4000 CPE Vocabulary List

филармонии devoted to or appreciative of music

содержательный precisely meaningful; forceful and brief

ранней advanced in development; appearing or developing early

смягчить lessen the violence of disease; moderate intensity; gloss over with excuses

запретительные tending to discourage; prohibiting; forbidding

прелюдией introduction; forerunner; preliminary or preface

частичного incomplete; fragmentary; favoring one person or side over another or others

ребяческой childish; belonging to childhood; immature

процедить spread gradually; cause the liquid to pass through small holes; filter

ниц put or throw flat with face down;  cause to lie flat

нехватка scarcity; smallness of number; fewness

назначают dictate; guide; advise the use of; assert a right; claim

грешок slight offense; small sin or fault

исключает make impossible, as by action taken in advance; prevent; eliminate

ниц put or throw flat with face down;  cause to lie flat

ворчливый habitually complaining; expressing complaint or grievance

коварство act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of the trust reposed; faithlessness; treachery

прелюдией introduction; forerunner; preliminary or preface

прагматик who acts in response to particular situations; one who acts in a practical or straightforward manner

полигона a closed plane figure bounded by straight sides

запретительные tending to discourage; prohibiting; forbidding

густонаселенных crowded; having a lot of people living there

назначают dictate; guide; advise the use of; assert a right; claim

основной being of vital or central importance; crucial

протекционистских an advocate of the policy of shielding a country's domestic industries from foreign competition by taxing imports

смягчить lessen the violence of disease; moderate intensity; gloss over with excuses

предопределяют determine, decide, or establish in advance; influence markedly

пластинчатые as the hard flattened scales

расхищать embezzle;  appropriate fraudulently to one's own use; steal public money entrusted to one's care

ребяческой childish; belonging to childhood; immature

полигона a closed plane figure bounded by straight sides

грешок slight offense; small sin or fault

исключает make impossible, as by action taken in advance; prevent; eliminate

бедность extreme poverty; lack of something; barrenness; insufficiency

полный inoffensive expression of fat; stout

запретительные tending to discourage; prohibiting; forbidding

патина the green crust on old bronze works; tone slowly taken by varnished painting

прелюдией introduction; forerunner; preliminary or preface

нехватка scarcity; smallness of number; fewness

расхищать embezzle;  appropriate fraudulently to one's own use; steal public money entrusted to one's care