GregMat 2

Question 1

Adulterate

Answer 1

Pha trộn
Corrupt / make smt inferior / impure

Question 2

Advocate

Question 3

Aggrandize

Answer 3

Increase in power, status, or wealth

Hint: “grand” in the word prob means big, huge, etc.

E.g: Trump sought to aggrandize his position once becoming President

Question 4

Alacrity

Answer 4

Quick & cheerful readiness

E.g: the 70-year old HVAC co owner accepted the PE offer with alacrity

~~ Ardour, fervour

Question 5

Ambivalent

Answer 5

Having mixed or contradictory feelings

Hint: ambi means “both” in Latin

E.g: Not always and should not be often, but you are allowed to be ambivalent in love

Question 6

Ameliorate

Answer 6

Make smt bad better

Hint: kinda like “Melinda”, reminds of Melinda Gate who advocate for public improvement & philanthropy

~ Alleviate, mitigate, redress

Question 7

Amenable

Answer 7

Open and responsive to suggestion

Hint: kinda like “amendable”, despite having two different Latin root

~ malleable

~~ (same idea but more submissive) docile, pliant, tractable

Question 8

Anachronistic

Answer 8

Lỗi thời

Hint: kinda like “anarchy”, which is a remnant of the past

~ Obsolete, outmoded, archaic

Question 9

Audacious

Question 10

Avaricious

Answer 10

Extremely greedy

Hint: Pot of Avarice

~ Mercenary, rapacious, acquisitive

Question 11

Banal

Answer 11

Lacking originality; boring and obvious

Hint: the word sounds boring
E.g: his jokes are filled with banal cliches

~ Insipid, vapid, jejune, trite, hackneyed

Question 12

Benign

Answer 12

Lành tính, tử tế

Hint: “benign” moles from DS100 exercises

~ Innocuous, amiable

Question 13

Brazen

Answer 13

Trơ trẽn, vô liêm sỉ

Hint: think of Razen in Vanquished Soul deck –> look like a brazen punk

~ Insolent, impertinent, impudent, irreverent

Question 14

Calumny

Answer 14

Vu khống
Hint: kinda like “cái l má” - which is reaction when you hear a calumny

~ Defame, slander, libel, denigrate

~~ (Still talk shit, but not necessarily false and is just subjective ) Aspersion, obloquy, malign

Question 15

Candid

Answer 15

~ Probity

Question 16

Castigate

Answer 16

Criticize / punish harshly
Hint: kinda like “cast a gate” on someone

~ Censure, decry, assail, admonish, reproach, upbraid, opprobrium, lambaste

Question 17

Caustic

Answer 17

Sarcastic in a scathing or bitter way
Hint: kinda like “sarcastic” (Scar being caustic)
E.g: Scar is as caustic as it gets when Simba became the Lion King the moment he was born

~ acerbic, astringent, mordant, scathing, virulent, vitriolic, acrimonious, trenchant

Question 18

Construe

Answer 18

To interpret the meaning of something
Hint: “true” –> finding true meaning

Question 19

Contrite

Answer 19

Ăn năn

~ Guilty

Question 20

Convoluted

Answer 20

Complicated and difficult to follow
Rối rắm, lằng nhằng
Một nghĩa khác là “cuộn lại, rối vào nhau”

~ Opaque, byzantine
~~ (Quanh co, ngoằn nghèo) Tortuos, serpentine, involute

Question 21

Covet

Answer 21

Desire smt that belongs to another
E.g: IB is the most coveted job for bright-eyed uni kids

Question 22

Craven

Answer 22

Cowardly

~ Timid, timorous, pusillanimous

Question 23

Decorum

Answer 23

Trang nhã, lịch thiệp
E.g: Decorum is a man’s best decoration

~ etiquette

Question 24

Deft

Answer 24

Skillful & quick in action
E.g: The assassin is deaf, deft and adepth

~ Adroit, proficient

Question 25

Demur

Answer 25

Chần chừ, do dự do có ý kiến phản đối

E.g: Batman demurred at Robin’s order to kill Joker because it goes against his no-killing philosophy

~ Hesitance, dissent

Question 26

Derivative

Answer 26

Vi phân, something that is based on another source

E.g: The NVDA stock surge is a derivative of the AI boom

Question 27

Desiccate

Answer 27

Hint: kinda like “succ”
Suck the moisture out of smt

Question 28

Diatribe

Answer 28

Chỉ trích, công kích

Hint: tribe –> think of tribal attack when ships first arrive on a far island

E.g: The coach’s diatribe left the team demoralized

~Harangue

~~ (Criticize harshly) castigate, censure, decry, assail, admonish, reproach, upbraid, opprobrium, lambaste

Question 29

Incredulous

Answer 29

Hoài nghi
Hint: kinda similar to “incredible”

~ Skeptical

~~ Circumspect, wary, chary (thận trọng)

Question 30

Ingenuous

Answer 30

Hint: kinda like “genuine”
Ngây thơ dễ dụ, non nớt cả tin

~ Artless, jejune, callow, guileless

~~ Gullible, credulous