4000 CPE Vocabulary List

강화 give more force or effectiveness to; strengthen; enhance

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

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

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

금방이라도 무너질 것 같은 of very poor quality or condition; loose-jointed; ill-made; out of gear or repair

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

다시 닦다 renovate; make bright by polishing

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

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

명성 fame; quality of being widely honored and acclaimed

내화물 stubborn; unmanageable; obstinately resistant to authority or control

금방이라도 무너질 것 같은 of very poor quality or condition; loose-jointed; ill-made; out of gear or repair

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

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

회상 recollection; process of remembering

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

삭제하다 cut down; reduce; restrict; economize

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

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

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

젊어보 make young again; restore to youthful vigor or appearance

엄격한 full of rigors; harsh; rigidly accurate; precise

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

리디렉션 the channel into a new direction

필요한 necessary requirement; indispensable item

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

다시 닦다 renovate; make bright by polishing

resurge rise again; sweep or surge back again

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

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

젊어보 make young again; restore to youthful vigor or appearance

ratiocination가 reasoning; the act of concluding from premises

강조 say, state, or perform again or repeatedly

신뢰 dependence; certainty based on experience

역행 go backwards;  decline to inferior state; degenerate

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

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

resurge rise again; sweep or surge back again

불황 withdrawal; retreat; time of low economic activity

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