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FLELex CEFR C1

3018 words, in teaching order

Words 2001–2100

stagnant

Adjective

arsonist

Noun

monochrome

Adjective

oestrogen

Noun

basalt (hard rock)

Noun

cremation

Noun

toxicology

Noun

frightened, afraid

Adjective

wired, corded (connected by wire/cord)

Adjective

to go back to bed

Verb

fire; flare-up, explosion; sudden increase

Noun

pharaonic; colossal, excessive, ambitious

Adjective

showman (fairground entertainer); stallholder

Noun

circumspect, cautious, prudent

Adjective

to partition, compartmentalize

Verb

joker; trickster; prankster, jokester; actor who plays in a farce

Noun

to surround with a halo; to glorify

Verb

to bubble

Verb

enforceable (legally binding)

Adjective

bugle (music: a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves); bugler (someone who plays the bugle); clairon (saxophone register)

Noun

socioprofessionnel

socioprofessional

Adjective

curtain; drape, drapery, (wall) hanging; fabric wall-covering; funeral hangings

Noun

milord, an English lord abroad; a rich man; a horse-drawn car with a raised seat for the driver

Noun

to slant (to bias or skew); to go around, work around

Verb

consumable, edible; expendable

Adjective

energumen (person possessed by an evil ghost or spirit); fanatic, zealot; one expressing him or herself with great energy, excitement or vehemence; nutcase, loony

Noun

subterfuge

Noun

uniformization

Noun

uniformity

Noun

idéologiquement

ideologically

Adverb

relentlessness; aggressiveness

Noun

rationnellement

rationally; logically

Adverb

trachea

Noun

a lottery, raffle

Noun

stocky, squat

Adjective

coarseness; rudeness, profanity, obscenity

Noun

rétrécissement

shrinking

Noun

irrécupérable

irretrievable, unreclaimable, unsalvageable; beyond help, beyond redemption, unredeemable

Adjective

Albi

Adjective

astrophysicist

Noun

to arrogate, appropriate; to assume (a position, right, etc.)

Verb

small barrel; cylinder (of a revolver)

Noun

agronomy

Noun

classically

Adverb

mimicry

Noun

crowding, lack of privacy

Noun

Andalusian (native or inhabitant of the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain) (usually male)

Noun

solemnity; a solemn or formal ceremony

Noun

introvert

Adjective

affected manners, demanding behaviour; something showy; sort of fritter, churro

Noun

to enclose with wire netting

Verb

feces; fecal

Adjective

atoll

Noun

consonance; the oral impression, usually referring to languages

Noun

bustle, crush; stampede

Noun

to unbridle, to unharness; to jailbreak (a mobile phone); to soup up a motor

Verb

to swindle, con

Verb

psychothérapeute

psychotherapist

Noun

merguez; a car that has been modified—as by filing away its engine number, or including components from different cars—to make it harder to identify or to conceal damage from an accident.; a seemingly normal transaction that later turns out to be a scam

Noun

tetanus

Noun

memorizing, memorization

Noun

teapot

Noun

enthronement

Noun

crack, cracking, click (sound)

Noun

to predispose

Verb

porosity, porousness; permeability

Noun

Finnish, the Finnish language

Noun

dashing; alert; exuberant

Adjective

outburst

Noun

apotheosis

Noun

empathic, empathetic

Adjective

pelican (any of various seabirds of the family Pelecanidae)

Noun

toga; ceremonial robe or gown (judicial, barrister's, academic, etc.)

Noun

legitimization

Noun

musculature

Noun

pitch

Noun

a haulier; a valet (person employed to park a vehicle)

Noun

beneficial; that which does good

Adjective

blockhead, dunce, dolt; crayfish; pauper

Noun

antipathic

Adjective

diurnal

Adjective

novitiate

Noun

suffocation

Noun

to brighten; to shine (make brighter or shinier)

Verb

undisciplined

Adjective

neverland

Noun

of Burma; Burmese

Adjective

shade; umbrage, offence

Noun

wreck, basket case; rags; fabric scrap; lochus (a military unit headed by a lochagus)

Noun

to punch; to poach; to cook by poaching; to sketch; to make a sketch of

Verb

Hertzian

Adjective

a kind of judicial officer in a feudal manor; synonym of bourgmestre (“mayor”); synonym of maire (“mayor”)

Noun

watercress

Noun

mechanization

Noun

satiety, fullness, repletion

Noun

oleaginous

Adjective

bashing, beating up; brainwashing

Noun

taking root

Noun

a red wine from Burgundy, France

Noun

alfalfa (Medicago sativa)

Noun