GregMat 2 Flashcards
Adulterate
Pha trộn
Corrupt / make smt inferior / impure
Advocate
Aggrandize
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
Alacrity
Quick & cheerful readiness
E.g: the 70-year old HVAC co owner accepted the PE offer with alacrity
~~ Ardour, fervour
Ambivalent
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
Ameliorate
Make smt bad better
Hint: kinda like “Melinda”, reminds of Melinda Gate who advocate for public improvement & philanthropy
~ Alleviate, mitigate, redress
Amenable
Open and responsive to suggestion
Hint: kinda like “amendable”, despite having two different Latin root
~ malleable
~~ (same idea but more submissive) docile, pliant, tractable
Anachronistic
Lỗi thời
Hint: kinda like “anarchy”, which is a remnant of the past
~ Obsolete, outmoded, archaic
Audacious
Avaricious
Extremely greedy
Hint: Pot of Avarice
~ Mercenary, rapacious, acquisitive
Banal
Lacking originality; boring and obvious
Hint: the word sounds boring
E.g: his jokes are filled with banal cliches
~ Insipid, vapid, jejune, trite, hackneyed
Benign
Lành tính, tử tế
Hint: “benign” moles from DS100 exercises
~ Innocuous, amiable
Brazen
Trơ trẽn, vô liêm sỉ
Hint: think of Razen in Vanquished Soul deck –> look like a brazen punk
~ Insolent, impertinent, impudent, irreverent
Calumny
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
Candid
~ Probity
Castigate
Criticize / punish harshly
Hint: kinda like “cast a gate” on someone
~ Censure, decry, assail, admonish, reproach, upbraid, opprobrium, lambaste
Caustic
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
Construe
To interpret the meaning of something
Hint: “true” –> finding true meaning
Contrite
Ăn năn
~ Guilty
Convoluted
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
Covet
Desire smt that belongs to another
E.g: IB is the most coveted job for bright-eyed uni kids
Craven
Cowardly
~ Timid, timorous, pusillanimous
Decorum
Trang nhã, lịch thiệp
E.g: Decorum is a man’s best decoration
~ etiquette
Deft
Skillful & quick in action
E.g: The assassin is deaf, deft and adepth
~ Adroit, proficient
Demur
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
Derivative
Vi phân, something that is based on another source
E.g: The NVDA stock surge is a derivative of the AI boom
Desiccate
Hint: kinda like “succ”
Suck the moisture out of smt
Diatribe
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
Incredulous
Hoài nghi
Hint: kinda similar to “incredible”
~ Skeptical
~~ Circumspect, wary, chary (thận trọng)
Ingenuous
Hint: kinda like “genuine”
Ngây thơ dễ dụ, non nớt cả tin
~ Artless, jejune, callow, guileless
~~ Gullible, credulous
