4000 CPE Vocabulary List

n. عصابة a small group of persons secretly united to promote their own interests

n. الفاخر a woodworker who specializes in making furniture;

a. نشازا متنافر النغمات discordant; inharmonious; sounding harsh; ill-sounding

a. جثي like a corpse; pale; Having appearance or color of dead human body

n. إيقاع rhythmic rise and fall of words or sounds; beat

v. التملق influence or urge by gentle urging or flattering

n. مصيبة the event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; disaster; misery

v. حساب compute; determine; estimate

n. المرجل large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron

n. معايرة adjustment; the process of checking a measuring instrument to see if it is accurate

n. الخط beautiful writing; excellent penmanship

a. كالو youthful; immature; inexperienced; without feathers

a. القاسي الحرارية capable of producing heat; causing heat; heating

n. الافتراء false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation; slander

n. صداقة good-fellowship; companionship; close friendship in friends or teammates

n. حجاب piece of jewelry; a small scale used as a jewel for adornment; famous actor's special appearance in a minor role

n. إلغاء act of canceling; calling off some arrangement

n. آفة disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot; something evil that spreads through mind or society

n. آكلي لحوم البشر a human being that eats human flesh; anything that devours its own kind

n. أكل لحوم البشر the practice of eating the flesh of your kind