4000 CPE Vocabulary List

give more force or effectiveness to; strengthen; enhance

impatient under restraint or opposition; resisting control; difficult to control

storyteller; one who tells stories and anecdotes with skill and wit

circuitous; going round; indirect; encircling; enveloping; comprehensive

of very poor quality or condition; loose-jointed; ill-made; out of gear or repair

arc of colored light in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun's rays by rain

renovate; make bright by polishing

send back; give up; surrender; resign; restore; transmit or send, especially as money in payment of a demand

pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment

fame; quality of being widely honored and acclaimed

stubborn; unmanageable; obstinately resistant to authority or control

of very poor quality or condition; loose-jointed; ill-made; out of gear or repair

send back; give up; surrender; resign; restore; transmit or send, especially as money in payment of a demand

offer sudden or harsh resistance; turn down or shut out; repel or drive back

recollection; process of remembering

a medicine or therapy; cure; fix; repair; provide relief for

cut down; reduce; restrict; economize

offer sudden or harsh resistance; turn down or shut out; repel or drive back

a rapid series of short, loud sounds; loosely connected horny sections

habitual return to crime; committing new offenses after being punished for a crime

make young again; restore to youthful vigor or appearance

full of rigors; harsh; rigidly accurate; precise

deflect sound or light from straight path; alter by viewing through a medium

the channel into a new direction

necessary requirement; indispensable item

a rapid series of short, loud sounds; loosely connected horny sections

renovate; make bright by polishing

rise again; sweep or surge back again

storyteller; one who tells stories and anecdotes with skill and wit

strictness or severity, as in temperament, action, or judgment; something hard to endure

make young again; restore to youthful vigor or appearance

reasoning; the act of concluding from premises

say, state, or perform again or repeatedly

dependence; certainty based on experience

go backwards;  decline to inferior state; degenerate

arc of colored light in the sky caused by the refraction of the sun's rays by rain

send back; give up; surrender; resign; restore; transmit or send, especially as money in payment of a demand

rise again; sweep or surge back again

withdrawal; retreat; time of low economic activity

reconstruct sentence or story; present ideas in a new or different arrangement