AEnglish Vocabulary List

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Vocabulary Cards: 32

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  • 1.
    • postpone
    • delay or put off
  • 2.
    • classify
    • arrange (laws or rules) as a code
    • collection of laws, rules, established social customs
  • 3.
    • flavored dessert ice
  • 4.
    • hesitate for ethical reasons
    • fret about
    • N: uneasy feeling arising from conscience
    • conscience
  • 5.
    • a set of bells (often in a tower) capable of being played
  • 6.
    • irreverent
  • 7.
    • slovenly
    • shabby
    • careless
    • sloppy
    • untidy
  • 8.
    • trick
    • shift
    • sham blow
    • feigned attack to draw away defensive action
  • 9.
    • correct (usually a text)
    • improvement
  • 10.
    • snub
    • insult to one's dignity
    • V: treat as if of small importance
    • insult
    • ADJ. small in size
    • of small importance
  • 11.
    • staff officer assisting the commander
    • assistant
  • 12.
    • person who establishes (an organization or business)
  • 13.
    • sad
    • solemn
    • suitable for a funeral
  • 14.
    • raging mad
    • intense enthusiasm
    • insane
  • 15.
    • student at a military school
  • 16.
    • slipshod
    • untidy
    • careless in work habits
  • 17.
    • irresistible
    • not to be escaped
    • unavoidable
  • 18.
    • narrow space between things
  • 19.
    • tending to call up (emotions, memories)
  • 20.
    • careful in choosing
    • having an effect only on certain things
    • not general
  • 21.
    • unexplicable
    • impossible to account for
    • unreasonable or mysterious
  • 22.
    • charitable
    • having a wish to do good
    • generous
  • 23.
    • deceiving
    • based on illusion
    • causing illusion
    • deceptive
  • 24.
    • unsuccessful
    • full of self-admiration
    • without result
    • conceited
  • 25.
    • without concern or care
    • unconcerned
    • indifferent
  • 26.
    • suitable
    • to the point
    • relevant
  • 27.
    • mild expression in place of an unpleasant one
    • ADJ. euphemistic
  • 28.
    • aimless follower of an art or a field of knowledge (not taking it seriously)
    • amateur
    • dabbler
  • 29.
    • harbor
    • refuge
    • place of safety
  • 30.
    • pending
    • hanging down from something
    • N: ornament (hanging from a necklace etc.)
  • 31.
    • a covered passageway usually lined with shops
  • 32.
    • (of a body of water) wide and deep enough to allow ships to pass through
    • (of a ship or aircraft) able to be steered