B1 English Vocabulary

A question or request for information; a formal investigation

Not officially recorded or registered

Carrying a boat overland between waterways; the route or charge for such carrying

Shaped like half a circle

A person who owns or holds something

A team sport where players throw a ball into the opposing goal

Expressing great bliss or heavenly happiness

The process of becoming or making something professional

To mark or fix the limits of something

In a pleasing or appealing manner

Made clean or free from impurities

To put forward an idea or theory for consideration

Having a deeply established, hard-to-change habit or tendency

The practice of eating no meat or fish

The act of depriving someone of property or land

Relating to birth

Relating to or containing a reference to something

The settling of solid particles in a liquid; sedimentation

The quality of being stable, firm, and consistent

To extend something to a worldwide scale

A large heavy truck for transporting goods

In an absent-minded or troubled manner

Having been made a victim or treated unfairly

In a way that is natural or inborn

In an abstract or theoretical way

A local district or area; the people living nearby

To reclaim property due to unpaid debt; to regain possession

To tax too heavily or place excessive demands on someone

Able to be acquired or achieved

Lack of proper respect or reverence

To deprive someone of their property or land

A repeated or rephrased statement

Treating a person as an object; making something abstract concrete

The process of organizing workers into a labor union

Allowed or authorized

In a funny or amusing manner

Without interest or concern

In a way unusual for the time of year

A shallow river crossing; to cross water by wading through it

Relating to or resembling a comet

Taken into custody; stopped from developing

Of great or ominous significance; pompously self-important

Calm and in control of one's emotions

A diagram showing relationships between quantities; to plot such a diagram

A device that tells time using a shadow cast by sunlight

A device for sending long-distance messages; to send a telegram; to unintentionally reveal one's intentions

Tending to brag or show off

A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb