4000 Essential English Words 1 - Unit 1 & 2

Tommy (Vietnam)
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  1. afraid
    filled with fear or apprehension
  2. agree
    consent or assent to a condition
  3. angry
    feeling or showing extreme displeasure or hostility
  4. arrive
    reach a destination
  5. attack
    an offensive against an enemy
  6. bottom
    the lower side of anything
  7. clever
    mentally quick and resourceful
  8. cruel
    able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
  9. final
    an exam administered at the end of an academic term
  10. hide
    prevent from being seen or discovered
  11. hunt
    pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
  12. lot
    anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
  13. middle
    an area that is approximately central within some larger region
  14. moment
    an indefinitely short time
  15. pleased
    experiencing or manifesting pleasure
  16. promise
    a verbal commitment agreeing to do something in the future
  17. reply
    react verbally
  18. safe
    free from danger or the risk of harm
  19. trick
    a cunning or deceitful action or device
  20. well
    in a good or satisfactory manner or to a high standard
  21. adventure
    a wild and exciting undertaking
  22. approach
    move towards
  23. careful
    exercising caution or showing attention
  24. chemical
    produced by reactions involving atomic or molecular changes
  25. create
    bring into existence
  26. evil
    morally bad or wrong
  27. experiment
    the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation
  28. kill
    cause to die
  29. laboratory
    a workplace for the conduct of scientific research
  30. laugh
    produce laughter
  31. loud
    characterized by sound of great volume or intensity
  32. nervous
    of or relating to a system of sensory apparatus
  33. noise
    sound of any kind
  34. project
    a planned undertaking
  35. scare
    cause fear in
  36. secret
    not openly made known
  37. shout
    utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice
  38. smell
    the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
  39. terrible
    exceptionally bad or displeasing
  40. worse
    inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability
Created on Sun Feb 14 13:56:31 EST 2016

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