4000 CPE Vocabulary List

bacchanalian:
a. huyên náo drunken; relating to reveling and drunkenness

backdrop:
n. bối cảnh background; the view behind something

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

baffle:
v. vách ngăn frustrate as by confusing or perplexing; impede force or movement of

balance:
n. cân bằng being in equilibrium; equilibrium; symmetry; stability

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

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

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

ballast:
n. dằn heavy substance used to add stability or weight

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

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

bandmaster:
n. nhạc trưởng a conductor of a band

bandy:
v. không mui discuss lightly or glibly; exchange words heatedly

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

bankrupt:
v. phá sản cause to become financially ruin; ruin

bantering:
a. đùa cợt good-natured ridiculing; cleverly amusing in tone

barbecue:
n. nướng a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors

bard:
n. thi nhân poet, especially lyric poet

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

barometer:
n. phong vũ biểu an instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere