There are five main parts to the Basic English
word list: operators, things
(general), things
(pictured), qualities
(general), qualities
(opposite)
The 100
operators are:

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 no other some such that this I he you who
and because but or if through while how when where why again ever
far forward hear near now out still there then together well almost
enough even little much not only quite so very tomorrow yesterday
north south east west please yes
The 400
general things are:

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 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 poison point 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
The 200
picturable things 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 carriage cart 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
The 100
qualities are:

able acid angry automatic beautiful black boiling bright broken
brown cheap chemical chief clean clear common complex conscious cup
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
The 50
opposites 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
The rules
are:
plurals as usual with '-s'or '-es' nouns with '-er',
such as plant -> planter nouns with '-ing' such as plant ->
planting adjectives with '-ed' such as plant ->
planted adverbs with '-ly' such as quick ->
quickly negation with 'un-' such as common ->
uncommon compound words such as wastebasket and
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