4000 CPE Vocabulary List

tableau:
n. لوحة striking and vivid representation; picture

tableland:
n. أرض مسطحة hill; relatively flat highland

tacit:
a. ضمني indicated or understood without expressed directly; not speaking; silent

taciturn:
a. قليل الكلام silent or reserved in speech; saying little; not inclined to speak or converse

tactile:
a. اللمس used for feeling; relating to a sense of touch; perceptible to the sense of touch; tangible

tadpole:
n. خياط a larval frog or toad

talon:
n. مخلب claw of a bird of prey; part of the lock that key presses to shoot bolt

tangential:
a. عرضية peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing

tantalize:
v. عذب tease; torture with disappointment; bait someone by showing something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied

tantamount:
a. بمثابة equivalent in effect or value

taper:
v. تفتق give light as a small wax candle; narrow toward the point; become small toward one end

tapestry:
n. نسيج a heavy textile with a woven design

tardy:
a. تأخر late; delayed; moving slowly

tariff:
n. التعريفة tax on goods coming into a country

tarry:
v. تلكأ delay; leave slowly and hesitantly; wait

tattered:
a. الرثة torn into shreds; ragged; having ragged clothes; disordered or disrupted

taut:
a. مشدود pulled or drawn tight; kept in trim shape; neat and tidy

tautological:
a. حشوا needlessly repetitious; using repetition or excessive wordiness

tautology:
n. حشوا unnecessary repetition, especially for the same sense in different words; redundancy

tavern:
n. طعم حانة building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks