Friends season 1 episode 8: vocabulary
«The One Where Nana Dies Twice». 1,908 words spoken, 424 different words. Here are the ones worth learning before you watch.
A typical learner knows this share of the words spoken in the episode:
| Your level | Familiar words | New words per episode |
|---|---|---|
| A2 | ≈ 93% | ≈ 56 |
| B1 | ≈ 96% | ≈ 28 |
| B2 | ≈ 97% | ≈ 16 |
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Sorted by how often they are said in the episode. Character names are left out.
B1 words in this episode B1
| quality | how good or bad something is | 5 |
| gay | attracted to people of the same sex | 3 |
| buried | put under the ground or hidden from sight | 3 |
| matter | a thing that is important or a problem | 2 |
| sweetie | person you love, or a piece of candy | 2 |
| financial | about money and how it is used | 2 |
| unless | if not, except when | 2 |
| funeral | event when people say goodbye to a dead person | 2 |
| dehydrated | not having enough water in your body | 1 |
| flush | to clean by sending a lot of water through | 1 |
| ridiculous | very silly and not making sense | 1 |
| neither | not one and not the other | 1 |
| although | even if, but at the same time | 1 |
| absolutely | completely, fully, yes for sure | 1 |
| vague | not clear, hard to understand | 1 |
| beep | short high sound from a machine | 1 |
| unbelievable | so big or great that it is hard to believe | 1 |
| career | the type of work you do for many years | 1 |
| fuzzy | soft and not clear, or covered in soft hair | 1 |
| purse | small bag for carrying money and small things | 1 |
| weird | very strange and different from normal | 1 |
| struck | past of strike, hit hard | 1 |
| lightning | bright flash of light in the sky in a storm | 1 |
| miniature | very small copy of something | 1 |
| vibe | the feeling or mood of a place or person | 1 |
| whenever | at any time that something happens | 1 |
| casket | box for a dead person, or small box for things | 1 |
| define | to say what a word or thing means | 1 |
| gee | word showing surprise | 1 |
| apparently | it seems like, people say that | 1 |
| phew | sound you make when you feel free from worry | 1 |
| shame | bad feeling for doing something wrong | 1 |
| eternity | time that has no end | 1 |
| feature | important or interesting part of something | 1 |
| service | help given to people, or work done for others | 1 |
| overcoat | a long warm coat worn over other clothes | 1 |
| reception | area at the front of a building for visitors | 1 |
| ruin | to break or damage something very badly | 1 |
| though | but, however | 1 |
| realise | to understand something that you did not know before | 1 |
B2 words in this episode B2
| gross | very unpleasant, or the total before anything is taken away | 1 |
| predictable | easy to know what will happen next | 1 |
| bearing | the way you hold your body, or a direction | 1 |
| remarkably | in a way that is surprising and worth noticing | 1 |
| bout | a short period of illness or activity | 1 |
Harder words (C1–C2)
spasm C1 fluorescent C1 retainer C1 slimmer C2 cracker C2 unsay C2 mach C2
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Word counts come from the Friends transcripts of the Emory University character-mining corpus (Apache-2.0), cross-checked against subtitles from OpenSubtitles.org; we publish only numbers and word lists, never the dialogue. Levels (A1–C2) and translations come from the WordStudy dictionary. opensubtitles.org