C2 English Vocabulary

To search someone by feeling their clothing; to move about playfully

To shorten a word or text by omitting parts

The final resolution or outcome of a story or complex events

To preserve a dead body using chemicals; to keep something from being forgotten

To waver indecisively between opinions or actions

Stubbornly determined to have one's own way

In a cheerful, lively, or showy manner

To pay out money, especially from a fund

To assert or declare something confidently as true

Causing strong disgust or hatred; deeply offensive

Shy and easily embarrassed

A rough physical struggle or fight; to struggle with someone

To make something last by using it carefully

The distance between the tips of outstretched wings

A person who types documents as their job

Patient self-control and tolerance; restraint from enforcing a right

To stir up or instigate trouble or unrest

Showing no symptoms of disease; a person with no symptoms

Failing to achieve the intended result; unsuccessful

Reluctance or uncertainty before acting

A very short person or member of a pygmy people; unusually small

Lively, noisy celebration and merrymaking

A feeling of complete certainty or confidence

Easily made to feel sick or disgusted; overly sensitive

Showing little emotion; not easily excited

A large Arctic marine mammal with long tusks

To assign too high a value to something

To make amends for a wrongdoing or sin

Not involving or concerned with moral judgments

Misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official

Unfairly favoring relatives or friends in positions of power

The process of making something less stable

A soft insert worn in the ear to block noise or water

Distorted and difficult to understand

Unpleasant to taste or accept; disagreeable

A vertical side post of a door or window frame

The quality of being energetic, lively, or resonant

The study of the origin and historical development of words

Impossible to defeat or discourage; unconquerable

A tight bandage applied to a limb to stop severe bleeding

Glowing with warm light or radiant with emotion

A factory where alcoholic spirits are produced by distillation

A person with antisocial personality disorder

Of or relating to the West; a person from the Western world

To arrange into distinct layers or social levels

To harass a speaker with hostile remarks or questions

Twisted together; caught up in a complicated situation

Not pure; contaminated; morally corrupt