The Wolf of Wall Street — Top 100 Words

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If you are learning English through TV shows, *The Wolf of Wall Street* offers a high-energy crash course in business and informal vocabulary. Common words range from A1 basics like get to B2-C1 terms such as IPO, blue chip stock, and at the end of the day. You will hear Jordan Belfort and Donnie Azoff use expressive phrases like calm down, piss off, fuck, and get out of here to show emotion. Financial scenes also include steal, charge, close (a deal), work out (a plan), make a decision, take no for an answer, pick up (clients), and pop (a champagne bottle). Characters like Mark Hanna and Naomi Lapaglia discuss make an honest living, get off, take public (a company), and call back — perfect for understanding real office talk and federal investigations by Patrick Denham.

SaveWordly lets you enjoy watching without pausing or interruptions. Before you watch, browse the vocabulary list for the episode — all target words like calm down, IPO, and steal are pre‑identified with their CEFR levels (A1 to C2). Then watch *The Wolf of Wall Street* straight through; no stopping to look up words. After the show, save the expressions you want to remember, and practice with the AI tutor to make them stick. This workflow means you absorb the language naturally while following Jordan Belfort’s fast‑paced story.

This show is best suited for intermediate to advanced learners (B1‑C1). The rapid dialogue, slang (fuck, piss off), and finance vocabulary (blue chip stock, IPO, close) challenge your listening and cultural understanding, but the repeated use of phrases like at the end of the day and make a decision helps them sink in.

#	Word / Phrase	Level	Count
1	calm down	B1	3	+
2	get	B1	3	+
3	fuck	C1	3	+
4	piss off	B2	3	+
5	work out	B1	3	+
6	get out of here	A2	3	+
7	pop	B2	2	+
8	make an honest living	B2	2	+
9	get off	B1	2	+
10	take public	C1	2	+
11	call back	B1	2	+
12	charge	B2	2	+
13	blue chip stock	C1	2	+
14	at the end of the day	B2	2	+
15	close	B1	2	+
16	IPO	C1	2	+
17	steal	B2	2	+
18	make a decision	A2	2	+
19	take no for an answer	B2	2	+
20	pick up	B1	2	+
21	come at	B2	2	+
22	set up	B2	2	+
23	get off the phone	B1	2	+
24	fuck with	C1	2	+
25	rat out	B2	2	+
26	go down	B2	2	+
27	take	A2	2	+
28	out of one's mind	B2	2	+
29	bug	B2	2	+
30	take off	B1	2	+
31	take out	B1	2	+
32	do a favor	A2	2	+
33	name of the game	B2	2	+
34	rathole	C1	2	+
35	make money	A2	2	+
36	get personal	B2	2	+
37	put on	A2	2	+
38	pawn	B2	2	+
39	write down	A2	2	+
40	hang up	B1	2	+
41	sell	B2	2	+
42	the chickens come home to roost	C2	2	+
43	bullshit	B2	2	+
44	give up	B1	1	+
45	hang in there	B2	1	+
46	huge chunk	B2	1	+
47	take in	B2	1	+
48	drop in the bucket	B2	1	+
49	tingle phase	C1	1	+
50	who gives a shit	B2	1	+
51	what a burden	B2	1	+
52	feng shui	C1	1	+
53	prostitution ring	C1	1	+
54	get in	B2	1	+
55	nut job	B2	1	+
56	gear up	B2	1	+
57	humongous	B2	1	+
58	dictate	C1	1	+
59	not as of yet	B2	1	+
60	till the end of time	B2	1	+
61	figure of speech	B2	1	+
62	lean back	B1	1	+
63	come on board	B1	1	+
64	play games	B1	1	+
65	get crazy	B2	1	+
66	jump into bed	B2	1	+
67	act of debauchery	C2	1	+
68	wrapped in sheets	B2	1	+
69	engagement ring	B1	1	+
70	eviscerate	C2	1	+
71	off the hook	B2	1	+
72	master diver	B2	1	+
73	loyalty	B2	1	+
74	surprise	A2	1	+
75	chit chat	B2	1	+
76	make a show of	C1	1	+
77	big no-no	B2	1	+
78	smoking gun	C1	1	+
79	rise up	B2	1	+
80	lesbian	B1	1	+
81	spread	C1	1	+
82	get any	B2	1	+
83	fight	B2	1	+
84	financially independent	B2	1	+
85	wrecking ball	B2	1	+
86	pay phone	B1	1	+
87	sweat bullets	C1	1	+
88	sign up for	B1	1	+
89	thank one's lucky stars	C1	1	+
90	live through	B2	1	+
91	be out in a couple of minutes	B2	1	+
92	pick up the phone	B1	1	+
93	harpoon	C1	1	+
94	lock in	B2	1	+
95	cash in	B2	1	+
96	indictment	C1	1	+
97	thyroid thing	B2	1	+
98	slow	B2	1	+
99	make tight	B2	1	+
100	alongside	B2	1	+

* These frequency counts are approximate values based on AI-extracted vocabulary data.