ThanhVu's GRE High Fre Vocabs
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- abate
- reduce
- abscond
- to leave secretly
- abyss
- deep hole
- aesthetic
- concerning the appreciation of beauty
- aggrandize
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increase in power/influence
Dr. Smith sought to aggrandize himself by claiming all ThanhVu's works were his - amalgamate
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combine, mix
ex: The unions will attempt to amalgamate their groups into one national body. - anachronism
- out of place in time
- analogous
- similar, equivalent
- anomal y/ous
- abnormal,irregular
- antagonize
- provoke to anger, annoy
- antipathy
- dislike
- apathy
- lack of interest, emotion
- aberrant
- abnormal,deviant
- abeyance
- suspended action
- abstemious
- Eating and drinking in moderation
- arbitrate
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judge a dispute between two opposing parties
ex: She was called upon to arbitrate the dispute between the union and the management. - archaic
- ancient, old-fashioned
- ardor
- intense and passionate feeling
- articulate
- speak clearly and expressively
- assuage
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make something unpleasant less severe, ease
make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense : the letter assuaged the fears of most members. See note at alleviate . ⬢ satisfy (an appetite or desire) : an opportunity occurred to assuage her desire for knowledge. - attenuate
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reduce, weaken
The general hopes to attenuate the enemy line by destroying their food source. - audacious
- fearless and daring, intrepid
- austere
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sever or stern, undecorated
nghiem khac, khac khe, kho hanh, moc mac - admonish
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warn, reprove
# khiển trách, quở mắng, la rầy
# răn bảo, khuyên răn, khuyên nhủ; động viên - alacrity
- promptness, eagerness, liveness
- ambivalence
- Uncertainty or indecisiveness, coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings
- ameliorate
- improve
- appease
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pacify, soothe
mollify: pacify, soothe, placate, conciliate, là m giảm đi, là m bớt đi, là m dịu đi, là m nguôi đi, xoa dịu
satisfying: assuage (lam diu bot, lam thoa man), attenuate (lam yeu di, lam giam di, lam mo?ng bot), sooth, calm, ease: - apprise
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inform, explain
ex: When he was apprised of the dangerous weather conditions, he decided to postpone his trip. - approbation
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approval
ex: Wanting her parents' regard, she looked for some sign of their approbation. - appropriate
- acquire, conquer
- arduous
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hard, difficult
ex: Her arduous efforts had sapped her energy. - artless
- open and honest
- ascetic
- self-denying and austere, e.g. hermit
- assiduous
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diligent, siêng nĒng, chuyên cần
ex: It took Rembrandt weeks of assiduous labor before he was satisfied with his portrait of his son. - autonomous
- self-governing
- aver
- state confidently, kien quyet
- banal
- predictable, lacking originality, common, hackney
- belie
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contradict, give a false impression
ex:"This statement belies my intentions" - bolster
- support
- boorish
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rude, insensitive
ex: Though Mr. Potts constantly interrupted his wife, she ignored his boorish behavior, for she had lost hope of teaching him courtesy. - burgeon
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grow forth, flourish,
ex: "In the spring, the plants that burgeon are a promise of the beauty that is to come." - burnish
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shiny, polish,
ex: "The maid burnished the brass fixtures until they reflected the lamplight." - buttress
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support,
ex: "Just as architects buttress the walls of cathedrals with flying buttresses, debaters buttress their arguments with facts." - cacophon y/ous
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inharmonious, discordant
ex: Some people seem to enjoy the cacophony of an orchestra that is tuning up. - candid
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impartial and honest; candid nature
tháºt thà , ngay thẳng, bá»™c trá»±c, vô tÆ°, không thiên vị - capricious
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unpredictable, fickle; impulsive; whimsical
ex: The storm was capricious and changed course constantly. - castigate
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punish, khien trach, trung phat
ex: Sensitive even to mild criticism, Woolf could not bear castigation that she found in certain reviews. - caustic
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sarcastically biting, cham biem
ex: The critic's caustic remarks angered the hapless (rui ro, khong may) actors who were the subjects of his sarcasms. - chicanery
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deception, trickery
ex: Your deceitful tactics in this case are indications of chicanery. - cogent
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convincing and well reasoned, vu+~ng chac, co suc thuyet phuc
ex: She presented cogent arguments to the jury. - condone
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overlook, pardon
ex: Unlike Widow Douglass, who condoned Huck's minor offenses, Miss Watson did nothing but scold. - convoluted
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intricated, complicated
ex: His argument was so convoluted that few of us could follow it intelligently. - corroborate
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provide supporting evidence, confirm
ex: Unless we find a witness to corroborate your evidence, it will not stand up in court. - credulous
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too trusting, gullible, ca tin, nhe da
ex: The witch doctor took advantage of the credulity of the superstitious natives. - crescendo
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increase in volume or intensity
ex: The overture suddenly changed from a quiet pastoral theme to a crescendo featuring blaring trumpets and clashing cymbols. - coagulate
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thicken, clot
ex: Even after you remove the pudding from the burner, it will continue to coagulate as it stands. - coda
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concluding section of some musical, literary composition
ex: The piece concluded with a distinctive coda that strikingly brought together various motifs. - commensurate
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Of the same size, extent
ex: Your reward will be commensurate with your effort. - compendium
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brief, summary
ex: This text can serve as a compendium of the tremendous amount of new material being developed in this field. - complaisant
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trying to please.
ex: The courtier (trieu than, can than, ninh than) obeyed the king's orders in a complaisant manner. - conciliatory
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reconciling, soothing
conciliatory act: hanh dong hoa giai
ex: She was still angry despite his conciliatory words. - confound
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confuse
ex: No mystery could confound Sherlock Holmes for long - connoisseur
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someone who appreciates, knows about fine art
She had developed into a connoisseur of fine china (do su) - contention
- assertion, thesis.... bone of contention
- contentious
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quarrelsome (danh nhau, cai va)
ex: We heard loud and contentious noises in the next room - contrite
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Feeling regret and sorrow for one's sins or offenses; penitent
ex: Her contrite tears did not influence the judge when he imposed sentence. - conundrum
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riddle; difficult problem
ex: During the long car ride, she invented conundrums to entertain the children. - craven
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cowardly
ex: When he saw the enemy troops advancing, he had a craven impulse (su thuc day) to run for his life. - deference
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respect, courtesy, chieu theo y muon, to y ton trong
ex: In deference (respect) to his desires, the employer granted him a holiday. - deride
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ridicule, mock
ex: The people derided his grandiose (to lon, vi dai, lam to phong) schemes. - desiccate
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dry out (sa^'y kho)
ex: A tour of this smokehouse will give you an idea of how the pioneers used to desiccate food in order to preserve it. - diatribe
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abusive speech, scolding; invective
ex: During the lengthy diatribe delivered by his opponent he remained calm and self-controlled. - desultory
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aimless, haphazard (ngau nhien), linh tinh, ro+`i ra.c
ex: In prison Malcolm X set himself the task of reading straight through the dictionary; to him reading was purposeful, not desultory. - diffident
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lacking self-confidence, shyness
ex: You must overcome your diffidence if you intend to become a salesperson. - dilate
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expand
ex: In the dark, the pupils of your eyes dilate. - dilatory
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delaying, slow, tardy, slack
ex: Your dilatory tactics may compel (buoc phai, bat buoc) me to cancel the contract. - dilettante
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amateur
ex: He was not serious in his painting; he was rather a dilettante. - dirge
- lament with music
- disabuse
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correct a false impression, free from error, undeceive (lam giac ngo)
ex: I will attempt to disabuse you of your impression of my client's guilt; I know he is innocent. - discern
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perceive, recognize
discerning: mentally quick and observant; having insight
ex: Because he was considered the most discerning member of the firm, he was assigned the most difficult cases. - disparate
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fundamentally different, unrelated
ex: It is difficult, if not impossible, to organize these disparate elements into a coherent (manh lac, chat che) whole. - dissemble
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present a false appearance, disguise
ex: Even though John tried to dissemble his motive for taking modern dance, we all knew there not to dance but to meet girls. - dissonance
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discord, opposite of harmony
ex: Some contemporary musicians deliberately (co y, co tinh toan) use dissonance to achieve certain effects. - dogma
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firmly held opinion (giao dieu, giao ly)
ex: Do not be so dogmatic about that statement; it can be easily refuted. - dogmatic
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dictatorial in one's opinion, positive; arbitrary (tuy y')
* giáo Ä‘iá»u; giáo lý
* võ đoán, quyết đoán
ex: Do not be so dogmatic about that statement; it can be easily refuted. - dupe
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v: deceive,
n: someone being fooled
ex: While the gullible Watson often was made a dupe by unscrupulous parties, Sherlock Holmes was far more difficult to fool. - daunt
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frighten, intimidate
ex: Your threats cannot daunt me. - default
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failure to act,
ex: As a result of her husband's failure to appear in court, she was granted a divorce by default. - delineate
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portray,depict, mo ta, phac hoa.
ex: He is weakest when he attempts to delineate character. - denigrate
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defame; belittle
phỉ báng, gièm pha, chê bai; bôi xấu, bôi nhá»
ex: The critics have denigrated our efforts. - dichotomy
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split, branching into two parts
ex: The dichotomy of our legislative system provides us with many safeguards. - discrete
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separate, unconnected
ex: The universe is composed of discrete bodies. - disingenuous
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not naive, sophisticated
ex: Although he was young, his remarks indicated that he was disingenous. - disparage
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belittle (coi nhe, xem thuong, lam giam gia tri)
ex: Do not disparage anyone's contribution; these little gifts add up to large sums. - disseminate
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spread, distribute
ex: The invention of the radio helped propagandists to disseminate their favorite doctrines very easily. - distend
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expand, sung to ra
ex: I can tell when he is under stress by the way the veins distend on his forehead. - eclectic
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heterogeneous,
made up of a variety of disparate sources
ex: His style of interior decoration was eclectic: bits and pieces of furnishings from widely divergent periods, strikingly juxtaposed (de canh nhau, ke nhau) to create a unique color. - elegy
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sorrowful poem or speech or song , khuc bi thuong
ex: On the death of Edward King, Milton composed the elegy "Lycidas." - emulate
- imitate, to copy
- enervate
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reduce in strength, yeu ot
ex: She was slow to recover from her illness; even a short walk to the window enervated her. - engender
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cause, bring about (dem lai, sinh ra)
ex: to receive praise for real accomplishments engenders self-confidence in a child. - equivocate
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lie, mislead
ex: The audience saw through his attempts to equivocate on the subject under discussion and ridiculed his remarks. - erratic
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unpredictable, haphazard (may rui, ngau nhien)
ex: Investors become anxious when the stock market appears erratic. - erudite
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learned, scholarly
ex: Ho Xuan Huong's erudite writing was difficult to read because of the many allusions (bong gio, am chi) which were unfamiliar to most readers. - esoteric
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obscure, abtruse, hard to understand, understood only by a few, bi mat, rieng tu
ex: New Yorker short stories often include esoteric allusions to obscure (lam toi nghia, lam kho hieu) people and events: the implication is if you are in the in-crowd, you'll get the reference; if you come from Cleveland, you won't. - estimable
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admirable, đáng kÃnh mến, đáng quý trá»ng
ex: none - eulogy
- speech in praise of someone
- euphemism
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mild expression in place of an unpleasant one
ex: The expression "he passed away" is a euphemism for "he died." - exacerbate
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to make worse
ex: This latest arrest will exacerbate the already existing discontent (su bat man, khong vua long) of the people and enrage them. - exigent
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urgent
ex: In this exigency (exigent situation), we must look for aid from our allies. - ebullient
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excitement, enthusiasm, bong bot
ex: His ebullient nature could not be repressed (kiem che, nen lai). - effrontery
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shameless boldness (ma(.t da`y, vo liem si)
ex: She had the effrontery to insult the guest. - elicit
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draw out by discussion (suy ra, luan ra)
ex: The detectives tried to elicit where the thief had hidden his loot (do an cap duoc) - embellish
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ornament, enhance
ex: My mother-in-law's stories about her journey from Russia made us laugh because she embellished the bare facts of her travels with humourous anecdotes (chuyen vat, giai thoai). - empirical
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based on experience
ex: He distrusted hunches (linh cam; cai buu) and intuitive flashes; he placed his reliance entirely on empirical data. - endemic/pandemic
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endemic prevailing among a specific group of people or region, dac huu, dia phuong
pandemic: prevailing wordwide
ex: This disease is endemic in this part of the world; more than 80 percent of the population are at one time or another affected by it. - equanimity
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calmness of temperament, composure, thu thai, thanh than, binh tinh
ex: In his later years, he could look upon the foolishness of the world with equanimity and humor. - extrapolation
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conjecture (phong doan), projection (chie^'u theo)
ex: Based on their extrapolation from the results of the primaries on Super Tuesday, the networks predicted that George Bush would be the Republican candidate for the presidency. - fawn
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grovel, flattering, xun xoe, ninh bo
ex: She was constantly surrounded by a group of fawning admirers who had hoped to win some favor. - fervid
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Marked by great passion or zeal; ardent (manh liet, soi noi, nong nan, ardent love for the country)
Her fervid enthusiasm inspired all of us to undertake the dangerous mission. - foment
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arouse; incite; promote the growth of
ex: This report will foment disssension (mối bất đồng, mối chia rẽ) in the club. - frugality
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thrift, wise economy in the management of money, tiet kiem
ant: lavish
ex: In these economically difficult days businesses must practice frugality or risk bankruptcy. - facetious
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joking
ex: Your facetious remarks are not appropriate at this serious moment. - fallacious
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false, misleading
ex: Your reasoning must be fallacious because it leads to a ridiculous answer. - fatuous
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foolish, insane
ex: He is far too intelligent to utter (thot ra, noi ra, bay to) such fatuous remarks. - felicitous
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appropriate, well chosen
ex: He was famous for his felicitous remarks and was called upon to serve as master-of-ceremonies at many banquet. - fervor
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intensity of feeling, su no'ng bong, sự nhiệt tình, sự hăng hái; sự tha thiết; sự sôi nổi
ex: Their kiss was full of the fervor of first love. - fledgling
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inexperienced
ex: While it is necessary to provide these fledgling poets with an opportunity to present their work, it is not essential that we admire everything they write. - flout
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reject; mock
ex: The headstrong youth flouted all authority; he refused to be curbed (kiem che). - garrulous
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excessively talkative, especially about unimportant subjects; loquacious; wordy
nói nhiá»u, ba hoa, lắm mồm, riu rit, ro'c rach
ex: Many club members avoided the company of the garrulous junior executive because his contant chatter bored them to tears. - gregarious
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outgoing; sociable
ex: Typically, party-throwers are gregarious; hermits are not. - guile
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deceit, duplicity (su lua doi, an o+? hai long)
ex: She achieved her high position by guile and treachery. - gullible
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easily deceived
ex: He preyed upon gullible people, who believed his stories of easy wealth. - gainsay
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deny
ex: She was too honest to gainsay the truth of the report. - goad
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urge on
ex: He was goaded (kich thich, treu tuc) by his friends until he yielded to their wishes. - gouge
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overcharge; tear out
In that fight, all the rules were forgotten; the adversaries bit, kicked, and tried to gouge (moi, khoet) each other's eyes out. - grandiloquent
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pompous; bombastic; using high-sounding language
ex: The politician could never speak simply; she was always grandiloquent. - harangue
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long, passionate, and vehement speech
ex: In her lengthy harangue, the principal berated (mang mo, nhiec nhoc) the offenders. - iconoclast
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one who opposes established beliefs; attacking cherished traditions; nguoi da pha tin nguong lau doi
ex: George Bernard Shaw's iconoclastic plays often startled (lam giat minh, lam hoang hot) more conventional people. - imperturbable
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not capable of being disturbed, calm
ex: Wellington remained imperturbable and in full command of the situation in spite of the hysteria (su cuong loan, kich dong) and panic all around him. - impetuous
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violent; hasty; rash; without thinking
ex: We tried to curb (kiem che, repress) his impetuous behavior because we felt that in his haste (su voi vang, hap tap) he might offend some people. - implacable
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unable to be calmed down
ex: Madame Defarge was the implacable enemy of the Evremonde family. - inchoate
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not full formed; disorganized; recently begun; rudimentary; elementary
ex: Before the Creation, the world was an inchoate mass. - ingenuous
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naive; young and unsophisticated
ex: Although she was over forty, the movie star still insisted that she be cast as an ingenuous sweet young thing. - inimical
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unfriendly; hostile
ex: She felt that they were inimical and were hoping for her downfall. - innocuous
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harmless
ant: harmful, pernicious (malignant)
ex: Let him drink it; it is innocuous and will have no ill effect. - insipid
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lacking in flavor; dull; tasteless
ex: Flat prose (van xuoi) and flat ginger ale (nuoc gung) are equally insipid: both lack sparkle. - intransigent
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uncompromising (khong nhuong bo), stubborn unwillingness to compromise
ex: The intransigence of both parties in the dispute makes an early settlement almost impossible to obtain. - inundate
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overwhelm; cover with water; flood; overflow
ex: The tremendous waves inundated the town. - irascible
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easily made angry; irritable; easily angered; nóng tÃnh, dá»… cáu, dá»… nổi giáºn
ex: Her irascible temper frightened me. - impassive
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ex: without feeling; not affected by pain; tram tinh
The Native American has been incorrectly depicted as an impassive individual, undemonstrative (kin dao, khong tho lo tam tinh) and stoical (kien cuong). - impede
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hinder; block
ex: The special prosecutor determined that the Attorney General, though inept (lac long, khong co kha nang thich hop), had not intentionally set out to impede the progress of the investigation. - implode
- burst inward, nổ tung và o trong
- inadvertently
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carelessly; unintentionally; by oversight
ex: She inadvertently omitted two questions on the examination and mismarked her answer sheet. - incongruity
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lack of harmony; not congruity, khong thich hop; absurdity (vo ly, buon cuoi, ngo ngan, ngu xuan)
ex: The incongruity of his wearing sneakers with formal attire amused the observers. - indigence
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poverty; paucity
ex: Neither the economists nor the political scientists have found a way to wipe out the inequities of wealth and eliminate indigence from our society. - indolent
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lazy
ex; He outgrew his youthful indolence to become a model of industry and alertness on the job. - insinuate
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hint; imply
am chi?
ex: What are you trying to insinuate by that remark? - insularity / insulate
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* cô láºp, cách ly
* biến (đất liá»n) thà nh má»™t hòn đảo
narrow mindedness; isolation
ex: The insularity of the islanders manifested (bieu lo, bay to) itself in their suspicion of anything foreign. - intractable
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unruly; stubborn; not easily managed; refractory (bướng, bướng bỉnh, khó bảo, dai dang (benh))
ex: The horse was intractable and refused to enter the starting gate. - invective
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abuse; tirade; diatribe
ex: He had expected criticism but not the invective that greeted his proposal. - laconic
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using few words; brief and to the point
ex: Many of the characters portrayed by Clint Eastwood are laconic types: strong men of few words. - lament
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express sorrow; grieve
ex: Even advocates of the war lamented the loss of so many lives in combat. - laud
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praise
laudable
:praiseworthy; commendable
ex: His laudable deeds will be remarked by all whom he aided.
laudatory
: expressing praise
ex: The critics' laudatory comments helped to make her a star. - lucid
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clearly and easily understood
ex: Her explanation was lucid enought for a child to grasp. - luminous
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shining; issuing light
ex: The sun is a luminous body. - lassitude
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weariness; languor (suy nhuoc, thieu sinh khi)
ex: The hot, tropical weather created a feeling of lassitude and encouraged drowsiness (tho than, lo mo, ue oai). - latent
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dormant; hidden; undeveloped
ex: Her latent talent was discovered by accident. - levity
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lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity (su long bong, tam phao)
ex: Stop giggling and wriggling around in the pew (ghe dai trong nha tho); such levity is improper in church. - malinger
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one who feigns illness to escape duty
ex: The captain ordered the sergeant to punish all malingerers and force them to work. - malleable
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capable of being shaped (de uon)
ex: Gold is a malleable metal. - misanthrope
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a person who dislikes others
ex: We thought the hermit was a misanthrope because he shunned (tranh xa, lang tranh) our society. - mitigate
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soften; lessen; appease
ex: Nothing he did could mitigate her wrath; she was unforgiving. - mollify
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calm; make less severe
appease; placate; pacify
ex: We tried to mollify the hysterical child by promising her many gifts. - monotony
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lack of variation
ex: He took a clerical job, but soon grew to hate the monotony of his daily routine. - maverick
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rebel; ngÆ°á»i trà thức không chịu theo khuôn phép xã há»™i
ex: To the masculine literary establishment, George Sand with her insistence on wearing trousers and smoking cigars was clearly a maverick who fought her proper womanly role. - mendacious
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lying; habitually dishonest
ex: He was pathological liar, and his friends learned to discount (tru hao, khong ke den) his mendacious stories. - metamorphosis
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change of form
ex: The metamorphosis of caterpillar to butterfly is typical of many such changes in animal life. - morose
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melancholy (u sau, sau muon); Sadness or depression; sullen (buon rau, u ru)
ex: When we first meet Hamlet, we find him morose and depressed. - mundane
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wordily; everyday
ex: He was concerned only with mundane matters, especially the daily stock market quotations. - neophyte
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beginner
ex: This mountain slope contains slides that will challenge experts as well as neophytes. - obdurate
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obstinate (bướng bỉnh, cứng đầu cứng cổ, khó bảo; ngoan cố); stubborn
cứng rắn, sắt đá, không lay chuyển
He was obdurate in his refusal to listen to our complaints. - obsequious
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eager to please; slavishly attentive; servile; sycophantic; fawning; khúm núm, xun xoe
ex: Helen valued people who behaved as if they respected themselves; nothing irritated her more than an excessively obsequious waiter or a fawning salesclerk.
self-respect: tu trong - obviate
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prevent; make unnecessary; get rid of; ngĒn ngừa, phòng ngừa; tránh
ex: I hope this contribution will obviate any need for further collections of funds. - occlude
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stop, shut, close, đút nút, bÃt
ex: A blood clot occluded an artery to the heart. - onerous
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troublesome, burdensome
ex: Dr. Bui asked for an assistant because his work load was too onerous. - opprobrium
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Ä‘iá»u sỉ nhục, Ä‘iá»u nhục nhã; public disgrace, infamy; vilification (sá»± phỉ báng; sá»± gièm pha, sá»± nói xấu)
ex: He refused to defend himself against the slander (vu cao, vu khong; sá»± vu cáo, sá»± vu khống; lá»i vu oan; sá»± nói xấu) and opprobrium hurled (phong vao, nem vao) against him by the newspapers; he preferred to rely on his record. - officious
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lĒng xĒng, hiếu sự; meddlesome (phien phuc, to meddle: lam phien, interfere); excessively pushy in offering one's services
ex: After her long flight, Jill just wanted to nap, but the officious bellboy was intent on showing her all the special features of the deluxe suite. - paragon
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model of perfection
ex: The class disliked him because the teacher was always pointing him out as a paragon of virtue (duc hanh, tinh tot, tiet nghia, easy virtue: lang lo). - pedant / pedantic
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scholar who overemphasizes book learning or technicalities
ngÆ°á»i thông thái rởm
ngÆ°á»i ra vẻ ta day (hoc van)
ex: Her insistence that the book be memorized marked the teacher as a pedant rather than a scholar. - perfidious (adj) / perfidy (n)
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willing to betray ones trust; treacherous; disloyal
ex: When Caesar realized that Brutus had betrayed him, he reproached (trách mắng, quở trách, lam nhuc nha) his perfidious friend. - perfunctory
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superficial; not thorough; lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; indifferent (lanh đạm, thá» Æ¡, há» hững, dá»ng dÆ°ng; không thiết, không quan tâm, không để ý, bà ng quang)
ex: The auditor's perfunctory inspection of the books overlooked many errors. - philanthropy
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charity; desire to do good
ex: As he grew older, he became famous as a philanthropist and benefactor (ngÆ°á»i là m việc thiện; a^n nha^n) of the needy. - placate
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soothe; pacify; conciliate
ex: The teacher tried to placate the angry mother. - plethora
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excess; overabundance
ex: She offered a plethora of excuses for her shortcomings. - pragmatic
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thực dụng; practical (as opposed to idealistic); concerned with the practical worth or impact of something
ex: This coming trip to France should provide me with a pragmatic test of the value of my conversational French class. - precipitate
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hasty (vá»™i và ng, vá»™i vã; nhanh chóng, gấp rút, mau; hấp tấp, khinh suất, thiếu suy nghÄ©; nóng tÃnh, nóng nảy, dá»… nổi nóng); quick; sudden
ex: Do not be precipitate in this matter; investigate further. - prevaricate
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to lie, equivocate
ex: Some people believe that to prevaricate in a good cause is justifiable and regard the statement as a "white lie." - pristine
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characteristic of earlier times; primitive, unspoiled; pure
ban sÆ¡; xÆ°a, cổ xÆ°a, thá»i xÆ°a
ex: This area has been preserved in all its pristine wildness. - proliferate
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increase; grow rapidly; spread; multiply; tĒng nhanh
ex: Times of economic hardship inevitably encourage countless get-rich-quick schemes to proliferate - propitiate
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conciliate; appease;
là m là nh; là m dịu, là m nguôi
ex: The natives offered sacrifices to propitiate the gods. - prudence (n) / prudent (adj)
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wisdom; caution; sá»± tháºn trá»ng, sá»± cẩn tháºn; tÃnh tháºn trá»ng, tÃnh cẩn tháºn; sá»± khôn ngoan; tÃnh khôn ngoan
ex: A miser (ngÆ°á»i keo kiệt, ngÆ°á»i bủn xỉn) hoards (tÃch trữ; dá»± trữ; dà nh dum) money not because he is prudent but because he is greedy. - partisan
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one-sided; prejudiced;
committed to a party;
ngÆ°á»i theo má»™t đảng phái, đảng viên
ex: On certain issues of conscience, she refused to take a partisan stand. - paucity
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scarcity
sá»± khan hiếm, sá»± thiếu thốn, sá»± Ãt á»i
ex: They closed the restaurant because the paucity of customers made it uneconomical to operate. - penchant
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strong inclination; liking; (seems like propensity) ?
ex: He had a strong penchant for sculpture and owned many statues. - penury
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poverty
When his pension (lương hưu, tiền trợ cấp ) fund failed, George feared he would end his days in penury. - perennial, ephemeral (n/adj)
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long lasting
cay lau nam
ex: Tese plants are hardy perennials and will bloom for many years. - pervasive
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spread throughout
ex: Despite airing them for several hours, she could not rid her clothes of the pervasive odor of mothball that clung (cling: bám vào, dính sát vào, níu lấy) to them.
mothball: A marble-sized ball, originally of camphor but now of naphthalene, stored with clothes to repel moths. - phlegmatic
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calm; not easily disturbed
ex: The nurse was a cheerful but phlegmatic person, unexcited in the face of sudden emergencies. - platitude
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trite remark; commonplace statement
tÃnh vô vị, tÃnh tầm thÆ°á»ng, tÃnh nhà m
lá»i nói vô vị, lá»i nói tầm thÆ°á»ng, lá»i nói nhà m
ex: The platitudes in his speech were applauded by the vast majority in his audience; only a few people perceived how trite his remarks were. - precarious
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uncertain; risky
ex: I think this stock is a precarious investment and advise against its purchase. - presumptous
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arrogant; taking liberties (coi thường)
tự phụ, quá tự tin
ex: It seems presumptous for one so relatively new to the field to challenge the conclusions of its leading experts. - probity
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uprightness; tÃnh ngay thẳng, tÃnh chÃnh trá»±c, tÃnh liêm khiết
incorruptibility; tÃnh không thể mua chuá»™c được; tÃnh không thể hủ hoá được, tÃnh liêm khiết
Everyone took his probity for granted; his defalcations (tham ô, thụt két), therefore, shocked us all. - propensity
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An innate (natural, bẩm sinh) inclination; a tendency.
To incline to _verb_: có khuynh hướng ...
ex: Convinced of his own talent, Sol has an unfortunate propensity (chie^`u hÆ°á»›ng) to belittle (coi nhẹ, xem thÆ°á»ng) the talents of others. - proscribe
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ostracize; banish; outlaw; đà y đi, trục xuất
ex: Antony, Octavius and Lepidus proscribed all those who had conspired (âm mưu, mưu hại) against Julius Caesar. - quiescent
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motionless; at rest; dormant
im lìm, yên lặng
ex: After this geyser (mạch nước phun, thùng đun nước nóng) erupts, it will remain quiescent for twenty-four hours. - repudiate
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reject the validity; recant; disown; disavow
ex: He announced that he would repudiate all debts incurred by his wife.
incur: chịu, gánh, mắc, bị; to incur debts: mắc nợ; to incur losses: chịu thiệt hại; to incur punishment: chịu phạt - reticent
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reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to silence
ex: Hughes preferred reticent employees to loquacious ones, noting as these non-chatters ensure their discretion (sự thận trọng, su suy xet khon ngoan) about his affairs. - rhetoric
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thuáºt hùng biện; effective writing or speaking; art of effective communication; insincere or grandiloquent (khoac lac) language
ex: All writers, by necessity, must be skilled in rhetoric. - recalcitrant
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stubborn; cứng đầu cứng cổ, ngoan cố; refractory
ex: Donkeys are reputed to be the most recalcitrant of animals. - recant
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confess; repudiate; withdraw previous statement
công khai, rút lui và từ bá»; công khai rút (ý kiến...)
repudiate: không công nháºn, không thừa nháºn, bác bá» (má»™t thuyết...), từ chối, cá»± tuyệt, thoái thác, không nháºn
ex: Unless you recant your confession, you will be punished severely. - recluse
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hermit; loner
(nguoi) sống ẩn dáºt, xa lánh xã há»™i
ex: The recluse lived in a hut in the forest.
rw: secluded - recondite
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esotoric, abstruse (thâm thuý, sâu sắc); profound; secret
tối tăm, bà hiểm, khó hiểu
ex: He read many recondite books in order to obtain the material for the scholarly thesis. - refractory
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resistant; stubborn; unmanageable
recalcitrant, intractable
ex: The refractory horse was eliminated from the race when he refused to obey the jockey. - relegate
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banish to an inferior position;
banish; consign (uỷ thác, ký thác; giao phó) to inferior position
đổi (viên chức) đi xa; đà y ải; hạ tầng
ex: If we relegate these experts to minor posts because of their political persuasions (persuade: lam cho tin, persuasion: tin nguong), we shall lose their valuable services. - reproach
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express disapproval
blame; censure
ex: I want my work to be above reproach and without error - reprobate
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devoid (không có, trống rỗng ) of decency (tao n ha, le nghi ..); person hardened in sin,
* (tôn giáo) ngÆ°á»i bị Chúa Ä‘Ã y xuống địa ngục
* ngÆ°á»i tá»™i lá»—i
* đồ vô lại; kẻ phóng đãng truỵ lạc
ex: I cannot understand why he has so many admirers if he is the reprobate you say he is. - rescind
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cancel; huá»· bá», thủ tiêu (luáºt hợp đồng...)
ex: Because of public resentment, the king had to rescind his order. - specious
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deceptively attractive; misleading; seemingly reasonable but incorrect
chỉ có mã ngoà i, chỉ có bỠngoà i; chỉ tốt mã; chỉ có lý ở bê ngoà i
ex: Let us not be misled by such specious arguments (An argument that appears good at first view but is really fallacious). - stigma
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mark of shame; token of disgrace; brand
vết nhÆ¡, Ä‘iá»u sỉ nhục
ex: I do not attach any stigma to the fact that you were accused of this crime; the fact that you were acquitted (trả hết, trang trải, tha bổng, tha tội, tuyên bố trắng án) clears you completely. - stolid/stolidity
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unemotional
dullness; impassivenss
thản nhiên, phớt lạnh
ex: The earthquake shattered his usual stolidity; trembling (run so), he crouched (ne', cui minh) on the no longer stable ground. - sublime
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grand; exalted; noble; uplifting
ex: Mother Teresa has been honored for her sublime deeds. - tacit
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without words; ngầm, không nói ra
ex: We have a tacit agreement based on only a handshake. - tirade
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verbal attack; extended scolding; denunciation
trà ng đả kÃch, trà ng chá»i rủa; diá»…n văn đả kÃch
tirade of invectives: má»™t trà ng chá»i rủa (invective: n/adj: chui rua, cong kich du doi, to cao kich liet, thoa ma)
ex: Long before he had finished his tirade, we were sufficiently aware of the seriousness of our misconduct. - torpor
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lethargy (trạng thái hôn mê; giấc ngủ lịm; tÃnh lá» phá», tÃnh thá» Æ¡); sluggishness; dormancy
trạng thái lịm đi; trạng thái mê mệt
to arouse oneself from one's torpor
tỉnh dáºy khá»i trạng thái mê mệt
ex: Nothing seemed to arouse him from his torpor; he had wholly surrendered himself to lethargy. - transitory
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temporary, impermanent; nhất thời, tạm thời
ex: Conscious (Biet ro, nhan thuc) that all things pass, the psalmist (writer of psalm) relates the transitoriness of happiness and fame. - vacillate
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indecisive; unpredictable;
ex: Uncertain which suitor (người cầu hôn) she ought to marry, the princess vacillated, saying now one, now the other. - venerate
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to respect deeply
ex: We do not mean to be disrespectful when we refuse to follow the advice of our venerable leader. - veracity
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filled with truth; truthfulness
ex: Trying to prove Hill a liar, Senator Spector repeatedly questioned her veracity. - vex
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annoy; distress
ex: Please try not to vex your mother; she is doing the best she can. - waver
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fluctuate between choices (lung lay, do du, luong lu)
to waver between two opinions
lưỡng lự giữa hai ý kiến - whimsical
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capricious (unpredictable); fanciful (tuong tuong)
# bất thÆ°á»ng, hay thay đổi
# kỳ quái, kỳ dị
ex: He dismissed his generous gift to his college as a sentimental (de cam, da cam) fancy (su tuong tuong, so thich), an old man's whimsical gesture. - zeal
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passion; excitement; fervid
Wang's zeal was contagious; soon all his fellow students were busily making posters, inspired by his ardent (fervid) enthusiasm for the cause. - salubrious
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healthy, là nh, tốt (khà háºu, không khÃ)
ex: Many people with X fever move to more salubrious sections of the country during the months of August and September. - savor
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enjoy; have a distinctive flavor, smell, or quality
ex: Relishing (them gia vi, thu vi, thuong thuc) his triumph, Costner especially savored the chagrin (su that vong, chan nan, lam that vong, lam tui nhuc) of the critics who had predicted his failure. - shard
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fragment; mảnh vỡ
ex: The archaeologist assigned several students the task of reassembling earthenware (đồ bằng đất nung) vessels (bình, cháºu, lá», thùng) from the shards he had brought back from the expedition (cuoc tham hiem, vien chinh). - atonement
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repayment for a wrong; su chuoc loi
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.
In Christianity, atonement is achieved through the death and resurrection of Jesus. - ecstatic
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* ở trạng thái mê ly; là m mê ly; dễ bị là m mê ly
* ngây ngất
* xuất thần, nháºp định; dá»… xuất thần