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Ａで始まる単語

Abase：（評判、地位を）貶める。Whoever exalts himself shall be abased.

Abash：赤面させる、当惑させる。Mary was abashed by the applause.

Abate：減らす、弱める。Taxpayers wanted to get interest abated.

Abide：我慢する、耐える；従う、甘受する。I cannot abide his manner. I hope that Japan will abide by Article 9 of the Constitution.

Abiding：長続きする、永続的な。We have an abiding faith in God.

Abdicate：捨てる；退位する。Mike abdicated his search for wealth. The king abdicated his throne. Abdication from the throne (王位の放棄).

Abduct：誘拐する。They abducted a child from his home.

Aberrant（アベラント）：異常な。Being gay is not an aberrant behavior. aberration (精神異常).

Abet：煽動する、教唆する。Mary abetted Mike in escaping from prison. Abettor (扇動者).

Abeyance：遅滞、停止中。Let's hold that problem in abeyance for a short while. The zest was temporarily in abeyance.

Abhor（アブホァ）：憎悪する、忌み嫌う。Mary abhorred the Nazi movement. Compromise is abhorrent to me. I have an abhorrence of dog.

Abject：浅ましい、悲惨な（wretched）、品位をおとす（debased）。The Roman Catholic residents' poverty became even more abject.

Abjure（アブジュア）：（主義、意見などを）捨てる、否認する。Mike abjured his error. Abjuration (放棄の宣言).

Abnegate：捨てる、放棄する、自制する。A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation (自己犠牲) is a dangerous associate.

Abominate：忌み嫌う。I abominate dancing. I holds snakes in abomination. I committed an abomination (醜態を演じる). Mary has abominable (酷い) taste in clothes。

Aboriginal：原住民の、土着の。Aboriginal customs (土俗).

Abortive：失敗した。An abortive rebellion.

Abound：（生物などが）沢山いる。Fish abound in this river.

Abridge：要約する。A new unabridged version of Hamlet.

Abrogate：廃止する、廃棄する。The president abrogated the immoral law. Russia abrogated the concordant (協定) with Japan.

Abscond：こっそり逃亡する。The failures absconded from aftercare supervision.

Absolve：免ずる。The grand jury absolved Mike of any blame.

Abstemious：（飲食に）節度のある、質素な（frugal）。The abstemious man refused to have even a sip of champagne.

Abstinence（アブスティネンス）：節制、禁欲。Abstinence from food (絶食).

Abstruse（アブストルース）：深遠、難解な。Einstein articulated the abstruse concept of relativity.

Abut：隣接する。This piece of land abuts on a street.

Abysmal：深い、深淵な、酷く悪い。Abysmal misery. Abysmal performance.

Accede：同意する、応じる、屈する。The New Haven colony accedes reluctantly to join the Connecticut colony.

Accentuate：強調する、力説する。In his works Dickens accentuated the need for social reform.

Acclaim：喝采、激賞。His novel was widely acclaimed. We acclaimed Mary as a hero. Acclamation (歓呼の声、拍手喝采).

Acclimate（アクライメイト）：順応する、慣らす。Acclimate a plant to a new environment.

Accolade：賞賛、賛辞。The play received accolades from the press.

Accommodate：収容する；適応させる；便宜を計る。This classroom can accommodate only thirty. Mary soon accommodated himself to her new surroundings. The kind man accommodated me with money.

Accomplice：共犯者。No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

Accord：調和する、融合する；許す、授ける。Mike's practice does not accord with his principles. Mary tried to get into accord with the atmosphere of the place. I was only accorded a short while with the president.

Accost：呼びかける、近づく。The beggar accosted me for money.

Accredit：（物事を人の）仕業とする；権威があるとする。We accredited the invention of the telephone to Bell. The theory is now generally accredited.

Accretion：付着、増加；付着物、増加物。The last part of the legend is accretion.

Accrue：（利益、利子などが）生じる。The profit accruing from the sponsor. Interest accrues.

Acerbic：酸っぱい（acetic）；辛辣な（acrid）。I find grapefruit juice too acerbic for my taste. Acerbic, critical, relentlessly ironic, Postmodern Fables throws down the gauntlet to any and all who idealize comfort.

Acme：絶頂、全盛。The acme of perfection.

Acquiesce（アクイエス）：黙認する、黙って従う。They acquiesced in our proposal.

Acquit：無罪放免する。The judge acquitted Mike of the charge of bribery. We won the acquittal.

Acrid：辛い／苦い（acerbic）；辛辣な（acerbic）。 The acrid taste of aspirin tablet made me gag.

Acrimonious：激しい（rancorous）。"Flame war" is an acrimonious dispute conducted on a public electronic forum such as USENET.

Acronym：頭字語。NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Acrophobia：高所恐怖症。

Actuate：駆り立てる；（機械などを）働かせる。Mike is actuated wholly by his desire. Mike actuated the machine. Mary's speech actuated the dissent.

Acuity（アキュイティ）：知覚の鋭さ（keenness）。Eye chart is a chart of letters and figures of various sizes, used to test visual acuity.

Acumen：明察力、鋭さ。Mary's political acumen is not doubted.

Adamant：非常に堅い。The stone is as hard as adamant. Once Mike had made his decision, he was adamant and would not change his mind. Mike has an attitude of adamantine stubbornness.

Addendum：追加、補遺。The addendum at the end of Owell's 1984 explains how to use newspeak.

Adept：熟達、精通した。Mary is adept at typewriting.

Additive：添加物。An additive in foodstuffs to retard spoilage (腐敗防止添加物).

Adduce：証拠として上げる、例証。To adduce his right triangle theorem, Pythagoras simply wrote the word "Behold."

Ad hoc：その場限り、臨機応変に。On an ad hoc basis, Congress has placed ceilings on military aid to specific countries.

Adjoin（アジョイン）：隣接する。Canada adjoins the U. S.

Adjourn：延期、休会する；場所を移す。The meeting was adjourned until the following week. After the meal we adjourned to the living room.

Adjudicate：判決、採決。The court adjudicated Mike to be bankrupt.

Adjunct（アァジャンクト）：付加物。There is an adjunct to ceremonial occasions (式典に添えて催される行事).

Adjure（アジュア）：（人に誓わせて）…させる。We adjured Mike to tell the truth.

Admonish：注意、戒める。Despite the admonishments of the townspeople, Mike bought the haunted house on the hill. The teacher raised an admonitory finger for silence.

Adoration：崇拝、憧れ。Mike believes he is worthy of adoration.

Adorn：飾る、装飾する。Mary's hair was adorned with violets.

Adrift：漂流して；定見のない。We cut the ship adrift. They found themselves once more adrift.

Adroit：機敏、器用。Mike is adroit in the use of tools.

Adulation：お世辞、追従。The dominant theme was irritation at the adulation of Diana as though she were a figure of the stature of Gandhi or Kennedy.

Adulterate：混ぜモノをする、品質をおとす。The milk was adulterated with water. Socrates was executed for adulterating the morals of the Athenian youth.

Aeon（イーオン）：無限に長い次期、永劫。The obscure aeons of prehistory.

Aerial（エリアル）：空気の；空疎な；夢幻的な。Aerial currents (気流). Aerial fancies (空想). Aerial music.

Affable：話しやすい、愛想の良い；（言葉、物腰が）柔らか。Mike is an affable and courteous gentleman. Although reserved with strangers, Mary is affable with friends.

Affect：影響を及ぼす；感動させる；冒す。The weather affects the growth of plants. The story of Mary's great struggle affected me deeply. The air pollution affected Mike's lungs.

Affect：気取る、…のふりをする；好んで用いる。Mike affected grief. An affectation of kindness. Mary affected not to see me (見えないふり). Mary affects bright colors.

Affiliate：関係づける；加入させる；由来があるとする。Both schools are affiliated with this university. We affiliated Mike with our church. The novel is not affiliated to the writer.

Affinity：類似点；親しみ。An affinity between German and English. Mary has an affinity for dogs.

Affix：固着させる、繋ぐ。I affixed a label to the package. We affixed the blame to Mike.

Afflict：苦しめる、悩ます。Mike seems to be afflicted with debts. They sympathized with us in our affliction. The fire was aggravated by the severe drought that afflicted the area.

Affront：無礼な行為；侮辱；恥をかかせる。It is an affront to God. I might have found excuses without affront to refuse his invitation. Mike's speech affronted all of us.

Aggrandize：拡大する、強める。Mike aggrandized his speech with clever hand movements.

Aggravate：悪化させる；悩ます。The fire was aggravated by the severe drought that afflicted the area. Mike's questions aggravated Mary.

Agile（アージル）：敏捷な（nimble）；活動的な；明敏な。Mike is as agile as a hare (ウサギ). Mary has an agile mind. The cornet has greater agility than the trumpet but a less brilliant tone.

Agony：苦痛、苦悶。Mike died in great agony.

Airtight：気密な、完璧な。An airtight room (気密室). An airtight alibi.

Alacrity：気軽。When Mary invited Mike to lunch, he accepted with alacrity.

Alimentary：栄養の（nutritive）；扶養の。An alimentary crisis will occur every few years for the next 3 centuries, and as populations grow and become more urbanized, the famines will strike more cruelly. An alimentary endowment (扶養料).

Alimony：扶助料、離婚手当、扶養（maintenance）。Matrimonial Causes Act orders the world's first alimony payments.

Allay：（怒り、騒動などを）鎮める；（苦痛などを）和らげる。The wise decision allayed the tension between the two countries. Mary told a lie to allay Mike's anxieties.

Alleviate：緩和する。The analgesic pill alleviated my headache.

Alloy：合金；合金にする；品位を落とす。Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc. The fun of our trip was alloyed by many little hardships.

Allude：ほのめかす。Be careful not to allude to his recent loss (家族の死). An allusion (言及) to Shakespeare.

Allure：誘い込む。The beautiful voices of the birds allured Mike into the mountains. Circuses are alluring both to children and to adults.

Allusiveness：ほのめかし。Early satire had to rely on allusiveness, as direct references to reigning monarchs could spell death for the writers.

Aloft：高く。"Splendid!" cried Mike, with his glass held aloft.

Aloof：（気持ち、関心が）遠ざかって；冷淡な。Mike remained aloof from political topics. Because of her shyness, Mary had the reputation of being aloof.

Altercate：口論する。They altercated in the Senate for days on end. An altercation with another fan almost led to a full-scale brawl.

Ambience：環境、雰囲気、辺りの様子。Mary's salon had a delightful ambience. Mike couldn't stand the ambient noises any more.

Amble：ぶらぶら歩く。Mike ambled around the town.

Ambulate：あちこち移動する、歩き回る。The patient was allowed to ambulate in his room.

Amenable：従順な。The President is amenable to the laws in his private character as a citizen.

Amenity：感じのいい応接；快適さ。The two men did little more than exchange amenities for an hour. The amenity of the climate.

Amiable：愛想、気だてのいい。Despite her reputation for being a prima donna, Mary turned out to be the most amiable person in the cast.

Amicable：好意的な、友好的な。We had an amicable settlement (和解).

Amiss：誤って、外れて。Mary certainly went amiss in quitting school.

Amity：友好、友情。We promote amity between the two nations. Agreeing to a mutual amnesty, they renewed their amity.

Amnesia：記憶喪失、健忘症。

Amnesty：政治犯罪の大赦；大目に見ること。Agreeing to a mutual amnesty, they renewed their amity.

Amorphous（アモォファス）：無定型の。The amorphous clouds. An amorphous personality.

Amorous：好色な；惚れ込んでいる（enamored）。Amorous affairs (情事). One look, and I became amorous of Mary's effulgent beauty.

Ample：たっぷり、豊かな。Ample opportunities were given. Mike apologized amply for his error.

Amplify：拡大する、広げる。We amplified our knowledge in the subject.

Amputate：切断する、取り除く。If you amputated a dozen pages, you'll have a better essay; it's too long now.

Analgesic（アナルジィジック）：沈痛。The analgesic pill alleviated my headache.

Ancillary：付属の（accessory）、補助の（auxiliary）。For Mary, sculpture was never more than ancillary to her painting.

Anecdote：逸話。The chairman's felicitous (適切な) anecdote set everyone at ease.

Anguish：激痛。The anguish of Jesus on the Cross.

Angular：骨ばった；ぎこちない。The angular style of the church contrasted with the smooth curves of the cathedral. Mary's gestures were angular.

Animosity：悪意、恨み。There has been animosity between the Yankees and the Red Sox since the days of Babe Ruth.

Annals：年代記。The annals of war (戦史). The annals of diplomacy (外交史).

Annex：つけ加える；併合する。Mike annexed a postscript to the letter. Germany annexed part of France. Happiness is not always annexed to wealth.

Annul：無効にする。The treaty was annulled. Mary reluctantly married Mike, but six months later obtained an annulment.

Anoint：塗り付ける。Mary anointed my sunburnt back with emollient cold cream.

Anthology：撰集。An anthology of modern philosophy.

Antidote：解毒剤；防衛手段。Hard work is the best antidote to mischief.

Apex：先端、頂点；最高潮、絶頂。The apex of a mountain. Mike is at the apex of his fortunes.

Aphorism：警句、金言。Mike's sermons were richly aphoristic.

Apocryphal（アポクリファル）：典拠の疑わしい；ニセの。 Mike told an apocryphal story about the sword, but the truth was later revealed.

Apotheosis（アポセオシス）：神格化；崇拝すること。The movie star was the apotheosis of courage to his fans.

Appall：脅かす（dismay）。The very idea appalls me.

Append：添える、付加する（subjoin）。Mary appended a label to the trunk.

Apportion：割り当てる。Mike apportioned an equal amount of money to each person.

Apprehend：逮捕する；理解する；懸念する。The sheriff apprehended the bandits. Apprehend distinctly the signification of the matter. I sometimes apprehend that some traffic accident may fall on Mike in the street.

Appurtenant（アパーテナンス）：付属の。A note appurtenant to the subject. Furniture and other appurtenances of the room.

Approbation：許可、認可、賞賛。Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

Apropos（アプロポス）：好都合に；（〜に）関して。Your letter came apropos as usual. This is apropos of what you were saying.

Apt：特異、…しがち。I am apt to forget. I am apt at figures (計算が得意).

Aptitude：適正、素質。A man with aptitude gets opportunity.

Arable：耕作に適する。Arable land (耕地). Arable soil (耕作に適した土壌).

Arboreal：樹木の、高木性の；樹上にすむ。The majority of boas are arboreal.

Arcane：不可解な。Poor writing can make even the most familiar things seem arcane.

Archetype：原型。The Iliad was regarded as the archetype of epic poetry.

Ardor：愛情、熱心（zeal）。The ardor Mary felt soon gave away to apathy. The dazzling conquest of Mexico gave a new impulse to the ardor of discovery.

Archaic：古風な、時代遅れの、廃れた。Archaic manner.

Archipelago（アキペラゴ）：群島。The Japanese Archipelago (日本列島).

Arid：乾燥した、不毛な、無味乾燥な。The History of Quantum Physics book proved less arid than I thought it would be.

Arduous：（仕事などが）困難な、骨が折れる（strenuous）。The arduous work of preparing a Dictionary of the English Language. A long, arduous, and exhausting war.

Arraign：被告を法廷召還して訴因の認否を問う、非難する。The officials are arraigned on charges of graft (収賄) and corruption.

Array：配列する；盛装する。Array the enemy against the enemy. Mary is arrayed always in the latest mode.

Arrears：遅れ、遅滞；滞納金。In this we are much in arrears of America. Arrears of rent (家賃の滞り分).

Artifice：策略；器用さ、巧妙さ。Mike displayed a great deal of artifice in decorating his new apartment.

Artisan：職人。

Ascendant：優勢、支配力。Mike is under the ascendancy of his wife.

Ascetic：禁欲的な、簡素な（Austere）。Buddhist monks came to be admired for their ascetic life and charity.

Ascribe：原因が…にあるとする。I ascribed his refusal to lack of money. The alphabet is ascribed to the Phoenicians.

Asinine（アシナイン）：愚かな、馬鹿な。It is surprising that supposedly intelligent people can make such asinine statements.

Askew：歪んだ。Mary's political views are slightly askew from those of the rest of the group.

Asperity：苛酷、刺々しさ。The cause of her anger does not warrant such asperity. There is a little asperity in her voice.

Aspersion：汚名、非難、中傷。Campaign by casting aspersions of the opponent.

Aspirant：大望を抱く人。I am a literary aspirant (文学志望者).

Assail：襲う、攻撃する。We were assailed by a thunder storm.

Assay：試験する、試す。We assayed his debating abilities.

Assiduous：間断ない、勤勉な。The profession requires assiduous labor.

Assuage：（苦痛等を）和らげる、なだめる（appease）、鎮定する（pacify）。Assuage one's hunger and thirst. Mary's tears assuaged Mike's anger.

Astral：星の。

Astringent：厳しい、渋い、収斂生の。Although its tone is more guarded, the book is astringent in its judgment of some top people.

Astute：機敏な、抜け目無い。A series of astute investment tripled his fortune in just four years.

Asunder：ばらばらに。My household has been rent asunder (一家離散).

Atavism（アタビズム）：隔世遺伝、先祖返り。Hitler's attack on Russia was prompted by the atavistic impulse to go east.

Atone：罪をあがなう、償う。Atone for one's sin. God demands atonements from you and for your misdeeds.

Atrophy：衰退、堕落。The professor argued that there was a progressive atrophy of freedom and independence of thought.

Attenuate：弱める、細らせる。French researchers develop a neurotropic vaccine against yellow fever using a strain of attenuated yellow fever virus.

Attentive：注意深い。Mike was very attentive to the talk of the teacher.

Attest：証言する。Mary attested to the truth of Mike's statement.

Attrition：磨耗、消耗。The enemy surrounded the town and conducted a war of attrition (消耗戦).

Audacious：図太い（impudence）、勇敢な（daring）、不作法（having gull）、厚かましい（effrontery）、生意気（presumptuous）。The audacious young woman wore a bikini top and a mini-skirt to the black tie dinner.

Audit：会計検査；聴講する。The accountants audited the company's book at the end of the fiscal year.

Audition：聞くこと；視聴テスト。Give an audition to (オーディションを行う).

August（オガスト）：尊厳のある、荘厳な。An august performance of a religious drama.

Auspice（オースパイス）：保護、主催、援助；鳥占い、吉凶。The party was held under the auspices of the education department. Mike felt that time was auspicious (縁起がいい) now for renewing his proposal (結婚申し込み).

Austere（オスティヤ）：簡素な。The austere priests inhibit their natural impulse.

Avarice（アバリス）：強欲、貪欲。The avaricious loan shark charged interest at a rate of fifty percent.

Aver：断言する、証言する。It is averred that Mary has spoken the truth.

Averse：酷く嫌がって。Averse to wasting her time, Mary went on sewing.

Aversion：嫌悪、反感。I have a strong aversion to vanity.

Avert：そらす、回避する。I averted my eyes from the obscene magazine.

Avid：切望する。Mary's restless mind was avid of new thing. Mike is an avid moviegoer.

Avow：率直に言う、公言する。Mike avowed himself to be a patriot.

Awry（アライ）：歪んで、曲がって。Your tie is awry. Our plans went awry.

Ｂで始まる単語

Babble：片言を言う、むやむやわけの分からないことを言う。The sick man babbles of home.

Baffle：まごつかせる、当惑させる。Mike was baffled by the technical language of the instructions. The sudden question baffled me.

Bait：エサ；誘い込む；虐める。The bait hides the hook. We used fake signal lights to bait the ships onto the rocks. Mike has a nasty habit of bating defenseless subordinates.

Baleful（ベールフル）：有害な、悪意のある、脅迫的な（menacing）。A baleful look.

Ballast：（精神的、政治的に）安定させるもの。The ballast of a steady income.

Balk：たじろぐ（hesitate）、妨げる。Just when I thought we had a deal, Mike balked at my offer.

Banal：陳腐な（hackneyed）、使い古された（trite）。The pompous（気取った）professor dismissed as banal any novel written after 1948.

Bane：破滅の元、毒害。Gambling was the bane of his existence. Some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid.

Barefaced：隠しだてをしない、あからさまの。Mary risked a barefaced introduction on her own. A barefaced lie.

Barrage：質問攻め（bombardment）。The professor was discomfited (困惑) by a barrage of questions.

Base：卑しい（lowly）、下劣な、上品じゃない（not classy）。The professor's theory, which I found brilliant, Mary dismissed as base.

Bask：ひなたぼっこする；（愛情などを）浴する。We basked in the sunshine. Mike basked in royal favor (国王の恩寵).

Bate：和らげる、押さえる、こらえる。I bated my breath (息を殺す). It was a great setback that bated my hope.

Bawdy：猥褻、みだらな。They effaced some lines from the bawdy book.

Bay：遠吠え、吠える（bark）。I've never seen a vampire film that didn't have wolves baying at the moon.

Bauble：子供だまし、安ぴかもの、くだらない（trifle）。That little bauble is not to be compared with this enormous jewel.

Bear：支える；身につける；（心に）抱く；耐える。The board is strong enough to bear my weight. We always bore firearms with us. I bear a grudge against Mike. The tender man is not able to bear hardships.

Beatify：幸福にする、至福に与らせる。The flip side of retrospectively savaging the loser is beatifying the winner. A beatific smile.

Bedizen（ベダイゼン）：けばけばしく飾る（adorn）。Bedizened in the unnatural garb, Mary stood before the mirror.

Beeline：一直線、近道。The minute he arrived at the party he made a beeline for the kitchen.

Befuddle：まごつかせる、当惑させる（perplex）。The author was befuddled by the comments.

Beget：父親が子をもうける；生じさせる。Abraham begat Isaac. Money begets money.

Begrime（ビグライム）：よごす。No dust can escape to begrime nearby machinery.

Begrudge：羨む、妬む。We did not begrudge the money spent on our children's education.

Beguile（ビガイル）：騙す、欺く。The flyer beguiled me into believing I had won a million dollars, when, of course, I had not.

Beholden：世話になる（obligated, indebted）。I am much beholden to you for your kindness.

Behoof：利益、…のため。The money was spent for his behoof.

Behoove：（道徳的配慮から）当然…すべきである；…する値打ちがある。It behooves the court to weigh evidence impartially. It would behoove you to be nicer to Mary because she could do a lot for you.

Belabor：しつこく攻撃する；くどくど言う。The book belabors the provincialism (郷党心) of his contemporaries. Mike kept belaboring the point long after we have agreed.

Belated：遅れた。We started the meeting without the belated representatives.

Belie：偽る。His trembling hands belied his calm voice (落ちついた声とは裏腹に彼の手は震えていた). The newspaper belated the fact.

Belittle：見くびる、けなす。Do you like being belittled?

Belligerent：交戦中の、好戦的な（bellicose, warlike）。Neutrality Act was designed to keep the U. S. out of a possible European war by banning shipment of war materiel to belligerents.

Bemoan：嘆き悲しむ。Mary bemoaned the loss of her child.

Bemuse：もうろうとさせる；心を奪う。We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world.

Benefactor：恩人、後援者。A benefactor of mankind.

Benign（ビナイン）：優しい、穏和な；幸運な。Mary is a benign person. I was born under a benign planet.

Bent：好み、傾向。Mary has a natural bent for music.

Bequeath（ビクイース）：遺産（bequest）を残す；後世に残す。Mary bequeathed a large sum of money to her daughter. A small bequest allowed her to live independently.

Berate：叱る（scold）。The teacher berated his students for doing so poorly on their exams.

Bereave（ビリーブ）：奪う。The war bereaved them of their house. An accident bereaved him of his leg.

Bereft（ビレフト）：奪われて。I am bereft of all happiness.

Beseech（ビシーチ）：嘆願する、泣きつく。The students beseeched their teacher to go at once.

Beset：包囲攻撃する；取りまく。The deer was beset by hunters and hounds. The pass was beset with guerrillas.

Besiege：包囲する。We besieged the castle. The place was besieged with visitors on Sunday.

Bestial（ベスティアル）：野獣の、野蛮な。Art has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

Bestow：送る、与える；利用する。The trophy was bestowed upon the winner. Time spent in study is time well bestowed.

Betoken：示す、明らかにする。The chipped dishes betokened poverty.

Bevy（ベビィ）：（鳥などの）群、一団。A bevy of young women.

Bewilder：当惑させる。We were bewildered by his searching questions.

Bibliophile：愛読家。The philanthropist (慈善家), a noted bibliophile, has over one million titles in his personal library.

Bicker（ビカー）：口論する、言い争う。The couple had bickered for years as a matter of habit.

Biennial（バイエニアル）：隔年の、２年に一度。A biennial conference.

Bilk：誤魔化す、騙す。I tried to bilk the government out of my back taxes.

Bland：穏やか、穏和な；興味、活気のない。A bland smile. A bland young man who never shouted.

Blandishment：お世辞、甘言、誘惑（enticement）、なだめすかす（coax with flattery）。By constantly telling her she was the most beautiful woman in the world, Mike was able to blandish Mary into going to the movies with him.

Blare：耳障りな音。The trumpets blared as the procession got under way.

Blatant（ブレイテント）：厚かましい、見え透いた。Disaffection grows among Arab forces as a result of blatant nepotism on the part of Othman.

Bleak：寂しい、わびしい。A bleak hillside. Her future looked very bleak.

Blemish：傷つける、損なう。The book is blemished by those long descriptions. His earliest novel was seminal work which, despite unmistakable blemishes in style and structure, was to influence fiction for the next several years. His last novel was consummate work without any blemishes in style and structure.

Bliss：至福。The road to eternal bliss (天国). If ignorance is bliss, why are not more of us blissful?

Blithe（ブライス）：快活な、愉快な。Everyone loved Mary for her blithe heart.

Bloat：膨らます、膨張させる。Their bellies were bloated from overeating. The promotion has bloated his ego to an alarming degree.

Bluff：ぶっきらぼうな。Mike is a big, bluff, generous man.

Bluff：惑わせる、騙す。Mike bluffed me into believing that he was a doctor.

Blunder：大失態。Their leaders committed a grave blunder.

Blurt：口を滑らせる。Throwing all discretions to the winds, I blurted out the truth (思慮分別を失って、つい本当のことを喋ってしまった).

Bluster：風が吹きまくる；脅かす。A typhoon blustered over the land. He blustered his way through the crowd.

Bode：前兆となる、予示する。The news bodes evil days for him.

Bogus：いんちきの。Bogus money.

Bohemian：慣習に囚われない、自由奔放な。

Boisterous（ボイステラス）：馬鹿騒ぎする、馬鹿陽気な。The boisterous entertainment area of the city.

Bolster：（説などを）支持する。The defendant bolstered his plea with new evidence.

Bombast：大言壮語（grandiloquence）、大げさな言葉（pompous speech）、熱弁（harangue）。The speaker's bombastic lecture left audience bored and unimpressed.

Bona Fide（ボナ・ファイ）：真実の；誠意の。They were not bona fide reports. The bona fide of this contract is open to question.

Boon：恩恵、利益、めぐみ。The aid was a great boon for the country.

Boor：粗野な男。Mary convinced her father that Mike wasn't a boor.

Boast：自慢する。Mike boasts that he is the cleverest boy in the class. Mary boasted of her success.

Bonanza（バナンザ）：豊富な鉱脈；大当たり。The play proved to be a bonanza for its lucky buckers.

Bounty：もの惜しみないこと；報奨金。The bounty of Nature. There was a bounty on his head.

Brag：自慢する。Mike bragged that he had won. Mike is a braggart.

Brash：怒りっぽい、軽率、へまな（tactless）。The soldier was court-martialled (軍法会議にかける) for his brash decision to attack the village without permission from Mission Control. Mike is a brash, insolent (傲慢), overweening (尊大) fellow.

Bravado：強がり、虚勢。There is no bravado about Mary.

Brazen（ブレイゼン）：恥知らずな；真鍮の。You are a brazen liar.

Breach：破る、不履行、破棄；不和。 Her unwonted breach of delicacy perplexed him. The breach between the black and the Jew. The incident caused a lifelong breach with his father.

Brevity：短さ、簡潔。The brevity of human life. Send a telegram in its brevity.

Brim：へり、ふち；溢れそうになる。Mary filled my glass to the brim (ふちまでいっぱいになみなみと). Mike was brimming with confidence.

Brink：縁（edge）。When rescued by a passing airplane, they were on the brink of starvation.

Bristle：荒い毛；剛毛状に逆立つ；怒りで硬直する。His hair bristled on his scalp with anger. The man bristled when I asked him to move.

Brittle：固いが脆い；不確実、はかない。Clay is brittle. His promise turned out brittle.

Broach：（話題などを）持ち出す、切り出す。The question of political separation was broached by British prime minister.

Broil：焼く；日が照りつける。The tulips languished in broiling weather.

Brook：我慢する、絶える。I will never brook such insults.

Browbeat：威嚇する、脅す（bully）。Mary browbeat Mike into agreeing.

Brunt：主力、矛先。Mike had to bear the brunt of the criticism. These exhausted men carried the brunt of the criticism.

Brusque：ぶっきらぼうな、無愛想な。A brusque welcome greeted his unexpected return.

Buccaneer：海賊（pirate）。

Bucolic：牧歌的（Pastoral）、田舎風（rustic）。Mary yarned for a simple bucolic life.

Budge：動く、動かす；譲歩する、再考させる。The car didn't budge. The hidebound judge refused to budge, insisting that the criminal be condemned to death.

Buffet：打ちのめす。The wind buffeted the house. We were buffeted by adversity.

Buffon：道化者、おどけもの。The boy was known as the school buffon.

Bulwark：防護物。The new dam was a bulwark against future floods.

Bungle：無様にやる、へまをする。Mike bungled the job. Mike is a fool who bungles consistently.

Burgeon（バージォン）：急成長、発生する（sprout）。Austria could no longer suppress the burgeoning nationalistic movement for unification.

Burlesque（バーレスク）：茶番仕立て；風刺文；茶化す。The antics (おどけ) of the defense attorneys turned the trial into a burlesque of justice.

Burnish：磨きをかける（がかかる）、光沢を出す（が出る）。The outer edge of the sword is burnished.

Buoyant（ボイアント）：元気な、活気づく；浮かぶ。Buoyant news for the depressed. A buoyant mine (浮遊水雷). Buoy (ブイ、浮き). Mary's courage was buoyed by the doctor's calmness.

Bustle：あたふたと急ぐ。Daunted by the hustle and bustle of New York, Mary moved back to Kansas.

Bustling（バッスリング）：ざわめいた、活気溢れる（brimming with activity）。The bustling city gets even busier during the holidays. The office bustled with people and activity.

Buttress：支持する、補強材。The law is by its very nature a buttress of the status quo.

Ｃで始まる単語

Cache（キャッシュ）：隠し場所、貯蔵品。Mary hides her jewelry in a little cache in the cellar (地下室).

Cajole：甘言でつる、たぶらかす（wheedle, coax）。I am not about to cajole or flatter the audience into the reception of my views.

Calamity：不幸、苦難。The war was in reality a calamity to civilization.

Callous（キャラス）：無神経な。 Mike was surprised at Mary's callous remark.

Callow：うぶな、青二才の。We were all surprised that the relationship between Mary and Mike, which seemed so callow, resulted in marriage.

Calumniate（カルニエイト）：中傷する（libel, defame, slander）。A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

Cantankerous：意地悪の；扱いにくい。Mary is a cantankerous old maid. Liquid helium is supercold, costly and cantankerous.

Capacious：広々した；心の大きい。Mary's room seems capacious compared to mine.

Capitulate：降伏する、抵抗を止める。Alexandria capitulates to the Arabs, who complete their conquest of Egypt. This attitude is a compromise, not a capitulation on the part of the authorities.

Carp：あら探しをする。To carp is to harp (くどくど言う) on your complaints. Mike carped about old friends

Castigation：酷評。Castigation by the political right did not unduly upset me; after all, castigation seemed to be their business.

Casual：偶然の、即席の；無関心；普段着の。It was a casual meeting (奇遇).

Catalyst：触媒。An El Nino (a body of warm water) off the coasts of Ecuador and Peru upsets weather patterns worldwide by acting as a catalyst for prevailing conditions.

Cater：賄う、食事を調達する；供給する。This hotel also caters for weddings and parties. Programs catering to boys' enjoyments. The new magazines caters to boys and girls.

Caustic：腐食剤；痛烈な（burning）、手厳しい（stinging）。Some of the raw material forms of sodium are caustic and can be harmful to your skin. In a caustic argument against witnesses, Mike accused the managers of trying desperately to "rescue" a failing case.

Cede：（土地を）譲り渡す、割譲する。At the conclusion of the War, Britain ceded Normandy to the French.

Celerity：機敏、素早さ。I told him that the years would pass with remarkable celerity, but that appeared to be cold comfort.

Celibate：独身でいる。The priest lived a life of celibacy.

Censure：酷評、叱責、非難する（rebuke）。Thrasymachus censured justice and praised injustice. The evidence predisposes him to public censure.

Cessation：中止、休止。The treaty called for the cessation of all military activity.

Cession：譲渡、割譲。The cession of East Florida to the U. S. by Spain.

Chasm：割れ目、空白、深い裂け目。A chasm in the earth. A long chasm in my history. A political chasm between the two countries.

Chasten：懲らしめる（chastise）、罰する；（苦労などが人を）鍛える；（感情などを）抑制する。Chasten a son with a rod. A spirit chastened by adversity. Age has chastened his violent temper.

Chastise：体罰で懲らしめる；激しく責める。Mike chastised his son by spanking.

Chary：用心深い。慎重（circumspect）、油断ない（wary）、控えめ、倹約（sparing）。Mike was chary of his reputation.

Checkered：縞模様の；波瀾万丈の。Mike has a checkered career.

Chicanery：言い抜け、誤魔化し；詐欺（trickery）、策略（subterfuge）。Mike resorted to the worst flattery and chicanery to win the rich widow.

Chide：小言を言う、叱って…させる。Mary chided her son into apologizing.

Chore：雑用。I have some chores today.

Circumlocution：回りくどさ、遠回し（roundabout）。Circumlocution circles the point.

Circumscribe：取りまく；閉じこめる；制限する。Circumscribe a city on a map. Mike circumscribed the social activities of his daughter.

Circumspect：用心深い、慎重な。Mary is circumspect in her dealings with the bank.

Clairvoyant（クレアボイアント）：千里眼、透視、予知の（人）。The clairvoyant Nostradamus predicted the day that Elvis would die.

Cliche（クリシェエ）：（陳腐な）決まり文句。His writing limps from one cliche to another.

Clamor：騒々しい叫び；やかましく要求する。The clamor of children playing made it impossible for me to study.

Cloying：（甘ったるくて）嫌にさせる、飽きさせる。The cloying strains of the folk singer's ballad prompted Mike to smash his guitar to pieces.

Coalesce（コアレス）：合体する、癒着する；連合する。The broken bones coalesced. The conquerors often coalesce with the conquered. The two political parties coalesced to form a cabinet.

Coarse：粗悪な；（粒子が）荒い；粗野な。The stiff, coarse fabric irritated my skin. Mike's coarse language angered Mary.

Coax：なだめすかして…させる；（物を）上手く扱って思うようにする。We coaxed Mary to play the piano. Mike coaxed the broken ring to bell.

Coddle：甘やかす（pamper）。Mary coddle children only when they are sick.

Coeval（コイーバル）：同年代の。Trade is coeval with civilization. da Vinci and Michelangelo were approximately coeval.

Cogent：説得力ある。A cogent argument.

Cogitate：熟考する、瞑想する。We have cogitated about the problem for a year. The leaders sat in cogitative silence (沈思黙考して座っている).

Cognate：同族の、祖先を同じくする；同系列の。English "eat" is cognate with German "essen." Astronomy and the cognate sciences.

Cognizant（コグニザント）：認識する、認識力のある。We will take cognizance of your objections at the proper time.

Cohere：密着する、結合する。The particles of wet flour cohered to form a paste.

Collaborate：共同する。They collaborated on a novel. Mike collaborated with the Nazis during World War II.

Colloquial：口語体、談話体の。That colloquial manner of speaking is not permitted in courtroom.

Commensurate：同量の、釣り合った。Each actor was paid commensurate with how much time he was on the screen.

Commence：始める、開始する。They commenced an investigation of his background. Mike was there at the commencement of the hostilities.

Commend：推薦する；賞賛する。Commend an applicant for employment. Commend a soldier for bravery.

Commemorate：…の記念となる。The monument commemorates the signing the Declaration of Independence.

Compile：一冊に纏める、集める。Mike compiled all the figures asked for by the tax inspector.

Complacent（コンプレイセント）：自己満足した。Mary stopped being so complacent after she was demoted. The thought jostled my complacency (不安にさせる).

Complaisant：親切、優しい。The most complaisant salesman I ever met. Mike asked Mary to dance with complaisance (慇懃に).

Compliant：従順な、素直な。A man with a compliant nature. I am writing to the Governor in compliance with your order (命令通りに).

Complicity：共謀、共犯。Mike was accused of complicity in the crime.

Complimentary：無料の。Complimentary soft drink.

Comport：振る舞う；一致する。Mike comported himself with dignity. His remark simply does not comport with his known attitude.

Composure：平静（poise）、穏健（levelheadedness）。Even when her friends began to panic, Mary kept her imperturbable (落ちついた) composure (平静).

Concede：譲歩する、与える（forfeit）；認める。Mary could not concede the point to you. The U. S. government conceded the defeat.

Conceit：うぬぼれ；考え、思いつき。Mike had a great conceit of himself. Mike jotted down (書き留める) the conceits of his idle hours.

Concert：調和、一致。My plan was greeted with a concert of abuse and vituperation (罵倒、バイテューパレィション).

Concession：譲歩。My grandmother's only concession to the technological age is her widescreen TV.

Conciliate：懐柔する。Our attempt to conciliate the enemy failed. As a conciliatory gesture, Germany paid war reparations to the British.

Concoct：混ぜ合わせて作る；でっち上げる。Mary concocted a meal from leftovers. Mary served an absolutely revolting concoction for desert. Mike concocted an excuse.

Concomitant：相伴う、付随する。Happiness is not always concomitant of wealth.

Concord：一致。There was complete concord among the delegates. Russia abrogated the concordant (協定) with Japan.

Concur：同意する。Do you concur with his statement?

Condescend（コンデセンド）：身を落として…する；わざとらしく腰を低くする。Mary condescended to their intellectual level in order to be understood. Mike sometimes condescends to help me with my homework.

Condone：大目に見る、容赦する。My parents do not condone smoking in the house.

Conduce：導く、貢献する。A steady seat and quiet hands conduce to good horsemanship.

Confound：混乱させる。The complicated directions confounded me. The revolution confounded the people.

Congenial：同質の、気に入った。We were congenial and enjoyed each other's company.

Congruent：適合する、一致する。Their hypothesis is congruent with the results of our experiments.

Conjoin：結合、連接する。The Philosophy of Tea conjoins ethics and religion.

Connive：黙認する。The jailer connived at Mike's escape.

Connoisseur（コノシュア）：鑑定家、目利き。Mary had always been a connoisseur of fine art.

Consecrate：神聖にする；捧げる。Mike consecrated his life to nationalist cause.

Console：慰める、苦悩を軽減する。Only his children could console Mike when his wife died.

Consonant：子音；調和する、一致する。Mike's behavior is consonant with his character.

Consort：交際する；調和する。Mike consorts with known criminals. The unwashed dishes consorted very ill with Mary's cleanness.

Consternation：驚き。To the consternation of the citizens who had voted for him, Mike was guilty.

Consummate：完成した、完全な。His last novel was consummate work without any blemishes in style and structure.

Contentious：議論好きな、喧嘩腰の；異論のある。Contentious issues. Contentious crew.

Contiguous：隣接する。Blocs of contiguous nations are coming together to form free trade areas.

Contrite：罪を深く悔いている（penitent）。A contrite minister apologizes for the church's long history of hate.

Contrive：考案する、計画する、企む；どうにかこうにかうまくする。They contrived a new type of engine. The expensive dress had a look of contrived simplicity (人工的な、わざとらしい、作りものの). If you must commit suicide, always contrive to do it as decorously as possible. Mike contrived to reduce his expenses.

Convene：会合する；召集する。The committee convenes once a week. The president convened the council.

Convoluted：複雑な。Few people are aware of the convoluted story of how the TV show was brought to the U. S.

Convulse：政治、社会的に揺さぶる（agitate）、振動させる、痙攣させる。Times of political convulsion. The country was in ruin and convulsion (動乱). Mike was convulsed with laughter.

Corroborate：確証する、証拠をもって論証する。We retraced Marco Polo's journey to China and corroborated his accounts.

Countenance：顔つき、容貌；賛成、支持。Mike's countenance showed his anger. Mike gave countenance to Mary.

Countermand：（命令を）取り消す。The President countermanded the order of his Chief of Staff.

Courteous（カーテラス）：礼儀正しい。Mike is an affable and courteous gentleman. The village people still have the traditional habitudes of kindness and courtesy.

Covert：密かな、暗に示した（⇔overt）。The covert marriage between the two movie stars was not made public until years later.

Covet（コベット）：切望する。Mary coveted the diamond so much that she broke into the jewelry to steal it.

Crave：