| 5000 Vocabulary List for Visiting Scholars in the USA - Page 370 | |||
| Word | Type | Used in a Sentence | Synonym |
| nucleus | noun | The museum was the nucleus of the city. | core |
| nuisance | noun | The boy was a nuisance to his mother. | bother |
| number | noun | The men were six in number. | amount |
| verb | The crowd numbered in the hundreds. | totaled | |
| verb | Please number each specimen. | assign a number | |
| numerous | adj. | He made numerous errors every day. | many |
| nun | noun | She was a nun in the Catholic Church. | Sister |
| nurse | noun | She was a nurse in the hospital. | attendant |
| verb | We nursed him back to health. | ministered | |
| nursery | noun | The children are in a day-care nursery. | kindergarten |
| nursery | noun | The trees came from a nursery. | store |
| nut | noun | There were nuts in the candy. | almonds etc. |