4000 CPE Vocabulary List

n. Овод any of various flies that bite or annoy livestock and other animals; an irritating person
Like a gadfly, he irritated all the guests at the hotel; within forty-eight hours, everyone regarded him as an annoying busybody.

n. оплошность socially awkward or tactless act; foolish error, especially one made in public
According to Miss Manners, to call your husband by your lover's name is worse than a mere gaffe; it is a tactical mistake.

n. стайка a flock of geese; a cluster or group
A gaggle of photographers huddled on the sidewalk beside a swelling crowd of onlookers.

n. веселье merry or joyful activity; festivity; bright color or showiness, as of dress; finery
She sought solitude and avoided us when we met in a family circle when in gaiety and unrestrained affection.

v. отрицать speak against; contradict; oppose in words; deny or declare not to be true
She was too honest to gainsay the truth of the report.

n. походка manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving; walk; the rate of moving
The lame man walked with an uneven gait.

v. желчного make sore by abrasion; damage surface friction; annoy
It will gall her to have to wait outside; I guess she will leave there in five minutes.

a. галантный courtly; lively and spirited; having or displaying great dignity or nobility
Distinguishable above all, though not loud, was the sonorous voice of the master of Thornfield Hall, welcoming his fair and gallant guests under its roof.

n. храбрость the quality of being brave when something is difficult or dangerous
I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination.

n. галеон large sailing ship, usually having two or more decks and carrying guns
The Spaniards pinned their hopes on the galleon, the large warship.

v. галоп move or run rapidly or carelessly, lifting the fore and hind feet alternately, in successive leaps or bounds
He is learning how to gallop the horse along the track.

v. стимулировать stimulate by shock; stir up; spur to action
Perhaps SIV was waiting for some event or announcement to galvanize people into marching once again.

n. гамбит chess move in which the player sacrifices minor pieces to obtain an advantageous position
The player was afraid to accept his opponent's gambit because he feared a trap that he could not see.

v. прыгать dance and skip about in sport; leap playfully
See children gambol in the park is a pleasant experience.

ad. храбро bravely; with the game manner; with willing and spirited fashion
Because he had fought gamely against a much superior boxer, the crowd gave him a standing ovation when he left the arena.

n. гамма entire range; all notes in musical scale
In this performance, the leading lady was able to demonstrate the complete gamut of her acting ability.

v. зевать open the mouth wide; yawn from sleepiness, weariness, or dullness
We saw the huge pit gape before him; if he stumbled, he would fall in.

n. одежда costume; clothes of a particular type
I was glad to accept her hospitality, and I submitted to be relieved of my traveling garb just as passively as I used to let her undress me when a child.

a. искаженные mixed up; difficult to understand because it has been distorted
If you can call it that, his reasoning seems really garbled; none of us agree with him.

a. гиг��нтских huge; of a tremendous size, volume, degree
Nokia really doesn't have any experience in running the kind of gargantuan online service.