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Friends season 1 episode 22: vocabulary

«The One with the Ick Factor». 2,274 words spoken, 441 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 levelFamiliar wordsNew words per episode
A2≈ 92%≈ 70
B1≈ 95%≈ 38
B2≈ 96%≈ 24

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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

sexbeing male or female4
servicehelp given to people, or work done for others3
drilla tool that makes holes or to practice something2
pressto push something down or newspapers and TV2
hellplace some believe bad people go after death2
laborhard work, especially with your body2
unlessif not, except when2
operateto make a machine work or to cut a body to fix it2
importantlyin a way that matters a lot1
surprisinglyin a way you did not expect1
subconsciouspart of mind that works without you knowing1
clienta person who pays for a service1
involveto include as a part of something1
portionpart or share of something1
extinctno longer living, all have died1
whereverin any place, it does not matter where1
dialto enter a phone number to make a call1
issuea problem or a topic to talk about1
referencewords that tell you where to find something1
likelyprobably going to happen1
litpast of light, gave light to or started a fire1
lasagneflat pasta food with layers and cheese1
beepshort high sound from a machine1
performto do something or act in front of others1
judgea person who decides if the law was broken1
disappointmentfeeling sad because something was not as hoped1
promotedgiven a higher job, or helped make something known1
actualreal, true, not made up1
crimesomething bad that is against the law1
secretlyin a way that nobody else knows1
strictlyin a way that must be followed exactly1
technicalabout special skills or machines1
sensea feeling or the ability to see, hear, taste, smell, touch1
virgina person who has not had a close body relationship1
mattera thing that is important or a problem1
focusto give all your attention to one thing1
statecondition of something, or part of a country1
shinybright and reflecting light1
chadcountry in the middle of Africa1
particularlymore than usual, especially1

B2 words in this episode B2

gunpointthreatening someone with a gun3
inadequatenot enough, or not good enough1
whoopa loud cry of joy or excitement1
jumbovery large in size1
biblicalabout or from the Bible1

Harder words (C1–C2)

belive C2 icky C2 beeper C2 scone C1 boob C2 paleontologist C2 midterm C2 bicentennial C2 felon C2 saucy C1 morphine C1 stegosaurus C2 geek C1 ebony C2 congressman C2 graft C1

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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