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 chalkboard
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