Vocabulary · CEFR A1–B1
Universal Core: the first 100 words
100 words practice & mastery
The first 10 episodes of Universal Core teach 100 words that appear in every major exam, from CAT and GRE to UPSC and TOEFL.
Watch each episode, practise its words in a short quiz, and check yourself with a test after every five episodes. Revise all 100 words in one video, then take the final test. An adaptive test at the start and the end shows how far you have come.
What you will be able to do
- Recognise and use the 100 Universal Core words
- Use each word in correct sentences
- Check your level with an adaptive test, before and after
Course content
5 sections · 28 steps
Section 1: Start here
How the course works, and where you are now
- Lesson: How this course works
- Level test: Where are you now? (adaptive test) (optional)
Section 2: Episodes 1 to 5
The first fifty words
- Episode video: Universal Core 1: constitute, constitution, involvement and more
- Practice test: Quiz: episode 1
- Episode video: Universal Core 2: compensate, correspond, formula and more
- Practice test: Quiz: episode 2
- Episode video: Universal Core 3: administrative, commissioner, complexity and more
- Practice test: Quiz: episode 3
- Episode video: Universal Core 4: indicator, inherent, regulatory and more
- Practice test: Quiz: episode 4
- Episode video: Universal Core 5: estimation, interactive, legalization and more
- Practice test: Quiz: episode 5
- Graded test: Test: episodes 1 to 5 · 15 min
Section 3: Episodes 6 to 10
Fifty more words
- Episode video: Universal Core 6: commentary, compensation, documentation and more
- Practice test: Quiz: episode 6
- Episode video: Universal Core 7: selective, structurally, sustain and more
- Practice test: Quiz: episode 7
- Episode video: Universal Core 8: domain, domination, emergence and more
- Practice test: Quiz: episode 8
- Episode video: Universal Core 9: texture, accessible, adjustment and more
- Practice test: Quiz: episode 9
- Episode video: Universal Core 10: mitigate, myriad, philosopher and more
- Practice test: Quiz: episode 10
- Graded test: Test: episodes 6 to 10 · 15 min
- Revision video: Revision: 100 words of episodes 1 to 10 (optional)
Section 6: Revision
All 200 words in one video: the word, its meaning, a soft bell, the next word.
- Revision video: Revision: all 100 words of episodes 1 to 10
Section 7: Final check
All 200 words, and how far you have come
- Graded test: Final test: episodes 1 to 10 · 30 min
- Level test: Where are you now? (again)
including GST, one-time payment, access for 367 days
- 10 video lessons
- 2 revision videos
- 1 lesson
- 10 practice tests
- 2 level tests
- 3 graded tests
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Levels and scores are indicative, aligned with the CEFR; a course completion is not an exam certificate.