4000 CPE Vocabulary List

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n. any of various flies that bite or annoy livestock and other animals; an irritating person

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n. costume; clothes of a particular type

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a. over-bright in color; tastelessly showy

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n. monosaccharide sugar, occurring widely in most plant and animal tissue

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n. a kind of cup or drinking vessel having a foot or standard, but without a handle

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a. windy or stormy; given to sudden bursts of passion; excitable; irritable

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v. cause to be at a disadvantage; impede; cripple; hinder

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n. pride; arrogance; highness or loftiness

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a. uncontrollably forceful or fast; done with head leading; headfirst

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n. back part of the human foot; lower end of a ship's mast