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FLELex CEFR B2

4876 words, in teaching order

Words 3601–3700

egoism (tendency to think of self)

Noun

walker, hiker; Supporter of the former French political party En marche

Noun

extravagance; excess

Noun

oxide

Noun

clerk of the court; registrar of the court, or similar role; cat, malkin; hag

Noun

diffuse

Adjective

motorcoach, bus, coach (vehicle)

Noun

parure (set of jewellery); finery; adornment

Noun

fatality

Noun

designer; fashion designer

Noun

rein (strap or rope used to control an animal); power over something

Noun

cortex

Noun

cholera (infectious disease)

Noun

hail

Noun

to blow (someone's) nose; to put someone in their place; to blow one's nose; to snuff out (a candle etc.)

Verb

year, date; vintage (year in which something is produced)

Noun

wheel (in a machine), cog; machinery (of an administration etc.); the parts, works; the workings

Noun

of/from London

Adjective

gallant, courteous, gentlemanly; flirtatious, amorous; racy

Adjective

to controvert

Verb

to grieve someone, to distress someone; to smite

Verb

congenial; convivial; user-friendly

Adjective

proxy; power of attorney

Noun

hotel

Adjective

to depict, portray; to depaint (remove paint)

Verb

prefectural

Adjective

brooch, pin; spit, skewer; spike, peg

Noun

walking, strolling

Adjective

plural

Adjective

cohort; cohort, a division of the Roman legion; age group, age bracket

Noun

cancerous

Adjective

discriminatoire

discriminatory

Adjective

folklore

Noun

to camouflage (hide, disguise)

Verb

storyteller, a person who tells stories; narrator

Noun

nimble, agile (quick and light in movement or action)

Adjective

bark (of a tree); peel (of certain fruits); crust (of the Earth)

Noun

ellipsis of véhicule utilitaire: utility vehicle, UV

Noun

categorical, clear-cut, unequivocal; positive, certain

Adjective

diligence, conscientiousness; haste; stage-coach, diligence

Noun

amusement

Noun

seesaw; flip-flop

Noun

tributary; affluent

Noun

to render sublime, make extraordinary; to sublimate (change from solid to gas)

Verb

to enamel; to mar, spoil, blemish

Verb

segregation

Noun

firestriker; cigarette lighter, lighter; beagle; firesteel; frizzen

Noun

of, from or relating to the city of Nantes, the prefecture of the Loire-Atlantique department, Pays de la Loire, France

Adjective

scratch (on the surface of something); ray, strip, stripe, streak, stroke, dash

Noun

destroyer, destructor (that who/which destroys); destructor

Noun

to mark with beacons; to waymark, to signpost; to prepare the ground; to tag

Verb

libéralisation

liberalization

Noun

impostor, fake

Noun

to decentralise, to decentralize

Verb

extravagant

Adjective

to nibble; to snack

Verb

safari

Noun

warming oven (a type of obsolete stone oven); vegetable garden

Noun

unification

Noun

volunteering

Noun

artificiellement

artificially

Adverb

falsely; untruly

Adverb

genome (complete genetic information of an organism)

Noun

packaged (about a product); conditioned (about a person)

Adjective

porch, portico (decorated or ornate entrance to a building)

Noun

chest of drawers, commode, dresser; toilet

Noun

to brood (an egg); to coddle, pamper, mollycoddle; to plot, hatch, scheme

Verb

to acclaim, applaud (to shout applause)

Verb

psychoanalyst

Noun

bibliographique

bibliographic

Adjective

aberration; the state of being aberrant; aberration or mutation

Noun

innovative

Adjective

causality (agency of cause)

Noun

inseparable

Adjective

possessor

Noun

maladjusted, unadapted; unsuitable, inappropriate

Adjective

Protestantism

Noun

heterogeneous

Adjective

to leave; to absent oneself

Verb

drastic; drastic, draconian, harsh

Adjective

fabric, material; stuff

Noun

to beg, to plead, to implore

Verb

clear, limpid (especially of water)

Adjective

part of a garden that is divided into flowerbeds; the part of a theater between the stalls and the rear; the members of a theater audience seated in the parterre; an assembly or group of people

Noun

hardness, especially of water; harshness

Noun

to use a pickaxe; to cram, to swot, to grind (e.g., for an exam); to slog away, drudge (to work very hard); to pick, choose, select from a set of options; to draw from the deck

Verb

devastating

Adjective

panoramic

Adjective

record library, library of discs; discotheque, disco (nightclub where dancing takes place)

Noun

to confine; to border (on)

Verb

to maim (to cause permanent loss); to mutilate; to dismember (cut off a limb)

Verb

matrimonial

Adjective

malefactor; wrongdoer

Noun

rag; scrap

Noun

perennial; long-lasting

Adjective

heather, heath, briar; a place of briars, a moor

Noun

mania; habit; idiosyncrasy

Noun

dismay; disarray (want of array or regular order)

Noun

unconditional; dedicated; wholehearted

Adjective

futility, pointlessness; vanity (excessive pride); vanitas

Noun