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Basic Korean Dictionary: advanced words

3238 words, in teaching order

Words 3001–3100

sea bathing

Noun

lower body

Noun

heavy industry

Noun

ineffective, invalid

Adjective

prime minister, premier

Noun

to steal

Verb

support and opposition; approval and disapproval

Noun

wrinkles between one's eyebrows

Noun

fields and rice paddies; farmland

Noun

to respond, answer, reply

Verb

practice, custom

Noun

landscape, scenery; country, land; strong acid

Noun

a ship's departure from a port; establishment (of something)

Noun

to restrict

Verb

unemployment rate

Noun

synonym of 양식(洋食) (yangsik, “western food”)

Noun

to provide a meal, such as for students or employees

Verb

member country, member state

Noun

poor treatment

Noun

genuine; authentic (to tradition)

Noun

springing up like mushrooms; emerging in large numbers overnight

Noun

mediation

Noun

to sell at auction

Verb

to change schools; to transfer to another school

Verb

specialness

Noun

shipbuilding; ancestor; fishing boat; cargo ship

Noun

classical scholar

Noun

Sino-Korean words; Korean words etymologically from or influenced by Chinese

Noun

essay (written composition)

Noun

jamo, letter (of the alphabet)

Noun

loanword (word taken from another language); loanword not from Sino-Korean; non-Chinese loanword

Noun

writer; author

Noun

Neolttwigi, an outdoor game of Korean women and girls played on traditional holidays, similar to seesaw

Noun

to be sourish, vinegarish

Adjective

gift, present

Noun

to tie; to limit, to restrict

Verb

to state, to describe, to narrate

Verb

six days; the sixth day of the month

Noun

semiconductor

Noun

eating habits; diet

Noun

teacher; educator; instructor

Noun

a category of business; a type of industry

Noun

linguistics; learning a foreign language

Noun

joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness; emotions

Noun

reading room

Noun

to menace, to intimidate, to threaten; to cry loudly and intimidatingly (of animals); to grind or crush (soaked rice with a stick)

Verb

presentation, such as of a gift

Noun

stress, accent, emphasis

Noun

finally; at last; in the end

Adverb

to promote; to increase; to further

Verb

stem

Noun

geomungo (a Korean stringed instrument, made of wood from the Korean paulownia, with six strings which are plucked or flicked to make music); Lyra

Noun

folk song; ballad

Noun

cigarette; tobacco

Noun

humanities

Noun

writer; author

Noun

큰소리치다

to brag; to boast

Verb

a great talent takes time to mature

Noun

to waterproof; to discharge water, to drain water

Verb

common idea; notion; conventional wisdom

Noun

to guarantee

Verb

powerful nation

Noun

person sent on an errand who fails to return even after a long time

Noun

entering or protruding deeply (either towards or away from the speaker, of a small object or of a relatively lesser depth); in a state in which large quantities have been drained or removed (both physical and metaphorical); while being excluded; fashionably; entrancedly; obsessedly; appealingly; identically

Noun

subtly as to not draw attention; softly and slowly; while slowly emerging in the mind

Adverb

withdrawal (of money)

Noun

everything eventually returns to its rightful state; good will prevail in the end

Noun

individualism

Noun

closing ceremony

Noun

to support, to side with

Verb

rhinitis

Noun

a (regional) speciality

Noun

good quality

Noun

industrialization

Noun

diversification

Noun

"tumbling seven times and standing up eight times"; persevering despite repeated failures

Noun

horse-drawn covered coach, carriage; canopied, covered food stand, booth like a bistro

Noun

government expense

Noun

main line; finals

Noun

audio quality

Noun

cook, chef

Noun

to comfort

Verb

AD

Noun

twin matchless stars (two people who are equally talented or competent)

Noun

cold, chill, coolness, frost; apathy, indifference, callousness, aloofness

Noun

southward, southernly direction; south-facing

Noun

dimly white, pale, cloudy; in swarms, crowds, flocks; embarrassed, abashed, sheepish

Adjective

the second half (of the) year

Noun

muscular strength, physical prowess

Noun

principal, capital; pheasant

Noun

all kinds of sicknesses

Noun

울퉁불퉁하다

bulging

Adjective

old bachelor

Noun

economic distress; economic hardship

Noun

picnic; outing, excursion

Noun

expression of a view or opinion

Noun

dynamic

Noun

essence; substance

Noun

change; shift;transition

Noun

the more the merrier, the more the better

Phrase