Final Basic Vocabulary Review โ ๊ธฐ์ด ์ดํ ์ด์ ๋ฆฌ
This page pulls together all 100 Basic Vocabulary words, organized by theme. Use it as a map of everything you've learned โ and as your study sheet before the final test.
Iru Helper Note
Once you've skimmed through every category below, head to <mention-page url="Vocabulary Mastery: The 100 Word Test"> to put it all to the test.
๋น๊ฐ ์์ ์ฐ์ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์งํ์ฒ ์ญ๊น์ง ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๋๋ฐ, ์น๊ตฌ๊ฐ ์นดํ์์ ๋ผ๋ผ๋ฅผ ๋ง์๋ฉฐ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์์ด์.
(It was raining, so I quickly grabbed my umbrella and hurried to the subway station, where my friend was waiting at a cafe, drinking a latte.)
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๐ The Big Picture
Every word you've learned fits somewhere in the 13 categories below. Some categories are "core" โ people, places, food, time โ and others are "connector" categories, like adverbs and grammar particles, that make every sentence flow. Read through each list out loud once before moving on.
๐จโ๐ฉโ๐งโ๐ฆ People, Family & Relationships
- ๊ฐ์กฑ (family) / ๋ถ๋ชจ๋ (parents)
- ์น๊ตฌ (friend) / ์ง์ธ (acquaintance)
- ์ ์๋ (teacher) / ์์ฌ (doctor) / ํ์ฌ์ (office worker)
- ๋จ์ (man) / ์ฌ์ (woman)
- ์๊ธฐ (baby) / ํ์ (student) / ์ด๋ฅธ (adult)
- ๋๋ฃ (colleague) / ์ ๋ฐฐ (senior) / ํ๋ฐฐ (junior)
๐ช Body & Appearance
- ์ผ๊ตด (face) / ์ (hand) / ๋ฐ (foot)
- ๋ (eye) / ์ฝ (nose) / ์ (mouth)
- ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์นด๋ฝ (hair) / ํผ๋ถ (skin)
- ํค (height) / ๋ ์ฌํ๋ค (slim)
- ์์๋ค (pretty) / ๋ฉ์๋ค (cool) / ์๋ฆ๋ต๋ค (beautiful)
- ๋ฆฝ์คํฑ (lipstick) / ๊ฑฐ์ธ (mirror) / ๋น (comb) / ์ฟ ์ (cushion compact)
๐ Home & Daily Life
- ๊ฑฐ์ค (living room) / ์นจ์ค (bedroom) / ์ฃผ๋ฐฉ (kitchen)
- ์นจ๋ (bed) / ์ฑ ์ (desk) / ์์ (chair)
- ์ปดํจํฐ (computer) / ํธ๋ํฐ (phone) / ๋ ธํธ๋ถ (laptop)
- ์ฒญ์ (cleaning) / ์ ๋ฆฌ (organizing)
- ๋์ฅ๊ณ (fridge) / ์ธํ๊ธฐ (washing machine) / ์์ด์ปจ (AC) / ๋๋ฐฉ (heating)
- ์ฅ๋ณด๊ธฐ (grocery shopping) / ๋นจ๋ (laundry) / ์ฐ๋ ๊ธฐ (trash)
๐ Clothing & Accessories
- ์ท (clothes) / ๋ฐ์ง (pants) / ํฐ์ ์ธ (t-shirt)
- ๊ฐ๋ฐฉ (bag) / ์ ๋ฐ (shoes) / ์๊ฒฝ (glasses)
- ์์ฌ (material) / ๊ฐ์ฃฝ (leather) / ๋ฉด (cotton)
- ํ์ดํธ (white) / ๋ฒ ์ด์ง (beige) / ๊ทธ๋ ์ด (gray)
- ๊ฝ ๋ผ๋ค (tight) / ํ๋ ํ๋ค (loose) / ๊ธธ๋ค (long) / ์งง๋ค (short)
- ์ ๊ฑฐ (new) / ์ค๊ณ (used) / ๊ณ ์ฅ (broken) / ์๋ฆฌ (repair)
๐ฑ Food & Drink
- ์ (rice) / ๋ฌผ (water) / ๊น์น (kimchi)
- ๊ณผ์ผ (fruit) / ์ฑ์ (vegetable)
- ๊ณ ๊ธฐ (meat) / ์์ (fish)
- ์๋ฉ๋ฆฌ์นด๋ ธ (americano) / ๋ผ๋ผ (latte) / ์ฐจ (tea)
- ๋ฌ๋ค (sweet) / ์ง๋ค (salty) / ๋งต๋ค (spicy)
- ํ๊น (fried) / ๊ตฌ์ด (grilled) / ์ฐ (steamed) / ํ (raw fish)
- ์๋ (seasoning) / ์์ค (sauce)
- ๋ฆฌํ (refill) / ๋ฐ์ฐฌ (side dish) / ํฌ์ฅ (takeout)
- ์์ (spoon & chopsticks) / ์ ๊ฐ๋ฝ (chopsticks) / ํด์ง (tissue) / ์ปต (cup)
๐ณ Nature, Weather & Seasons
- ๋ด (spring) / ์ฌ๋ฆ (summer) / ๊ฐ์ (fall) / ๊ฒจ์ธ (winter)
- ๋ง์ (clear) / ๋น (rain) / ๋ (snow)
- ๊ณต์ (park) / ํ๊ฐ (Han River) / ์ฐ (mountain) / ๋ฐ๋ค (sea)
๐ Verbs & Daily Actions
- ๊ฐ๋ค (go) / ์ค๋ค (come) / ๋์ฐฉํ๋ค (arrive)
- ๋จน๋ค (eat) / ๋ง์๋ค (drink) / ์ฌ๋ค (buy)
- ์๋ค (know) / ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ค (learn) / ์๊ฐํ๋ค (think)
- ์๋ค (sleep) / ์ฌ๋ค (rest) / ๊ฟ๊พธ๋ค (dream)
- ์ผํ๋ค (work) / ๊ณต๋ถํ๋ค (study) / ๋ง๋ค๋ค (make)
๐จ Descriptive Adjectives
- ๋จ์ํ๋ค (simple) / ๊นจ๋ํ๋ค (clean) / ๊น๋ํ๋ค (neat)
- ๊ณ ๊ธ์ค๋ฝ๋ค (high-end) / ๋น์ธ๋ค (expensive) / ์ธ๋ค (cheap)
- ๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ค (heavy) / ๊ฐ๋ณ๋ค (light) / ๋ถ๋๋ฝ๋ค (soft) / ๋ฑ๋ฑํ๋ค (hard)
- ์กฐ์ฉํ๋ค (quiet) / ๋ฐ์๋ค (busy) / ์ฐจ๋ถํ๋ค (calm)
๐๏ธ Places Around Town
- ์นดํ (cafe) / ์๋น (restaurant) / ์ ์ง (bar)
- ์ฝ๊ตญ (pharmacy) / ๋ณ์ (hospital) / ์ํ (bank)
- ๋ฐฑํ์ (department store) / ์์ฅ (market) / ํธ์์ (convenience store)
- ํ๊ต (school) / ๋์๊ด (library) / ํ์ (academy)
โฐ Time & Adverbs
- ์ (hour) / ๋ถ (minute) / ์ด (second)
- ์ฃผ (week) / ๋ฌ (month) / ๋ (year)
- ์ง๊ธ (now) / ๋์ค์ (later) / ํญ์ (always)
- ๋นจ๋ฆฌ (quickly) / ์ฒ์ฒํ (slowly) / ๋งค์ฐ (very) / ์กฐ๊ธ (a little)
๐ Transportation & Navigation
- ์ฐจ (car) / ๋ฒ์ค (bus) / ์งํ์ฒ (subway) / ๋นํ๊ธฐ (plane)
- ์ญ (station) / ๊ณตํญ (airport) / ์ ๋ฅ์ฅ (bus stop)
- ์ง๋ (map) / ๊ธธ (way/road) / ๋ชฉ์ ์ง (destination)
- ํธ์ (subway line) / ํ์น (transfer)
- ๋ชจํ์ด (corner) / ํก๋จ๋ณด๋ (crosswalk) / ์ถ๊ตฌ (exit) / ์ ๊ตฌ (entrance)
- ํ์ฅ์ค (restroom) / ์๋ฆฌ๋ฒ ์ดํฐ (elevator) / ๊ณ๋จ (stairs)
๐ฐ Money, Shopping & Personal Items
- ์๋ (change) / ์์์ฆ (receipt) / ํ ๋ถ (installment)
- ๋ดํฌ (envelope/bag) / ์ผํ๋ฐฑ (shopping bag)
- ์ง๊ฐ (wallet) / ์ด์ (key) / ์ ๋ถ์ฆ (ID) / ์ฐ์ฐ (umbrella)
- ํด์ง (tissue) / ์์๋ ์ (hand sanitizer) / ๋ง์คํฌ (mask)
๐ฃ๏ธ Social Life & Grammar Essentials
- ์ธ์ฌ (greeting) / ์ ๋ฌผ (gift) / ์ถํ (congratulations)
- ๋์ (help) / ๋ถ์ค (loss) / ๊ธด๊ธ (urgent) / ์์ (safety)
- ์๊ฐ (time) / ์ฅ์ (place) / ์ฝ์ (promise) / ์ทจ์ (cancel)
- ์/๋ (topic particle) / ์ด/๊ฐ (subject particle) / ์/๋ฅผ (object particle)
๐ง Full Review Sentences
๋น๊ฐ ์์ ์ฐ์ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์งํ์ฒ ์ญ๊น์ง ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๋๋ฐ, ์น๊ตฌ๊ฐ ์นดํ์์ ๋ผ๋ผ๋ฅผ ๋ง์๋ฉฐ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์์ด์.
(It was raining, so I quickly took my umbrella to the subway station, where my friend was waiting at a cafe, drinking a latte.)
์ฃผ๋ง์ ์์ฅ์์ ๊ณผ์ผ๊ณผ ์์ ์ ์ฌ๊ณ , ์ง์ ์์ ์ฒญ์์ ๋นจ๋๋ฅผ ํ์ด์. ์ข ๋ฌด๊ฑฐ์ ์ง๋ง ๊น๋ํ๊ฒ ์ ๋ฆฌํ๋๊น ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ด ์ข์์ด์.
(On the weekend I bought fruit and fish at the market, came home, and did cleaning and laundry. It was a bit heavy, but organizing it neatly made me feel good.)
๋ณ์ ๊ฐ๋ ๊ธธ์ ๋ชจํ์ด์์ ๊ธธ์ ์์ด๋ฒ๋ ค์ ๋ถ์ค๋ฌผ ์ผํฐ์ ๋์์ ์์ฒญํ์ด์. ์ง์์ด ์น์ ํ๊ฒ ์ง๋๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ฉด์ ํก๋จ๋ณด๋๋ฅผ ๊ฑด๋ ์ฝ๊ตญ ์์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ผ๊ณ ์๋ ค์คฌ์ด์.
(On the way to the hospital, I got lost at a corner, so I asked the lost-and-found center for help. The staff kindly showed me a map and told me to cross the crosswalk and go next to the pharmacy.)
๐ Cross-check note
For deeper definitions or extra example sentences on any word above, the ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ๊ตญ์ด์ ํ์ค๊ตญ์ด๋์ฌ์ (National Institute of Korean Language's Standard Korean Dictionary) is a reliable free reference.
๐ฏ What's Next
You've reviewed all 100 words by theme. The last step is <mention-page url="Vocabulary Mastery: The 100 Word Test"> โ a full test to prove your mastery.
๊ธฐ์ด ์ดํ ์ด์ ๋ฆฌ ์๋ฃ! ์ด์ ์ง์ง ์ํ์ด์์! ๐๐๐
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Try this exercise
Quick recall โ one word picked from each of 10 different categories above. What does each one mean?
A. ๋ถ๋ชจ๋
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parents
B. ํผ๋ถ
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skin
C. ์ ๋ฆฌ
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organizing / tidying
D. ํ๋ ํ๋ค
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to be loose (clothing)
E. ๋ฐ์ฐฌ
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side dish
F. ํ๊ฐ
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the Han River
G. ์๊ฐํ๋ค
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to think
H. ์ฐจ๋ถํ๋ค
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to be calm
I. ๋์๊ด
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library
J. ๋ชฉ์ ์ง
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destination
Vocabulary Box
These 10 words come from 10 different categories โ a quick spot-check that you remember at least one word from each area of the course.
Pitfalls Reminder
- ์ ๋ฆฌ (organizing) vs ์ฒญ์ (cleaning) โ ์ ๋ฆฌ is about order/arrangement, ์ฒญ์ is about dirt/mess.
- ์๊ฐํ๋ค (to think) vs ์๋ค (to know) โ ์๊ฐํ๋ค is an ongoing opinion/process, ์๋ค is a state of knowing.
- ์ฐจ๋ถํ๋ค (calm, of a person/mood) vs ์กฐ์ฉํ๋ค (quiet, of a place/sound) โ don't mix these up.
Want more reps? The Practice Hub below has two more full mixed-review exercises before you move on to the final test.
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Practice Hub: Final Review
Two more mixed-review exercises pulling from across the whole 100-word vocabulary set โ Korean โ English recall, then English โ Korean translation.
Exercise 1 โ Mixed Word Recall: Korean โ English ๐งฉโก๏ธ๐ค
A. ์๋
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change (money)
B. ์ ๋ถ์ฆ
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ID card
C. ํด์ง
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tissue
D. ์ผํ๋ค
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to work
E. ๊นจ๋ํ๋ค
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to be clean
F. ์์ฅ
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market
G. ๋ถ
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minute
H. ํ์น
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to transfer (subway/bus)
I. ์ธ์ฌ
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greeting
J. ์ทจ์
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cancellation
Quick Reference
Grouped by category:
- Money & Personal Items: ์๋, ์ ๋ถ์ฆ, ํด์ง
- Verbs & Adjectives: ์ผํ๋ค, ๊นจ๋ํ๋ค
- Places & Time: ์์ฅ, ๋ถ
- Transportation & Social Life: ํ์น, ์ธ์ฌ, ์ทจ์
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Exercise 2 โ Mixed Sentence Translation: English โ Korean ๐คโก๏ธ๐งฉ
A. I need to buy a new umbrella.
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์ ์ฐ์ฐ์ ์ฌ์ผ ํด์.
B. The promise was canceled.
Answer
์ฝ์์ด ์ทจ์๋์ด์.
C. Please be quiet in the library.
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๋์๊ด์์ ์กฐ์ฉํ ํด ์ฃผ์ธ์.
D. This bag is made of leather.
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์ด ๊ฐ๋ฐฉ์ ๊ฐ์ฃฝ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ค์์ด์.
E. I always drink water in the morning.
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์ ๋ ์์นจ์ ํญ์ ๋ฌผ์ ๋ง์
์.
F. The bus stop is near the bank.
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๋ฒ์ค ์ ๋ฅ์ฅ์ ์ํ ๊ทผ์ฒ์ ์์ด์.
G. This food is too spicy for me.
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์ด ์์์ ์ ํํ
๋๋ฌด ๋งค์์.
H. I think this is expensive.
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์ด๊ฑด ์ข ๋น์ธ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํด์.
I. Let's rest for a little while.
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์ ๊น ์ข ์ฌ์ด์.
J. He works at a hospital.
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๊ทธ๋ ๋ณ์์์ ์ผํด์.
Quick Reference โ Grammar Patterns
- ์ + noun โ "new ___"
- -์ด/๊ฐ ์ทจ์๋์ด์ โ "___ was canceled"
- -์/์ด ์ฃผ์ธ์ โ polite request
- -์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ค์์ด์ โ "made of/with ___"
- -๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํด์ โ "I think that ___"
๊ธฐ์ด ์ดํ ์ด์ ๋ฆฌ ์๋ฃ! ์ด์ ์ง์ง ์ํ์ด์์! ๐๐๐
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