Kaoyan Vocabulary

Great pleasure or joy; to please greatly

The quality of being easy and suitable; a helpful thing

To interlace threads to form fabric; a style of weaving

An urgent appeal or request; a statement made in court

A school for higher or specialized learning; a society promoting arts or sciences

Wood used in construction; trees as a source of wood

A metal fastener or door latch; to lock or run away suddenly

A rounded underground plant organ; a light bulb; to swell into a rounded shape

Having or showing expertise; requiring special training

The backbone; a sharp pointed projection; the bound edge of a book

Goods carried by a ship, aircraft, or vehicle

An evil supernatural being; a wicked person; to annoy

A person sent to spread religion abroad; relating to such work

A harbour structure for ships; the defendant's enclosure in court; to bring into port or deduct wages

A thick low cloud reducing visibility; a state of confusion; to become obscured

At an unspecified time; former

A soldier serving at sea and on land; relating to the sea or naval affairs

A brief statement of main points; concise and done without full procedure

An official representing a government abroad; a tactful person

A widespread outbreak of infectious disease; spreading rapidly among many people

To cut or neaten; neat in appearance; decorative edging

Causing death or serious destruction

A large building for storing goods; to store in such a building

A brightly coloured flying insect; the butterfly swimming stroke

Existing as a natural and permanent part of something

To cause to move faster; to increase in speed or rate

An alloy of copper and tin; reddish-brown in colour

To die or kill by suffocation in water; to be overwhelmed

A space with no matter; a vacuum cleaner; to clean with a vacuum cleaner

To expel saliva from the mouth; a rod for roasting meat; a narrow strip of land

To give orders or speak for transcription; an authoritative command

A fixed oversimplified idea about a type of person; to characterize someone by such an idea

Done by hand rather than machine; a handbook of instructions

To rest on one or both bent knees

Clothes to be washed; a place where clothes are washed

Of or relating to a navy or warships

A small handgun fired with one hand

An expression of regret for wronging someone; a formal defence of a belief

To make someone feel bored; to drill a hole; a tedious person or thing

A senior official in a university or college; a church dignitary

Deeply loved; a person who is dearly loved

To amuse an audience; to host guests; to consider an idea

To get something back or recover it; to search for stored data; an act of retrieval

An expression of respect or admiration; a payment made in submission

In or to a foreign country across the sea

Very strange or unconventional

To propose someone as a candidate for a position or honor

To plan or invent something; to leave property in a will