Master Advanced English Vocabulary

Essential English Vocabulary and Definitions

• Artifact: An object that was made a long time ago and is historically important.
• Attire: The clothes that someone is wearing.
• Aversion: A strong feeling that you don’t like someone.
• Burly: A burly man is fat and strong.
• Craving: A very strong feeling of wanting something.
• Crossness: Irritability or anger.
• Crouch down: To move your body close to the ground by bending your knees and leaning forwards slightly (ponerse de cuclillas).
• Dial: To press the numbers on a phone in order to call someone.
• Doomed: Certain to fail.
• Drawl: To speak slowly with long vowels.
• Drowsily: Sleepily.
• Ellipse: A shape similar to a circle but longer than it is wide.
• Embossed: Decorated with a raised design.
• Feigned: Pretending to have a particular feeling.
• Flush: If someone flushes, their face turns red because they are hot or ill, or feeling angry, excited, or embarrassed.
• Franked: With a stamp or mark that shows the charge for posting has been paid.
• Glibly: Without careful thought.
• Impede: To stop or hinder.
• Inasmuch as: Used for adding a comment that explains or makes clearer what you have just said.
• Jab: To push something with a sudden, straight movement, usually with your finger.
• Lamely: In a way that does not seem sincere.
• Lingering: Lasting for a long time.
• Memento: Something that you keep to remind you of a particular person, place, or experience.
• Moribund: Dying.
• Morose: Feeling unhappy, not wanting to talk to anyone.
• Mumble: To say something in a way that is not loud or clear so that your words are difficult to understand.
• Mundane: Ordinary and not interesting or exciting.
• Ominous: Making you think that something bad will happen.
• Pious: Very good or moral.
• Polychromatic: Multi-colored.
• Ponder: To think about a problem or question.
• Quaint: Interesting or attractive with a slightly strange and old-fashioned quality.
• Scorn: A feeling that someone or something is not good enough to deserve your approval or respect.
• Scornfully: With no respect.
• Scrutinize: To examine something very carefully.
• Shimmer: To reflect a gentle light that seems to shake slightly.
• Snigger: To laugh quietly.
• Sprint: To run very fast.
• Spurious: Not based on true fact.
• Squabble: To argue with someone about something that is not important.
• Stalk: To walk in a way that shows you are offended or angry.
• Tinker: To interfere with something or make small changes to it.
• Trudge: To walk with slow, heavy footsteps.
• Wipe out: To destroy or kill.
• Writhe: To move by twisting and turning, especially when you feel a lot of pain.
• Yearning: A strong feeling of wanting something you can’t have.