05/04/2016

Front 1

Categorical

[,kæti'gɔrikəl]

Back 1

Absolute, clear

Hint 1

If you ask someone to marry you and she says maybe, you might be able to persuade her. If it's no, you might still have a chance. But if she gives you a categorical no, she will never change her mind.

Front 2

Equivocal

Back 2

Lập lờ

Hint 2

Whose hand first touched the last brownie on the plate? We asked everyone but the answers were equivocal.

Front 3

Maelstrom

['meilstrɔm]

Back 3

Whirlpool ['wə:lpu:l], vortex: xoáy nước

Hint 3

1. When an economy or a government fails, the situation is often described as a maelstrom.

2. Following some precipitous event, all the forces at play––banks, governments, consumers––are trying as hard as they can to protect themselves. This creates a maelstrom.

Front 4

Conflagration

Back 4

Big fire

Front 5

Carnage

['kɑ:nidʒ]

Back 5

Slaughter=mass murder: thảm sát, tàn sát

Hint 5

If you have seen news footage of a village after a bomb has been detonated, you probably saw a scene of carnage.

Front 6

Exemplary

Back 6

Mẫu mực, một ví dụ cảnh cáo

Front 7

Indolent
['indələnt]

Back 7

Slothful,lazy; slow

Hint 7

1. It can take an indolent teenager hours to get out of bed on a weekend morning. Often it's noon before he finally comes shuffling down to breakfast in his pajamas.

2. Doctors use the word indolent to describe medical conditions that are slow to progress.

Front 8

Unwonted

Back 8

Unusual, rare

Front 9

Arbitrary

['ɑ:bitrəri]

Back 9

Chuyên quyền, độc đoán

Hint 9

Team members would dislike their coach using a totally arbitrary method to pick starting players.

Front 10

Volatile

['vɔlətail]

Back 10

Không kiên định, changeable

Hint 10

1. Watch out when a situation becomes volatile — it is likely to change for the worse suddenly.

2. If you and your best friend have a volatile relationship, you frequently fight and make up.

Front 11

Veracious

[və'rei∫əs]

Back 11

Truthful

Hint 11

Don’t ask a question of a veracious friend unless you really want to know the answer.

Front 12

Innocuous

[i'nɔkjuəs]

Back 12

Harmless

Hint 12

An innocuous question is innocently curious, rather than aimed to hurt someone's feelings.

Front 13

Scrutinize

Back 13

Examine with critical attention

Front 14

Substantiate

Back 14

Prove

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Illusory

Back 15

Not practical

Front 16

Insightful

Back 16

Sâu sắc

Front 17

Resilience

Back 17

Tính đàn hồi; sự kiên cường, sự phục hồi nhanh

Front 18

Totalitarianism

Back 18

Chế độ quân chủ chuyên chế

Front 19

Subservient

[səb'sə:viənt]

Back 19

Useful, helpful; khúm núm, quỵ lụy

Hint 19

Women, he asserts, should be subservient to men.

Front 20

Discernible

Back 20

Noticeable; perceptible (nhận thức rõ)

Hint 20

1. If your extra hours training are having no discernible influence on your basketball game, it means your game has not changed.

2. Because the sky was so clear, the ship was discernible from miles off.

3. When your younger brother told he was sorry he broke your baseball bat, the truth was discernible in his voice.

Front 21

Chronological

Back 21

Arranged in an order of time

Front 22

Spatial

Back 22

Relating to space

Hint 22

There's a spatial relationship between Mars and Venus, as well as between the rose bushes in the backyard.

Front 23

Narrative

Back 23

Tường thuật

Front 24

Scanty

Back 24

Lacking

Hint 24

Someone trying to stretch a meal might offer scanty servings.

Front 25

Allude

Back 25

Ám chỉ

Front 26

Aggravate

['ægrəveit]

Back 26

Make worse

Hint 26

People who chew with their mouths open often aggravate the people near them, meaning that they exasperate their neighbors.

Front 27

Emphatic

[im'fætik]

Back 27

Nhấn mạnh

Hint 27

Nicole's mother was emphatic when she told her not to come home late again.

Front 28

Evocative

Back 28

Reminds of

Hint 28

If your mom baked a lot when you were a kid, the smell of cookies in the oven is probably evocative of your childhood.

Front 29

Ignominious

[,ignə'miniəs]

Back 29

Xấu xa, đê tiện

Hint 29

Losing a football game stinks, but losing a game where, at the end, you are lying face down in a puddle of mud and the fans are burning effigies of you in the streets? That is an ignominious defeat.

Front 30

Disreputable

Back 30

Bad reputation

Hint 30

A politician caught in a scandal could become disreputable.

Front 31

Oblivious

Back 31

Forgetful (quên); unaware

Hint 31

Oblivious old age [= đãng trí tuổi già]

Front 32

Camaraderie

[,kæmə'rɑ:dəri:]

Back 32

Friendship

Hint 32

You might not like your job, but still enjoy the camaraderie of the people you work with.

Front 33

Caricature

Back 33

Biếm hoạ, phóng đại

Front 34

Herald (n),(v)

Back 34

(n): A sign of things to come (sự báo hiệu); (v): praise vociferously; greet enthusiastically

Hint 34

1. A chilly day in October is a heral of the coming winter.

2. If you've been away for a long time, your family might herald your return, especially if you come bearing gifts.

Front 35

Anarchy

['ænəki]

Back 35

Vô chính phủ

Hint 35

A substitute teacher might worry that an unruly classroom will descend into anarchy.

Front 36

Enfranchisement

[in'frænt∫izmənt]

Back 36

Quyền bầu cử

Hint 36

They have always enjoyed Western-style freedoms and want the political enfranchisement that comes with it.

Front 37

Beleaguer

[bi'li:gə]

Back 37

Annoy persistently; bao vây

Hint 37

A babysitter might find annoying the children who beleaguer her with requests for candy, cookies, games, and piggyback rides all at the same time.

Front 38

Intricate

Back 38

Complex

Hint 38

Think of the intricate wiring of a computer's motherboard, or the intricate plot of a movie that you have a hard time following.

Front 39

Stoic

Back 39

Being calm and almost without any emotion: chai sạn về cảm xúc

Hint 39

1. When you're stoic, you don't show what you're feeling and you also accept whatever is happening.

2. Mr. Spock, from the oldest Star Trek show, was a great example of a stoic person: he tried to never show his feelings.

3. Someone yelling, crying, laughing, or glaring is not stoic. Stoic people calmly go with the flow and don't appear to be shook up by much.

Front 40

Condone

[kən'doun]

Back 40

Excuse: thứ lỗi, bỏ qua (lỗi lầm,...), forgive

Hint 40

Some teachers condone chewing gum, and some don't.

Front 41

Industrious, studious

Back 41

Chăm chỉ

Front 42

Disintegrate

Back 42

Tan rã; phân huỷ

Hint 42

Soak your tooth in a cup of soda for long enough and it will disintegrate, or break apart from decay.

Front 43

Deflated

[di'fleit]

Back 43

Xẹp xuống; giảm giá; làm ai mất tự tin, tinh thần

Hint 43

1. All the criticism had left her feeling totally deflated.

Front 44

Distend

[dis'tend]

Back 44

Sưng lên, phồng lên

Hint 44

A soda and pizza binge might make your stomach distend, meaning your stomach will swell as a result of pressure from the inside.

Front 45

Reciprocal

[ri'siprəkl]

Back 45

Mutual, bilateral

Hint 45

If you and your sister are in a big fight on a long car trip, you might resolve it through a reciprocal agreement that you'll stop poking her and she'll stop reading road signs out loud.

Front 46

Reciprocate

[ri'siprəkeit]

Back 46

đáp lại mutual feelings

Hint 46

ou reciprocate when you return a favor, return a compliment, or respond "the same to you" to the angry guy in the car you just passed.

Front 47

Stagnate

Back 47

Đình trệ: standstill

Hint 47

If after high school you choose to live in your parents' house, keep the same job, and spend time with the same friends, your mother might worry that you've decided to stagnate, or stop moving forward.

2. When water stagnates, it stops moving and then sometimes begins to smells bad and attract mosquitoes.

Front 48

Precipitate

Back 48

Cause sth to happen quickly

Hint 48

This only serves to precipitate his ruin [=cái đó chỉ có làm cho anh ta mau phá sản thôi]

Front 49

Steep

Back 49

dốc núi, nhanh, sudden

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Interminable

Back 50

không kết thúc đc

Front 51

Incremental

Back 51

tăng tiến dần

Front 52

Placid, placate, mollify

Back 52

make peaceful

Front 53

Supple

Back 53

uyển chuyển

Front 54

Perspicuous

Back 54

lucid, easy to understand

Front 55

Prodigiously, voluminously

Back 55

to lớn, vĩ đại

Front 56

Germane

Back 56

closely related

Front 57

Eclectic

Back 57

selecting from various source

Front 58

Unobtrusive

Back 58

khiêm tốn

Front 59

Panacea

Back 59

a cure for all

Front 60

Abridge

Back 60

shorten