This is a list of the 850 words in the Basic English core vocabulary. These words all denote simple concepts commonly used in everyday life. Operations - 100 words 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, til