humor,
ice, idea, impulse, increase, industry, ink, insect, instrument,
insurance, interest, invention, iron,
jelly, join, journey, judge, jump,
kick, kiss, knowledge,
land, language, laugh, law, lead, learning, leather, letter, level,
lift, light, limit, linen, liquid, list, look, loss, love,
machine, man, manager, mark, market, mass, meal, measure, meat, meeting,
memory, metal, middle, milk, mind, mine, minute, mist, money, month,
morning ,mother, motion, mountain, move, music,
name, nation, need, news, night, noise, note, number,
observation, offer, oil, operation, opinion, order, organization,
ornament, owner,
page, pain, paint, paper, part, paste, payment, peace, person, place,
plant, play, pleasure, point, poison, polish, porter, position, powder,
power, price, print, process, produce, profit, property,
prose, protest, pull, punishment, purpose, push,
quality, question,
rain, range, rate, ray, reaction, reading, reason, record, regret, relation, religion,
representative, request, respect, rest, reward, rhythm, rice, river,
road, roll, room, rub, rule, run,
salt, sand, scale, science, sea, seat, secretary, selection, self, sense, servant, sex,
shade, shake, shame, shock, side, sign, silk, silver, sister, size, sky, sleep, slip, slope,
smash, smell, smile, smoke, sneeze, snow, soap, society, son, song, sort, sound, soup,
space, stage, start, statement, steam, steel, step, stitch, stone, stop, story, stretch,
structure, substance, sugar, suggestion, summer, support, surprise, swim, system,
talk, taste, tax, teaching, tendency, test, theory, thing, thought, thunder,
time, tin, top, touch, trade, transport, trick, trouble, turn, twist,
unit, use, value, verse, vessel, view, voice,
walk, war, wash, waste, water, wave, wax, way, weather, week, weight,
wind, wine, winter, woman, wood, wool, word, work, wound, writing ,
year .
THINGS - 200 Picturable words - picture list
angle, ant, apple, arch, arm, army,
baby, bag, ball, band, basin, basket, bath, bed, bee, bell, berry, bird,
blade, board, boat, bone, book, boot, bottle, box, boy, brain, brake,
branch, brick, bridge, brush, bucket, bulb, button,
cake, camera, card, cart, carriage, cat, chain, cheese, chest, chin,
church, circle, clock, cloud, coat, collar, comb, cord, cow, cup,
curtain, cushion,
dog, door, drain, drawer, dress, drop,
ear, egg, engine, eye,
face, farm, feather, finger, fish, flag, floor, fly, foot, fork, fowl, frame,
garden, girl, glove, goat, gun,
hair, hammer, hand, hat, head, heart, hook, horn, horse, hospital, house,
island, jewel,
kettle, key, knee, knife, knot,
leaf, leg, library, line, lip, lock,
map, match, monkey, moon, mouth, muscle,
nail, neck, needle, nerve, net, nose, nut,
office, orange, oven,
parcel, pen, pencil, picture, pig, pin, pipe, plane, plate, plough/plow,
pocket, pot, potato, prison, pump,
rail, rat, receipt, ring, rod, roof, root,
sail, school, scissors, screw, seed, sheep, shelf, ship, shirt, shoe,
skin, skirt, snake, sock, spade, sponge, spoon, spring, square, stamp,
star, station, stem, stick, stocking, stomach, store, street, sun,
table, tail, thread, throat, thumb, ticket, toe, tongue, tooth, town,
train, tray, tree, trousers,
umbrella,
wall, watch, wheel, whip, whistle, window, wing, wire, worm .
QUALITIES - 100 General
able, acid, angry, automatic, beautiful, black, boiling, bright, broken, brown,
cheap, chemical, chief, clean, clear, common, complex, conscious, cut,
deep, dependent,
early, elastic, electric, equal,
fat, fertile, first, fixed, flat, free, frequent, full,
general, good, great, grey/gray,
hanging, happy, hard, healthy, high, hollow,
important, kind,
like, living, long,
male, married, material, medical, military,
natural, necessary, new, normal,
open,
parallel, past, physical, political, poor, possible, present, private,
probable,
quick, quiet,
ready, red, regular, responsible, right, round,
same, second, separate, serious, sharp, smooth, sticky, stiff, straight,
strong, sudden, sweet,
tall, thick, tight, tired, true,
violent,
waiting, warm, wet, wide, wise,
yellow, young .
QUALITIES - 50 Opposites
awake, bad, bent, bitter, blue, certain, cold, complete, cruel,
dark, dead, dear, delicate, different, dirty, dry,
false, feeble, female, foolish, future,
green, ill,
last, late, left, loose, loud, low,
mixed, narrow, old, opposite,
public, rough,
sad, safe, secret, short, shut, simple, slow, small, soft, solid,
special, strange,
thin, white, wrong .
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