We are thrilled to present a list that has been popular here at Vocaublary.com for some time: The Vocabulary.com 1000--now, with example sentences!
To create the Vocaublary.com Top 1000, we started with the words that give our users the most trouble and then carefully ranked them by how frequently they appear in our corpus of billions of words from edited sources. The result: A masterful Vocabulary List of words that are both difficult and common. You will see them in everyday academic and business writing; you will also see them on the SAT, ACT, GRE, and ToEFL. And now, the list includes example sentences from real world publications for every word.
If you have time to study only one list of words, this is for you.