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FLELex CEFR C1

3018 words, in teaching order

Words 801–900

reworking; reorganization; revision, amendment; reshuffle

Noun

to devastate, overwhelm; to condemn (someone)

Verb

fraudulent

Adjective

well-known; notorious

Adjective

to hide; to spy, to snoop

Verb

packet (of butter, chocolate); strip, blister pack (of pills); platelet

Noun

consular

Adjective

to reorganise

Verb

to rehabilitate

Verb

decay; downfall

Noun

vigorous

Adjective

unilateral

Adjective

to boost

Verb

to transpose (reverse or change the order of two)

Verb

to revisit, to visit again; to revisit, to redo, to restyle

Verb

intendant, administrator; quartermaster

Noun

stressful

Adjective

fermentation

Noun

copyright

Noun

skid; action of skidding

Noun

what about

Pronoun

volleyball

Noun

code, (professional) ethics; deontology

Noun

expressly

Adverb

penchant

Noun

extraterrestrial

Noun

to denigrate (to criticize so as to besmirch)

Verb

carpenter

Noun

speculative

Adjective

pottery

Noun

to clarify

Verb

morphology (science); morphology (act of changing)

Noun

escape; escapement; exhaust pipe (of a vehicle)

Noun

camel

Noun

to mix

Verb

to interpose

Verb

smuggling

Noun

infant; baby; nursling (a child who breastfeeds); infant; toddler (young child)

Noun

pharaoh (supreme ruler of ancient Egypt); faro (card game)

Noun

liable, indebted; beholden, indebted, obligated, in (someone's) debt

Adjective

petal

Noun

pretentious

Adjective

deportation; internment (in a concentration camp)

Noun

bonnet (UK), hood (US)

Noun

kindness; complacency; indulgence

Noun

spiky, spiny; piquant, pungent, spicy-hot (of food); cold; ice-cold; scathing (of humor, a joke, etc.); attractive

Adjective

guru

Noun

ventilator, fan; pedestal fan

Noun

vaulting, huge

Adjective

complete, entire; plenary

Adjective

fast (period without consuming nourishment)

Noun

the Deluge, the Flood; deluge (large amount of precipitation); deluge (an overwhelming amount of something)

Noun

to normalize

Verb

enclosure, paddock

Noun

sheet metal

Noun

to sap, do sapping work on (to subvert by digging); to erode, wear down, undermine; to dress; to eat or chew noisily; to slurp; to harvest or reap forage or cereals with a small scythe

Verb

ardour, zeal, fervor

Noun

Buddhism

Noun

dial; face (of a clock); alarm clock

Noun

to wander around, wander about; to sleep; to go to sleep, hit the hay

Verb

suite, retinue, following (group of followers); sequela; after-effect, consequence, legacy

Noun

to officially recognize, ratify

Verb

gentleman

Noun

miraculous

Adjective

austral

Adjective

to nest (bird); to nestle; to hang out

Verb

leopard (a large wild cat with a spotted coat, Panthera pardus)

Noun

respite, relief (brief interval of rest or relief), break

Noun

to dispense, to lavish (something on someone)

Verb

to brighten up; to liven up; to supplement, adorn

Verb

to stagnate

Verb

to rinse; to drink a lot of alcohol

Verb

youthful; young

Adjective

to relinquish, renounce; to resign oneself (to)

Verb

insomnia (sleeping disorder)

Noun

to match, tally; to concur

Verb

to reconquer; to regain, to win back

Verb

Buddhist

Adjective

to get engaged (to be married)

Verb

gravel (small fragments of rock); crushed rocks between 5 and 40 mm in diameter (used on unpaved roads, in gardens to increase drainage, etc.); gravel, kidney stones, gallstones; beach woman, shoreman (individual who spreads out and dries cod on a (gravel) beach)

Noun

announcer, commentator; advertiser

Noun

aural, auditory, auditive

Adjective

industrialisation

industrialisation

Noun

a dreamer or idealist

Noun

a coronation, crowning ceremony; any similar investiture, triumph etc.; a crest, something physically in prominent top-position; a culmination

Noun

of Luxembourg

Adjective

hypocrite; tattletale, informant, rat; cockroach; depression, melancholy

Noun

clothing; vestment

Noun

torch; candle; candlestick; light, flame as symbolic spirit of something

Noun

negotiator, dealmaker

Noun

to distill

Verb

filling, padding; fulfilment

Noun

bad weather, foul weather

Noun

a trust (a group of businessmen or traders)

Noun

breadth, width; strip, length (of paper, textiles etc.)

Noun

to stir up (fire); to rekindle; to fan the flames of, to stir up (emotion etc.); to inflame

Verb

to sadden, to make sad

Verb

to rumble, roar; to growl; to tell off, scold, chew out

Verb

longevity; lifespan

Noun

contraction of en + les, literally “in the”