- abate: subside or moderate - make sth less intense or severe
Steps are to be taken to abate pollution.
- aberrant: abnormal or deviant
Aberrant behaviors of young boys should be seriously tracked and abated to prevent further crimes.
- abeyance - suspended action
The plan to construct the new building is in abeyance because the governmental investment has not determined yet.
- abscond - leave and hide secretly
- abstemious - điều độ
Keeping an abstemious routine ameliorate my health conditions.
- admonish: warn - sb for sth or for doing sth
Only by admonishing students to schedule their timetable did they save a gargantuan amount of time
- adulterate - make sth impure by adding inferior substances
She adulterates the fresh water source by saline.
- aesthetic: artistic - connected with the beauty
The house is more aesthetic than functional
- aggregate: gather
The solutions should be aggregated to devise the best measure to attack the pollution.
- alacrity: eagerness: great interest and excitement about something that is going to happen or about something that you want to do
I can not hide my happiness because of the alacrity about the new results.
- alleviate: relieve
Morphin has been utilized to help him alleviate the pain.
- amalgamate: combine
Sony and Nixon has been amalgamated into Nixy, the largest semiconductor manufacturer worldwide.
- ambiguous: unclear in meaning
What he said about the incident is ambiguous. We can not reason anything further.
- ambivalence: conflicting emotional attitudes
When she was leaving, I was in ambivalence towards our future.
- ameliorate: improve
The amelioration of the manufacturing process can greatly benefit both companies and customers.
- anachronism: misplaced in time
Many individuals argue that traditional customs are anachronism and should be disregarded.
- analogous: comparable
The two courses are analogous in terms of syllabus.
- anarchy: state of disorder
The period of anarchy in the governmental organization so far has no sign to be terminated.
- anomalous: abnormal
- antipathy: a strong feeling of dislike
I have an antipathy towards spicy foods because their negative effects on stomach.
- apathy: lack of caring
The apathy from their parents is the main contributor to the anti-social behaviors today
- pacify: appease - to bring peace or calm
Negotiation could be a viable approach to achieve pacification in this sensitive period.
- apprise sb of sth: inform
- approbation: approval
- appropriate: acquire
Millions of dollar has been appropriated for AI research since the last year.
- arduous: hard - involving a lot of effort and time
Despite the arduous situation, we will take a shot to to complete the project in time.
- artless: without guile, open and honest
His artless expression persuades the council.
- ascetic (adj or N): practicing self-denial
Being an ascetic somehow keep us away from the maelstrom of life.
- assiduous: diligent: working hard
His assiduous efforts and attention to details are finally acknowledged.
- assuage: soothe anger
The intense situation can be ameliorated by assuagement.
- attenuate: weaken, lessen
The signal is gradually attenuated on the cable over stages.
- audacious: daring
His audacious decision surprises everyone in the class
- austere: stern = really strict
Making educational program more austere could help students study more effectively.
- aver: assert confidently or declar
The tangible consequences strongly aver the drawbacks of intensely smoking.
- banal: common place,trite - a banal conversation
- belie: contradict. to show a false impression of sth - belie sth
- beneficent: being kind/helpful - a beneficent person
- bolster: support - bolster sth - make sth stronger - improve sth
- bombastic:pompous - sth with little meaning but to impress people - bombastic presentation/speakers
- boorish: rude - people behavior
- burgeon - the burgeoning demand
- burnish: polish - burnish sth
- buttress: support (V) buttress sth
- cacophonous: inharmonious
- capricious: unpredictable
- castigation: punishment
- catalyst: chất xúc tác
- caustic: có tính chất ăn mòn - caustic comments/caustic liquid/chemical/cleaning product
- chicanery: decption - sự lừa dối
- congeal: solidify or coagulate, especially by cooling
- coda: final passage of long-lasting thing
- cogent: convincing - a cogent reason
- commensurate: proportionate - sth to be commensurate with ST
- compendious: brief - a compendious description
- complaisant: willing to please others; obliging; agreeable - a complaisant person
- complaint
- reconciling: conciliatory (A): hòa giải - reconcile sb to sth
- condone: forgive - condone sth or condone doing sth
- confound: confuse - confound sb
- connoisseur: an expert on matters involving the judgement of beauty, quality or skill in art, food or music - an educational connoisseur
- contention: claim - a belief or an opinion that you express, especially in an argument
- contentious: quarrelsome: a contentious meeting ~ controversial
- contrite: penitent: sám hối - an contrite action
- conundrum: riddle
- converge: approach
- convoluted: intricate - complicated
- cowardly: craven - lack of courage
- daunt: intimidate: làm nản chí
- decorum: good tastes in manner: đứng đắn
- default: to fail to do sth - to default on STH
- deference: humble submission and respect - in deference to sbd/sth
- delineate: portray: vẽ phác họa - delineate sth
- denigrate: blacken - làm tổn hại, phỉ báng ai đó - denigrate sbd/sth
- deride: ridicule: chế nhạo ai đó
- derivative: unoriginal - a derivative design/style
- desiccate: dry up
- desultory: aimless - a desultory conversation
- deterrent (N): discourage - a deterrent to sbd/sth or deterrent against sth
- diatribe (ˈdīəˌtrīb): bitter scolding: mắng nhiếc thậm tệ - diatribe against sth/sbd
- dichotomy (dīˈkätəmē): split into two
- diffidence: shyness (N)
- diffuse: wordy - using too many of words or spread over a wide area - a diffuse writing style/a diffuse community
- digression: wandering away from the subject: lạc đề - after several digression, he finally got to the point
- dirge (N): lament with music - bài hát thê lương ở đám tang
- disabuse: correct a false impression: disabuse sbd of sth
- discerning: mentally quick and observant
- discordant: conflicting - a discordant view
- discredit: defame: mất uy tín
- discrepancy: difference
- discrete: separated
- disingenuous: insincere - không chân thật
- disjointed: lacking coherence
- disparage: belittle: to suggest sbd/sth is not important or valuable - disparage sbd/sth
- disparate: unrelated
- dissemble: pretend
- dissolution: looseness in morals: sth gradually disappears - dissolution of sth
- dissonance: opposite in harmony: lack of agreement
- distend: swell out: sưng lên
- distill: purify
- divest: deprive, strip - divest sb of sth. They are gonna divest him of the clothes
- document: prove written evidence
- dogmatic: opinionated - khăng khăng: a dogmatic approach
- dormant: sleeping - a dormant volcano
- dupe: easily fooled: dupe sbd in doing sth: He was duped into giving them his credit card
- ebullient: showing excitement: he is in ebullient mood
- eclectic: selective: different sources: he has very eclectic tastes in literature
- efficacy: power to produce desired effect
- effrontery: vô liêm sỉ: shameless boldness. This behavior maintains that he is effrontery
- elegy: poem or song with lamentation: This elegy is for died people.
- elicit: drawn out by discussion: i could elicit no response from him
- embellish: enhance: the huge carved door was embellished with brass door knockers.
- empirical: based on experience
- emulate: imitate
- endemic: prevailing amoung a group of people in an area: đặc hữu - an endemic tradition
- enervate: weaken: enervate sbd - an enervating disease/climate
- engender: cause (V) The issue engendered controversy
- ephemeral: short-lived: ephemeral fashion/pleasures
- equanimity: calmness of temperament: bình tĩnh
- equivocate: lie: I am not sure! She equivocated
- erudite: learned: scholarly: uyên bác - She was a well-respected and erudite scholar.
- esoteric: hard to understand - the esoteric texts
- eulogy: expression of praise or funeral: a eulogy to marriage
- euphemism: mild experssion:
- exacerbate: weaken
- exculpate: clear from blame:
- exigency: urgent situation - He put financial exigency before personal sentiment
- extrapolation: projection
- facetious: joking - Stop being facetious; this is serious
- fallacious: false: misleading - a fallacious argument
- fatuous: brainless: a fatuous argument
- fawning: trying to please by flattery: nịnh hót
- felicitous: apt - a felicitous approach
- fervor: a strong feeling about sth - She kissed him with unusual fervor
- flag (V): droop: rủ xuống, tỏ vẻ yếu đuối
- flout: reject - Motorists frequently flout the law
- forestall: prevent taking action in advance
- foment: stir up: instigate: xúi giục, kích động
- gainsay: deny: nobody can gainsay his claims
- garrulous: wordy - a garrulous old woman
- goad: urge on: to keep annoying sb/st until they act - he goaded her into answering the question
- grandiloquent: using long and complicated words to impress = pompous
- gregarious: sociable: a gregarious man
- gouge: overcharge - to force somebody to pay an unfairly high price for something
- guileless: without deceit
- harangue
- iconoclastic: attacking cherished tradition
- immutable: unchangeable
- impair: hurt
- impassive: without feeling - impassive expression or impassive face
- imperturbable: calm: she faces challenges with imperturbable attitude
- implacable: not capable of being pacified
- implode: burst inwards - the windows on both sides of the house had imploded
- inchorate: recently begun - The corona virus inchorates quickly
- incongruity: lack of harmony - extremely silly and not logical and sensible
- indigence: poverty
- indolent: lazy: not wanting to work
- inert: inactive
- ingenuous: naive: innocent
- inherent
- insensible: unconscious
- insipid: lacking flavor
- insularity: narrow-minded, isolation
- intractable: stubborn: unruly
- loquacious: talkative
- lucid: easy to understand - a lucid explanation
- magnanimity: generosity
- malinger: fake illness to escape duty
- malleable: capable of being shaped
- maverick: rebel - a maverick film director
- mendacious: lying - mendacious press statements
- misanthrope: a person who hates and avoids other people
- mitigate: moderate
- mollify: soothe: His explanation failed to mollify her
- morose: sullen: ủ rũ, buồn rầu - she seems a bit morose today
- neophyte: recent convert, beginner
- obdurate: stubborn - an obdurate attitude
- obsequious: slavishly attentive: trying to hard to please sb - obsequious smiles
- obviate: make unnecessary - This new evidence obviates any further inquiries
- occlude: shut: close - to cover or block something
- officious: meddlesome - kẻ lắm chuyện thích chúi mũi vào việc của ng khác
- onerous: burdensome - an onerous duty/tax
- opprobrium: vilification: infamy: sự sỉ nhục
- partisan: committed to a party: one-sided
- pathological: pertaining to disease - a pathological liar
- paucity: scarcity: sự khan hiếm - the paucity of high-skilled labors
- pedantic: showing off learning: bookish: mọt sách, nchuyen kiểu sách vở
- penury: severe poverty
- perennial: long-lasting
- perfidious: disloyal: untrustworthy: treacherous - phản trắc, bất trung
- perfunctory: superficial - hời hợt
- permeable: porous: có nhiều lỗ hổng - permeable rocks
- phlegmatic: calm - lãnh đạm
- piety: devoutness: lòng thành kính, sự dâng hiến
- plasticity: ability to be molded
- platitude: trite remark: trivial statement
- precipitate: rash: premature - his resignation precipitated a leadership crisis
- prevaricate: lie - stop prevaricating and come to the point
- pristine: unspoiled - not developed or changed in any way; left in its original condition
- probity: uprightness: thẳng thắn, cương trực
- prodigal: wasteful - a prodigal administration
- proliferate: grow rapidly
- propitiate: appease: try to please someone
- propriety: correct conduct: behaviors accepted by society
- proscribe: banish: outlaw: officially say sth is banned
- pungent: sharp in taste and smell - a pungent smell or burning rubber
- quiescent: at rest: quite: not active
- rarefied: made less dense: the rarefied atmosphere of academic life
- recalcitrant: determined to resist authority: unwilling to obey rules or follow instructions; difficult to control - a recalcitrant child
- recondite: profound: secret: not known about or understood by many people: a recondite subject: - thâm thúy, khó lường, sâu xa
- refractory: stubborn
- Amenable - easily persuaded
Because she is amenable, the plan is launched without any obstacles.
Being amenable is when you are easily persuade by someone.
- Demur - to be reluctant
The condition of being demurring is always unpleasant, but who know? The better you are, the more susceptible you become :(
- Conceive (v) - conscious (adj) - consciousness (N)
- innocuous - not harmful or offensive
- ambivalent (adj) - ambivalence (N) to have both negative and positive feelings about sth
I have an ambivalent feeling about going abroad
I was really ambivalent when she told she loves me. Everything comes to fast
- interminable = endless
- harangue (N or V) = tirade = pompous speech
He harangues everyday about the partiality of the legal system.
After having an interminable harangue about his mother, Tom tells me that he needs to move out.
- qualify = to limit (V)
He qualifies the invasion of the flood by a small dam.
You interminable speech towards students should be qualified to encourage their enthusiasm.
- maintain = to assert (V)
To mission of research is to maintain the hypotheses.
Scientists are always looking for practical examples to maintain theory.
- evasive adj - (lảng tráng) - not willing to give a clear answer to a question
Since he responded me in an evasive way, I totally gave up on him.
His action is evasive, which makes the boss become angry.
- The wanting workforce in Japan urges the government to import cheap-price labors from South East Asian countries.
- bribe (N - countable) mua chuộc
She is very susceptible to bribes
- susceptible (ajd) mẫn cảm, dễ bị kích thích
- venality (N) the condition of being susceptible to bribes or corruption.
Even the most well-known sporting events are manipulated by the venality of officials to make biased decisions.
- restive = restless (ajd) can not calm or rest
- intimate (V)= to suggest something subtly
After a harangue to me tomorrow, I intimated me to leave for my future career path. I felt ambivalently since I was demurring to quit my job. The intimidation from Tom is a huge threat to a susceptible person like me, but I am not amenable finally.
- parsimonious (adj) = extremely frugal = miserly (adj) = hà tiện/ khốn khổ
Everytime we ask him to go out for dinner, he refuses; and we know that he is miserly (parsimonious).
- calumny (a): making a false statement to hurt another's reputation
Calumny is over the air and we should ignore and move on.
- egregious (adj)~ notorious = standing out in a negative way, shockingly bad
The behaviors of the authority towards the disasters are egregious, causing the anger of crowd.
- involved (adj)= complicated = the condition of being difficult to comprehend
Because of his pompous talk, the lecture becomes involved and nobody and perceive.
- anomalous(adj) = not normal anomaly (N)
- belie (V) to misrepresent
Despite an attempt to belie the incident, he have been inevitably arrested by cops.
- prodigy (N) thần đồng
- prodigal = rashly or wastefully extravagant = ngông cuồng/ ngạo mạn
The final winner are those who are not prodigal and always head forwards.
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