4000 Essential English Words 6 List 16

Something very old and rare, and therefore valuable

• Antique

• Authentic

• Fossil

• Monarch

A short piece of writing or music taken from a larger piece

• Diplomat

• Artifact

• Excerpt

• Majesty

Something that is not false or a copy of the original

• Applicant

• Authentic

• Fossil

• Punctual

The hard remains of a prehistoric animal or plant

• Diplomat

• Authentic

• Renown

• Fossil

To make someone feel ashamed or embarrassed

• Epic

• Humiliate

• Recruit

• Tusk

To come before something.

• Renown

• Antique

• Chronology

• Precede

A representative of a country who works with another country.

• Diplomat

• Epic

• Applicant

• Excerpt

Money given back to a person when an item is returned to the store

• Tusk

• Applicant

• Authentic

• Refund

The quality of being well known due to having done good things.

• Recruit

• Renown

• Punctual

• Monarch

Someone who does something or arrives at the right time

• Punctual

• Tusk

• Humiliate

• Epic