‹ Korean decksBasic Korean Dictionary: advanced words
3238 words, in teaching order
요컨대Introduces an important point to make
Adverb
민박a private residence temporarily taking lodgers, similar to B&B
Noun
혼잡하다chaotic; crowded; congested; busy
Adjective
강행pushing ahead; forcing its way
Noun
미흡하다to be unsatisfactory, to be inadequate
Adjective
상반신the upper half of the body
Noun
잔인being cruel; being ruthless
Noun
투병battling an illness
Noun
풍년year of plentiful harvest
Noun
호우downpour; heavy rain
Noun
조성하다to build, establish, set up, develop; to foster, promote, instigate
Verb
공연히vainly, in vain, for nothing
Adverb
드세다to be wild; to be violent
Adjective
분배하다to distribute, to allot, to divide among
Verb
남색navy blue; male homosexuality
Noun
사고하다to think, to ponder
Verb
우렁차다strong, powerful; sonorous, strong
Adjective
가느다랗다to be quite thin
Adjective
재기comeback, resurgence; wit; Verbal noun from 재다: measuring, measure, -metry
Noun
누렇다to be murky yellow; to be golden (like rice ready for harvest)
Adjective
널다to spread something out to catch the wind or sun
Verb
대추jujube; date (fruit)
Noun
가야금A long zither with bridges and between 12 and 25 strings; used primarily in Korean traditional and classical music.
Noun
백과사전encyclopaedia (reference book)
Noun
모국어mother tongue (first language); language of one's homeland
Noun
친근감feeling of intimacy, sense of closeness
Noun
확립establishment, settlement
Noun
열등감inferiority complex
Noun
세계관worldview; a fictional universe; a fictional universe as a holistic system including the rules of the story; the canon of a fictional universe; a mix of the definitions after the first one combined
Noun
애틋하다to be worried, anxious; to be lovable, affectionate; to be regrettable, pitiful
Adjective
부르짖다to shout, to cry out; to advocate, to cry for
Verb
퇴진decampment, resignation, retreat
Noun
순대Korean blood sausage
Noun
한약traditional Chinese medicine; traditional Korean medicine
Noun
도태an elimination of (something bad or unsuitable); a culling out, weeding out
Noun
인성quality of one's character, especially in dealing with other people; personality
Noun
꼴불견a disgusting, repulsive, or indecent person or thing; an ugly scene, eyesore
Noun
탄압oppression; suppression; repression
Noun
부임하다to take a new position (job)
Verb
호평favourable review; good reputation
Noun
근황recent or current situation
Noun
조마조마하다nervous; anxious; afraid; to be on pins and needles
Adjective
빈약poorness; meagreness
Noun
울창하다dense; luxuriant
Adjective
연잇다to be consecutive; to follow one another consecutively
Verb
후일in the future, days to come, at a later date
Noun
낙천optimism; not being nominated; failing to be nominated
Noun
궁리하다to contemplate, consider, ponder, deliberate, mull (things) over
Verb
의젓하다mature, dignified, sober
Adjective
으레customarily; typically; conventionally
Adverb
풍력wind force; strength of wind; wind power
Noun
집필하다to write (professionally)
Verb
승강장platform; taxi stand, taxi rank
Noun
새하얗다pure white, snow white
Adjective
효용utility, effectiveness
Noun
공익public interest; social service personnel, an alternative national service in the South Korean conscription system
Noun
거침없다to be unhindered; to be inexorable; to be vigorous; to be energetic; to be feisty
Adjective
수다스럽다talkative, chatty, garrulous
Adjective
전반first half; something as a whole
Noun
잇몸gum (flesh around the necks of teeth)
Noun
정답다to be warm and loving
Adjective
미역wakame (type of edible seaweed); bathing / swimming (in a river, etc.)
Noun
주체main agent, principal agent; subject; Juche (the core component of Kimilsungism–Kimjongilism, the state ideology of North Korea); Juche calendar; control; managing; coping
Noun
시냇물water of a stream, a stream, brook
Noun
구애하다to court, to try to win one's love; to propose
Verb
이듬해the next year, the year after
Noun
넉four (only used for four archaic unit of measurements: 냥 (nyang), 되 (doe), 섬 (seom), and 자 (ja))
Numeric
촉각antenna; sense of touch
Noun
예능entertainment, performing arts; skills, accomplishments
Noun
미혼모unmarried mother, single mother
Noun
강좌course; lesson; lecture
Noun