C2 English Vocabulary

Below the threshold of conscious perception; influencing the mind without awareness

Compulsory military service

A large, heavy person or thing; an old wrecked ship

Too slight or gradual to be noticed

Resembling wax in texture or appearance

Excessively formal and proper in manner; prudish

Produced or purified by distillation

An official prohibition; military action to cut off enemy forces

Nothing; nothingness or complete failure

A petty objection; to argue over trivial matters

To slander someone; evil or harmful in nature

A mournful poem or song lamenting the dead

Morally pure; simple and restrained in style

A dormant, inactive state that some animals enter during winter

Final and impossible to change or cancel

The act of forcing someone or something out

A wide highway built for high-speed traffic

In a way too slight to be noticed

Threats or force used to coerce someone

A sudden violent storm; to cry or wail loudly

Relating to abnormal buildup of fluid or blood in the body

A dignified lyric poem in praise or celebration of something

Having a winding or curving shape; moving in a graceful, twisting manner

Done gradually, one piece or stage at a time

To reduce in strength or thickness; weakened or thinned

Choice and use of words; clarity of expression or pronunciation

To predict or prophesy future events

Practical effectiveness, sometimes at the expense of principles

To openly disregard rules or laws; an act of mockery

A high-ranking Chinese official or elitist bureaucrat; the official Chinese language; a type of small citrus fruit

Playfully fanciful behaviour or ideas

Generous giving of gifts or money, often ostentatiously

A room with a toilet or sink; a bathroom

A flat, unvarying tone of voice; speaking without variation in pitch

A small or modest amount

A large rodent with sharp protective spines or quills

A sly or lecherous sideways look; to look at someone in such a way

Embodied in human form; to give bodily form to an idea or quality

To burn with hot liquid or steam (v.); a burn from hot liquid (n.)

A drug used to relieve allergy symptoms by blocking histamine

To frolic or move about playfully

To sharpen a blade; to stimulate appetite or interest

A temporary state of mental confusion; wild excitement

A harsh grating sound or tool; to make such a sound

A carved grotesque figure on a building, often serving as a water spout

Unwilling to cooperate or work with others

An upright pipe connected to a water main for drawing water

Easily irritated, quarrelsome, or hard to control