4000 CPE Vocabulary List

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n. the quality of being brave when something is difficult or dangerous

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n. chess move in which the player sacrifices minor pieces to obtain an advantageous position

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a. awkward or lacking in social graces; coarse and uncouth

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ad. with great care or delicacy; cautiously

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a. shining intensely and blindingly; staring with anger or fierceness

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v. crush; scrape; reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

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v. complain or grumble; seek or shoot grouse

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v. flow forth suddenly in great volume; make an excessive display

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

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