4000 CPE Vocabulary List

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v. lose animation; be or become weak or feeble; lose strength or vigor

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n. show of skill or deceitful cleverness, considered magical by naive observers

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n. direct descent from a particular ancestor; ancestry

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n. long life; great duration of life; long duration or continuance, as in an occupation

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a. suggesting the horror of death and decay; gruesome

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n. beggar; religious friar forbidden to own personal property who begs for a living

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n. any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hit the earth's atmosphere

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n. quality of endurance and courage; good temperament and character

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v. act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only; imitate

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a. the action of people [___] and coming into contact