4000 CPE Vocabulary List

البساتين pertaining to cultivation of gardens or orchards

الشراهة excess in eating; the extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity

تمجيد cause to seem more splendid; beautify

عدو move or run rapidly or carelessly, lifting the fore and hind feet alternately, in successive leaps or bounds

تساوم wasted away; showing wearing effects of overwork or suffering

الرقة quality of being well-mannered; refinement; people of good birth

الومضة cause to emit a flash of light

مشوهة mixed up; difficult to understand because it has been distorted

البله stare foolishly; look in open-mouthed awe

الخليج an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay

هرطقة departing from accepted beliefs or standards; oppositional

لامع fill beyond capacity, especially with food;  swallow greedily

علم الأنساب account or history of the descent of person or family from an ancestor; lineage

هيث a low shrub, with minute evergreen leaves and handsome clusters of pink flowers

تمجيد cause to seem more splendid; beautify

المنومة having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific

هزيل very thin, especially from disease or hunger or cold; barren

متناغم concordant; accordant; suitable and fitting

الشراهة excess in eating; the extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity

الحوامات a craft capable of moving over water or land on a cushion of air created by jet engines

العاشبة grain-eating; plant-eating; feeding only on plants

قدس make holy; set apart for holy or religious use; consecrate; treat or keep as sacred

هزيل very thin, especially from disease or hunger or cold; barren

صومعة building for storing threshed grain; region yielding much grain

تمجيد cause to seem more splendid; beautify

ابتهاجا merry or joyful activity; festivity; bright color or showiness, as of dress; finery

صارخا shining intensely and blindingly; staring with anger or fierceness

العائق cause to be at a disadvantage; impede; cripple; hinder

مشية manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving; walk; the rate of moving

هيث a low shrub, with minute evergreen leaves and handsome clusters of pink flowers

متناغم concordant; accordant; suitable and fitting

الخطر (الأخطار something dangerous and likely to cause damage; risk

عارضة the beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as main horizontal support in building

المنومة having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific

التفريخ a place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions

عمومية quality of being general; an idea having general application

البله stare foolishly; look in open-mouthed awe

بتهور uncontrollably forceful or fast; done with head leading; headfirst

ملح unwilling or with reluctance; stingy

اللذة one who believes that pleasure is the sole aim in life