C2 English Vocabulary

A person who makes official judgments or settles disputes

Something that causes needless fear or anxiety

Assigned too high a value

A person who habitually delays tasks

Arrogant and dismissive of those considered inferior

Lacking courage; cowardly

The quality of not lasting forever; transience

A state of temporary suspension or inactivity

To produce offspring; to reproduce

A soft, gentle breeze

Careful caution and prudence in one's actions

Impossible to avoid or escape; inevitable

The visible luminous surface layer of a star

The quality of lasting indefinitely; permanence

Lacking knowledge or awareness; ignorant

Lacking caution or good judgment in speech or behavior

To break or split apart, especially by force; to separate

To read a text carefully to find and correct errors

Inciting rebellion against authority

A smooth gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop; to move at this pace

Relating to typography or the printing of text

A Renaissance vocal piece for several unaccompanied voices

Without attracting attention or standing out

A person with a strong appreciation for beauty and art

Free of charge; without payment

Inclined to mutiny; rebellious against authority

Extremely stupid or foolish

A person who trains and hunts with birds of prey

A rotating blade that drives fluid forward

The quality of being precise and accurate

An oil well with a strong natural flow; a person who gushes with excessive enthusiasm

A halo or ring of light around a holy figure or celestial body

To discipline or punish to bring about improvement; to humble

To an enormously large degree; relating to astronomy

In a sad and dispirited manner

To deviate from course by rotating on a vertical axis (v.); such a deviation (n.)

The most perfect example or purest essence of something

Lacking elasticity or flexibility; unresponsive to change

An inexperienced or naive newcomer

Difficult to understand; obscure and complex

Polite, honourable, and gallant, especially towards women

To gradually pay off a debt over time

To protest loudly and angrily against something

To scold or criticize severely

Lacking moral restraint; recklessly devoted to pleasure

Of great variety; made up of many different kinds

Too ready to believe things without sufficient evidence; gullible

A young woman employed to sell goods in a shop