4000 CPE Vocabulary List

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

n. a woodworker who specializes in making furniture;

a. discordant; inharmonious; sounding harsh; ill-sounding

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

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

v. influence or urge by gentle urging or flattering

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

v. compute; determine; estimate

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

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

n. beautiful writing; excellent penmanship

a. youthful; immature; inexperienced; without feathers

a. capable of producing heat; causing heat; heating

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

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

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

n. act of canceling; calling off some arrangement

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

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

n. the practice of eating the flesh of your kind