4000 CPE Vocabulary List

nadir:
n. the lowest point; point on sphere opposites zenith diametrically

naivete:
n. lack of sophistication, experience, judgment or worldliness; simplicity; artlessness; gullibility

naked:
a. bare and pure; completely unclothed

narcotic:
n. the addictive drug, such as opium that reduces pain, alters mood and behavior; inducing sleep

nascent:
a. incipient; coming into existence; emerging

naturalist:
n. biologist knowledgeable about natural history

nauseate:
v. cause to become sick; fill with disgust

navigable:
a. wide and deep enough to allow ships to pass through; able to be steered

neat:
a. clean or orderly; tidy, with everything in its place

nebula:
n. faint, cloudlike, self-luminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars

nebulous:
a. lacking definite form or limits; hazy; cloudy

necromancy:
n. belief in magical spells to produce unnatural effects; the communicating with spirits of dead ones to predict future

negate:
v. cancel out; make ineffective or invalid; deny

negation:
n. act of denying; assertion of the nonrealistic or untruthfulness of anything

negative:
a. adverse; involving disadvantage or harm; pessimistic

negligent:
a. failing to be careful enough or to give enough attention to your responsibilities; inattentive

negligible:
a. so small, trifling, or unimportant that it may be easily disregarded

neoclassical:
a. characteristic of a revival of an earlier classical style

neologism:
n. new or newly invented word or phrase

neon:
n. a colorless, odorless gaseous element that gives a red glow in a vacuum tube