Basic 850: An Online Wordbook
19 March, 2005
  Wrong
is the opposite of right. It is one of the 50 words for opposite qualities. When something or someone has an error, the thing or the person is wrong.

Wrongdoer is someone who does
wrong.

Wrongdoing is act which is wrong. Sometimes, the short word wrong itself is used for wrongdoing in statements like this: "Two wrongs don't make a right."

Wrongheaded is for someone who has a wrong idea in the head.

Wrongheadedly is sometimes used in statements like this: "A number of teachers, without enough knowledge of Basic English, were wrongheadedly against it."
 
  Sad
is a word for the quality of being unhappy: the opposite of "happy." It is one of the 50 words for opposite qualities. When something makes you sad, it may be said that you are sad.

When something makes you sad, in addition, you may say that it is a sad thing. If a picture gives you a sad feeling, for example, you may say it is a sad picture. (The Basic Words.)

If you do something with a sad feeling, it may be said that you do it sadly.

If an event makes you sad and you give a talk about the event, you may put, somewhere in the statement, the word "sadly." Though this writing about the word "sad" is not very long, I have nothing more to say. Sadly, I have to put an end to it here.
 
18 March, 2005
  50 for Oppsites
are:
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
 
  100 for General Qualities
are:

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,
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.
 
  200 for Things Which May Be Pictured
are:

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, 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.
 
  400 Words for General Things
are here:

account, act, addition, adjustment, advertisement, agreement, air, amount, amusement, animal, answer, apparatus, approval, argument, art, attack, attempt, attention, attraction, authority,

back, balance, base, behaviour, belief, birth, bit, bite, blood, blow, body, brass, bread, breath, brother, building, burn, burst, business, butter,

canvas, care, cause, chalk, chance, change, cloth, coal, colour, 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,

harbour, harmony, hate, hearing, heat, help, history, hole, hope, hour, humor [humour],

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.
 
  Ryota's Daybook: Language Arts & Basic English
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17 March, 2005
  100 Words for Operations, etc.
are here:

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.
 
This is a guide, in process of making, to the 850 English words and other words made by joining them together, based on C. K. Ogden's Basic English. The example statements put between "hook-marks," if they are not specially noted, are from Ogden's book The Basic Words.

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