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ELELex CEFR B2

1898 words, in teaching order

Words 601–700

patrimonial, hereditary; heritage (e.g. heritage site or building, heritage value); inherited

Adjective

amplitude; breadth

Noun

preservation

Noun

scorn, contempt

Noun

improvement, enhancement, upgrade

Noun

to poison; to interpret maliciously; to make bitter; to get angry

Verb

to tense

Verb

chewing gum; chicle

Noun

impossibility

Noun

affiliation

Noun

fin; flipper; the leaf of a hinge; blade of a propeller

Noun

to perturb, to disturb, to bother

Verb

recreational

Adjective

apocalypse (end of the world); apocalypse (cataclysmic event)

Noun

to accustom, inure, familiarize

Verb

tutorial

Adjective

herd, pack, pride, pod (group of animals); handful (amount held in hand); a group of rapists

Noun

admirable

Adjective

residual

Adjective

splendour/splendor

Noun

problem, trouble, inconvenient; drawback (disadvantage)

Noun

hardness; arduousness; harshness; toughness, hardiness

Noun

to civilize

Verb

destructive

Adjective

to linger, persist; to endure, last

Verb

numeric

Adjective

to appear, show up (at a court or authority)

Verb

disastrous; calamitous (an event)

Adjective

airship; aircraft

Noun

predecessor

Noun

to bud or sprout, to spring, spring up

Verb

sodium

Noun

veracity, truthfulness

Noun

stomp (with the foot); emphasis

Noun

Flemish; flamenco; insolent, cheeky

Adjective

to investigate

Verb

grateful; pleasing, pleasant, agreeable

Adjective

kid, pup, cria; litter; childrearing; breeding, rearing of an animal

Noun

thigh (upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee)

Noun

comet; kite (flying toy); kite (shape)

Noun

feasible, doable

Adjective

absorption

Noun

arrogant

Adjective

defensive

Adjective

to guard; watch over; to look after; keep an eye on

Verb

hydrocarbon

Noun

preferable

Adjective

to remove the lid, open, uncork; to discover, uncover; to reveal a political candidate

Verb

transfer, handover, conveyance; passing, crossing; piercing; transgression, violation, trespass

Noun

to prevent someone from sleeping; to keep awake; to be unable to sleep; to be vigilant; to work tirelessly; to reveal, unveil

Verb

to torment

Verb

shoemaker; cobbler; shoe rack; piece of furniture for storing shoes; water strider

Noun

international, multinational

Adjective

scholarship holder, grant holder; trainee, intern

Noun

end, extremity (most extreme point)); extremity (hand or foot)); limb

Noun

to bore, tire, to make fed up; to satisfy; to eat; to badmouth (someone)

Verb

on, activated; burning; passionate; turned on, switched on

Adjective

corpus (a collection of writings)

Noun

authenticity

Noun

customs

Adjective

a small humanoid creature who invades homes at night to carry out mischief and scare the residents; goblin, leprechaun, gnome, pixie, elf, imp, brownie, gremlin, hobgoblin; charisma (the power to attract through personal magnetism and charm); charm, magic

Noun

spouse, consort

Noun

to make similar; to be similar, resemble

Verb

inclined, prone, predisposed

Adjective

city planning

Noun

sanitation, drainage, sewer; cleaning up; commercial, or financial restructuring, reorganization

Noun

space, room, capacity (to fit something inside)

Noun

paradox

Noun

to be reborn

Verb

energetic; assertive; forceful

Adjective

clergy

Noun

harmless, innocuous; inoffensive (not causing annoyance or anger)

Adjective

obesity (state of being obese)

Noun

objectivity

Noun

bureaucratic

Adjective

devaluation

Noun

to corrupt; to bribe, to pervert; to rot

Verb

to reelect

Verb

group of problems of a certain science or topic

Noun

drool, dribble; slime; baby alligator, caiman or crocodile

Noun

abstention

Noun

cunning, crafty, sly, wily, slick, foxy, artful; astute, shrewd, smart, clever, canny; sneaky

Adjective

potential; conditional tense

Noun

to congregate, to bring together; to congregate, to come together

Verb

to patent

Verb

axe, hatchet (tool for felling trees or chopping wood); ace, wizard (someone who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field); a kind of torch or large candle (often with four sticks); a kind of wick or fuse (often made with esparto grass and tar), which does not go out easily in the wind; bundle of straw tied up like a strip and often used to help cover huts or other field constructions

Noun

male chauvinism, misogyny, sexism (a belief in the innate superiority of men over women)

Noun

drastic; dramatical

Adjective

deer, stag

Noun

provocation

Noun

niche; burial niche

Noun

to designate, to assign; to adhere, follow (an idea, ideology etc)

Verb

to decay

Verb

to bend

Verb

clay

Noun

to re-mark; to reiterate, stress, emphasise; to remark

Verb

expropriation

Noun

importance; transcendence

Noun

dispersion

Noun

to emanate; to give off; to emanate from

Verb