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FLELex CEFR C2

2202 words, in teaching order

Words 1601–1700

underworld, mob (part of society that is engaged in crime or vice)

Noun

coronary; coronal

Adjective

to revitalize

Verb

replaceable (capable of being replaced)

Adjective

inflationist, inflationary

Adjective

to swarm; to swarm (to go in a massive group)

Verb

chubby, plump

Adjective

breaker (one that breaks)

Noun

enunciation

Noun

musket (firearm)

Noun

diving suit; space suit

Noun

masochism (the enjoyment of receiving pain)

Noun

disaffection

Noun

to atomise

Verb

arrangement; scheduling; sequencing

Noun

to reprove, condemn

Verb

undersigned

Adjective

paleontologist

Noun

record dealer (one who sells music records)

Noun

monarchist

Adjective

iguana

Noun

musette; bagpipe; haversack (small bag for provisions); nosebag (round sack or bag to feed for a horse)

Noun

pharmacology

Noun

bistoury, scalpel, surgical knife

Noun

to bait a hook

Verb

arabesque

Noun

lingual, linguistic (relative to language)

Adjective

stucco

Noun

to mess up someone's hair; to knock someone's hat off; to take one's breath away (be mindblowing)

Verb

intuitively

Adverb

to spoil, pamper

Verb

to disable (a ship); to cripple, to damage

Verb

identifiable; noticeable (easy to spot)

Adjective

hygienist

Noun

spiny lobster

Noun

lacerate (to tear, rip or wound)

Verb

to demotivate

Verb

perplexity

Noun

adduction (all senses)

Noun

ride on horseback, usually for the purpose of raiding and pillaging

Noun

twitch; tension

Noun

geranium (Geranium); geranium (Pelargonium)

Noun

to air-condition

Verb

to lower, let down; to slump, slouch, plop down

Verb

imperturbable; unflappable

Adjective

Pre-1990 spelling of asséner.

Verb

musky

Adjective

kitsch; tacky (low quality)

Adjective

pyrotechnic

Adjective

asocial

Adjective

centrifugal

Adjective

rocky (containing lots of rocks); gravelly

Adjective

stove; burner

Noun

to perform auscultation

Verb

cryptography (discipline concerned with communication security)

Noun

Gascon

Adjective

old-fashioned; outdated

Adjective

pliable

Adjective

hyacinth

Noun

tapestry-maker; upholsterer

Noun

creel, lobster pot; hoop net; trap; kettling, a police tactic

Noun

mordant (any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation); mordent (ornament consisting of a single alternation between a given pitch and the one immediately below it)

Noun

cetacean

Noun

ruff; collarette; ring, annulus; flange

Noun

surly; gruff

Adjective

to defrost; to thaw

Verb

bubbling, frothing

Adjective

to numb, make numb; to dull, deaden, blunt; to go numb, go to sleep

Verb

barakah; benediction; chance, fate

Noun

pine wood or forest

Noun

elegy (mournful or plaintive poem or song)

Noun

to take aback

Verb

numb; maladroit, gauche

Adjective

reprobation, disapproval

Noun

paternalist

Adjective

incandescence

Noun

jet

Noun

cassoulet

Noun

emigrant, migrator

Noun

to grill; to brown

Verb

to fell; to appal; to land (a ship); to touchdown (an aircraft)

Verb

to thin (down); to get thinner

Verb

food-producing

Adjective

pier, wharf

Noun

denture

Noun

pleonasm, redundancy

Noun

valiant; brave; doughty

Adjective

plumpness, stoutness

Noun

gill

Noun

fictional

Adjective

confit

Noun

alabaster (variety of gypsum); a pure, delicate, healthy white (of human skin)

Noun

slacker, idler

Noun

Ubuesque (absurdly grotesque)

Adjective

relocation, rehousing

Noun

to get on, mount

Verb

graduate of an École polytechnique

Noun

Puritan

Noun

expérimentalement

experimentally

Adverb

incomparable, matchless

Adjective