4000 CPE Vocabulary List

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

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

naked:
a. голые bare and pure; completely unclothed

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

nascent:
a. заро��дающейся incipient; coming into existence; emerging

naturalist:
n. природные biologist knowledgeable about natural history

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

neologism:
n. неологизм new or newly invented word or phrase

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