B2 English Vocabulary

A person who puts a plan or policy into action

To mention or describe in detail; to specify individual cases

Easily frightened; timid and shy

Unwillingness to spend money or share; excessive meanness

Causing tiredness or boredom; tedious

To treat with excessive sentiment; to become overly sentimental

Lacking education, refinement, or appreciation of the arts

Having keen judgment and wisdom; mentally shrewd

Warm and comfortable; snug; a cover to keep a teapot warm

To kill or destroy as a sacrifice, especially by burning

The act of making something void or nullifying it

Jumping over a rope; hopping lightly; omitting something

Not lasting; temporary

Theatrical or impassioned public speaking or recitation

Having had people removed for safety; emptied

Having been fired or sent away; treated as unimportant

The degree to which a substance can dissolve in a liquid

Relating to the tongue or language; a sound made with the tongue

In a way that cannot be held back or suppressed

Having a notched edge; set in from the margin

In a manner showing love and devotion to one's country

Not able to be saved or recovered; beyond redemption

Sharp, intense pain along the course of a nerve

Excessive indulgence in tender or nostalgic feelings

Not having been compressed

Able to be inherited or passed down

The formal withdrawal of a previously held belief or statement

Bad-tempered; cramped and hard to read

Searching for valuable minerals or resources

Having no added fragrance; odourless

Given the properties of a fluid

The process of sending or broadcasting signals or messages

Entering or interfering without permission

To walk unsteadily due to old age; a parasitic plant with thread-like stems

Zero; nothing; not at all

To preach or moralize at length

Not changed in belief, religion, or form

Pompously rhetorical; resembling a formal speech

Warm, friendly cheerfulness

In a repeated, cyclic manner at regular intervals

The act of sending a message or document

To divide into branches or spread into multiple areas

An official government journal or newspaper; to publish in such a journal

Not able to be compressed

Subjected to cruel or unfair treatment

Closely united within a group and unwelcoming to outsiders

The quality of being different from what is usual or expected

A pledge or security; to offer as a pledge or wager