4000 CPE Vocabulary List

фантазии capricious notion; something many people believe that is false

ласка tender affection; love; act of showing affection

оставить leave someone who needs or counts on you

эксцентричный departing from a recognized, conventional, or established norm or pattern

порывистый intermittently stopping and starting; irregular; variable; unstable

радоваться rejoice; feel extreme happiness

образное not literal, but metaphorical;  not with their basic meaning but with a more imaginative meaning

освобождать admit to rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote

предприятия company; firm; organization created for business ventures

образное not literal, but metaphorical;  not with their basic meaning but with a more imaginative meaning

эксцентричный departing from a recognized, conventional, or established norm or pattern

окуривать treat with fumes; apply smoke to; expose to smoke or vapor, especially to disinfect or eradicate pests

Плодовитость fertility; fruitfulness; productive or creative power

фанфары a loud flourish of brass instruments, especially trumpets; spectacular public display

эпиграммы witty thought or saying, usually short; short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation

смягчить weaken; lessen or attempt to lessen the seriousness of, especially by providing partial excuses

эрудированный learned; scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books

заблуждение deceptive or false appearance; false notion; deception

эмбриологических branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms

изобилие overflowing abundance; joyful enthusiasm; flamboyance; lavishness

беспристрастно impartial; fair; rightly balanced; equitable

эликсир a substance believed to cure all ills

эксцентричный departing from a recognized, conventional, or established norm or pattern

порывистый intermittently stopping and starting; irregular; variable; unstable

роковой decisive; having an important and usually negative effect

испарения waste; foul-smelling outflow or vapor

стремятся try to do something by employing effort

предприятия company; firm; organization created for business ventures

освобождать admit to rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote

вина crack; a crack in the earth; defect; flaw; a wrong action

испарения waste; foul-smelling outflow or vapor

опоры support on which a lever rests; prop or support

беспомощно without skill, ineffective; worthless; lacking purpose

предприятия company; firm; organization created for business ventures

Excel be superior; distinguish oneself

фол an act that violates the rules of a sport

образное not literal, but metaphorical;  not with their basic meaning but with a more imaginative meaning

плоды bearing of fruit; fulfillment; realization

опоры support on which a lever rests; prop or support

эмбриологических branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms