CPE W1
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Lernkarten
aberration
(n.) sth. that differs from the norm (Poland won the World Cup but the success turned out to be an ______, and Poland have not won a World Cup since)
abhor
(v.) to hate, detest (Because he never won, Marcin began to ______ the sport)
aquiesce
(v.) to agree without protesting (when his wife told him to come to the dinner, he _______ to her demand)
alacrity
(n.) eargerness, speed (when she asked him to repair the table, he did so with ________)
amiable
(adj.) friendly (An _______ fellow he was)
appease
(v.) to calm, satisfy (His mother gave the crying child chocolate to ______ him)
arcane
(adj.) obscure, secret, known only by a few (The professor is an expert in _______ Kushubian literature)
avarice
(n.) excessive greeed (The banker's _______ led him to amass an enormous personal fortune)
brazen
(adj.) excessively bold, brash, clear and obvious (Critics condemned the writer's ______ attempt to plagiarise Frankow's work)
brusque
(adj.) short, abrupt, dismissive (Simon's ______ manner sometimes offends his colleagues)
cajole
(v.) to urge, coax (Magda's friends ______ her into drinking too much)
callous
(adj.) harsh, cold, unfeeling (The murderer's ______ lack of remorse shocked the jury)
candor
(n.) honesty, frankness (We were surprised by the _____ of the politician's speech because she is usually rather evasive)
chide
(v.) to voice disapproval (Hania _____ Gregory for his vulgar habits and sloppy appearance)
circumspect
(adj) cautious (It would have been more _____ not to have specified a time to her father)
clandestine
(adj.) secret (Maria actually went to meet George for a _____ liaison)
coerce
(v.) to make somebody do sth. by force or threat (He had been ______ into signing the contract)
coherent
(adj.) logically consistent, intelligible ( He was too distraught to deliver a ______ statement)
complacency
(n.) self-satisfied ignorance of danger (Simon tried to shock his friends out of their ______ by painting a frightening picture of what might happen to them)
confidant
(n.) a person entrusted with secrets (Shortly after we met, he became my chief ______)
