4000 CPE Vocabulary List

tableau:
n. タブロー striking and vivid representation; picture

tableland:
n. 台地を hill; relatively flat highland

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

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

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

tadpole:
n. おたまじゃくし a larval frog or toad

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

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

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

tantamount:
a. 等しい equivalent in effect or value

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

tapestry:
n. タペストリー a heavy textile with a woven design

tardy:
a. 遅刻 late; delayed; moving slowly

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

tarry:
v. タール delay; leave slowly and hesitantly; wait

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

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

tautological:
a. トートロジー needlessly repetitious; using repetition or excessive wordiness

tautology:
n. トートロジー unnecessary repetition, especially for the same sense in different words; redundancy

tavern:
n. 居酒屋 building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks