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ELELex CEFR B1

2655 words, in teaching order

Words 2201–2300

crepe

Noun

later; earlier

Adverb

mistake

Noun

arrogant, haughty

Adjective

monoculture

Noun

pelican; a large nose

Noun

to hum

Verb

Viking (one of the Scandinavian seafaring warriors)

Noun

telepathy

Noun

deactivation; defusing (of explosives)

Noun

staple (fastener); clamp; stitch

Noun

premonition

Noun

to sugar; to add sugar to

Verb

ferocity

Noun

to cause to lose concentration

Verb

audiobook

Noun

to tie, to knot; to join, to unite

Verb

Lent

Noun

fitting room, changing room; tester

Noun

with little or no hair; bald or balding; with short hair; with a lot of hair; barren, deserted

Adjective

promontory, headland

Noun

steak, beefsteak

Noun

hopscotch (a children's game)

Noun

savagery

Noun

band-aid, sticking plaster, Elastoplast

Noun

espresso

Noun

divan (sofa-like piece of furniture); divan (Muslim council of state); divan (collection of poems)

Noun

to ignore, forget; to disrespect, belittle

Verb

dilated, expanded, extended

Adjective

a string of firecrackers, fireworks, bangers, etc.; grand finale

Noun

to prevail, survive

Verb

virility

Noun

cyberspace

Noun

convict

Noun

discordant; conflicting

Adjective

to mark, signal; to sign, initial

Verb

cinephilic (having a love of films or the cinema)

Adjective

uproar, tumult, confusion; din, noise

Noun

Lunfardo

Adjective

recyclable

Adjective

arrow wound; arrow shot; love at first sight, initial attraction

Noun

temperamental, moody

Adjective

sugar water; sweet syrup, made of sugar only

Noun

jolt, shake, shudder; monastic cartulary

Noun

exterminator, destructor

Noun

dry cleaner's (shop)

Noun

disappointment

Noun

perplexity; bafflement, bewilderment

Noun

uninhabitable

Adjective

to dust, to sprinkle

Verb

indistinct

Adjective

to immigrate

Verb

ice cream vendor

Noun

yawn (the action of yawning)

Noun

rambler, hiker, walker; member of the Peruvian far-left militant group Shining Path

Noun

to page or leaf through; to skim

Verb

hazelnut

Noun

heart disease, cardiomyopathy

Noun

premeditation

Noun

flamenco singer

Noun

a meal consisting of tortillas cooked in a chile sauce, comes in several variations; a kind of spicy empanada sold in bakeries

Noun

stardom

Noun

endorphin

Noun

forger (person who forges metals)

Noun

cress; watercress

Noun

raider, robber

Noun

aphrodisiac

Adjective

beverage, especially an unpleasant one

Noun

tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae.)

Noun

ravioli

Noun

amaranth, crimson (color/colour)

Adjective

a naturally occurring segment or piece of a fruit; small cluster of grapes; tine, prong, jag; spur of mountains; tree branch; cutting (part of plant removed to cultivate a new plant); hit, blow, strike

Noun

to preestablish

Verb

submarine sandwich

Noun

blunder

Noun

bulimia

Noun

rasta

Adjective

border patrol; immigration authorities, especially the U.S. Customs and Border Protection or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Noun

domestication

Noun

fortysomething

Noun

open ground, vacant lot

Noun

water polo (sport)

Noun

shocking; horrific; impressive; awesome

Adjective

goatherd

Noun

bottle, canister (especially for gas); cylinder (for pressurized gas)

Noun

demigod

Noun

limpiaparabrisas

windshield wiper; windscreen wiper

Noun

subaquatic

Adjective

polyester

Noun

chard, mangold (edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla)

Noun

tingling sensation, pins and needles

Noun

albatross

Noun

conversational

Adjective

karate

Noun

ordinal

Adjective

Sanskrit

Adjective

enchantment, spell

Noun

hostel

Noun

Maori

Adjective

autocratic

Adjective