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FLELex CEFR C1

3018 words, in teaching order

Words 2301–2400

taurine; bull; bullfighting

Adjective

to racketeer

Verb

companionship; a form of apprenticeship by which a person is trained under the supervision of a community

Noun

a stinging sensation, a sting; pins and needles

Noun

to ensnare, to entangle, to bog down

Verb

surdimensionner

to oversize; to exaggerate

Verb

sleeper (person who sleeps)

Noun

of (hiding in) bushes; ducking school; truant; of the commune of Buisson

Adjective

antitheft device

Noun

indiscutablement

indisputably; undebatably

Adverb

photomontage

Noun

refrain (music)

Noun

patrician

Noun

information, informational

Adjective

to sing or hum (to oneself)

Verb

a contraceptive

Noun

scary

Adjective

to shrink or shorten

Verb

roast beef; an English person

Noun

inspiring, beautiful woman

Noun

urethra; ureter

Noun

antiviral

Adjective

septicemia (disease caused by pathogenic organisms in the bloodstream, characterised by chills and fever)

Noun

suspicious (tending to suspect)

Adjective

polyphonic, contrapuntal

Adjective

sloping, slopy

Adjective

connote

Verb

spectrometer

Noun

to bottle, to bottle up, to put into bottles; to back up

Verb

petition; supplication

Noun

pedalo

Noun

espadrille; sneaker, running shoe

Noun

body, torso; bodice, corsage; blouse, camisole; top

Noun

backpacker

Noun

guinguette (sort of outdoor tavern that once existed in the suburbs of Paris)

Noun

gregarious

Adjective

expérimentateur

experimenter (one who experiments)

Noun

Gypsy

Adjective

griot (African storyteller); someone who tells stories to gullible people; griot (Haitian pork dish)

Noun

to dehumanize

Verb

denim

Noun

indigence

Noun

irrésistiblement

irresistibly

Adverb

tacitly

Adverb

diphtheria

Noun

modelling; model making; model building

Noun

only used in à la sauvette

Noun

starch from potatoes, manioc etc.

Noun

to cut through, to pass through

Verb

to play down; to make less dramatic or daunting

Verb

jubilation

Noun

troglodyte; wren; chimpanzee

Noun

knifemaking, cutlery works

Noun

wop, dago (person of Italian descent)

Noun

to extend; to defer, put back; to adjourn; to prorogue

Verb

to recork, recap, etc. (a bottle); to fill back in, to fill up again (a hole); to stop up

Verb

vanity, knack for fashion and appearance; coquetry

Noun

divinatory

Adjective

impregnation

Noun

gavage (all senses)

Noun

hermétiquement

hermetically

Adverb

levitation

Noun

maquisard (member of a resistance or guerrilla movement)

Noun

pineau

Noun

hydrangea

Noun

ornithological

Adjective

core (of apple etc.)

Noun

Swahili (language)

Noun

to remove makeup

Verb

to crackle; to rattle; to splutter

Verb

misshapen, deformed

Adjective

indistinctement

indistinctly

Adverb

salami

Noun

Paleolithic (Old Stone Age)

Noun

to sew up, stitch up, suture

Verb

commoner

Noun

jack (device for raising and supporting a heavy object)

Noun

to reinscribe; to sign up again

Verb

music lover, melomaniac

Noun

overcoat (garment)

Noun

stoicism

Noun

étymologiquement

etymologically

Adverb

collectivist

Adjective

tiara (jewelry); tiara (papal headgear)

Noun

of Siberia; Siberian

Adjective

Bosnian (of or from Bosnia)

Adjective

psychotropic

Adjective

isotopic

Adjective

triple (three-person bicycle); triplet (group of three); three-way plug adapter; triple whammy

Noun

to mislead, to lead astray; to go down the wrong path, to turn delinquent, to leave the straight and narrow; to twist, corrupt

Verb

stole; a blasphemy used for emphasis or to indicate something is useless

Noun

scratch mark

Noun

demographer

Noun

stroll, strolling

Noun

to feast, banquet

Verb

to stamp or punch (a ticket) to validate it before boarding a train or a bus; to create compost using biodegradable materials; to add compost to the ground

Verb

unalterable; that cannot be altered

Adjective

balsamic

Adjective

tour operator

Noun

suggestive, bawdy

Adjective