C2 English Vocabulary

The quality of being unclear or imprecise

To act as a catalyst; to accelerate a process or change

A narrow deep ravine or valley

To indicate or suggest; to arrange in advance

A car for hire that transports passengers for a fare

Extremely unpleasant or hateful

To cheat someone out of money; a fraudulent scheme

Containing starch; excessively formal or stiff in manner

The position or office of a professor

Sharp, bitter hostility in manner or speech

A steep rugged rock or cliff

A primate of the family Hominidae, including humans and great apes

With good sense and careful judgment

Calm indifference; a relaxed, unconcerned manner

Slyly contemptuous or derisive; dishonest

Occurring at a favorable or convenient time; well-timed

The willingness or ability to receive and respond to new ideas or stimuli

A worker employed in making or working with steel

A line crediting the author of a newspaper article

To mix or blend together

The belief that life is meaningless and all values are baseless

Manufactured in standard sections in a factory and assembled on site

A tree bearing dark berries; its fruit; a dark purplish-red colour

Free from flaws or faults; perfect

To lower the quality, value, or character of something

A person or thing that generates significant profit

A stone or concrete platform along navigable water for loading and unloading ships

A highly cultured person; intellectually sophisticated or demanding

Fashionably elegant; to show off ostentatiously

Arousing or expressing strong emotion

A loosely coiled bundle of yarn or thread

Having great learning and knowledge; a highly scholarly person

The quality of not allowing light through; being hard to understand

Knives, forks, spoons and other eating utensils

Formally charged with a crime

In a way that arouses pity or contempt

A fighter in ancient Rome who fought in public arenas for entertainment

Harsh, abusive language used to attack someone

A person indifferent or hostile to art and culture; lacking cultural appreciation

Unwillingness or inability to believe something

A chance occurrence or coincidence

A person or thing that saves lives or provides crucial help

A reference book of synonyms and related words

A swinging horizontal bar suspended by two ropes, used by circus acrobats

Extremely hot and dry; intensely passionate

The angle between magnetic and true north; a celestial body's angular distance from the equator; a refusal

To treat something sacred with disrespect or irreverence

The top-ranked student who delivers the farewell speech at graduation