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PLAIN ENGLISH TIMES 2020 WORD LIST (2850 words)

a • abbott • abc • ability • able • abnormal • aboriginal • about • above • abroad • abuse • accept • acceptance • access • accident • accord • account • accurate • accuse • achieve • acid • acne • acre • across • act • action • activist • activity • add • address • administration • adopt • adult • adulthood • advantage • advertise • advice • advise • advocate • aerobic • affair • affect • afford • affordable • afraid • afro • afropop • after • aftermath • afterward • again • against • age • agence • agency • agent • aging • ago • agree • agreement • ahead • aid • aide • ailment • aim • air • airborne • airfare • airport • aisle • alcohol • alert • algorithm • alive • all • allow • allowance • almighty • almond • almost • alone • along • already • also • although • aluminum • always • amalgam • amalgamate • american • among • amount • ancestry • and • angeles • anger • animal • announce • annual • another • answer • anti • antibiotic • anxiety • any • anybody • anymore • anyone • anything • anywhere • apart • apartment • appear • appearance • appease • apple • applicant • apply • approach • approve • area • argue • arm • army • around • arrange • arrest • arrival • arrive • arthritis • artificial • artist • asbestos • aside • ask • aspect • assault • assembly • assert • asset • assign • assist • associate • association • asthma • astronomical • asylum • asymmetry • at • athletic • attack • attacker • attempt • attend • attention • attract • audience • aunt • authority • authorization • auto • avail • available • average • avoid • avow • await • awaken • aware • away • b • baby • back • backbreaking • background • bacteria • bad • bag • bake • balance • balcony • ban • bank • banker • bar • barber • barbershop • bare • base • basement • basic • basis • bathroom • battery • battle • bay • be • beach • bear • beat • beauty • because • become • bed • bedroom • beef • beer • before • beggar • begin • behave • behavior • behind • belief • believe • believer • belong • beloved • bend • benefit • benzoyl • bereave • beside • besides • bespeak • best • bet • betray • betrayal • better • between • beverage • beyond • bias • bicycle • bidding • big • bike • bill • billion • bind • binge • biological • birth • birthday • birthrate • bite • bitter • black • bladder • blame • bleach • blemish • blend • blind • block • blood • blowtorch • blue • blueberry • board • boat • body • bogus • boil • bomb • bond • boom • border • boredom • born • borough • botanica • botanical • both • bottle • bottom • bowl • box • brag • braid • braiders • brain • brake • brand • bread • break • breakout • breath • breathe • brexit • brief • briefly • brightly • bring • broaden • broil • brother • brown • brutal • bubonic • budget • build • bullet • bully • bun • bunker • bunkerboy • burden • bureau • burger • burglar • burn • bus • busboy • bushfires • business • but • butter • button • buy • buyer • by • c • cabinet • calif • call • calm • camera • camp • campaign • campus • can • cancel • canceled • cancellation • cancer • candidate • candle • candy • cane • cannabis • cannot • capital • capitalism • capitalize • caplin • car • carbohydrate • carbon • card • cardholder • care • careful • carefully • caregiver • carrier • carry • case • caseload • cash • cashier • cast • catastrophe • catch • category • catsup • cattle • catwalk • cause • caution • cave • cavity • ceil • celebrate • celebration • celebrity • cell • cellar • cellblock • census • cent • center • central • century • cereal • certain • chain • chair • challenge • challenger • chance • change • charge • charity • chase • cheap • check • cheddar • cheek • cheer • cheese • chemistry • cherry • chestnut • chickasaw • chicken • chide • chief • child • childcare • chloroquine • choice • cholera • choose • chore • christmas • chronic • church • circulation • cite • citizen • citizenship • city • civil • claim • clap • class • classmate • classroom • clean • cleanse • cleanser • clear • client • climate • climb • cling • clinical • clock • close • closely • clothe • cloud • club • clue • coal • coat • coca • coffee • colander • cold • collect • collection • collector • college • color • colored • combine • come • comfort • comment • commentator • commenter • commercial • commission • commit • common • communicate • community • company • compare • compassion • compete • compile • complain • complete • completely • complication • compromise • concentration • concern • conclude • conclusion • concrete • condition • condone • conduct • conference • confidence • confine • confirm • conflict • confuse • confusion • congress • connection • consider • constitution • construction • consume • consumer • contact • contagious • contain • containment • contaminate • contamination • content • contest • continue • contract • contractor • contribute • contribution • control • conversation • cook • cool • cooperate • corn • cornrows • coronavirus • correctional • corrupt • corruption • cost • cotton • cough • could • count • counter • country • couple • course • court • courtesy • courtroom • cover • covid • crack • crave • cream • create • creation • creature • credit • creek • crib • crime • criminal • crisis • critic • critical • cross • crossroad • crow • crowd • crude • crumb • crusade • crush • cry • culprit • cultural • culture • cup • cure • currency • current • currently • curtail • custom • customer • cut • cybercrime • cycle • dab • dado • daily • dairy • dam • damage • danger • dangerous • dare • dark • darken • data • database • daughter • day • daycare • dead • deadline • deadly • deal • dean • death • debate • debris • debt • debtor • decade • decay • december • decent • decide • decision • declare • decline • deep • deeply • default • defeat • defect • defender • deflation • deflect • defy • degree • deliver • delivery • demand • demean • democracy • democrat • democratic • demonstrate • demonstration • demonstrator • demote • denounce • dense • dent • dental • denuclearize • deny • department • depend • dependent • deplete • deport • deportation • deprave • depress • depression • deranged • dermatitis • dermatologist • descent • describe • design • desire • despicable • destroy • detail • detain • detect • detection • deter • detergent • determine • devastate • develop • developer • device • devout • diabetes • diagnose • diameter • diaper • dictate • dictator • die • diet • dietary • difference • different • difficult • dig • digital • dilemma • diner • dioxide • diplomacy • diplomatic • direct • direction • directly • director • dirt • disability • disable • disagree • disagreeable • disagreement • disappear • disaster • discourage • discover • discredit • discrimination • disease • dish • disinfect • disinfectant • disinfection • dislike • dismiss • disorder • disparage • display • disposable • disrupt • dissident • distance • distasteful • distinct • distract • dive • diverse • division • do • doctor • document • documentary • doe • dollar • domestic • dominican • don • donate • door • dorm • dos • dotage • dotard • double • doubt • doug • douse • down • downside • downtown • dozen • dr • draft • drain • drama • draw • dream • dried • drill • drink • drive • driver • drop • droplet • drug • drugstore • dry • dummy • during • dust • duty • dwell • dynamic • each • eager • early • earn • easily • east • eastern • easy • eat • eater • economic • economist • economy • edge • editorial • educate • education • effect • effective • effort • egg • eight • eighteen • either • el • elbow • elder • elderly • elect • election • electric • element • elevator • eligible • elite • else • elsewhere • embassy • embrace • emerge • emergency • emission • emotion • emotional • employ • employee • employer • employment • enable • enact • encourage • end • endorse • endure • energy • enforce • enforcement • engine • english • enjoy • enlist • enough • enslave • enter • entire • environment • environmental • equality • era • erratic • escape • escapee • especially • espionage • essay • essential • establish • establishment • estimate • ethnic • ethnicity • ethnocide • eu • europe • european • evacuation • even • evenly • event • ever • every • everybody • everyone • everything • everywhere • evict • evidence • evil • evolve • examine • example • except • exchange • exclaim • excuse • executive • exercise • exhale • exhibit • exhort • exist • exit • expand • expect • expense • expensive • experience • expert • expire • explain • exploit • exploitable • expose • exposure • express • expression • extension • extinction • extra • extract • extradite • extradition • extremist • eye • fabric • face • facial • facility • fact • factor • factory • fade • fail • failure • fair • fairly • fairness • faith • fake • fall • family • famous • far • farm • farmer • farmworkers • fashion • fast • fatal • fatality • father • fatty • faucet • favor • favorite • fear • fearful • fearlessness • feature • federal • fee • feed • feel • female • feudalism • fever • few • field • fieldwork • fifteen • fifty • fight • file • fill • final • financial • find • fine • finger • finish • fire • firm • first • fish • fit • five • fix • flame • flashlight • flavored • flax • flee • flight • flock • flow • flu • fluid • fly • foil • folk • follow • follower • food • foot • for • force • foreign • foreigner • forest • forge • forgery • forget • fork • form • formal • former • formula • fortune • forward • foster • foul • founder • four • fourteen • fourth • fox • fraction • fragrance • fraud • freckle • free • freedom • frequently • fresh • friction • friend • friendly • friendship • frighten • from • front • fructose • fruit • fry • full • fully • fun • fund • fungus • further • future • g • gain • game • gang • garage • garden • garment • gas • gasp • gate • gather • gay • gender • general • generation • genetically • gentle • gentrification • geopolitical • germ • german • germicide • gestate • get • giant • gift • girl • give • glad • glass • global • glove • gloved • glycolic • go • goal • gold • golden • good • govern • government • governor • grade • graduate • grain • gram • grand • grandchild • grandfather • grandparent • grant • grape • graphic • great • green • greenhouse • grief • grim • grime • grimy • grin • grip • grocery • group • grow • growth • guard • guest • guidance • guide • guideline • guilt • guilty • guitar • gunman • ha • habit • hack • hair • hairstyle • hajj • half • hall • hallway • ham • hamburger • hand • handful • handle • handlebar • hang • hank • happen • happy • harass • hard • hardship • harm • harsh • harvest • hashtag • hate • have • hawaii • hazard • he • head • headline • headquarters • heal • health • healthy • hear • heart • heartbreak • heat • heavily • heavy • heedless • help • her • herb • herbal • here • heritage • hero • herself • hide • high • highly • highway • hill • him • himself • hire • his • historian • historic • history • hit • hold • holder • hole • holographic • holy • home • homeland • homeless • homework • honest • honor • hook • hope • horse • hospital • hospitalization • host • hostile • hot • hotel • hour • hourly • house • household • houser • housework • how • however • huddle • hug • huge • hugger • human • humidity • humor • hundred • hungry • hurl • hurricane • hurt • husband • hydrocortisone • hydroxychloroquine • hygiene • hyperpigmentation • hypocrisy • i • id • idea • ideal • identification • identify • if • ignore • ill • illegal • illness • image • imagination • imitation • immediate • immediately • immigrant • immigration • immoral • immune • impact • impartial • impeach • impeachment • import • importance • important • impose • impossible • impress • impressive • improper • in • inauguration • inch • include • income • inconsistent • increase • incredible • indeed • independent • indicator • indifference • indigenous • indoor • industry • inequality • inevitable • infant • infect • infection • infectious • inferior • infertile • inflammation • inflammatory • inflation • influence • influencers • inform • information • ingredient • injury • injustice • inmate • innocent • insane • insert • inside • inspect • instagram • instance • instead • instruction • insult • insurance • integrity • intelligence • intend • intense • intensive • intent • intention • interact • interest • interfere • international • interrupt • interstate • into • intolerance • invade • invention • invest • investigate • investigation • investment • involve • irony • irregular • irresponsible • irritable • irritant • irritate • irritation • islam • island • issue • it • itchy • itself • j • jack • jair • janitor • jet • jewish • jiggly • jinping • job • join • journey • joy • judge • judgment • juice • junior • jury • just • justice • kale • kangaroo • keep • kid • kidney • kill • killer • kind • king • kingdom • kiss • kit • kitchen • knee • knife • knob • knot • know • knowledge • kosher • kraft • l • la • lab • label • labeled • labor • lack • lady • lag • lam • lamp • land • landlord • language • lap • large • last • late • latex • launch • launder • laundry • lavender • law • lawful • lawmaker • lawsuit • lawyer • lay • layer • lead • leader • leadership • leaf • leafy • leah • learn • least • leave • legacy • legal • legally • legislature • lemon • lemonade • length • lessen • lesson • let • letter • level • leverage • liberal • liberate • liberty • library • license • lick • lie • life • lifetime • lift • light • lighten • like • likely • lime • limit • line • linger • link • liquid • list • listen • little • live • livelihood • lively • loan • lobby • local • location • lock • lockdown • log • logger • long • longstanding • look • loose • lord • los • lose • loss • lot • loud • love • lover • low • lower • lucky • lump • luna • lunch • lung • lupus • m • macaroni • machine • mackerel • magnesium • maid • mail • main • mainstream • maintain • maintenance • major • majority • make • maker • makeshift • makeup • malaria • mall • man • manage • management • manager • manhole • manicurist • manner • manual • manuel • manufacture • manufacturer • many • map • marijuana • maritime • mark • market • marry • mashpee • mask • maskne • mass • massive • match • material • matter • maturity • maximum • may • maybe • mayor • me • meal • mean • meaner • measly • measure • meat • meatless • mechanic • medical • medicare • medication • medicine • meditation • medium • meet • meeting • melanoma • melt • member • mentally • mercury • mere • merge • message • metal • mexican • micellar • microaggressions • mid • middle • might • migrant • migrate • migration • mil • mild • mile • milestone • military • milk • mill • millennials • miller • million • mind • mindful • mine • minefield • miner • mingle • minister • minor • minority • minus • minute • miracle • mirror • misery • miss • missile • mission • mistake • mix • mixture • mo • mob • mobilize • model • modern • moisturizer • moisturizing • moment • money • month • monthly • more • morning • mosque • most • mother • motor • motorcycle • motto • mount • mouth • move • movement • mr • much • mug • multi • mural • muscle • music • muslim • must • mustard • my • n • nail • name • napkin • narcissist • narrow • nation • national • nationalism • native • natural • near • necessity • neckline • need • needle • negate • negative • negro • neighbor • neighborhood • neither • nephew • nervous • net • network • neurological • neutral • never • new • newcomer • news • newspaper • newsroom • next • nice • niece • night • nightmare • nine • nineteenth • ninety • no • noise • nomination • non • none • noon • normal • north • northern • nose • not • note • nothing • notice • now • nowhere • nuclear • nugget • number • nurse • nursery • nut • ny • oath • obesity • object • objection • observer • occupy • occur • ocean • odd • of • off • offense • offer • office • officer • official • offshore • often • oil • ok • old • olive • omega • on • once • one • online • only • onto • open • opinion • opponent • opportunity • oppose • opposite • option • or • orange • order • ordinary • ore • organize • original • orphan • other • otherwise • ounce • our • out • outbreak • outcome • outdoor • outing • outlaw • outpouring • outrage • outside • outsider • outskirt • outweigh • oven • over • overdose • overlook • overnight • overrate • overreach • overrule • oversee • overstate • overstay • overtime • overturn • overweight • overwork • owe • own • owner • p • pa • pack • package • packet • pad • paint • pandemic • pander • panic • paper • parent • park • part • partisan • partnership • party • pass • passageway • passport • past • pastry • path • patience • patient • patron • pattern • pawn • pay • payment • peaceful • peartree • pedal • pedaling • penalty • penny • people • pepper • per • percent • perform • perhaps • period • permanent • permission • permit • peroxide • persecute • persist • person • personal • peso • photo • photograph • photographer • photography • phrase • physic • physical • physician • pick • picture • piece • pigmentation • pile • pilgrim • pilgrimage • pillar • pilot • pink • pinnacle • pioneer • pipe • pitcher • place • plague • plain • plan • plane • planet • planner • plant • plantain • plaster • plastic • plate • play • please • plot • plow • plus • pneumonia • poem • point • poison • police • policy • polio • polish • politic • political • politician • politicize • pollution • poor • populace • popular • populate • population • populist • pork • portable • position • positive • possession • possible • post • pot • potential • potion • poultry • pound • pour • poverty • power • powerful • practice • praise • prayer • precaution • prefer • preference • pregnancy • pregnant • prehistoric • prejudice • preparation • prepare • prepay • preschool • prescribe • prescription • present • preserve • preside • presidency • president • presidential • press • pressure • pretend • prevent • price • primary • prime • print • prison • prisoner • privacy • private • probably • problem • proceed • process • processor • produce • product • production • prof • professional • professor • profit • profitable • profound • program • progress • prohibit • project • prolong • promise • promote • proof • propane • proper • property • propose • prosecutor • prosper • protect • protection • protective • protest • protester • protestors • prove • provide • provoke • public • publish • pull • punch • punish • punishment • purchase • push • pushback • put • puzzle • quality • quarantine • quarter • queen • question • quick • quickly • quicksilver • quietly • quit • quite • race • racial • racism • racist • rack • rad • rage • raid • rain • raise • rally • ram • random • range • rapid • rare • rash • rat • rate • rather • ray • re • reach • reaction • read • reader • ready • real • realize • really • reason • rebalance • rebuild • receive • recent • recently • recession • recipe • recognition • recognize • recommend • recommendation • reconsider • record • recover • red • reduce • reduction • refer • refine • reflect • refrain • refrigerate • refugee • refuse • regardless • region • register • regular • reject • relapse • relate • relation • relationship • relative • relaxation • release • relief • religion • religious • reluctant • rely • remain • remark • remedy • remember • remind • remittance • remote • removal • remove • rend • renew • rental • renter • reopen • repair • reparation • replace • replacement • report • reporter • represent • representative • repress • reproductive • require • researcher • resentment • reservation • resident • resist • resource • respect • response • responsibility • responsible • rest • restarting • restaurant • restore • restrain • restraint • restrict • restriction • result • retail • retailer • retire • retort • return • reunite • reveal • review • revive • revoke • revolution • rheumatoid • rhode • rhythm • rice • rich • rid • ride • rider • rideup • ridicule • rig • right • ring • rinse • riot • rip • rise • risk • risky • ritual • river • road • roadside • rob • rock • rocket • role • roll • room • roommate • root • roughly • routine • rubber • ruin • rule • run • runny • rural • rush • sabotage • sacred • sadness • safe • safeguard • safety • saga • saint • salmon • salon • salt • same • sample • sanction • sanctuary • sand • sanitize • sanitizing • sardine • sauce • save • say • scale • scandal • scar • scene • scent • schedule • scheme • scholar • school • scientist • score • scorecard • scramble • scrap • scrape • screen • scrub • sculptor • seafood • seam • search • season • seat • second • secret • sector • security • see • seed • seek • seeker • seem • seize • select • selenium • self • selfie • sell • senate • senator • send • sense • sentence • separate • serf • serious • seriously • serve • server • service • session • set • settle • settlement • settler • seven • seventeenth • seventy • severe • sew • sewer • sex • sexual • sexually • shade • shake • shape • share • shareholder • sharp • shatter • she • sheet • shelf • shell • shelter • shift • shine • ship • shirt • shock • shoe • shoelace • shoot • shooter • shop • shore • short • shortage • should • shoulder • shout • show • shred • shrug • shut • sibling • sick • sicken • side • siege • sign • silence • silica • silky • silvery • similar • simple • simply • since • sing • single • sink • sit • site • situation • six • sixteen • size • skill • skin • skip • slather • sleep • sleeve • sloppy • slow • small • smart • smell • smile • smoke • smuggle • smuggler • snack • snakehead • snap • sneak • so • soap • social • socialism • socialist • society • sodium • soft • software • soldier • solidarity • solution • solve • some • somebody • someone • something • sometimes • somewhat • somewhere • son • soon • sorry • soul • soup • source • south • southern • southwest • soybean • space • spaghetti • speak • speaker • special • specialize • specie • specific • speech • spell • spend • sperm • spill • spin • spinach • spiritual • spiritually • split • spot • spotlight • spray • spread • spreader • spring • sprinkle • sprout • square • stable • staff • stage • stair • stairwell • stake • stamp • standard • staple • star • start • starve • state • statement • statistic • statue • status • stave • stay • steal • steam • steep • step • stereotype • sterilize • stick • sticker • still • stimulus • stir • stock • stone • stop • store • story • straight • strand • strawberry • stream • streamline • street • strength • stress • stretch • strike • string • strip • strong • structure • struggle • student • study • stuff • style • stylist • sub • subject • suburb • subway • succeed • successful • such • suffer • sufficient • sugar • sugary • suggest • suggestion • suicide • summary • summer • sun • sunburn • sunday • sunglass • sunscreen • sunshine • superior • supermarket • supervisor • supply • support • supporter • suppose • supreme • sure • surface • surge • surprise • surrogacy • surrogate • survey • suspect • suspend • sustain • swab • swamp • swap • sweat • sweatshop • sweeten • sweetener • sweetness • swiftly • swim • swish • symbol • symbolic • symptom • syrup • system • table • tail • take • taker • tale • talk • tall • tally • tan • tantrum • tape • target • tariff • tartness • task • taste • tax • tea • teach • teacher • team • tear • teaspoon • tech • technology • teem • teen • teenage • teenager • tel • television • tell • temperature • tempest • ten • tenant • tend • tension • tent • term • terrible • territory • terrorism • terrorist • test • testimony • textile • texture • th • than • thank • that • the • theatre • theft • their • them • themselves • then • there • therefore • they • thick • thing • think • third • thirty • this • though • thousand • threat • threaten • three • thrive • throat • throng • throttle • through • throughout • throw • thumb • ticket • tie • tight • time • tint • tiny • tip • tire • title • to • tobacco • today • toddler • toe • together • toil • toll • ton • tone • too • tool • top • topic • topical • toss • totally • touch • tough • tourist • tout • toward • towel • tower • town • toxic • trace • trade • traditional • trafficker • tragedy • trail • trailer • train • transfer • transformative • transmission • transportation • travel • traveler • treason • treat • treatment • treaty • trek • tremendously • trend • trending • trial • tribal • tribe • trigger • trip • tripathy • troop • tropical • trouble • truck • true • trump • try • tuna • tunnel • turf • turkey • turmoil • turn • turnover • tweet • twentieth • twenty • twice • twin • twist • twitter • two • type • ugly • unable • unappetizing • uncle • unclean • uncut • undated • under • underground • undermine • underneath • understand • understanding • underway • underwear • undetected • undocumented • unease • unemployment • unfortunate • unguarded • unhealthy • unification • uniform • union • unique • unit • unite • universal • university • unless • unlike • unlikely • unmarked • unplanned • unpleasant • unprofessional • unproven • unsalted • unstable • until • untreated • untrimmed • unusual • unwrap • up • upend • upon • upper • upset • upstate • uptick • urban • urge • us • usage • use • usual • usually • v • vacant • vacation • vaccination • vaccinator • valid • value • vape • vapor • vary • vast • vegan • vegetable • vendor • version • very • vet • veteran • via • vibrant • vice • vicious • victim • victor • video • view • viewer • village • violate • violence • violent • viral • virus • visa • visit • vital • vitamin • voice • void • volunteer • vote • voter • votive • vulnerable • wage • waist • wait • waiter • wake • walk • wall • walnut • want • war • ward • warm • warn • wary • wash • wastewater • watch • water • wave • way • we • weak • weaken • wealth • wealthy • weapon • wear • week • weekly • weigh • weight • weird • welcome • welfare • well • wen • west • western • wet • what • whatever • when • whenever • where • wherever • whether • which • while • whisk • white • whole • whom • why • wide • widespread • wife • will • win • wind • window • windshield • wing • winner • winter • wipe • wire • with • within • without • witness • woman • word • work • worker • workplace • world • worry • worsen • worshiper • worth • would • wrap • wretched • write • writer • wrong • yacht • year • yearn • yellow • yes • yet • yield • yoga • yogurt • yorkers • you • young • your • yourself • zone

Based on a selection of some 50 articles from The Times in Plain English

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