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FLELex CEFR C1

3018 words, in teaching order

Words 2801–2900

Relating to tennis

Adjective

drunk; drunkard; toper

Noun

pince-nez; lorgnette; spectacles, eyeglasses, specs

Noun

to scowl, frown

Verb

covalent

Adjective

to pinch, pilfer

Verb

to dote; to look after a baby

Verb

gonorrhea (STD)

Noun

gaucherie

Noun

to braid, galloon (trim with braid)

Verb

farsighted, long-sighted

Adjective

substitute, replacement

Noun

shady

Adjective

the family of Goidelic languages

Noun

Elephant calf (male)

Noun

knife grinder

Noun

dyad

Noun

youthism (cult of youth)

Noun

natalist

Adjective

wahine (Polynesian woman)

Noun

to unyoke (a bull), unharness (a horse); unhitch, uncouple (a wagon); to knock off, stop working

Verb

to surround with barbed wire

Verb

lazily; sluggishly

Adverb

unanimism

Noun

small light; candle end

Noun

druggist

Noun

a small house or lodge; guardhouse, sentry-box; bus shelter

Noun

to soften

Verb

secondhand clothes dealer

Noun

tweet (of a baby bird); chick (baby bird); inexperienced soldier, especially in the infantry

Noun

concavity

Noun

to interpolate

Verb

picador

Noun

to stone, pit (to remove stones or pits from)

Verb

to defuse, take the sting out of

Verb

reptation

Noun

pistachio (shrub)

Noun

to vibrate; to shudder; to throb

Verb

curable

Adjective

chlorophyllic

Adjective

vulcanization

Noun

morphine

Adjective

futurologist

Noun

idiosyncrasy

Noun

to laze about, to laze around

Verb

welldigger, well repairman (person charged with the construction and maintenance of wells); shaftman

Noun

to hiccup

Verb

to crack, craze

Verb

to polymerize

Verb

loden (material)

Noun

porter

Noun

anger

Noun

voluptueusement

voluptuously

Adverb

miserabilist

Adjective

paletot, jacket

Noun

infectiousness; contagiousness

Noun

fish farmer

Noun

surinvestissement

overinvestment

Noun

sauropod (dinosaur of infraorder Sauropoda)

Noun

rheological

Adjective

chlorination (all senses)

Noun

coumarin

Noun

plane

Noun

to pour, rain hard, to chuck it down

Verb

to stumble through (a reading, lesson etc.); to drone on, to recite monotonously

Verb

midwife

Noun

hamper (large basket)

Noun

to grumble (complain); to sulk

Verb

vertigineusement

vertiginously; dizzily

Adverb

master key; matte (decorative border around a picture); type of brush

Noun

hydraulics engineer

Noun

revitalizing

Adjective

guaiacum, lignum vitae

Noun

furnishing

Adjective

eugenol

Noun

to cast a spell on; to enchant (magically)

Verb

sculling oar; wedeln

Noun

biodégradabilité

biodegradability

Noun

in feudalism, homage which the vassal used to give to the fief seigneur, by kissing his hand; polite manner to greet or leave a lady, by kissing her hand, hand-kissing

Noun

driveller

Noun

antistatic

Adjective

to remove the horns of; to dehorn

Verb

estérification

esterification

Noun

vibratile

Adjective

Cornish

Adjective

nosography

Noun

psychophysiologie

psychophysiology

Noun

museologist

Noun

tam-tam

Noun

kleptomaniac

Noun

Pyrenean oak (Quercus pyrenaica)

Noun

manzanilla

Noun

gribiche

Adjective

tinker

Noun

videophone

Noun

blandness

Noun

timbering; the timber trade

Noun

plantigrade

Noun

rhythmicity

Noun

to recomb

Verb