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verb·C1·6 letters
cause someone to feel disappointed or alarmed
Example sentence
The news dismayed everyone in the office.
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Give me a sentence with "dismay".
The news dismayed everyone in the office.
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Other C1 words
- aboundexist in large numbers
- abstractiona general idea not tied to specifics
- accustomedfamiliar with something through habit
- acidiccontaining acid, sharp or sour
- acousticrelating to sound or hearing
- acousticallyin terms of sound quality
- acousticsthe science of sound, or a room's sound quality
- acrea unit of land area
- acutelyin a sharp or intense way
- adjoinbe next to and connected to
- adjoiningnext to and connected
- adjustableable to be changed or set differently
Levels come from the CEFR-J Vocabulary Profile v1.5 by Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and the Octanove Vocabulary Profile C1/C2 by Octanove Labs, CC BY-SA 4.0 Meanings and example sentences are written by VocaFlare.
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