C1 Advanced 100-199 Flashcards
Semisweet
moderately sweet
Competence
Hability to do something
Turnkey
Person in charge of the key (jail, …)
Timber
Wood use for building (charpente)
Ramble
To round about in riding (randonnée)
Failure
Being enable to do or become what is wanted or expected
Animation
Liveliness
Archaic
Out of date
Heroics
Word or action with honor but only for a fact
Blackout
A temporary failure of memory
Blameless
Free from fault
Snivel
To cry with sniffling
Scrawl
Poor or careless handwriting
Particule
A very little bit
Limitless
Boundless
Exhaustion
Extrem fatigue
Gloomy
Full of deep shadow or darkless
Permanency
State of being intended to last
Heartfelt
with deep feeling
Premature
Before the proper time
Imprint
Mark made by pressure
Bewitch
To put under a spell (enchant)
Clammy
Cold or damp
Periodically
At regular intervals
Motto
Brief sentence adapted as a rule of conduct
Descriptive
The act of giving picture with words.
Keepsake
Thing, kept memory of the giver
Closure
The end
Lifestyle
A person or group characteristic manner of living
Insincerity
Lack of honesty
Harsh
Unpleasant to the touch, hear or sight
Discontented
Not happy
Advisable
To be recommended
Simulation
Imitation of something anticipated or likely to appear
sinkage
Act or process of going to falling down
Icicle
A pointing, hanging stick formed by the freezing of dripping water.
Witchery
Practice of magic
Humourless
Without anything funny or amusing
Severally
Separately
Confidence
Firm, belief or trust
Phony
Not genuine
Insecurity
Not free of danger or risk
Abnormality
A feature, act that are not normal
Mutant
Organism product by an iteration
Poverty
Condition of being poor
Repellent
Disagreeable
Delegate
A person giving an authority or act to other.
Majestic
Own or having royal dignity
Occupation
Business, employment or trade
Hostage
Person held by an enemy as a pledge that certain promesse will be carried out.
Resemblance
Similar appearance.
Antlered
Having horns top of the head
Banner
Flag
Jockey
Manoeuver so as to get the advantage
Ally
A person , nation or group that is united for some cause.
Seam
a line along which two pieces of fabric are sewn together
Graffiti
writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall
Inefficient
Not able to produce on a fact without waste of time or energy.
Thoughtless
Without thinking or ideas
Indecisive
Having the habits of not settling an issue
Hive
A busy swarming place.
Ruddy
Red
Hopeless
Feeling of having no hope
Assassin
A person who kill someone well-known by a secret attack.
Suffix
An addition made at the end of a word to form another word with different meaning.
Fuddle
Confuse
Scamp
An unprinciple person
Nursery
Room separate for the use and care for baby
Pettish
Peevish, bad-tempered
Heavyset
Build heavely
Exceptional
Out of the ordinary
Dashing
Attractive in a romantic, adventurous way.
Swimmingly
With great ease or success
Blouse
A garment that cover the top of the body
Glaring
Very easyly seen
Bachelor
A man who is not married
Balm
An oily susbtence use to heal
Possibility
Something that can happen
Relation
Act of telling?
Frequency
Rate of occurrence
Bothersome
Causing troublesome
Blocage
The state of being abstracted by something
Gladsome
Glad
Revulsion
a sense, reaction of disgust
Dwarfish
Much smaller than usual
Shaky
Shaking
Consequent
Following as a result
Bloodline
Series of ancestor in a family
Ravishing
Unusually attractive
Grandeloquance
The use of lofty words
Shtick
A comedy act
Teeming
Be full of or swarming with
Childish
Like a young boy or girl
Visitant
A guest
Alert
Watch for
Snooty
Contempt toward others
Affair
In private manner
Realist
Person interested by what is real instead of imagine things.
Insulting
Something that is said aggressively or offendly
Obsessive
Having to do with or causing to be obsessed
