This document provides a list of advanced English collocations at the CPE proficiency level. It includes phrases to describe importance, change, emotions, analysis, opportunities, beliefs, effects, appropriateness, accessibility, accuracy, and feasibility. Many collocations use intensifying adverbs such as hugely, bitterly, or wildly to modify adjectives and describe things or situations to an extreme degree.

1. List of English Collocations - Proficiency
Level (CPE)
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2. List of English Collocations - Proficiency
Level (CPE)
Hugely/extremely/terribly/particularly/critically/crucially important
Considerably/dramatically/a lot/significantly/completely change
Changing fast/rapidly/suddenly/gradually slowly
Consider the issue in depth/detail
Debate/discuss the issue at length

3. List of English Collocations - Proficiency
Level (CPE)
To a considerable/great/large/significant/lesser/limited/small extent
Bitterly/furiously/terribly/wildly angry
Analyse painstakingly/critically/carefully/fully
Complete/major/massive/radical/thorough overhaul
Considerably/easily/far/greatly/heavily/more than/vastly outweigh

4. List of English Collocations - Proficiency
Level (CPE)
Immense/overriding/paramount/utmost/highest/tremendous/intrinsic importance
Grow in/increase in/rise in/decline in/diminish in/fall in importance
Absolutely/utterly/completely/frankly impossible
Brilliantly/especially/remarkably/particularly/fully/reasonably/fairly/powerfully
effective

5. List of English Collocations - Proficiency
Level (CPE)
Remarkably/highly/fully/perfectly effective
Formidably/incredibly/supremely/superbly efficient
Overall/organizational/limited/practical effectiveness
Enhance/maximize/impair/limit/lose/reduce effectiveness
Exemplary/disruptive behaviour

6. List of English Collocations - Proficiency
Level (CPE)
Mathematically/economically/scientifically/technically/physically/politically
impossible
Ample/considerable/plenty of/unparalleled/unprecedented opportunity
Fervent/strongly-held/unshakeable/genuine/sincere/entrenched/commonly
held/long-held/long-standing/core/erroneous/misguided belief

7. List of English Collocations - Proficiency
Level (CPE)
Profound/minimal/negligible/appreciable/discernible/apparent/noticeable/crippling/
debilitating/deleterious/unfortunate/salutary/the desired/lasting/knock-on/far-
reaching effect
Malodorous gases/substances/fumes/emissions/compounds/fluid
Exacerbate things/challenges/problems/inequalities/existing tensions between…

8. List of English Collocations - Proficiency
Level (CPE)
Extremely/genuinely/falsely modest
Heart-stopping/awful/anxious/fleeting/poignant/finest/proudest moment
Have little/no option but to
Entirely/purely optional
Considerable/utmost/extreme/due caution

9. List of English Collocations - Proficiency
Level (CPE)
Exceptionally/extremely/highly/extraordinarily/overwhelmingly/moderately/fairly/
broadly/generally favourable
Understandably/extremely/slightly/almost/a little fearful about
Wholly/somewhat/clearly/embarrassingly/grotesquely/culturally inappropriate
Largely/virtually/effectively/otherwise/utterly inaccessible

10. List of English Collocations - Proficiency
Level (CPE)
Extremely/grossly/hopelessly/seriously/terribly/wildly/somewhat/notoriously/hist
orically/totally inaccurate
Barely/hardly/scarcely/economically/financially/technically/administratively/perfec
tly/entirely feasible
Football/fitness/keep-fit/health/religious/real fanatic