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48 Cards in this Set
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DECIDUOUS
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falling of, as a leaves
Eg: When you think of Autumn, the obvious image that pop up in your mind is that of deciduous trees |
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DECIMATE
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to kill
Eg: The increasing pollution in hanoi is decimating it citizens gradually |
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DECOLETTE
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cổ khoét sâu
Eg: Breast freedom and the rights of women to reveal their beauty with decolette wears |
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DECOY
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lure or bait
Eg: You think I will be allured by your little decoy, well, you'rre wrong! |
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DECREPITUDE
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state of collapse cause by illness or old age
Eg: Although grandma has many diseases before she died, she was of no way decrepitude. Thus, her death still left us all in shock |
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DECRY
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express strong disapproval, disparage
Eg: Disenfrenchise poor people of their basic rights in an unacceptable act. I decry such actions and will do everything to eliminate it |
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DEDUCIBLE
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có thể suy diễn
Eg: From the information we have, it is deducible to conjecture that he has been pregnant |
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DEFACE
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mar, disfigure
Eg:The frown on her expression defaced her beautiful face |
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DEFECTION
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sự đào ngũ
Eg: His defection from the army was a act of honor, not that of scorn like people say |
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DEFER
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1. delay till later
2. give in respectful' Eg: This decision will need to be deferred to Ryan as he is the only one with the acuity and discretion to make it. |
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DEFERENCE
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sự chiều theo ý
Eg: In deference to your request, I will not let him in under any circumstances |
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DEFILE
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pollute, profane
Eg: His action defile the whole reverrent we have for our ancestors |
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DEFINITIVE
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most complete, reliable
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DEFLECT
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làm lệch hướng, turn aside
Eg: The rain deflected our path yet saved us from a severe accident |
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DEFOLIATE
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destroy leaves
Eg: I don't mean to defoliate the trees with these device, but I just love autumn so much that I wanted to have my own deciduous tree |
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DEFRAY
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provide for the payment of,
Eg: My part-time job with B assisted me in defray for my grad school expenses |
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DEFROCK
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bắt bỏ áo thầy tu (to the priest/minister of a church)
Eg: Such act defile the sanctuarity of this consecrated place and therefore, he should be indicted to defrock |
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DEFT
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neat, skillful
Eg: what the chef did for us in the restaurant was deft and quite a show! |
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DEFUNCT
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chết ,mất, không còn tồn tại
Eg: I never think of grandma as the defunct. To me, she was just freeing herself from all the pain and go to a place where she can watch over us all |
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DEGENERATE
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thoái hóa, become worsse, deteriorate
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DEIFY
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Turn into a god, idolize
Eg: Don't deify him, it's just too much |
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DEIGN
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hạ cố, đoái chiếu
Eg: He didn't even deign to look at his citizens, that despot king |
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DELETERIOUS
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harmful
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DELIBERATE
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consider, ponder
Eg: although all the offers were amazingly attractive, I need to delieberate carefully as I can only choose one |
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DELIRIUM
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tình trạng mê sảng
Eg: In his delirium, he was chased by a werewolf =)) |
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DELUDE
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decieve
Eg: should I stop deluding myself into believing that I would acutally get into a school like Harvard :)) |
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DELUGE
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flood, rush
eg: There was a deluge of mail to her house after her special appearance on T.V |
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DELVE
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dig, investigate
Eg: Studying for the GRE is a tedious progess where you just delve into all the weirest words and the craziest books |
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DEMAGOGUE
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mị dân
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DEMEAN
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degrade, humiliate,
Eg: I will not demean myself and go to that school, not even in the worst case scenerio |
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DEMEANOR
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Behavious, bearing
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DEMENTED
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Insane, wacky
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DEMISE
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death
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DEMONIAC
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bị ma ám, quỷ ám , fiendish
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DEMOTIC
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thông dụng, bình dân, dân chúng
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DEMURE
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coy, serious, nghiêm trang-từ tốn-kín đáo
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DENIGRATE
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blacken, phỉ báng, gièm pha
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DENIZEN
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cư dân
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DENOUEMENT
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outcome, final development ò the plot of the play
Eg: Dream girl was a very nice play, it has a unexpected denouement that can be a very good life lesson for young adults in their early 20s |
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DEPOSE/DEPOSITION
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depose: dethrone, remove from office
deposition:testimony under oath |
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DEPRAVITY
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extreme corruption, wickedness
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DEPRECATE
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express disapproval of
Eg: No matter what kind of society we live in, my parents always deprecate sex before marriage |
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DEPREDATION
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plundering, sự cướp bóc, sự phá phách (desolate)
Eg; The depradation of the coup left that village desoluted |
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DERANGE
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make insane, disarrange
Eg: I guess my behavious were too much and deragned him |
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DERELICT
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abondoned, vô chủ
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DERIVATIVE
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unoriginal, derive from some place else
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DERMATOLOGIST
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one studies skin
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DEPLORE
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lấy làm tiếc, regret
Eg: I deplore that you decide to break up with him! |