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4876 words, in teaching order

Words 3301–3400

stride (of horse, athlete etc.)

Noun

perilous

Adjective

ambuscade; ambush

Noun

to furnish (a building, a room); to arm; to decorate, to pretty, to garnish

Verb

cognac

Noun

charitable, (relational) charity

Adjective

to obsess

Verb

chorus (group of people in a play or performance who recite together), a choir

Noun

incoherence

Noun

brightness; luminosity (the total amount of electromagnetic energy emitted per unit of time by a star, galaxy, or other astronomical objects)

Noun

satirical

Adjective

to curse

Verb

to exhort

Verb

incomparable; uncomparable

Adjective

anxious; apprehensive

Adjective

taboo

Noun

ration

Noun

to ring, to ring out; to have a strong effect

Verb

rustic

Adjective

detective novel

Noun

to remove a mask, to unmask; to expose, to uncover (e.g. a secret)

Verb

stained glass; stained glass window

Noun

restrictive; restricted

Adjective

transitory

Adjective

to proclaim

Verb

to transit

Verb

environmentalist; (derogatory) treehugger, crunchy granola

Noun

to terrorize, terrify

Verb

circumstances, situation

Noun

bolt; lock; lock, mutex

Noun

merchant, dealer

Noun

adventurer

Noun

lucidity

Noun

humanism

Noun

twine; a very narrow baguette

Noun

marble (spherical ball); ball; ball bearing; dimwit; tree trunk (chopped down, ready for sawing); railway sleeper; rolling pin

Noun

torch (stick with flame at one end)

Noun

remark; act of noticing something

Noun

delicacy; delicateness

Noun

to accommodate

Verb

verdure, greenness

Noun

cyclone (rotating system of winds)

Noun

Scandinavian

Adjective

apogee (a point in an orbit around the Earth)

Noun

to speed up, hasten; to hurry

Verb

to straddle, be astride; to span, sit/be across; to ride on horseback, usually for the purpose of raiding and pillaging; to overlap

Verb

to converge

Verb

to superimpose, overlay

Verb

to exhibit; to show, show round, show off; to show off, flaunt, strut one's stuff

Verb

pronoun

Noun

spotless; perfect, bang on

Adjective

biologist

Noun

about sixty; one's sixties (period of life between ages 60 and 69)

Noun

cough

Noun

morally

Adverb

to sketch; to draft, outline

Verb

purification; cleansing

Noun

to crisscross; cut across; furrow; to go back and forth (across); to leave traces of one's passage or way

Verb

excrement of human or animal origin; dropping; turd; dung; a miserable or dangerous situation; shit

Noun

alteration

Noun

tawny-coloured animal; a big cat, such as a lion or lynx; beast, wild animal, especially fierce, aggressive, or predatory. Usually implies adding big bears like the Black, Brown and Polar ones. Sometimes extends up to the wolverine, wolf, etc. More rarely, big, aggressive and/or hard to meet cervid game might go under this umbrella term as well.; a violent or aggressive man or woman; a brownish orange color, tawny; examiner

Noun

small hill, mound, hillock; knoll; heap; a mound of dirt upon which targets were placed to practice shooting; butt, target

Noun

mirage

Noun

to send to school

Verb

to nail (to attach using a nail); to stick (to attach); to pin down; to nail, shag, fuck

Verb

fluctuation

Noun

facet

Noun

revolver (gun)

Noun

bush, shrub

Noun

recognizable (able to be recognized)

Adjective

hospitality (attitude of openness, respect, and generosity toward guests)

Noun

speaker (someone who speaks)

Noun

audience, auditory; court (people in the courtroom); auditorium (hall); lecture theatre, lecture hall

Noun

grantee, scholarship beneficiary, recipient of a bursary; stockbroker; pursemaker

Noun

sonority, tone

Noun

to kick with its hind legs; to hurl; to struggle, fight; to mob, jump on

Verb

farcical (ridiculous); grotesque

Adjective

dishonest, disingenuous

Adjective

stimulation

Noun

tepid, lukewarm

Adjective

to file, bring

Verb

to weaken

Verb

Romanticism; romanticism

Noun

psychologiquement

psychologically

Adverb

fortunate (having good luck); befortuned, wealthy, rich, well-off

Adjective

to shorten in duration; to shorten (in textual length) or summarize, to abridge; to abbreviate

Verb

to saddle

Verb

to flame, flambé; to squander money, especially on gambling; (of costs, rates, etc) to rise sharply; to surge; to skyrocket; to burn, blaze; to buckle

Verb

floral

Adjective

ease

Noun

syllable

Noun

czar (Russian nobility)

Noun

substantial; noticeable

Adjective

parachute (device designed to control the fall of an object); parachute (scrotum collar from which weights can be hung)

Noun

électromagnétique

electromagnetic

Adjective

to smoke (food etc.)

Verb

to metamorphose

Verb

debtor (person or firm that owes money)

Noun

promotion; promotional

Adjective

jogging (exercise); jog (exercise); jogging pants; jogging bottoms

Noun