Friends season 1 episode 11: vocabulary
«The One with Mrs. Bing». 2,488 words spoken, 526 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% | ≈ 91 |
| B1 | ≈ 96% | ≈ 53 |
| B2 | ≈ 97% | ≈ 33 |
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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
| sexy | attractive in a physical way | 3 |
| whistle | make a high sound by blowing air through your lips | 2 |
| coma | a deep state of being unconscious for a long time | 2 |
| arrested | stopped from moving or taken by the law | 2 |
| supposed | thought to be true, or expected to do something | 2 |
| deal | an agreement or to give out cards | 2 |
| grip | hold something firmly, or a strong hold | 2 |
| realise | to understand something that you did not know before | 2 |
| beast | large strong animal | 2 |
| horoscope | prediction based on the position of stars | 1 |
| potential | able to happen or develop in the future | 1 |
| pit | large hole in the ground | 1 |
| depression | strong sadness lasting a long time | 1 |
| scout | a person who looks for new talent, or a young person in a group | 1 |
| dent | small pushed-in mark on a hard surface | 1 |
| means | way of doing something | 1 |
| sculpting | making shapes from stone, wood, or clay | 1 |
| conscious | awake and knowing what is happening | 1 |
| responsible | being the one who must take care of something | 1 |
| blast | very strong rush of air or a loud sound | 1 |
| sweetie | person you love, or a piece of candy | 1 |
| phew | sound you make when you feel free from worry | 1 |
| beam | line of light, or long piece of wood | 1 |
| pride | good feeling about what you can do | 1 |
| occasionally | sometimes, not very often | 1 |
| somehow | in a way you do not know or understand | 1 |
| fabulous | very very good, wonderful | 1 |
| burst | to break open suddenly | 1 |
| debate | a talk where people share different ideas | 1 |
| deficit | having less money or resources than needed | 1 |
| reduction | making something smaller or less | 1 |
| mayor | person in charge of a city or town | 1 |
| famished | extremely hungry, needing food very badly | 1 |
| lick | to move your tongue over something | 1 |
| secondary | second in importance or order | 1 |
| character | a person in a story or your inner nature | 1 |
| discuss | to talk about something with others | 1 |
| apparently | it seems like, people say that | 1 |
| oversleep | to sleep longer than you planned | 1 |
| weird | very strange and different from normal | 1 |
B2 words in this episode B2
| tequila | a strong alcoholic drink from a plant in Mexico | 2 |
| groin | the area where your legs meet your body | 1 |
| intimate | very close and personal | 1 |
| craving | an intense desire or longing for something | 1 |
| condom | a thin covering used during sex to prevent pregnancy | 1 |
| congress | formal meeting of representatives | 1 |
| european | from or about the continent of Europe | 1 |
| complication | something that makes a situation more difficult | 1 |
| liberated | freed from control or old-fashioned ideas | 1 |
| denim | a strong blue cloth used to make jeans | 1 |
| tonsil | one of two small parts at the back of your throat | 1 |
| throb | to beat with a strong regular rhythm, often painfully | 1 |
Harder words (C1–C2)
nipple C2 scum C1 heaving C1 plunge C1 momma C2 knuckle C2 unbind C1 tyler C2 mistress C1 bona C2 sera C2 appraise C2 euphemism C2 genitalia C2 bam C1 slugger C2 restring C1 gloria C2 goggle C2 jockstrap C1 engorge C1 perk C2 brainwave C2 woo C1 freudian C2 downstair 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