4000 CPE Vocabulary List

n. Nadir the lowest point; point on sphere opposites zenith diametrically

n. ngây thơ lack of sophistication, experience, judgment or worldliness; simplicity; artlessness; gullibility

a. nude bare and pure; completely unclothed

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

a. non trẻ incipient; coming into existence; emerging

n. tự nhiên biologist knowledgeable about natural history

v. tởm cause to become sick; fill with disgust

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

a. gọn gàng clean or orderly; tidy, with everything in its place

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

a. mơ hồ lacking definite form or limits; hazy; cloudy

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

v. phủ nhận cancel out; make ineffective or invalid; deny

n. phủ định act of denying; assertion of the nonrealistic or untruthfulness of anything

a. phủ định adverse; involving disadvantage or harm; pessimistic

a. cẩu thả failing to be careful enough or to give enough attention to your responsibilities; inattentive

a. không đáng kể so small, trifling, or unimportant that it may be easily disregarded

a. tân cổ điển characteristic of a revival of an earlier classical style

n. từ mới new or newly invented word or phrase

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