Level 7-9 Vocabulary List

to farewell

to search

to gather; to collect

search and rescue

to search; to look for

classifier for ships; Taiwan pr. [sāo]

to come to; to awaken; to regain consciousness

flaky pastry; crunchy; limp; soft; silky

custom; convention; popular; common; coarse; vulgar; secular

common saying; proverb

as the proverb says; as they say...

common saying; proverb; colloquial speech

raw silk; white; plain, unadorned; vegetarian (food); essence; nature; element; constituent; usually; always; ever

to be total strangers (idiom)

source material (in literature and art)

sketch

vegetarian food; to eat a vegetarian diet

(personal) accomplishment; attainment in self-cultivation

to model; to mold; (fig.) to create (a character, a market, an image etc); (literature) to portray (in words)

to grumble; to complain; grievance

to recount; to tell of; to relate; (fig.) (of a thing) to stand as testament to (some past history)

lawsuit

garlic

to reckon; to calculate; to plan; to expect; to scheme

abacus; plan; scheme

(accounting) to balance the books; to do the accounts; (fig.) to settle an account; to get one's revenge

though; although

can be seen everywhere

to follow the crowd; going with the tide

according to the situation; pragmatic; random

immediately; presently; following which

to (carry) on one's person; to (take) with one

anytime and anywhere

to follow one's heart's desires; to do as one pleases (idiom)

to one's liking

tunnel

to decrease; to lose; to damage; to harm; (coll.) to ridicule; to deride; (coll.) caustic; sarcastic; nasty; mean; one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes: ䷨

to damage; to injure

harming others for one's personal benefit (idiom); personal gain to the detriment of others

to harm; to damage; to injure; impairment; loss; disability

to withdraw; to pull back; to contract; to shrink; to reduce; abbreviation; also pr. [sù]

to shrink (in the wash); fig. to shrink (of profits etc)

miniature version of sth; microcosm; epitome; (Tw) to microfilm

one's affiliation (i.e. the organization one is affiliated with); subordinate (i.e. those subordinate to oneself); belonging to; affiliated; under one's command

so-called; what is called

one's conduct and deeds

to ask for compensation; to claim damages; claim for damages

to ask; to demand

you might as well (do it); simply; just

to lock (a door); to close with a latch; to lock into place; a lock; a latch; to lock a computer file (to prevent it being overwritten); to lock (denying access to a computer system or device or files, e.g. by password-protection); to focus attention on; to target