Interstellar (2014) vocabulary: the 956 English words to know

1442 different words in this film. Knowing the 1,000 most common English words covers about 69% of this film; the 3,000 most common, about 81%.

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Words worth learning
WordUses
planet 24
00:12:22we need to teach our kids about this planet, not tales of leaving it.
gravity 24
00:21:01It's gravity.
data 19
00:33:15Data transmission back through the Wormhole is rudimentary.
ghost 18
00:01:58- I thought you were the ghost. - No.
hole 17
00:39:36near a black hole...
percent 16
00:29:17Earth's atmosphere is 80 percent nitrogen. We don't even breathe nitrogen.
mission 14
00:08:47Delhi Mission Control went down, same as ours...
dimension 14
00:58:32a higher dimension.
engine 12
00:41:50Go for main engine start. T-minus 10...
orbit 12
00:30:03The last components of our one versatile ship in orbit, the Endurance.
professor 11
00:25:53I knew a Dr. Brand once. He was a professor.
fuel 9
00:43:53Pull thrusters back. Fuel cells one, two, three.
dash 9
00:15:10- Dots and dashes, used... - I know what Morse code is, Murph.
probe 9
00:32:27Twelve, in fact, from our initial probes.
repeat 8
00:12:18If we don't want a repeat of the excess and wastefulness of the 20th century, then...
setting 8
00:42:51They gave him a humor setting so he'd fit in better with his unit.
hatch 8
01:11:35Get to the hatch!
horizon 8
01:02:43- And Miller's is on the horizon? - As a basketball around a hoop.
docking 8
02:02:24He doesn't know the Endurance docking procedure.
thruster 8
00:43:53Pull thrusters back. Fuel cells one, two, three.
choose 7
00:31:01- They chose you. - Who's "they"?
main 7
00:41:50Go for main engine start. T-minus 10...
solve 7
00:34:29But you haven't solved it yet.
gentle 7
00:49:40Do not go gentle into that good night
farmer 7
00:01:14Well, my dad was a farmer.
dot 7
00:15:10- Dots and dashes, used... - I know what Morse code is, Murph.
anomaly 7
00:15:27Had to reset every compass clock and GPS to offset for the anomaly.
detach 7
01:05:33Detach.
push 6
01:31:04or push on to Edmunds' with Plan B.
breathe 6
00:03:14so that we wouldn't breathe so much of it.
survive 6
00:29:35will be the last to survive on Earth.
spin 6
00:47:41- Are we ready to spin? - Just a sec.
oxygen 6
00:29:23Blight does. And as it thrives, our air gets less and less oxygen.
rage 6
00:49:49Rage, rage against the dying of the light
equation 6
01:24:01whether or not we crack the equation before I kick the bucket.
resource 6
00:10:28The university only takes a handful. They don't have the resources to...
slow 5
00:04:39Slow down, turbo!
attempt 5
01:24:36each iteration is an attempt to prove its own proof.
parent 5
00:04:32Parent-teacher conferences. Parent. Not grandparent.
corn 5
00:02:51And we still had corn. We had acres of corn.
survival 5
01:14:33You eggheads have the survival skills of a Boy Scout troop.
communicate 5
00:15:02In case the ghost is trying to communicate.
organic 5
00:32:53making observations on organics over a decade or more.
relay 5
00:57:11This is from the... relay probe?
transmit 5
00:54:22If you record any messages, I can get them to transmit it to Cooper.
gravitational 5
00:27:34What sort of gravitational anomaly? Where was this?
coordinate 5
00:21:46Coordinates.
singularity 5
01:05:56the singularity, yeah, we'd solve gravity.
shut down 5
00:01:38- Shutting it down, Cooper. - No!
evil 4
00:51:59not evil.
reach 4
00:32:24They've put potentially habitable worlds right within our reach.
destroy 4
00:17:08to turn on you like that and destroy you.
cross 4
00:01:33- Nah, I got this. - Crossing the Straights.
build 4
00:15:36If the house was built on magnetic ore...
lock 4
00:46:06- Lock. - Target locked.
cost 4
01:03:49just like oxygen and food. Going down it's gonna cost us.
raise 4
00:34:49How would you raise them?
breath 4
00:50:58desperate for a rock it can cling to while it catches its breath.
prepared 4
01:14:28Oh, we are not prepared for this.
travel 4
00:32:19That Wormhole lets us travel to other stars. It came along right as we needed it.
prepare 4
00:42:32Prepare for stage one separation.
theory 4
00:34:24So I started working on a theory and we started building this station.
site 4
01:02:16Miller's site has kept pinging thumbs up, as has Dr. Mann's.
surface 4
01:39:29but down at the surface, and there is a surface...
dust 4
00:02:54But... mostly we had dust.
pilot 4
00:11:04- And a trained pilot. - And an engineer.
dirt 4
00:03:02Just that steady blow of dirt.
robot 4
00:42:45Everybody good? Plenty of slaves for my robot colony?
communication 4
00:44:35nor the safest form of communication with emotional beings.
solar 4
00:06:48It's an Indian Air Force drone. Solar cells could power an entire farm.
nap 4
00:29:38Murph is feeling tired. I was wondering if she could take a nap in my office.
galaxy 4
00:32:02- And it leads where? - Another galaxy.
upside 4
00:03:18Well, when we set the table, we always set the plate upside-down.
colony 4
00:34:58Within 30 years, we could have a colony of hundreds.
starve 4
00:28:18for refusing to drop bombs from the stratosphere onto starving people.
cue 4
00:43:01I have a cue light I can use when I'm joking if you like.
promising 4
01:03:56Dr. Mann's data is promising, but it's gonna take months to get there.
meter 4
00:45:12Approaching module port, 500 meters.
quantum 4
01:42:26The equation couldn't reconcile relativity with quantum mechanics. You need more.
module 4
00:45:12Approaching module port, 500 meters.
ammonia 4
01:39:25and the air has too much ammonia to breathe for more than just a few minutes...
relativity 4
01:03:15Well, that's relativity, folks.
dimensional 4
00:58:35to show that, they've turned three-dimensional space
binary 4
00:21:37It's not Morse, Murph. It's binary.
figure out 4
00:05:42- How am I supposed to patch it out here? - You got to figure it out.
get out 4
00:18:11Let's get out of here.
store 3
00:10:04And I guess you had to stop off at the Asian fighter plane store.
field 3
00:14:00One by one they've been peeling off the fields and heading over.
decision 3
01:22:06seemed like I should live with that decision. And I have.
dying 3
00:49:49Rage, rage against the dying of the light
truck 3
00:41:27- Hey, can I use your truck while you're gone? - You mean your truck?
bear 3
00:16:31Born 40 years too late, or 40 years too early.
computer 3
00:01:31Computer says you're too tight.
escape 3
01:06:00- And we can't get anything from it? - Nothing escapes that horizon.
race 3
00:50:54The human race is going to be...
stage 3
00:42:32Prepare for stage one separation.
complete 3
01:46:52- What happens after it crosses? - After the horizon is a complete mystery.
burn 3
00:02:48The blight came and we had to burn it.
plenty 3
00:42:45Everybody good? Plenty of slaves for my robot colony?
faith 3
00:29:07Driven by the unshakable faith the Earth is ours.
correct 3
00:11:50It's an old federal textbook. We've replaced them with the corrected versions.
speed 3
00:39:32traveling near the speed of light, or...
feed 3
00:43:28All feeds going manual.
mountain 3
01:09:56Towards the mountains!
pray 3
00:21:08You want to clean that up when you've finished praying to it?
program 3
00:42:25All engines look good. Beginning roll program.
dumb 3
00:03:53- No such thing as ghosts, dumb-ass. - Hey.
social 3
01:27:49Love has meaning, yes. Social utility, social bonding, child rearing...
exist 3
00:25:19Marines don't exist anymore.
signal 3
00:09:05Maybe some kind of signal? I don't know.
spare 3
00:05:34- Grab the spare, Tom. - That is the spare.
bright 3
00:11:36Murph is a great kid. She's really bright.
safety 3
01:48:34You better slow down, turbo. Safety first, CASE, remember.
journey 3
00:51:45He inspired 11 people to follow him on the loneliest journey in human history.
reality 3
01:25:10we must confront the reality of interstellar travel.
farm 3
00:06:48It's an Indian Air Force drone. Solar cells could power an entire farm.
crash 3
00:02:13Were you dreaming about the crash?
event 3
01:26:34It sucks in asteroids and comets, other events which would otherwise reach you.
suck 3
00:55:28...administration wants me to repeat Plant Pathology. Which sucks.
useless 3
00:12:14- into rockets and other useless machines. - "Useless machines."
source 3
01:40:11used his power source to keep the mission going.
heh 3
00:02:16Get your butt back in bed, Murph. Heh.
receive 3
00:57:18we would receive images from the other side of the foreign galaxy.
darkness 3
01:05:47A literal heart of darkness.
wave 3
01:10:04They're waves.
approach 3
00:45:12Approaching module port, 500 meters.
secure 3
01:47:38Dr. Mann, we need to find three secure sites. One for Brand's lab, two for habitat.
potential 3
00:32:57Their mission was to assess their world, and if it showed potential...
species 3
01:25:20We must think not as individuals but as a species.
supply 3
01:38:01My supplies were completely exhausted.
possibility 3
01:14:56Is there any possibility...
launch 3
00:32:38Twelve possible worlds, twelve Ranger launches carrying...
odds 3
00:51:35They all knew the odds against ever seeing another human being again.
respond 3
01:21:54I never made one of these when you were still responding...
stretch 3
00:32:51But they could use hibernation to stretch that...
engineer 3
00:11:04- And a trained pilot. - And an engineer.
facility 3
00:25:07You had the coordinates for this facility marked on your map. Where did you get them?
remarkable 3
00:32:42the bravest humans ever to live... led by the remarkable Dr. Mann.
foundation 3
00:36:34The why of the thing, that's the foundation.
humor 3
00:42:51They gave him a humor setting so he'd fit in better with his unit.
instinct 3
01:50:30Our survival instinct is our single greatest source of inspiration.
honesty 3
00:44:27Hey, TARS, what's your honesty parameter?
decade 3
00:32:53making observations on organics over a decade or more.
wheat 3
00:02:46The wheat had died.
caution 3
01:07:04- A little caution... - Can get you killed, like reckless driving.
slick 3
00:53:10But not a poker face, Slick.
farming 3
00:17:42- You think that's great? - You hate farming, Dad.
transmitter 3
01:02:23Transmitter failure?
analyze 3
00:04:19You got to record the facts, analyze, get to the how and the why...
prospect 3
00:51:04And our three prospects are at the edge of what might sustain human life.

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