C2 English Vocabulary

To cause milk to form clumps; to congeal or spoil

The SI unit of luminous flux; the inner cavity of a tubular organ

To charm or captivate; to deceive using guile

Reducing something to its smallest extent; treating something as trivial

A hobby pursued outside one's main occupation

Too strong to be captured, defeated, or overcome

White or grey with age; very old and overused

Relating to or using satire

Exclusion from a community or society by general consent

Casually carefree and indifferent; cheerful and lighthearted

A person who shares the same house

A person or machine that harvests crops; a personification of death

Soft and limp; lacking firmness or energy

A short pastoral poem; a peaceful, carefree experience

The scientific study of crime and criminal behaviour

A small typing or printing error

A person who shaves; an electric razor

A word formed by rearranging the letters of another word

Just begun and not fully developed; in an early, incomplete, or disorganized stage; To begin or initiate something

A person whose job is to fell trees and prepare timber

The study of large-scale structural features and movement of the Earth's crust

The main artery carrying blood from the heart

Going beyond accepted limits; violating social or moral norms

Willful neglect of duty; the act of abandonment

To change from solid to gas; to redirect impulses into constructive activities

Nervous, confused, and agitated

Not allowed or acceptable, especially as legal evidence

A specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of foot disorders

Decay and death of body tissue due to loss of blood supply

In a loud and forceful manner

To cause someone to feel bitter or resentful

Characteristic of a villain; extremely wicked or evil

A royal ceremonial guard; historically, a small independent farmer

To distribute resources to a new purpose or person

Apart; into separate pieces

Well-informed or familiar with a subject

To move in a wave-like motion; wavy in form

A brilliant and technically impressive performance or display of skill

Extra material added to a document

A comic parody or mockery; a variety show with comedy and striptease

A person from a remote rural area, seen as unsophisticated

To inform on someone; a person who betrays others to authorities

Not continuous; having breaks or interruptions

An entertainer who performs ventriloquism with a dummy

A person's manner or bearing; facial expression

A person skilled at planning and executing tactics

Owed as a debt awaiting payment; a sum of money owed to a business

The use of ambiguous language to mislead or avoid a clear answer