GregMat 13

Question 1

Affinity

Answer 1

Sự thu hút, sự hấp dẫn về cái gì
Ái lực
Attraction, closeness, liking
Hint: kinda like “affliated with”

Question 2

Altruistic

Answer 2

Selfless concern for the well-being of others

~ Beneficent, maganimus, benevolent, munificent, largess

Question 3

Baroque

Answer 3

Kệch cỡm, lố bịch
Hint: a baroque baron

~ Pretentious, florid, embellish, flamboyant

Question 4

Byzantine

Answer 4

Complex and intricate

~ Convoluted, serpentine, opaque

Question 5

Compromise

Answer 5

To settle a dispute by mutual concession
Hint: “come to a promise”

Question 6

Conciliatory

Answer 6

Intended to pacify or reconcile

~ Appease, mollify, placate, assuage

Question 7

Countenance

Answer 7

1) Facial expression
2) Approval
Hint: lừa vl - kinda like “counter”, but it’s the opposite of that

~ (permit) Brook

Question 8

Covert

Answer 8

Hidden or secret
Hint: “cover”

~ Furtive, clandestine, surreptitious

Question 9

Credible

Answer 9

Believable or trustworthy

Question 10

Diffuse

Answer 10

Spread out or scattered

~ Disperse

Question 11

Documentary

Question 12

Exhaustive

Answer 12

Thorough and comprehensive

Question 13

Exhilarating

Answer 13

Exciting and invigorating

Question 14

Extraneous

Answer 14

Irrelevant or unnecessary
Hint: “extra”

~Peripheral, tangential, auxiliary
~~ Trivial, trifling, frivolous

Question 15

Fervor

Answer 15

Intense and passionate feeling
Noun of fervid

~ Ardent, zeal

Question 16

Futile

Answer 16

Incapable of producing a useful result
Vô ích

Question 17

Illusory

Answer 17

Based on illusion or not real

~ Fanciful, quixotic

Question 18

Invidious

Answer 18

Likely to arouse resentment or anger
Gây ghen ghét, gây ác cảm
Hint: kinda like “envy-dious” i.e make others envy

Question 19

Lethargic

Answer 19

Hint: lethal is deadly –> lethargic is near that and overall negative
Lờ phờ / hôn mê

~ Quiescent, torpor, languid

Question 20

Metaphorical

Answer 20

Symbolic rather than literal

Question 21

Mimic

Answer 21

Copy

Question 22

Numinous

Answer 22

Spiritual or mysterious
Hint: kinda like “Illuminati”

Question 23

Obscure

Answer 23

Not clearly expressed or easily understood

~ Convoluted, opaque, dubious, abstruse, enigmatic
~ Inscrutable, rarefied, recondite

Question 24

Overt

Answer 24

Công khai
Hint: kinda like “pervert”, who does (bad) things publicly

~ Patent

Question 25

Pellucid

Answer 25

Clear and easy to understand
Hint: friend of “Lucid”

~ Lucid, limpid, elucidate

Question 26

Perpetuate

Answer 26

To make something continue indefinitely

Question 27

Rational

Question 28

Scathing

Answer 28

~ Acrimonious, acerbic, mordant, caustic, virulent, vitriolic
~~ Admonish, reprimand, reproach, castigate

Question 29

Subtle

Answer 29

Opp = discernible, conspicuous, flagrant

Question 30

Superficial

Answer 30

Existing on the surface or shallow

~ Cursory, perfunctory, affectation