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Make for

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Go in the direction of

Ex: When it is going to rain, make for the nearest cave to avoid being wet

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to be keen on doing/neen to do

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To be fond of/ interested in/enthusiastic

Ex: I am keen on trying the new things

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See off

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Be at the train station/airport to see someone leave

Ex : I am going to see off my Aunt tomorrow before she migrates to Australia

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Set out/Set off

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Start a journey
Ex : I will set out to Dalat after I graduate
set out = start working on something in order to achieve an aim

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Excursion

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A short journey

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Pitch

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a flat area of the ground used to play sport

Ex: Football pitch

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Track

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a peace of area used to play Racing, running, racking, etc.

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Court

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An area marked with line used to play some sports such as Tennis, volleyball, basketball, …

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Ring

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a raised ground surrounded by rope that is used to play boxing or wrestling

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Rink

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A large flat area where people goes to skate

Ex: Ice skate rink

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Spectator

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people who goes to the live/public activities/event and watch them directly
Ex : Spectators at the Stadium witnessed the marvelous win by their favorite team

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Viewer

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People who watches event through TV/online

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Athletic

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Sports such as running, jumping or throwing

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Aim

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the thing that You hope to achieve by doing something

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Take place

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To happen (Public event, famous or well-known)
Ex : The exhibition takes place in the Central Exhibition Hall in June
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Occur

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To happen

Ex : the suicide occurred during midnight

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Bring forward

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Change the time/date of an event so it can happen earlier

Ex: Director asked secretary to bring forward the meeting 2 hours

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get round to

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Start a plan been prepared for a long time

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Get up to

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Do something you should not do

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Go in for

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Enter a competition or like

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Go off

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stop liking, dislike

*Food : brno longer fresh

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Pull out

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stop being involved in activities

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Put off

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delay, postpone
Ex: Heavy traffic jam has put off the meeting 2 hours late.

Make sb not want to do or not like sth

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Take to

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Start to do some habits, Begin to do sth regulary, Begin to like doing sth
Ex : She takes to bath every time she gets home

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Take up to

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Start to do some hobby or fill the amount of time/space to do something

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Break down

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stop working, for a machine. etc…

Ex : My laptop breaks down yesterday stopping me from working.

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Come off

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Succeed

Ex : After lots of failure, You have come off and your test is perfect.

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Come on

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  • develop or make progress

- Start to broadcast a programme on TV

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Give off

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Produce something such as heat smell

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Narrow down

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reduce the number of possibilities

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put through to

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connect by phone

Ex : Please wait while I am putting you through to Research&Develope Department

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work out

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solve the problem

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Attempt

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an action of trying to achieve something that is difficult to succeed
Ex : She attempt to get in Medical school
–>
Make an attempt at sth/doing sth
Attempt to do
In an attempt to do

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Run over

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get hit with a car

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Observe

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Notice or perceive and register it as being significant –> để ý, nhận ra, tuân theo, giữ lễ tiết
Ex : Law need to be observed and carried out
The students observe that decisions are made by the others
A tribunal must observe the principle of natural justice

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Perceive

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Come to release or understanding, being aware or conscious of something
Ex: His mouth fell open when He perceives the truth

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Tribunal

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a court of justice, a bench/seat for a judge

Ex : an international war crimes tribunal - quan tòa xét sử tội phạm chiến tranh quốc tế

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False (adj.)

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Made to look like something real

Ex : Release that the man is wearing the false Beard

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Fault (n.)

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Noun. of false

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bring out

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to make something/someone show a quality that they have,, –> gioi thieu, lam lo ra, gay chu y, lam noi bat
to produce a new product and start selling it
ex: next year they will bring out low-cost vehicle to compete with Ford.

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Adj. form of Revolution

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Revolutionary (adj.)
Ex : We make a revolutionary product that could change how economy system works
Revolutionist (n.) ; Person who does revolution

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Adj. form of introduction

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Introductory (adj.)
Ex: an introductory course of Russian
Introduce (v.)

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Exaggerate (v.)

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  • to present bigger, larger, greater or worse than it really is –> làm lố
    Ex : There are apt that exaggerate any pain or aches
  • enlarged or altered beyond normal
    Ex : Her plumb thighs, exaggerated hips, and minuscute waist
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come to

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  • Recover consciousness, come around, come to one’s sense
    Sym: awake, wake up, recover, revive
    –> After so many failure and being fool, He come to in the very bad way and need to change to become a better person
    –> Tỉnh ngộ, thức giấc, bừng tỉnh
  • Reach the amount of total
    Ex : he doesn’t know how much the bill come to because of many parties came up
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Motivate (v.)

Antonym - Opposite word

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Demotivate (v.)

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Feature (n.)

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a newspaper, magazine or part of the television programme that concentrates on a particular subject –> Chủ đề 1 chương trình/phụ san
Ex : This week we get a special feature on new children’s books.

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Article

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A piece of writing in a newspaper/magazine : He has written several articles for The times.

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Programme (n.)

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Channel on TV/Television broadcast

Ex : Nowaday people watch news on internet more often than on TV programme

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Program (n.)

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a series of instruction for software to work on PC

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Tabloid

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small size of news, approx. 1-5 in size, delivers news less respectively, mostly rumor, gossip, etc.

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Broadsheet

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A serious type of newspaper delivering more respective news, on the large sheet

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Journalist

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S.O whose jobs is reporting news for newspaper, magazine, etc.

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Columnist

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S.O whose jobs is writing, editing a regular series of articles for a particular newspaper/magazine. They can express their feeling/thought/idea within press.

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bulletin

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a short news broadcast –> Tin nhanh

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Announcer (n.)

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S.O give information about television or radio programmes

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Commentator (n.)

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S.O give description of an event on television/radio as it happens –> Bình luận viên

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Come out

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be published

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58
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Flick through

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Turn and look at the pages of magazine, etc quickly –> Lật coi nhanh, lướt qua

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make out

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  • to deal with difficult things and succeed at the end
  • Pretend something is true
  • See, hear or understand sb/sth which difficulty
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Put forward

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Suggest

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Stand out

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to be noticeable, easily to recognize because of being different

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Take sb/sth for granted

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never think of sb/something because you always believe it to be available or stay exact the same way
Ex : It is easy to take your parents for granted
I take it for granted that I will always find a job

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63
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Persuade (Word patterns)

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Persuade sb to do sth
Persuade sb that
Persuade sb of something

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Point (Word patterns)

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Point (in) doing

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65
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Surprise (Word patterns)

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By surprise

Surprise at/by sth

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66
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Ridicule (Word formation)

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Ridicule (n.) : unkind words/behavior that make so/sth stupid
something look stupid
Ridiculous (Adj.)
Ridiculousness (n.)

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Support (v.)

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Provide s.o money, food, shelter, other, etc. that they need in order to live

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Assist (v.)

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Help S.o

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Likeable (adj.)

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pleasant, friendly and easy to like

–> Dễ mến

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Bad-tempered

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Easily get angry or annoyed

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Sensible

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reasonable and practical

Ex : This seems to be a sensible way of dealing with this problem

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Ask after

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Ask for news about

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73
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Bring up

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take care of a child until he/she becomes adult

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fall out (with)

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Having an argument and stop being friend with s.o

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get on (with)

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Having a good relationship with s.o

continue to do something

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Look up to

ops. Look Down to

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Admire s.o

ops. think yourself better than s.o

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Force (Word formation)

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Force sb to do sth

Force sb into doing sth

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Make up

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Create a story
Inventan explanation, excuse
Make friend after having an argum ent

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Put down

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Critise, make s.o feel stupid

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stand up for

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Support in an argument or fight

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Take aback

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surprise (usually in passive voice)

Ex : I was taken aback (surprise) when Vanessa said I’d hurt her feelings

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Flavor (Phrases and Collocation)

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Do/Own s.o a flavor

be in flavor of ..

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Courage (Phrases and Collocation)

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Have courage to do sth

It takes courage to do

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Approval (Phrases and Collocation)

Approve (v.) (Word pattern)

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Meet with s.o’s approval
Show/have s.o’s approval
Show/have your approval of /for sth

Word pattern : Approve of sth/doing sth
approve sth

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Pity (phrases and Collocation)

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Pity sb
Feel pity for s.o
take pity on s.o

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Object (Word pattern)

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Object to sth/doing sth

Ex : Everybody objects to having new power plant in resident area

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Willing (adj.) (word formation)

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Willingness (n.)

Unwilling(ly) (ops., adv.)

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Correspond (with) (v.)

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Correspondence (n.)

  • To mate or equal or similar to
  • -> The FBI correspond with British MI5
  • ->The money I’ve saved corresponds roughly to the amount I need for my plane ticket
  • -> His story of what happened that night doesn’t correspond with the witness’s version
  • Write a letter to s.o /communicate with s.o
  • -> I’ve been corresponding with many experts on this field
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Complain (v.) (Word pattern)

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Complain of sth/sb
Complain about sth/sb doing sth
Complain to sb

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Argue (v.) (Word formation)

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Argument (n.)

Argumentative (adj.)

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Obey (v.) (Word formation)

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(Dis)obedience

(Dis)obedient

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To be taken by

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To be attracted by something, ideas, plans or person

Ex : Last year, winter started so suddenly that so many people were taken by surprise

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Deliberate (adj.)

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intentional or planned (often refer to something bad) –> A deliberate attack/insult/lie
Ex : We make a deliberate decision to live apart

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Suspect

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  • (n.) : nghi phạm

- (v.) : nghi ngờ = to believe something is true

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Charge

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= accuse : buộc tội = official accuse for doing something

- Charge someone with sth

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Jury

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Bồi thẩm đoàn

97
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Capital punishment

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Death Penalty

98
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Corporal Punishment

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punishment consists of hitting, attacking, …

99
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Vandal

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People intentionally destroy, damage things belonging to other

100
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Hooligan

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group of people who are violent and noisy in public place

101
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back down

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stop demanding something, stop saying that you will do something –> Rút lại
–> To admit you’re wrong or be defeated
Ex : Eventually, Edward backed down and apologized
Local resident had forced local council to back down on their plan to build a nightclub their street.

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bring in

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introduce new law or system

103
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come forward

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offer help fo information

104
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go off

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explode

be fired by the gun, accidently

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hand in

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give to a person in authority –> giao nộp

106
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hold up

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rob while threatening violence, delay

  • -> In the hold-up, the thief threatened bank staffs with gun.
  • -> Peterson is found guilty of holding up the bank and is sentenced to five years in prison
107
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let off

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give little or no punishment

make a bomb

108
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look into

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investigate

109
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make off

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escape

110
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Take down

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  • knock someone out

- write down what someone says

111
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take in

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trick someone into believing something that is not true

112
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Account (Phrases and Collocation)

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  • On account of sth = Because of sth
  • Account for : form part of total, the be responsible of sth
  • Take (Sth) into account = consider or remember something when judges situation.
  • By all account :as said by most people Ex: By all account, San Francisco is a city that is easy to fall in love with.
  • Give/keep account of : to give/keep a written/spoken description of event
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Take advantage of

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  • Take advantage of sth : use good things in an situation –> tận dụng
    ==> EX : I thought I’d take advantage of sports facilities while I was here
  • Take advantage of so : treat someone badly in order to get something good from them
114
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Accuse (Word patterns)

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Accuse someone of something

(n. ) Accused : person who is guilty
(n. ) Accusation

115
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Arrest (Word Patterns)

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Arrest someone for something

116
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Glimpse (n.)

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Word patterns: Catch a glimpse of sth
a brief/quick look/understanding at something for a very short time
–> He caught a glimpse of her face
–> This biography gives give a few glimpses of his life before He became famous

117
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Convict

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(v. ) To decide officially in law court that someone is guilty of a crime
- -> He has twice been convicted of robbery

(n.) Someone who is in the prison because they are guilty of a crime

Ops:Acquit

118
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Acquit

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(v.) to decide officially in law court that someone is not guilty of a crime

Ops: convict

119
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Deceive

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(v. ) To persuade someone something false is true or to keep the truth hidden from someone for your own advantage
- -> A company deceived customers by selling old computers as new ones
- -> The sound of the door closing deceives me into thinking they had gone out

Deceive yourself : refuse to accept the truth –> She deceives herself that she loses everything

120
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Forge (Word Formation)

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(v. ) : To make illegal copy of something to deceive
- -> Forged passport, Forged painting, Forged art

Forgery (adj.), Forger (n.)

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Offence (Word formation)

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Offense (n.) :lối tấn công
Offensive (n.) : Sự tấn công, cuộc tấn công, thế tấn công
Offensive (adj.) chướng tai gai mắt, làm phiền, kinh tởm, tính công kích
Offend (v.) : xúc phạm
Offender (n.) : người phạm lỗi, tội phạm

122
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Theft (Word formation)

A

Theft (n.)

Thief (n.)

123
Q

Remedy (n.)

A

A cure/dealing for a small/minor illness/problem doesn’t take serious
Fever just needs simple remedy with 1 tablet of Paracetamol

124
Q

Plaster (n.)

A

A thin piece of cloth/plastic sticks to skin to cover the cut/wound –> Finger Plaster

125
Q

Bandage

A

A narrow piece of cloth/plastic wraps around the injured part of the body –> Băng vải, Băng thun

126
Q

Ward (n.)

A

A large room in the hospital where you stay while hospitalized

127
Q

Bring on

A

Cause

128
Q

Come down with

A

Starts to suffer from the minor illness

129
Q

Cut down

A

Reduce/ do less

130
Q

Feel up to

A

Feel well enough to do something

131
Q

Get over

A

recover from

132
Q

Pass out

A

Suddenly become unconscious

133
Q

Pull through

A

Survive from a serious illness

134
Q

Put down

A

Kill sickold animal

135
Q

Put on

A

gain (weight)
hold
perform a show, play, etc

136
Q

Wear off

A

Stop being effective

137
Q

Run a bath

A

take somebody bathed

138
Q

Inject (Word formation)

A

Injects Sth into sth/sb

139
Q

Operate (Word patterns)

A

operate on sth/sb

140
Q

Benefit (Word formation)

A

Beneficial

141
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Emphasis (n.)

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N, : special attention/importance

  • -> A change of emphasis in government policy
  • -> The course place an emphasis on practical work

Word formation : Emphasis, Emphatic
–> To make sth more Noticeable
SYM : Stress, Accentuate

142
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come round/to

A

become conscious
Go to sb home to visit them
Come round (to) - to be persuaded to change your mind about something
Come round/around - happen again for regular event

143
Q

Looking forward to V-ing

A

Looking forward to V-ing

144
Q

drop in (on)

A

visit unexpectedly

145
Q

get on for

A

Be almost a particular time, number, age, etc.

146
Q

leave out

A

not included

147
Q

turn up

A

appear unexpectedly or without making a firm arrangement

148
Q

hob

A

cai bep

149
Q

lack (Word pattern)

A

Lack of

lacking in

150
Q

Regard (word pattern)

A

Regard sb as being sth

151
Q

colleague

A

somebody works in the same organization or department as you

152
Q

draw on

A

if something draws on you, you realize it for the first time

153
Q

get at

A

try to express

154
Q

give in

A

stop making an effort to achieve something difficult

155
Q

sail through

A

do/deal with something easily

156
Q

catch on

A

understand something

become popular or fashionable

157
Q

Literate (Word formation)

A

noun - Literacy/illiteracy - able/unable to read/write
noun - Literature
adj - Literate/illiterate - able/unable to read/write

158
Q

Urban - Suburban - Rural

A

Thành thị (City area) - Ngoại ô (SubCity) - Nông thôn (Countryside)

159
Q

Smog / Fog / Mist / Smoke

A

Smog : Polluted air caused from vehicles or pollutant creates exhausted air close to the ground.
Fog : Thick air is close to the ground and hard to see through
Mist : a small drop of water in the air close to the ground
Smoke : polluted air from burning

160
Q

Pour / Drizzle

A

Pour : rain heavily

Drizzle : Rain very light

161
Q

Puddle (N.)

A

a small pool of water left after the rain

162
Q

call for

A

require, demand, need,

163
Q

call off

A

cancel

164
Q

clear up

A

become brighter adn better

165
Q

cut off

A

make a place difficult or impossble to enter, leave or communicate

166
Q

die down

A

become lass active, noisy, powerful

167
Q

do up

A

repair, improve

168
Q

put downto

A

suggest that something is result of anther thing

169
Q

put out

A

make something stop burning

170
Q

set in

A

start and be likely to continue for a while

171
Q

praise /praiz/

A

Tán dương, tán thưởng

172
Q

scheme /skim/

A

kế hoạch, mưu đồ, âm mưu

173
Q

schema

A

giản đồ

174
Q

incite (v.)

A

khuyến khích, khích lệ

Incentive (n., adj.)

175
Q

controversy (n.)

A

a prolonged disputation in public

tranh cãi, dư luận

176
Q

dispute (v.)

A

tranh luận,

Disputation (n.)

177
Q

disregard (v.)

A

xem thường

178
Q

chimney

A

ống khói

179
Q

glance (word pattern)

A

glance at

180
Q

except (word pattern)

A

except for

181
Q

warn (word pattern)

A

warn about/against/of/that

182
Q

disappointed (word pattern)

A

disappointed with/by sth

disappointed in sb

183
Q

likelihood (n.)

A

có khả năng xảy ra, posibilities

there is not much likelihood of environmental groups stopping the building of the new factory, are there?

184
Q

make (n., in production)

A

a product that is made from a particular company
This is a popular make of car
Same as brand but more specific to car

185
Q

brand

A

a product or group of products that have its own name and made by one particular company

186
Q

bargain(n.)

A

something you buy that costs much less than normal

your dress is real bargain

187
Q

wealth vs Fortune

A

wealth : a large amount of both money and valuable things

Fortune a large amount of moneny

188
Q

Change (n.)

A

refer to coin more than note

while cash refer both.

189
Q

Till (n.)

A

a piece of equipment is used in shop for adding money and keeping money in it
Thẻ mua đồ trong food court/shopping mall

190
Q

bank on

A

depend on sth happening

191
Q

come by

A

get sth, especially sth that is hard to get

192
Q

come across

A

meet someone by chance

193
Q

come into

A

inherit

194
Q

get by

A

manage to survive (financially)

195
Q

get through

A

use all of, finish

196
Q

give away

A

reveal something that you are trying to hide

197
Q

make out

A

write all the necessary information on a cheque, etc

198
Q

make up for

A

provide sth good so that sth bad seems less important

–> bù đắp

199
Q

put by

A

save an amount of money for the future

200
Q

save up for

A

save money little by little

201
Q

debt

A

own sb a debt of attitude –> món nợ ân tình

202
Q

expense (phrase and collocation)

A

go to the expense of
at sb’s expense
at your own expense

203
Q

do without

A

live without..

204
Q

scenery (n.)

A 
phong nen trong rap hat. 
#stage : san khau bieu dien, con scenery o phia sau
205
Q

get along with

A

have a good relationship with somebody

206
Q

count on

A

rely on someone

207
Q

fall for

A

believe to some tricks or joke

208
Q

drop off

A

fall asleep

209
Q

drown out

A

prevent a sound from being heard by making a louder noise

–> I drown out outside traffic noise with extremely loud speaker

210
Q

go down (as)

A

be remembered for having done something

211
Q

grows on

A

if something grows on you, it means that you begin to like ti

212
Q

take after

A

look or behave like an older relative

213
Q

take off

A

become successful or popular very fast

214
Q

glimpse

A 
to see someone or something for a short moment or not completely 
#glance : look at something quickly and then look away
215
Q

do away with

A

get rid of

216
Q

draw up

A

create (plans, etc)

217
Q

go over

A

repeat or think about again in order to understand

218
Q

hand down

A

give soemthing valuable to your childrean or grandchildrean, usually when you die–> truyen lai

219
Q

pop in(to)

A

visit very quickly

220
Q

show around

A

take somebodyon a our of a place

221
Q

tear up

A

rip into piece

222
Q

wear out

A

become old and unusable

223
Q

have an tendency to do

A

co khuynh huong lam gi do

224
Q

tendency

A

khuynh huong

225
Q

vain

A

hao huyen, rong tuech, khong co y nghi\a, khong co gia tri, kieu ngao, tu phu, tu dac

226
Q

grow out of

A

develop from, become too big for

227
Q

sack (v.)

A

force someone to leave their work

~fire : the same but fire is made as a punishment

228
Q

commute

A

to travel from and to workplace regularly

229
Q

firm

A

business or company

230
Q

union

A

an organization representing workers for a particular industry –> hiep hoi, to chuc dai dien
Texture worker Union

231
Q

wage

A

average amount of money you receives from work

salary = fixed amount of money received each month

232
Q

back out

A

decide not to do something you agreed to do

233
Q

close down

A

stop operating (for companies)

234
Q

see through

A

continue to the end of something unpleasant or difficult

235
Q

see to

A

deal with

236
Q

set to

A

start doing something in determined and enthusiastic way

237
Q

stand in for

A

do somebody’s job for them while they are not available

238
Q

take on

A

start to employ, accept

239
Q

turn down

A

not accept

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