4000 CPE Vocabulary List

bacchanalian:
a. どんちゃん騒ぎは drunken; relating to reveling and drunkenness

backdrop:
n. 背景 background; the view behind something

badinage:
n. 戯れ teasing conversation; good-humored, playful conversation

baffle:
v. バッフル frustrate as by confusing or perplexing; impede force or movement of

balance:
n. バランス being in equilibrium; equilibrium; symmetry; stability

bale:
n. ベール a bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation

baleful:
a. 悪意 portending evil; harmful in intent or effect.

balk:
v. ボーク stop short and refuse to go on; refuse obstinately or abruptly

ballast:
n. バラスト heavy substance used to add stability or weight

ballet:
n. バレエ a sort of theatrical representation by dancers

banal:
a. 平凡 obvious and dull; commonplace; lacking originality

bandmaster:
n. バンドマスター a conductor of a band

bandy:
v. 言いふらす discuss lightly or glibly; exchange words heatedly

bang:
n. バン a vigorous blow; a conspicuous success

bankrupt:
v. 破産 cause to become financially ruin; ruin

bantering:
a. 冗談の多い good-natured ridiculing; cleverly amusing in tone

barbecue:
n. バーベキュー a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors

bard:
n. バード poet, especially lyric poet

barn:
n. 納屋 an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals

barometer:
n. 気圧 an instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere