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FLELex CEFR C1

3018 words, in teaching order

Words 501–600

beforehand, first

Adverb

escort, suite

Noun

varnish; nail polish; veneer

Noun

to retighten (knot, belt, screw, etc.); to tighten (link, knot); to become stricter (discipline); to narrow (road, gap)

Verb

reputation, legend, renown

Noun

indigenous

Adjective

affinity (a family relationship through marriage of a relative); affinity

Noun

excess, exceeding; passing, overtaking; overrun; overflow

Noun

roof; roofing, roof covering, rooftop (the outer surface of a roof)

Noun

to groan, to moan; to grumble, to complain

Verb

sponsor offering financial support in sports, arts or cultural actions in exchange for notoriety; sponsor cashing on foreign investors

Noun

shell (cylindrical projectile)

Noun

réhabilitation

rehabilitation

Noun

to dye; to tint, tinge

Verb

funeral; funerary

Adjective

to cooperate

Verb

bastard, wretch; slob

Noun

peripheral; ring road

Noun

undetermined; uncertain, unsure

Adjective

hamlet

Noun

exciting (causing stimulation or excitement); arousing

Adjective

arch; vault

Noun

denial

Noun

ounce (avoirdupois ounce); a little bit; snow leopard

Noun

to dose (administer a dose); to dish out

Verb

bath (British), bathtub, tub (especially US)

Noun

pastoral

Adjective

hateful (full of hate)

Adjective

sic (thus)

Adverb

to clarify

Verb

elevation (height above something)

Noun

theorem (a proven mathematical statement)

Noun

compréhensible

comprehensible; understandable

Adjective

anatomy (structure of a living being); anatomy (study); anatomy; dissection; dissection; study

Noun

reindeer

Noun

to decapitate, to behead; to cut the top off (e.g. a tree)

Verb

harmful, damaging, injurious

Adjective

patrimonial

Adjective

mammal

Noun

to think over, ponder, reflect on; to meditate

Verb

chassis, frame; window

Noun

to worship, venerate, revere

Verb

erection (of a building, a monument); start (of a process); erection

Noun

bedside; apse, chevet

Noun

to park (bring to a halt); to station

Verb

winter; wintery, similar to winter

Adjective

legislator

Noun

to make out, see vaguely; to glimpse; to foresee, anticipate; to catch sight of, see briefly

Verb

to regulate

Verb

at all

Adverb

reciprocally; to each other

Adverb

surrealist

Adjective

passer; ferryman; smuggler; (drugs) courier

Noun

attractive

Adjective

gay, homo

Adjective

bust, torso; bust

Noun

consolidation; strengthening, reinforcement

Noun

alphabet (set of letters considered as a group)

Noun

champion, ace, expert; crack (program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions); crack cocaine

Noun

ghetto

Noun

acoustic

Adjective

rush (in sport); rushes; rush; rush (hurried state)

Noun

tile; bad luck, misfortune; tuile (thin cookie)

Noun

allergy

Noun

commemoration

Noun

an usher; a doorman

Noun

millimetre (UK) / millimeter (US)

Noun

a helping verb, an auxiliary verb (verb that, having lost its literal meaning, joins itself to a certain form of another verb, for example to a past participle, to show a grammatical feature such as tense, voice, aspect, etc. In French, avoir and être are tense auxiliaries)

Noun

forge (workshop); forge (furnace)

Noun

lyric; lyrical

Adjective

strangely (in a strange manner)

Adverb

legality

Noun

disciplinary

Adjective

plentiful, abundant, copious, profuse, ample; loose, baggy

Adjective

vessel, ship; nave

Noun

a male attendant of a knight or a lord; officer belonging to the king's house or a princely house, also valet de chambre; a male servant, a footman; a wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing, also valet de nuit; jack; a holdfast (a hooked tool to hold a workpiece down to a workbench)

Noun

to have a hard time (be in difficulties)

Verb

islet, ait (UK); island bench (in a kitchen or lab); block, city block (group of houses etc)

Noun

slice, section

Noun

tank; vat

Noun

ship designed to carry a cargo

Noun

refined; sophisticated

Adjective

soul, soul music

Noun

syndic

Noun

of Congo; Congolese

Adjective

crust (of e.g. bread); crust; scab

Noun

unforeseeable, unpredictable (unable to be predicted)

Adjective

to dress, to clothe; to dress, get dressed

Verb

carrier, transporter (person, company or device)

Noun

recipient, addressee

Noun

flexible

Adjective

to liquidate, pay off, settle (a debt); to sell off (goods); to liquidate, bump off (kill)

Verb

absorption

Noun

firebrand; torch made of twisted straw; loose, burning material from a fire; firebrand (someone or something that is a source of trouble); straw at the end of a staff placed at the corner of a field to indicate the juridical seizure of a crop

Noun

a cartel; a label posted with an artwork or other artifact in a museum, gallery, etc., listing its title, the artist, and other information

Noun

deliverer, deliveryman

Noun

to repour (pour again); to pour back; to pay back, put back

Verb

baroque (all senses)

Adjective

planetary; worldwide, global

Adjective

to suspect

Verb