29/03/2016

Front 1

Detain

Back 1

Ngăn cản, cản trở; Giam giữ, cầm tù

Hint 1

1, You can use detain, say, when you're explaining why you were late: "I was detained at the office by a conference call that wouldn't end. Sorry."

2 If you are detained by the police, you may be late for the big football game, even if you were speeding to get there by the kickoff.

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Subvert

Back 2

= undermine; 1: To try to destroy the authority of a political, religious,etc system by attacking it secretly and indirectly; 2: To try to destroy a person's belief in sth or sb

Hint 2

1. The girl who wears a tuxedo to the prom might subvert traditional ideas about beauty.

2. Do school counselors subvert young children?

Front 3

Pursue

Back 3

Truy bắt

Hint 3

A hungry lion might pursue a zebra, the paparazzi might pursue a celebrity, and a young dancer might pursue her dream of becoming a prima ballerina.

Front 4

Disavow

Back 4

Refuse to acknowledge or association with

Hint 4

You might feel dissed if your biggest donor decides to suddenly disavow you in your run for president.

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Reclaim

Back 5

1:Get back sth; 2: cải tạo (đất đai,...); 3: tái chế, phục hồi (waste product,...); 4: Giác ngộ, cải tạo

Hint 5

1. If a divorced couple remarries, they reclaim their marriage.

2. Two countries fighting over territory may lose and reclaim an area of land.

3. China has reclaimed more than 3,000 acres of land in the past two years near sea lanes crucial for world trade.

Front 6

Elevated

Back 6

Cao (địa vị, trí tuệ, mục đích,...)

Hint 6

1. Your elevated social status might make you feel superior to your friends.

2. Your favorite soccer team might hold an elevated position in the league after winning several games.

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Grandiose

Back 7

(negative) Seeming very impressive but too large, complicated, expensive, etc to be pratical or impossibe ( ảo tưởng, phi thực tế)

Hint 7

1. A grandiose scheme for a journey across the desert came to nothing.

2. They get in with the county with grandiose ideas and then have to face reality

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Utilitarian

Back 8

Useful, functional

Hint 8

He wanted something more utilitarian and useful — comfortable chairs, a giant TV, and sturdy tables to put your feet on.

Front 9

Lobby (n),(v)

Back 9

(n): sảnh chờ; (v): vận động hành lang

Hint 9

1. If you're waiting for an appointment in a lobby, maybe you'll get lucky and find a good magazine or even a peppermint candy.

2. Farmers will lobby the Congress for higher subsidies.

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Voluble

Back 10

Talking continuously, fluently, at great length, in a steady flow

Hint 10

Voluble describes someone who talks a lot, like your aunt who can’t stop telling you to cut your hair or a political candidate who makes twenty speeches on the day before the election.

Front 11

Endeavor (n),(v)

[in'devə]

Back 11

(n): effort;

(v): strive; As a verb, it's a more impressive word than try and suggests you're doing your darnedest to make something happen.

Hint 11

1. A determined student might endeavor to get straight As on her report card.

2.

Front 12

Rigor

Back 12

Severity; thoroughness and exhaustiveness

Hint 12

1. You must have a physical regimen to get you through the rigors of this franchise.

2. Bennett hopes this season, because it included more adversity, better prepared his team for the rigors and urgency of the tournament.

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Industrious

Back 13

Sedulous, assidious

Front 14

Groundbreaking (n),(adj)

Back 14

Revolutionary; tính đột phá, mới mẻ

Hint 14

Some of these services could make for fine businesses, but it is hard to call them groundbreaking.

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Agent

Back 15

Tác nhân

Front 16

Butt

Back 16

Người/vật pha trò

Front 17

Stoic

Back 17

Unemotional

Hint 17

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

2. “Can you tell a story where the main character is a woman who doesn’t have to beat people up and be stoic and emotionally withholding?”

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Indelible

Back 18

Permanent, impossible to forget or remove

Hint 18

1. Her unhappy childhood left an indelible mark.

2. The experience made an indelible impression on me.

Front 19

Permissive

Back 19

Not strict in discipline= lenient; dễ dàng, thoải mái, tự do

Hint 19

1. Permissive parents let their kids stay up later and have more sweets.

2. Conservatives all over the world are aghast at our nation’s permissive attitude toward guns.

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Condemn

Back 20

1: Openly criticize; 2: Sentence; 3: Doom

Hint 20

1. If you are an animal rights activist, you would probably condemn someone for wearing fur.

2. He was condemned to death for murder.

3. He was condemned to a life of hardship

Front 21

Folly

Back 21

Stupidity; foolish or crazy behavior

Hint 21

Giving up a secure job seems to be the height of folly.

Front 22

Litany

Back 22

chuỗi

Hint 22

A litany of complaints

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Dismissive

Back 23

To be indifferent and show little regard ( thờ ơ, thiếu trân trọng)

Hint 23

1. An employer throwing a resume in the trash without reading it? Dismissive.

2. He seemed dismissive of everything that came with his fame and this appeared to confuse people.

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Manic

Back 24

1. =hectic: very busy; 2. Excited or anxious; 3. (y học) bị tâm thần

Hint 24

1. Things are manic in the office at the moment.

2. The performers had a manic energy and enthusiasm.

Front 25

Feign

Back 25

(formal) Pretend

Hint 25

You might feign indifference when you hear about some gossip, but you're probably dying to know.

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Transparent

Back 26

Obivious

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Misfit

Back 27

A person who is not accepted by a particular group of people, especially because their behaviors or their ideas are very different

(Người lạc loài)

Hint 27

If all of your friends are great dancers, but you are awkward and uncoordinated with no sense of rhythm, you might feel like a misfit.

Front 28

Flaunt (v)

Back 28

to display proudly or show off

Hint 28

When rich people flaunt their wealth by speeding past you in their limo, they may as well splash a mud puddle on your white clothes.

Front 29

Extol

[iks'tɔl]

Back 29

Praise sth very highly

Hint 29

If you have a crush on a guy who likes your best friend, it can be very depressing to listen to him extol your friend's virtues, while you just nod and smile.

Front 30

Forgo

[fɔ:'gou]

Back 30

Give up, waive, or forfeit something (bỏ, từ bỏ); lose sth

Hint 30

He begged his parents to forgo college so he could play professional baseball.

Front 31

Impugn

[im'pju:n]

Back 31

= challenge: to call into question, to express doubts about whether sth is right, honest, etc (Thắc mắc, nghi ngờ)

Hint 31

If your usually grumpy brother is suddenly nice and sweet, you'll impugn his motives if you're smart — he probably just wants something from you.

Front 32

Gall (n),(v)

Back 32

(n): láo, xấc xược; (v): make sb feel upset and angry, especially because of sth is unfair (tự ái)

Hint 32

1. If you barge into a bakery and cut in front of a sweet old lady, then you have gall.

2. It galls me to have to apologize her.

Front 33

Uplift (n),(v)

Back 33

(n): sự phấn chấn

(v): make sb feel happier or give sb more hope

Hint 33

1. An uplift in sales

2. The news gave them a much needed uplift.

3. “To see them with the sign in the stands, it jolted me back into reality. It uplifted me.”

Front 34

Disorientate (v)

Back 34

Làm ai mất phương hướng; make sb confused

Hint 34

1. The darkness has disorientated him

2. Disoriented and in shock from what had just happened, Carroll limped his way into the restaurant.

Front 35

Spate

Back 35

A large number

Hint 35

If a spate of new coffee shops open in your neighborhood, it’ll be easy for you to stay wide awake. You’ll have easy access to plenty of caffeine.

Front 36

Dispersal

Back 36

(both positive and negative) The act of spreading something around

Positive: a dispersal of money

Negative: a dispersal of a crowd because of a bomb

Hint 36

The dispersal of seeds

Front 37

Consensus

[kən'sensəs]

Back 37

An agreement, accord

Hint 37

If you're going to a movie with friends, you need to reach a consensus about which movie everyone wants to see.

Front 38

Conceited

[kən'si:tid]

Back 38

Egotistical, swollen: tự cao tự đại, dương dương tự đắc

Hint 38

Talk incessantly about your accomplishments on the clarinet or amazing ability to wiggle your ears, and people are going to think you’re conceited.

Front 39

Rummage

['rʌmidʒ]

Back 39

Ransacking (lục lọi): To search for something, but in a scattered, disorganized manner. (xới tung lên)

Hint 39

You can rummage through your drawer looking for a lost sock, or you could even hold "a rummage sale" to sell off all your socks that are missing their mates.

Front 40

Garrulous

['gærələs]

Back 40

A garrulous person just won’t stop talking (and talking, and talking, and talking...).

Hint 40

If you discover that you have a garrulous neighbor sitting next to you on the plane, you might just want to feign sleep, unless you really want to hear everything going through his mind for the entire trip.

Front 41

Persecution

[,pə:si'kju:∫n]

Back 41

Sự hành hạ, ngược đãi

Hint 41

In many schools, the persecution of students by bullies has resulted in a zero-tolerance policy for such despicable behavior.

Front 42

Discourse (n),(v)

[dis'kɔ:s]

Back 42

(n): an argument, debate

The argument in discourse refers to an exchange of ideas — sometimes heated — that often follows a kind of order and give-and-take between the participants.

(v): thuyết trình, diễn thuyết

Hint 42

1. The start of a discourse is really important.

2. He discoursed for hours on the problems of the education system.