Where can I find a list of vocabulary words?

Question

I don't want a list of words with definitions next to them. I just want a large list of as many essential, useful words as I can find. English is my first language, so I'm doing this to enrich my vocabulary, not to learn the language. You might say, "Look through the dictionary", but that is not efficient because I just end up coming accross mainly obscure words that I won't end up using. I've found sites that are perfect and have a whole bunch of essential vocabulary words, SAT sites, GRE sites and the like. The problem is that the lists take up too much space.They're arranged so that the definitions are next to the word. And you cant just select and paste the words without also pasting the definitions, so it ends up being over 100 pages. I could just extract each word one by one, but that would take hours. I just want a list that I'll be able to paste into Word and shrink the type down so it takes up less space. Is there a site that has lists of words written like a run-on sentence?

PLEASE READ ALL OF THE ABOVE AND BELOW BEFORE ANSWERING THE QUESTION

I want a list or lists that are not arranged in a table. I want to be able to shrink the type down in Microsoft Word in order to fit more onto one page. I don't have my own computer and I'm doing this at a library and it costs money to print so I want it in as few pages as possible. I'll show an example of what I want below:

abey assail obfuscate elude barrage promulgate harangue insinuate voracious concomitant verdure etc., etc.

Not neccessarily just those words in just that order, but a list written in that fashion. If they're written like that, they will take up less space than if they're written with the word and the definition next to it. I hope I made this clear enough.

Answer 1

It doesn't look like you are doing this to prepare for the GRE but in case you are, don't bother. It is pretty much hopeless to learn enough vocab to increase your score.

Otherwise, you can try taking any of the sites you have found that list the words in a table and copy the entire thing into a Word document. If the table pastes correctly, you can delete and the columns in the table that you don't want, including definitions, and just leave the column with the words themselves.

Then under the Table tab, choose Select Table. The under the same tab, choose convert table to text. It doesn't matter what character you choose to separate fields, as you should only have one field - the words.

Then do a search and replace in which you search for the paragraph marker under Find and Replace/ More/Special and replace it with a comma.

This will give you a continuous list of words separated by commas.

Jay Cutts
Cutts Personal GRE Tutorial

Answer 2

Dictionary.

You read the whole dictionary b4 asking others to read all of the above.

Answer 3

I know what your talking about but so far haven't been able to find one myself. I hope that there is someone out there who can help you with his concern. Good luck in your endeavor.

Answer 4

Try Petersons.com.

Answer 5

very confusing factor. research with yahoo and bing. this may help!

Answer 6

have you tried a dictionary?

Answer 7

a dictanary