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READING - Advanced 1000 Flashcards

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hamstring

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hamstring
/ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.
- The biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles.
Synonyms: hams.
2. Verb
- To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough.
- To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.
Synonyms: cripple, disable, incapacitate, hock, hough, hox.
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inclusion

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inclusion
/ɪnˈkluːʒən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An addition or annex to a group, set, or total.
- The act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set, or total.
- Anything foreign that is included in a material,
- Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, as a defect in a precious stone.
- A nuclear or cytoplasmic aggregate of stainable substances.
- An object completely inside a tissue, such as epidermal inclusion cyst, a cyst in the epidermis.
- A mapping where the domain is a subset of the image.
- Restriction; limitation.
Antonyms: exclusion.
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dominant

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dominant
/ˈdɑmənənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
- The triad built on the dominant tone.
- A gene that is dominant.
- A species or organism that is dominant.
- (BDSM) The dominating partner in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
Synonyms: dominator.
2. Adjective
- Ruling; governing; prevailing
- Predominant, common, prevalent, of greatest importance.
- Designating the follicle which will survive atresia and permit ovulation.
Synonyms: prevalent, imposing.
Antonyms: defiant, obedient, rebellious, submissive.
trội

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heritable

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heritable
/ˈhɛɹɪtəbl̩/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- That can legally be inherited.
- Genetically transmissible from parent to offspring; hereditary.
Synonyms: inheritable.
di truyền

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legitimate

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legitimate

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person born to a legally married couple.
Antonyms: bastard, illegitimate.
2. Verb
- To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.
Synonyms: legitimize.
3. Adjective
- In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements.
- Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
- Authentic, real, genuine.
- Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.
- Relating to hereditary rights.
Synonyms: lawful, legal, rightful.
Antonyms: false, illegitimate, illegitimate, illegitimate.
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optimal

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optimal
/ˈɑptɪməl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The best of its kind
2. Adjective
- The best, most favourable or desirable, especially under some restriction.
- Describing a search algorithm that always returns the best result.
Synonyms: best, ideal, optimum.
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naturalist

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naturalist

Meaning:
1. Noun
- (except as merged with later senses) A natural philosopher; a scientist.
- A person who believes in or advocates the tenets of philosophical or methodological naturalism.
- An expert in natural history or the study of plants and animals.
- A creative artist who attempts to faithfully represent nature; an adherent of artistic naturalism.
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connotation

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connotation
/ˌkɑnəˈteɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
- The attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, contrasted with denotation.
Synonyms: intension.
Antonyms: denotation.
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geothermal

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geothermal

Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Pertaining to heat energy extracted from reservoirs in the earth’s interior
địa nhiệt

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technological

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technological

Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of, relating to, or involving technology, especially modern scientific technology.
công nghệ

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counterfactual

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counterfactual
/ˌkaʊn.tə(ɹ)ˈfæk.tʃu.əl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A claim, hypothesis, or other belief that is contrary to the facts.
- A hypothetical state of the world, used to assess the impact of an action.
- A conditional statement in which the conditional clause is false, as “If I had arrived on time . . .”.
2. Adjective
- Contrary to the facts; untrue.
- Of or in comparison to a hypothetical state of the world.
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soar

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soar
/sɔɹ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of soaring.
- An upward flight.
2. Verb
- To fly high with little effort, like a bird.
- To mount upward on wings, or as on wings.
- To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.
- To rise, especially rapidly or unusually high.
- To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
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underway

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underway

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A road, track, path, or street for going under another way or obstacle.
- An underground passage, tunnel.
- A voyage, especially underwater.
2. Adverb
- In motion, in progress; being done or carried out; on a journey.
đang được tiến hành

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observational

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observational
/ˌɑbzɚˈveɪʃənəl/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Relating to observation, especially scientific observation.
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severity

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severity
/səˈvɛɹɨti/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The state of being severe.
- The degree of something undesirable; badness or seriousness.
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encompass

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encompass
/ɛnˈkʌm.pəs/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To form a circle around; to encircle.
- To include within its scope; to circumscribe or go round so as to surround; to enclose; to contain.
- To include completely; to describe fully or comprehensively.
- To go around, especially, to circumnavigate.
Synonyms: comprehend, embrace.
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cumulative

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cumulative
/ˈkjuːmjʊlətɪv/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating
- That is formed by an accumulation of successive additions
- That tends to accumulate
- Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid
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temperate

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temperate
/ˈtɛmpəɹət/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To render temperate; to moderate
Synonyms: soften, temper.
2. Adjective
- Moderate; not excessive
- Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions
- Proceeding from temperance.
- Living in an environment that is temperate, not extreme.
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constraint

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constraint
/kənˈstɹeɪnt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Something that constrains; a restriction.
- An irresistible force or compulsion.
- The repression of one’s feelings.
- A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
- A linkage or other restriction that maintains database integrity.
ràng buộc

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housekeep

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housekeep

Meaning:
1. Noun
- The person in charge of a house; a housekeeper or innkeeper.
2. Verb
- To carry out the domestic duties of housekeeping.
- To perform the general tasks of housekeeping.
Housekeep

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alley

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alley
/ˈæ.li/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots or buildings.
- The area between the outfielders.
- An establishment where bowling is played.
- An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
- The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.
- A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes.
- A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
- (perspective drawing) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
- The space between two rows of compositors’ stands in a printing office.
Synonyms: alleyway, bowling alley, gap, lane.
hẻm

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inheritance

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inheritance
/ɪnˈhɛɹətəns/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The passing of title to an estate upon death.
- That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
- The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited
- (genetic algorithms) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
- The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.
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conception

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conception
/kənˈsɛpʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of conceiving.
- The state of being conceived; the beginning.
- The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.
- The start of pregnancy.
- The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo.
- The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions.
- An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design.
Antonyms: misconception.
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functionality

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functionality

Meaning:
1. Noun
- The ability to perform a task or function; that set of functions that something is able or equipped to perform.
- In United States trademark law, the tendency of a product design to serve a function other than identification of the product, preventing that design from being protected as a trademark.
- The presence of a functional group.
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asteroid

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asteroid
/ˈæstəɹoɪd/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any member of the taxonomic class Asteroidea; a starfish
Tiểu hành tinh

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integration

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integration
/ɪntəˈɡɹeɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act or process of making whole or entire.
- (society) The process of fitting into a community, notably applied to minorities.
- The operation of finding the integral of a function.
- In evolution, the process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent; supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in species’ development.
- The combination with compatible elements in order to incorporate them.
2. Noun
- The process of countering racial segregation.
Tích hợp

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inequality

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inequality
/ˌɪnɪˈkwɒlɪti/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An unfair, not equal, state.
- A statement that of two quantities one is specifically less than (or greater than) another. Symbol: < or \leq or > or \geq or \ne, as appropriate.
Synonyms: inequation.
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neural

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neural
/ˈnɝəl/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of, or relating to the nerves, neurons or the nervous system.
- Modelled on the arrangement of neurons in the brain.
thần kinh

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petal

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petal
/ˈpɛtl̩/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- One of the component parts of the corolla of a flower. It applies particularly, but not necessarily only, when the corolla consists of separate parts, that is when the petals are not connately fused. Petals are often brightly colored.
- Term of endearment.
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mighty

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mighty
/ˈmaɪti/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A warrior of great strength and courage.
2. Adjective
- Very strong; possessing might.
- Very heavy and powerful.
- Very large; hefty.
- Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful.
- Excellent, extremely good.
3. Adverb
- Very; to a high degree.
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verbal

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verbal
/ˈvɝ.bəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- (grammar) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.
- A confession given to police.
Synonyms: non-finite verb.
2. Verb
- To induce into fabricating a confession.
3. Adjective
- Of or relating to words.
- Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
- Consisting of words only.
- Expressly spoken rather than written; oral.
- (grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
- (grammar) Used to form a verb.
- Capable of speech.
- Word for word.
- Abounding with words; verbose.
Synonyms: lectic, literal, verbatim, rhematic, wordish.
Antonyms: implied, unsaid, non-verbal, substantive, preverbal.
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radioactive

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radioactive
/ˌɹeɪdioʊˈæktɪv/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any radioactive substance.
2. Adjective
- Exhibiting radioactivity.
- Dangerous and disgusting, particularly of people or ideas.
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pertain

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pertain
/pɚˈteɪn/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To belong to or be a part of; be an adjunct, attribute, or accessory of
- To relate, to refer, be relevant to
- To apply; to be or remain in place; to continue to be applicable
Synonyms: appertain.
Antonyms: irrelevant.
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computational

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computational

Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of or relating to computation.
tính toán

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alert

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alert
/əˈlɝt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An alarm.
- A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
- A state of readiness for potential combat.
2. Adjective
- Attentive; awake; on guard.
- Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
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counsellor

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counsellor

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A professional who counsels people, especially on personal problems.
- A school counselor, often in a specialty such as careers, education, or health.
- An attorney.
- A high ranking diplomat, usually just below an ambassador or minister.
- A children’s supervisor, usually at camp.
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rancid

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rancid
/ˈɹænsɪd/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Rank in taste or smell.
- Offensive.
ôi

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purveyor

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purveyor

Meaning:
1. Noun
- Someone who supplies what is needed, especially food.
- An officer who provided provisions for the king’s household.
- A procurer; a pimp.
Synonyms: grocer.
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maternal

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maternal
/məˈtɜɹnəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A mother.
- A person related through the mother, or her side of the family; a maternal relative.
2. Adjective
- Of or pertaining to a mother; having the characteristics of a mother; motherly.
- Related through the mother, or her side of the family.
- Derived from the mother as opposed to the foetus during pregnancy.
Antonyms: fatherly, paternal, fetal, foetal, paternal.
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coverage

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coverage
/ˈkʌv.əɹ.ɪdʒ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An amount by which something or someone is covered.
- The amount of space or time given to an event in newspapers or on television.
- The average number of reads representing a given nucleotide in the reconstructed sequence.
- The area covered by a mobile phone (cellphone) or other radio network.
- The signal strength, reception of a radio signal.
- Journalism: the attention given by the press or news media about some news; the total of stories published or broadcast about a topic.
- Defense.
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maze

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maze
/ˈmeɪz/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one’s way.
- Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle.
- Confusion of thought; state of bewilderment.
Synonyms: perplexity, uncertainty.
2. Verb
- To amaze, astonish, bewilder
- To daze, stupefy, or confuse
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loom

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loom
/lum/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A utensil; tool; a weapon; (usually in compound) an article in general.
- A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.
- The part of an oar which is between the grip or handle and the blade, the shaft.
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inquisitive

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inquisitive
/ɪŋˈkwɪzətɪv/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Eager to acquire knowledge.
- Too curious; overly interested; nosy.
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purchaser

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purchaser

Meaning:
1. Noun
- One who purchases.
Synonyms: buyer.
người mua

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neuroscience

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neuroscience

Meaning:
1. Noun
- The scientific study of the nervous system.
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lesser

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lesser
/ˈlɛsɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A thing that is of smaller size, value, importance etc.
2. Adjective
- Of two (or, rarely, more than two) things: the smaller in size (littler), in value, in importance etc.
Antonyms: greater.
3. Adjective
- Small in size.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- Very young.
- (of a sibling) Younger.
- (also Little) Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
- Small in amount or number, having few members.
- Short in duration; brief.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
Antonyms: big, large, big, big.
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grease

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grease

Meaning:
1. Noun
- Animal fat in a melted or soft state
- (extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
- Shorn but not yet cleansed wool
- Inflammation of a horse’s heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
Synonyms: fat, lard.
2. Verb
- To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
- To bribe.
- To cause to go easily; to facilitate.
- To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
- To kill, murder.
- To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
- To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.
Synonyms: lard, bump off, hit, whack.
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carefree

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carefree
/kɛɹˈfɹi/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Without cares or worries; free of concern or worries; without difficulty.
vô tư

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demographer

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demographer
/dɪˈmɒɡɹəfə(ɹ)/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person who studies demography
nhân khẩu học

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bias

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bias
/ˈbaɪəs/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection.
- The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
- A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
- A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.
- The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.
- In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.
- A person’s favourite member of a K-pop band.
2. Verb
- To place bias upon; to influence.
3. Adjective
- Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
- Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
Synonyms: biased.
4. Adverb
- In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.
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waterway

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waterway

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A body of water, such as a river, channel or canal, that is navigable.
- A conduit or watercourse, such as on the deck of a ship, to drain water.
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ward

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ward
/wɔɹd/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman.
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philosophical

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philosophical
/ˌfɪləˈsɑfɪkl̩/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of, or pertaining to, philosophy.
- Rational; analytic or critically-minded; thoughtful.
- Detached, calm, stoic.
Synonyms: philosophic.
Antonyms: nonphilosophical.
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54
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cram

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cram
/kɹæm/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something).
- Information hastily memorized.
- A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
- (British slang) A lie; a falsehood.
- A mathematical board game in which players take turns placing dominoes horizontally or vertically until no more can be placed, the loser being the player who cannot continue.
- A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information.
2. Verb
- To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
- To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
- To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.
- To study hard; to swot.
- To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.
- (British slang) To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.
- (British slang) To make (a person) believe false or exaggerated tales.
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simulate

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simulate
/-jə-/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of.
2. Adjective
- Feigned; pretended.
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guardian

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guardian
/ˈɡɑɹdi.ən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.
- A person legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis).
- A person legally responsible for an incompetent person.
- A superior in a Franciscan monastery.
- A major or final enemy; boss.
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tract

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tract
/tɹækt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An area or expanse.
- A series of connected body organs, as in the digestive tract.
- A small booklet such as a pamphlet, often for promotional or informational uses.
- A brief treatise or discourse on a subject.
- A commentator’s view or perspective on a subject.
- Continued or protracted duration, length, extent
- Part of the proper of the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, used instead of the alleluia during Lenten or pre-Lenten seasons, in a Requiem Mass, and on a few other penitential occasions.
- Continuity or extension of anything.
- Traits; features; lineaments.
- The footprint of a wild animal.
- Track; trace.
- Treatment; exposition.
Synonyms: system.
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crab

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crab
/kɹæb/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat
- A bad-tempered person.
- (in plural crabs) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- A playing card with the rank of three.
- A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.
2. Verb
- To fish for crabs.
- To ruin.
- To complain.
- To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- To move (a camera) sideways.
- (World War I), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
- To back out of something.
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behold

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behold
/bɪˈhoʊld/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To see or look at, esp. appreciatively; to descry, look upon.
- To look.
- To contemplate.
2. Interjection
- Look, a call of attention to something
- Lo!
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paradoxically

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paradoxically

Meaning:
1. Adverb
- In a paradoxical manner; so as to create a paradox.
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wilderness

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wilderness
/ˈwɪl.dəɹ.nəs/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An unsettled and uncultivated tract of land in its natural state; a barren land; a wild or waste.
- A place that is uncared for, and therefore devoted to disorder or wildness.
- Wild or unrefined state; wildness.
- A bewildering flock or throng.
- A situation that is bewildering, or that which makes one feel awkward.
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cello

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cello
/ˈtʃɛloʊ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A large stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings, tuned from lowest to highest C-G-D-A, and played with a bow, also possessing an endpin to support the instrument’s weight.
Synonyms: violoncello.
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essence

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essence
/ˈɛsəns/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The inherent nature of a thing or idea.
- The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory.
- Constituent substance.
- A being; especially, a purely spiritual being.
- A significant feature of something.
- The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through a distillation process.
- An extract or concentrate obtained from a plant or other matter used for flavouring.
- Fragrance, a perfume.
Synonyms: aroma, bouquet, quintessence, whatness, crux, gist.
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legacy

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legacy
/ˈleɪɡəsi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.
- Something inherited from a predecessor or the past.
- The descendant of an alumnus.
Synonyms: heritage.
2. Adjective
- Left over from the past; no longer current.
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spinal

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spinal
/spaɪnəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A spinal anesthesia.
2. Adjective
- Of or relating to the spine.
- (of a frog, or other experimental animal) Having a pithed brain, but an intact spinal cord.
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proctor

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proctor

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person who supervises students as they take an examination, in the United States at the college/university level; often the department secretary, or a fellow/graduate student; an invigilator.
- An official at any of several older universities.
- A legal practitioner in ecclesiastical and some other courts.
- One appointed to collect alms for those who could not go out to beg for themselves, such as lepers and the bedridden.
- A procurator or manager for another.
- A representative of the clergy in convocation.
Synonyms: invigilator.
2. Verb
- To function as a proctor
- To manage as an attorney or agent
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protestor

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protestor

Meaning:
1. Noun
- One who protests, either singly or in a public display of group feeling.
- One who protests a bill of exchange, or note.
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neutrality

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neutrality
/nuˈtɹæləti/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The state or quality of being neutral; the condition of being unengaged in contests between others; state of taking no part on either side.
- Indifference in quality; a state neither very good nor bad.
- : The quality or state of being neutral.
- The condition of a nation or government which refrains from taking part, directly or indirectly, in a war between other powers.
- Those who are neutral; a combination of neutral powers or states.
Synonyms: indifferent, on the fence.
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69
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primates

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primates
/ˈpɹaɪmeɪts/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A mammal of the order Primates, including simians and prosimians.
- A simian anthropoid; an ape, human or monkey.
2. Noun
- In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription.
- In the Orthodox Church, the presiding bishop of an ecclesiastical jurisdiction or region. Usually, the expression primate refers to the first hierarch of an autocephalous or autonomous Orthodox church. Less often, it is used to refer to the ruling bishop of an archdiocese or diocese.
- In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.
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crustacean

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crustacean
/kɹʌsˈteɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any arthropod of the subphylum Crustacea, including lobsters, crabs, shrimp, barnacles and woodlice.
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edible

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edible
/ˈɛdəbl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Anything edible.
- (marijuana) a foodstuff, usually a baked good, infused with tetrahydrocannabinol from cannabutter etc.
Synonyms: food.
2. Adjective
- That can be eaten without harm; innocuous to humans; suitable for consumption.
- That can be eaten without disgust.
Synonyms: comestible, eatable, eatworthy.
Antonyms: inedible.
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problematic

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problematic
/ˌpɹɑbləˈmætɪk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- (chiefly in the plural) A problem or difficulty in a particular field of study.
2. Adjective
- Posing a problem; having or suffering from problem(s):
- Only affirming the possibility that a predicate be actualised.
Synonyms: controversial, doubtful, dubious, questionable, uncertain, complex, complicated, difficult, involved, troublesome.
Antonyms: unproblematic.
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sensory

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sensory
/ˈsɛnsəɹi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Sensorium
- An organ or faculty of sense.
2. Adjective
- Of the senses or sensation.
Synonyms: sensely.
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74
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spine

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spine
/spaɪn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The series of bones situated at the back from the head to the pelvis of a person, or from the head to the tail of an animal; backbone, vertebral column.
- Something resembling a backbone, such as a ridge, or a long, central structure from which other structures radiate.
- A pointed, fairly rigid protuberance or needle-like structure on an animal, shell, or plant.
- The heartwood of trees.
- Courage or assertiveness.
- The stiffness of an arrow.
Synonyms: needle, quill, spike, virgula.
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tsunami

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tsunami
/suˈnɑmi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption. Tsunami are usually a series of waves, or wave train.
- A large and generally unstoppable surge.
Synonyms: seismic sea wave, tidal wave.
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blunt

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blunt
/blʌnt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A fencer’s practice foil with a soft tip.
- A short needle with a strong point.
- (smoking) A marijuana cigar.
- Money
- A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
2. Adjective
- Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
- Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
- Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
- Hard to impress or penetrate.
- Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
Synonyms: brusque, curt, harsh, impolite, rude, short, uncivil, obtuse, stupid, coarse, dull, pointless.
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livestock

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livestock
/ˈlaɪvstɑk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation.
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78
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backbone

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backbone
/ˈbækˌboʊn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down the middle of the back in vertebrate animals.
- Any fundamental support, structure, or infrastructure.
- Courage, fortitude, or strength.
Synonyms: spinal column, spine, vertebral column.
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79
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hatchling

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hatchling

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A newly hatched bird, reptile or other animal that has emerged from an egg.
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80
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bestow

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bestow
/bɪˈstoʊ/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To lay up in store; deposit for safe keeping; to stow or place; to put something somewhere.
- To lodge, or find quarters for; provide with accommodation.
- To dispose of.
- To give; confer; impart gratuitously; present something to someone or something, especially as a gift or honour.
- To give in marriage.
- To apply; make use of; use; employ.
- To behave or deport.
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fringe

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fringe
/fɹɪndʒ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Hair hanging over the forehead.
- A hairstyle including such hair, especially cut straight across the forehead.
Synonyms: bang, forelocks, fringe, bang, fringe.
2. Noun
- Brucellosis, a bacterial disease.
3. Noun
- A decorative border.
- A marginal or peripheral part.
- Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views.
- The periphery of a town or city.
- A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
- Non-mainstream theatre.
- The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
- The area around the green
- Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
- A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
Synonyms: fringe group, outskirts.
4. Verb
- To decorate with fringe.
- To serve as a fringe.
5. Adjective
- Outside the mainstream.
Synonyms: alternative, nonmainstream.
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82
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hibernation

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hibernation
/ˌhaɪ.bəɹˈneɪ.ʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A state of inactivity and metabolic depression in animals during winter.
- A standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.
- A state of minimum power consumption
Antonyms: aestivation.
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83
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charter

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charter
/ˈt͡ʃɑɹtɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
- A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
- A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
- The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
- A deed (legal contract).
- A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
- (in a noun phrase with another noun which is either an agent or action) a provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity
2. Verb
- To grant or establish a charter.
- To lease or hire something by charter.
- (of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest.
3. Adjective
- Leased or hired.
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84
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vintage

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vintage
/ˈvɪn.tɪdʒ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.
- Wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
- The harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking.
- The year or place in which something is produced.
2. Verb
- To harvest (grapes).
- To make (wine) from grapes.
3. Adjective
- Of or relating to a vintage, or to wine identified by a specific vintage.
- Having an enduring appeal; high-quality.
- Classic (such as watches, video or computer games from the 1980s and early 1990s, old magazines, etc.).
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colonial

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colonial
/kəˈləʊ.ni.əl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person from a country that is or was controlled by another.
- A house that is built in a style reminiscent of the period of the colonization of New England.
2. Adjective
- Of or pertaining to a colony.
- Of or pertaining to a period when a country or territory was a colony.
- Of or relating to the original Thirteen Colonies of the USA.
- Of or relating to the style of architecture prevalent at about the time of the Revolution.
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architectural

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architectural
/ˌɑɹkɪˈtɛktjəɹəl/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Pertaining to architecture.
- Resembling architecture in style; seeming to have been designed (by an architect).
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sophistication

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sophistication
/səˌfɪs.tɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Enlightenment or education.
- Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
- Deceptive logic; sophistry.
- Falsification or contamination.
- Complexity.
- Ability to deal with complexity.
- The act of sophisticating; adulteration.
Antonyms: provincialism.
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88
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pollination

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pollination

Meaning:
1. Noun
- The transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma; effected by insects, birds, bats and the wind etc.
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expend

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expend
/ɛkˈspɛnd/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To consume, exhaust (some resource)
- (of money) to spend, disburse
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mutation

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mutation
/mjuˈteɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any alteration or change.
- Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material.
- A mutant.
- An alteration a particular sound of a word, especially the initial consonant, which is triggered by the word’s morphological or syntactic context and not by its phonological context.
- A group of thrushes.
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91
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anatomy

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anatomy
/əˈnætəmi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The art of studying the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy.
- The science that deals with the form and structure of organic bodies; anatomical structure or organization.
- A treatise or book on anatomy.
- (by extension) The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts.
- The form of an individual.
- The human body, especially in reference to the private parts.
- A skeleton, or dead body.
- The physical or functional organization of an organism, or part of it.
Synonyms: analysis, dissection.
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sitter

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sitter
/ˈsɪtɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.
- One employed to watch or tend something; a babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc.
- A participant in a séance.
- A broody hen.
- A very easy scoring chance.
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egalitarian

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egalitarian
/ɪˌɡæl.ɪˈtɛɹ.i.ən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person who accepts or promotes social equality and equal rights for all people.
Synonyms: equalitarian.
2. Adjective
- Characterized by social equality and equal rights for all people.
Synonyms: equalitarian.
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sprawl

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sprawl
/spɹɔːl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An ungainly sprawling posture.
- A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
2. Verb
- To sit with the limbs spread out.
- To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
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payroll

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payroll
/ˈpeɪɹoʊl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.
- The total sum of money paid to employees.
- The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.
- Bribes paid to people
Synonyms: paysheet.
2. Verb
- To place on a payroll.
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bully

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bully
/ˈbʊli/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person who is intentionally, physically, or emotionally cruel to others; especially to those who are weaker or have less power or privilege.
- A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.
- A hired thug.
- A sex worker’s minder.
- Bully beef.
- A brisk, dashing fellow.
- The small scrum in the Eton College field game.
- Various small freshwater or brackishwater fish of the family Eleotridae; sleeper goby.
- An (eldest) brother; a fellow workman; comrade
- A companion; mate (male or female).
- A darling, sweetheart (male or female).
- A standoff between two players from the opposing teams, who repeatedly hit each other’s hockey sticks and then attempt to acquire the ball, as a method of resuming the game in certain circumstances.
- A miner’s hammer.
Synonyms: henchman, thug, pimp.
2. Verb
- To intimidate (someone) as a bully.
- To act aggressively towards.
Synonyms: push around, ride roughshod over.
3. Adjective
- Very good.
- Jovial and blustering.
Synonyms: dashing, excellent.
4. Interjection
- (often followed by for) Well done!
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trout

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trout
/tɹaʊt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
- An objectionable elderly woman.
2. Verb
- To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.
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ruthless

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ruthless
/ˈɹuːθləs/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless.
Antonyms: ruthful.
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quest

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quest
/kwɛst/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
- The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
- Request; desire; solicitation.
- A group of people making search or inquiry.
- Inquest; jury of inquest.
2. Verb
- To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
- To search for; to examine.
- (of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal.
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legislation

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legislation
/ˌlɛd͡ʒɪsˈleɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted.
- Law which has been enacted by legislature or other governing body
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cohort

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cohort
/ˈkoʊ̯.hɔɹt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A group of people supporting the same thing or person.
- A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic.
- Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 men.
- An accomplice; abettor; associate.
- Any band or body of warriors.
- A natural group of orders of organisms, less comprehensive than a class.
- A colleague.
- A set of individuals in a program, especially when compared to previous sets of individuals within the same program.
2. Verb
- To associate with such a group
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mangle

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mangle
/ˈmæŋ.ɡəl/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.
- To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
MANGLE

103
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infamous

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infamous
/ˈɪnfəməs/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Having a bad reputation, disreputable; notoriously bad, unpleasant or evil; widely known, especially for something bad.
- Causing infamy; disgraceful.
- Subject to a judicial punishment that deprived the infamous person of certain rights; this included a prohibition against holding public office, exercising the franchise, receiving a public pension, serving on a jury, or giving testimony in a court of law.
khét tiếng

104
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duckling

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duckling
/ˈdʌklɪŋ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A young duck.
Synonyms: ducklet.
Vịt con

105
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confrontation

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confrontation
/ˌkɒnfɹənˈteɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.
- A conflict between armed forces.
đối đầu

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gem

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gem
/d͡ʒɛm/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A precious stone, usually of substantial monetary value or prized for its beauty or shine.
- Any precious or highly valued thing or person.
- Anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, such as a small picture, a verse of poetry, or an epigram.
- A gemma or leaf-bud.
- A type of geometrid moth, Orthonama obstipata.
- A package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language.
- A size of type between brilliant (4-point) and diamond (4½-point), running 222 lines to the foot.
Synonyms: gemstone, jewel, precious stone.
2. Verb
- To adorn with, or as if with, gems.
Synonyms: begem.
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pathologist

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pathologist

Meaning:
1. Noun
- An expert in pathology; a specialist who examines samples of body tissues for diagnostic or forensic purpose.
Nhà nghiên cứu bệnh học

108
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squeak

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squeak
/skwiːk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A short, high-pitched sound, as of two objects rubbing together, or the calls of small animals.
- (games) A card game similar to group solitaire.
- A narrow squeak.
2. Verb
- To emit a short, high-pitched sound.
- To inform, to squeal.
- To speak or sound in a high-pitched manner.
- (games) To empty the pile of 13 cards a player deals to oneself in the card game of the same name.
- To win or progress by a narrow margin.
Synonyms: drop a dime, grass up, snitch.
tiếng rít

109
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arthropod

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arthropod

Meaning:
1. Noun
- An invertebrate animal of the phylum Arthropoda, characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and multiple jointed appendages
arthropod

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deficit

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deficit
/ˈdɛfəsɪt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack.
- A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds government revenue.
Synonyms: fiscal deficit, shortfall.
Antonyms: superavit.
thâm hụt

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accredit

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accredit
/ə.ˈkɹɛd.ɪt/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To ascribe; attribute; credit with.
- To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
- To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.
- To believe; to put trust in.
- To enter on the credit side of an account book.
- To certify as meeting a predetermined standard; to certify an educational institution as upholding the specified standards necessary for the students to advance.
- To recognize as outstanding.
- To credit.
công nhận

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reside

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reside
/ɹɪˈzaɪd/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time.
- To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element.
- To sink; to settle, as sediment.
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ceramic

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ceramic
/səˈɹæmɪk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A hard, brittle, inorganic, nonmetallic material, usually made from a materal, such as clay, then firing it at a high tempature.
- An object made of this material
2. Adjective
- Made of material produced by the high-temperature firing of inorganic, nonmetallic rocks and minerals.
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spontaneous

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spontaneous
/spɑnˈteɪ.ni.əs/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
- Done by one’s own free choice, or without planning.
- Proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external or conscious constraint
- Arising from a momentary impulse
- Controlled and directed internally; self-active; spontaneous movement characteristic of living things
- Produced without being planted or without human cultivation or labor.
- Random.
- Sudden, without warning.
Synonyms: autonomous, autonomous, autonomous, abrupt, precipitous, subitaneous.
tự phát

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plankton

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plankton
/ˈplæŋktən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Small (often microscopic) organisms that float in the water. (A single organism is known as a plankter.)
BLANKTON

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rhetorical

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rhetorical
/ɹəˈtɔɹɪkəl/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Part of or similar to rhetoric, the use of language as a means to persuade.
- Not earnest, or presented only for the purpose of an argument.
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disciplinary

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disciplinary
/ˈdɪs.ə.pləˌnɛɹi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A disciplinary action.
2. Adjective
- Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.
- For the purpose of imposing punishment.
- Of or relating to an academic field of study.
kỷ luật

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unaffordable

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unaffordable

Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Too expensive to be afforded.
Antonyms: affordable.
không thể chấp nhận được

119
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rearward

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rearward
/ˈɹiɹ.wɝ d/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The part that comes last or is situated in the rear; conclusion, wind-up.
- The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard.
2. Adjective
- Toward the back or rear of something.
3. Adverb
- Toward the back or rear of something.
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confer

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confer
/kənˈfʌɹ/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To grant as a possession; to bestow.
- To talk together, to consult, discuss; to deliberate.
- To compare.
- To bring together; to collect, gather.
- To contribute; to conduce.
Synonyms: afford.
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invoice

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invoice
/ˈɪnˌvɔɪs/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has already provided the buyer with. An invoice indicates that, unless paid in advance, payment is due by the buyer to the seller, according to the agreed terms.
- The lot or set of goods as shipped or received.
- (generally of a vehicle) The price which a seller or dealer pays the manufacturer for goods to be sold.
Synonyms: shipment.
2. Verb
- To bill; to issue an invoice to.
- To make an invoice for (goods or services).
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camouflage

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camouflage
/ˈkæ.məˌflɑːʒ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A disguise or covering up.
- The act of disguising.
- The use of natural or artificial material on personnel, objects, or tactical positions with the aim of confusing, misleading, or evading the enemy.
- A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
- Resemblance of an organism to its surroundings for avoiding detection.
- Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting.
2. Verb
- To hide or disguise something by covering it up or changing the way it looks.
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traumatic

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traumatic

Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of, caused by, or causing trauma.
- Of or relating to wounds; applied to wounds.
- Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.
- Produced by wounds.
Antonyms: non-traumatic, nontraumatic, untraumatic.
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outgo

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outgo
/aʊtˈɡəʊ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act or process of going out.
- A quantity of a substance or thing that has flowed out; an outflow.
- An expenditure, cost or outlay.
Antonyms: income.
2. Verb
- To go out, to set forth.
- To go further; to exceed or surpass; go beyond.
- To overtake; to travel faster than.
- To outdo; exceed; surpass.
- To come to an end.
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125
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perk

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perk
/pɜːk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Perquisite.
- A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up.
Perk

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chimp

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chimp
/tʃɪmp/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To review each image on a digital camera after it is taken.
- To get very excited when showing images on a digital camera.
2. Noun
- A species of great ape in the genus Pan, native to Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans.
Synonyms: chimp.
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residue

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residue
/ˈɹɛzɪduː/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Whatever remains after something else has been removed.
- The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
- A molecule that is released from a polymer after bonds between neighbouring monomers are broken, such as an amino acid in a polypeptide chain.
- Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specifically bequeathed by the testator.
- A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.
Synonyms: lave, remnant.
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welter

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welter
/ˈwɛltɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A general confusion or muddle.
- A tossing or rolling about.
2. Verb
- To roll around; to wallow.
- To revel, luxuriate.
- (of waves, billows) To rise and fall, to tumble over, to roll.
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inversion

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inversion
/ɪnˈvɝʒən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The action of inverting.
- Being upside down, in an inverted state.
- Being in a reverse sequence, in an inverted state.
- The move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave.
- The reversal of an interval.
- The reversal of the pitch contour.
- The reversal of a pitch class succession, such as a contrapuntal line or melody.
- The subtraction of pitch classes in a set from twelve, which maps intervals onto their complements with respect to 0, and preserves interval classes, symbolized IX (X being the transposition that is inverted.).
- A segment of DNA in the context of a chromosome that is reversed in orientation relative to a reference karyotype or genome
- An increase of air temperature with increase in altitude (the ground being colder than the surrounding air). When an inversion exists, there are no convection currents and wind speeds are below 5 knots. The atmosphere is stable and normally is considered the most favorable state for ground release of chemical agents.
- (grammar) Deviation from standard word order by putting the predicate before the subject. It takes place in questions with auxiliary verbs and in normal, affirmative clauses beginning with a negative particle, for the purpose of emphasis.
- An operation on a group, analogous to negation.
- Homosexuality, particularly in early psychoanalysis.
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grail

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grail
/ɡɹeɪɫ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The Holy Grail.
- The object of an extended or difficult quest.http//www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grail
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131
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tilt

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tilt
/tɪlt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A slope or inclination.
- The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
- The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
- A jousting contest.
- An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
- A thrust, as with a lance.
- A tilt hammer.
2. Verb
- To slope or incline (something); to slant.
- (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance.
- To be at an angle.
- To point or thrust a weapon at.
- To point or thrust (a weapon).
- To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
- To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
- (of a machine) To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.
Synonyms: incline, slant, slope.
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132
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profitability

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profitability

Meaning:
1. Noun
- The quality or state of being profitable; capacity to make a profit.
lợi nhuận

133
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alumnus

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alumnus
/əˈlʌmnəs/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A male pupil or student.
- A male graduate.
- A student of any gender.
- A graduate of any gender.
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134
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fanatic

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fanatic
/fəˈnæt.ɪk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person who is zealously enthusiastic for some cause, especially in religion.
2. Adjective
- Fanatical.
- Showing evidence of possession by a god or demon; frenzied, overzealous.
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135
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subspecies

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subspecies
/-siːz/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A rank in the classification of organisms, below species.
- A taxon at that rank, often indicated with trinomial nomenclature (such as Felis silvestris silvestris in zoology and Pinus nigra subsp. salzmannii in botany).
- A subdivision of a species in other scientific disciplines.
Synonyms: ssp., subsp..
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136
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membrane

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membrane
/ˈmembɹeɪn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments (usually in a plant or animal).
- A mechanical, thin, flat flexible part that can deform or vibrate when excited by an external force.
- A flexible or semi-flexible covering or waterproofing whose primary function is to exclude water.
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137
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commodity

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commodity
/kəˈmɑdəti/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Anything movable (a good) that is bought and sold.
- Something useful or valuable.
- Raw materials, agricultural and other primary products as objects of large-scale trading in specialized exchanges.
- Undifferentiated goods characterized by a low profit margin, as distinguished from branded products.
- Anything which has both a use-value and an exchange-value.
- Convenience; usefulness, suitability.
- Self-interest; personal convenience or advantage.
hàng hóa

138
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multitasking

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multitasking

Meaning:
1. Verb
- To schedule and execute multiple tasks (program) simultaneously; control being passed from one to the other using interrupts.
- (of a person) To handle multiple tasks at once.
2. Noun
- The simultaneous execution of multiple tasks (programs) under the control of an interrupt-driven operating system.
- (buzzword) The practice or capability of handling more than one task at the same time.
Antonyms: monotasking, single-tasking, unitasking.
đa nhiệm

139
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recoup

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recoup
/ɹɪˈkuːp/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To make back, as an investment.
- To recover from an error.
- To keep back rightfully (a part), as if by cutting off, so as to diminish a sum due; to take off (a part) from damages; to deduct.
- To reimburse; to indemnify; often used reflexively and in the passive.
thu hồi

140
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gusher

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gusher

Meaning:
1. Noun
- One who gushes (makes an excessive display of enthusiasm, praise, or sentiment).
- An oil well that has a natural flow and so requires no pumping.
GUSHER

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clam

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clam
/klæm/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; for example the soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria), the hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve.
- Strong pincers or forceps.
- A kind of vise, usually of wood.
- A dollar (usually used in the plural).
- A Scientologist.
- A vagina.
- One who clams up; a taciturn person, one who refuses to speak.
2. Verb
- To dig for clams.
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142
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grin

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grin
/ɡɹɪn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth.
2. Verb
- To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth.
- To express by grinning.
- To show the teeth, like a snarling dog.
- To grin as part of producing a particular facial expression, such as a smile or sneer.
nụ cười

143
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orientation

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orientation
/ˌɔɹiɛnˈteɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The determination of the relative position of something or someone.
- The relative physical position or direction of something.
- The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end.
- An inclination, tendency or direction.
- The ability to orient.
- An adjustment to a new environment.
- An introduction to a (new) environment.
- The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.
- The choice of which ordered bases are “positively” oriented and which are “negatively” oriented on a real vector space.
- The designation of a parametrised curve as “positively” or “negatively” oriented (or “nonorientable”); the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface.
Antonyms: disorientation.
định hướng

144
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excitable

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excitable

Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Easily excited
- Able to be promoted to an excited state
dễ bị kích động

145
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terminal

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terminal
/ˈtɚmɪnəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
- A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
- A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
- A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.
- A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
- A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
- The end of a line where signals are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals are made available to apparatus.
- An electric contact on a battery.
- The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
- A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
- A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
- The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptid.
2. Verb
- To store bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) in storage tanks prior to further distribution.
3. Adjective
- Fatal; resulting in death.
- Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
- Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
- Occurring every term; termly.
Synonyms: endly, endsome, final, late.
Antonyms: early, initial, early, non-terminal.
phần cuối

146
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judicial

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judicial
/dʒuˈdɪʃəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- That branch of government which is responsible for maintaining the courts of law and for the administration of justice.
Synonyms: judiciary.
2. Adjective
- Of or relating to the administration of justice.
- Of or relating to the court system or the judicial branch of government.
- Specified by a civil bill court under the terms of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881
- Of or relating to judgeship or the judiciary, the collective body of judges.
Synonyms: justiciary.
Tư pháp

147
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ideology

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ideology
/aɪ.di.ˈɑl.ə.d͡ʒi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Doctrine, philosophy, body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group.
- The study of the origin and nature of ideas.
ý thức hệ

148
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locust

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locust
/ˈloʊ.kəst/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, (especially) the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria).
- A fruit or pod of the carob tree.
- Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; the locust tree.
- A cicada.
- A Mainlander.
2. Verb
- To come in a swarm.
Châu chấu

149
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adjacent

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adjacent
/əˈdʒeɪ.sənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.
2. Adjective
- Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
- Just before, after, or facing.
- Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
Synonyms: abutting, adjoining, contiguous, juxtaposed, near.
Antonyms: apart, distant, nonadjacent.
3. Preposition
- Next to; beside.
- Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
liền kề

150
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saturation

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saturation

Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of saturating or the process of being saturated
- The condition in which, after a sufficient increase in a causal force, no further increase in the resultant effect is possible; e.g. the state of a ferromagnetic material that cannot be further magnetized
- The state of a saturated solution
- The state of an organic compound that has no double or triple bonds
- The state of the atmosphere when it is saturated with water vapour; 100% humidity
- The intensity or vividness of a colour.
- (color) Chromatic purity; freedom from dilution with white.
- Intense bombing of a military target with the aim of destroying it
- The flooding of a market with all of a product that can be sold
- An effect on the sound of an electric guitar, used primarily in heavy metal music
- The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.
- The point at which the output of a linear device, such as a linear amplifier, deviates significantly from being a linear function of the input when the input signal is increased.
bão hòa

151
Q

paradoxical

A

paradoxical
/ˌpɛɹəˈdɑːksɪkəl/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Having self-contradictory properties.
Synonyms: oxymoronic, self-contradictory.
Antonyms: self-consistent, self-evident.
nghịch lý

152
Q

displacement

A

displacement
/dɪsˈpleɪsmɪnt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
- The quantity of a liquid displaced by a floating body, as water by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.
- The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent.
- Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
- A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
- (grammar) The capability of a communication system to refer to things that are not present (that existed or will exist at another time, or that exist at another location).
dịch chuyển

153
Q

consistency

A

consistency
/kənˈsɪstənsi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Local coherence.
- Correspondence or compatibility.
- Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.
- The degree of viscosity of something.
- Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory.
- Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.
Antonyms: inconsistency.
tính nhất quán

154
Q

foundry

A

foundry
/faʊndɹi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.
- The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.
- A semiconductor fabrication plant in the microelectronics industry.
Synonyms: fab.
đúc

155
Q

militancy

A

militancy
/ˈmɪlɪtənsi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The quality of being militant.
Dân quân

156
Q

allergy

A

allergy
[ˈæl.ɚ.dʒi]
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A disorder of the immune system causing adverse reactions to substances (allergens) not harmful to most and marked by the body’s production of histamines and associated with atopy, anaphylaxis, and asthma.
- Any condition of hypersensitivity to a substance.
- Altered susceptibility to a first treatment as exhibited in reaction to a subsequent one.
- An antipathy, as toward a person or activity.
Synonyms: type 1 hypersensitivity, intolerance.
dị ứng

157
Q

flotilla

A

flotilla
/floʊˈtɪlə/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A small fleet of warships (usually of the same class), or a fleet of small ships.
Flotilla

158
Q

genetics

A

genetics
/dʒɛˈnɛ.tɪks/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The branch of biology that deals with the transmission and variation of inherited characteristics, in particular chromosomes and DNA.
- The genetic makeup of a specific individual or species.
Synonyms: genes.
Di truyền học

159
Q

boulevard

A

boulevard
/ˈbʊləvɑɹd/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A broad, well-paved and landscaped thoroughfare.
- The landscaping on the sides of a boulevard or other thoroughfare.
Đại lộ

160
Q

estate

A

estate
/ɪsˈteɪt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The collective property and liabilities of someone, especially a deceased person.
- State; condition.
- Status, rank.
- The condition of one’s fortunes; prosperity, possessions.
- A “person of estate”; a nobleman or noblewoman.
- A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights (Estates of the realm).
- The nature and extent of a person’s interest in, or ownership of, land.
- An (especially extensive) area of land, under a single ownership.
- The landed property owned or controlled by a government or a department of government.
- (sometimes derogatory) A housing estate.
- A station wagon; a car with a tailgate (or liftgate) and storage space to the rear of the seating which is coterminous with the passenger compartment (and often extensible into that compartment via folding or removable seating).
- The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.
Synonyms: estate car, station sedan, station wagon, wagon.
2. Verb
- To give an estate to.
- To bestow upon.
3. Adjective
- (jewelry) Previously owned; secondhand.
tài sản

161
Q

seine

A

seine
/seɪn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A long net having floats attached at the top and sinkers (weights) at the bottom, used in shallow water for catching fish.
2. Verb
- To use a seine, to fish with a seine.
SEINE

162
Q

appendix

A

appendix
/əˈpɛn.dɪks/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Something attached to something else; an attachment or accompaniment.
- A text added to the end of a book or an article, containing additional information.
- The vermiform appendix, an inner organ that can become inflamed.
- Any process, prolongation or projection.
Synonyms: addition, attachment.
Phụ lục

163
Q

decimal

A

decimal
/ˈdɛsɪməl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A number expressed in the base-ten system, a fractional numeral written in this system.
- The decimal system itself.
- A decimal place.
- A decimal point.
Synonyms: decimal number, decimal place, decimal system.
Antonyms: fraction.
2. Verb
- To represent with numbers after a decimal point
3. Adjective
- Concerning numbers expressed in decimal or mathematical calculations performed using decimal.
Synonyms: base, denary.
số thập phân

164
Q

competency

A

competency
/ˈkɒmpətənsi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A sufficient supply (of).
- A sustainable income.
- The ability to perform some task; competence.
- Meeting specified qualifications to perform.
- Implicit knowledge of a language’s structure.
năng lực

165
Q

eccentric

A

eccentric
/ɛkˈsɛntɹɪk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- One who does not behave like others.
- A kook; a person of bizarre habits or beliefs.
- A circle not having the same centre as another.
- A disk or wheel with its axis off centre, giving a reciprocating motion.
Synonyms: crank, odd duck, weirdo, misfit, nonconformist.
2. Adjective
- Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.
- Not perfectly circular; elliptical.
- Having a different center; not concentric.
- (of a person) Deviating from the norm; behaving unexpectedly or differently; unconventional and slightly strange.
- (of a motion) Against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle (e.g., such as results from flexion of the lower arm (bending of the elbow joint) by an external force while contracting the triceps and other elbow extensor muscles to control that movement; opening of the jaw while flexing the masseter).
- Having different goals or motives.
Synonyms: abnormal, eccentrical, excentrical, odd, eccentrical, excentrical, eccentrical, excentrical, eccentrical, excentrical, eccentrical, excentrical.
Antonyms: concentric.
lập dị

166
Q

mosaic

A

mosaic
/moʊˈzeɪ.ɪk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture.
- An individual composed of two or more cell lines of different genetic or chromosomal constitution, but from the same zygote.
- Any of several viral diseases that cause mosaic-like patterns to appear on leaves.
- A composite picture made from overlapping photographs.
2. Adjective
- (of an individual) Containing cells of varying genetic constitution.
khảm

167
Q

wane

A

wane
/weɪn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
- The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.
- The end of a period.
- A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
Synonyms: decline, decrease.
2. Verb
- To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
- Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
- Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
- Said of a time period that comes to an end.
- To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
- To cause to decrease.
Antonyms: wax.
wane

168
Q

hostility

A

hostility
/hɑˈstɪlɪti/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The state of being hostile.
- A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
Synonyms: combat, fighting, war, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, enmity, hatred, opposition, unfriendliness.
Antonyms: peace, amity, friendliness.
sự thù địch

169
Q

vulnerability

A

vulnerability
/ˌvʌlnəɹəˈbɪlɪti/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.
- A specific weakness in the protections or defences surrounding someone or something.
- A weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system’s security
Synonyms: vulnerableness.
Antonyms: invulnerability.
lỗ hổng

170
Q

holistic

A

holistic
/hoʊˈlɪs.tɪk/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Related to holism.
- Relating to a study of the whole instead of a separation into parts.
Synonyms: systemic.
Antonyms: atomistic.
toàn diện

171
Q

geneticist

A

geneticist

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A scientist who studies genes.
- A physician who diagnoses, treats, and counsels patients with genetic disorders or syndromes.
nhà di truyền học

172
Q

fitting

A

fitting
/fɪtɪŋ/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To be suitable for.
- To conform to in size and shape.
- To be of the right size and shape
- (with to) To make conform in size and shape.
- To be in agreement with.
- To adjust.
- To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
- To equip or supply.
- To make ready.
- To be seemly.
- To be proper or becoming.
- To be in harmony.
2. Verb
- To suffer a fit.
3. Noun
- A small part, especially a standardized or detachable part of a device or machine.
- A tube connector; a standardized connecting part of a piping system to attach sections of pipe together, such as a coupling
- The act of trying on clothes to inspect or adjust the fit.
- The process of fitting up; especially of applying craft methods such as skilled filing to the making and assembling of machines or other products.
- (often plural) A removable item in a house or other building, which can be taken with one when one moves out, such as a moveable piece of furniture, a carpet, picture, etc.; US furnishing; compare fixture.
- The action or condition of having fits in the sense of seizures or convulsions.
4. Adjective
- Ready, appropriate, suitable, or in keeping
phù hợp

173
Q

warehouse

A

warehouse

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A place for storing large amounts of products. In logistics, a place where products go to from the manufacturer before going to the retailer.
2. Verb
- To store in a warehouse or similar.
- To confine (a person) to an institution for a long period.
- To acquire and then shelve, simply to prevent competitors from acquiring it.
kho

174
Q

embryonic

A

embryonic
/ˈɛm.bɹi.ɒn.ɪk/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of or relating to an embryo.
- Of a project, etc: very new and still evolving; yet to reach its full potential.
Synonyms: embryonal.
phôi thai

175
Q

scrutiny

A

scrutiny
/ˈskɹuː.tɪ.ni/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Intense study of someone or something.
- Thorough inspection of a situation or a case.
- An examination of catechumens, in the last week of Lent, who were to receive baptism on Easter Day.
- A ticket, or little paper billet, on which a vote is written.
- An examination by a committee of the votes given at an election, for the purpose of correcting the poll.
Synonyms: examination, exploration, going-over, inquiry, inspection, investigation, perusal, probe, scan, study, survey.
2. Verb
- To scrutinize.
sự xem xét kỹ lưỡng

176
Q

explanatory

A

explanatory
/ɛkˈsplanətɔːɹi/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Intended to serve as an explanation.
- (of a person) Disposed to explain.
giải thích

177
Q

warfare

A

warfare
/ˈwɔɹfɛɹ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The waging of war or armed conflict against an enemy.
- Military operations of some particular kind e.g. guerrilla warfare.
2. Verb
- To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.
chiến tranh

178
Q

fishery

A

fishery
/ˈfɪʃəɹi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Fishing: the catching, processing and marketing of fish or other seafood.
- A place related to fishing, particularly:
- A right to fish in a particular location; Territorial fishing waters.
- A fishing company.
Synonyms: fishing, fishing ground, fishing space, piscary, fish farm, fishing, piscage, piscary, right.
Ngư nghiệp

179
Q

institutionalise

A

institutionalise

Meaning:
1. Verb
- To establish as a normal practice
- To commit a person to confinement in an institution
thể chế hóa

180
Q

intimacy

A

intimacy
/ˈɪn.tɪ.mə.si/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Feeling or atmosphere of closeness and openness towards someone else, not necessarily involving sexuality.
- Intimate relationship.
- (especially plural) Intimate detail, (item of) intimate information.
Antonyms: solitude.
sự thân mật

181
Q

multinational

A

multinational

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A multinational company.
2. Adjective
- Of, or involving more than two countries.
- (of a business organization) Operating, or having subsidiary companies in multiple countries (especially more than two).
đa quốc gia

182
Q

clan

A

clan
/klæn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief.
- A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain
- Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.
- A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
- A badger colony.
gia tộc

183
Q

inadequacy

A

inadequacy

Meaning:
1. Noun
- The state of being inadequate.
- A shortage of required material.
- A lack of competence or ability.
không thỏa đáng

184
Q

civic

A

civic
/ˈsɪvɪk/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of, relating to, or belonging to a city, a citizen, or citizenship; municipal or civil.
- Of or relating to the citizen, or of good citizenship and its rights and duties.
công dân

185
Q

inverter

A

inverter

Meaning:
1. Noun
- Something that inverts, or causes inversion
- A power inverter
biến tần

186
Q

builder

A

builder
/ˈbɪl.dɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person who builds or constructs things.
- Master artisan, who receives his instructions from the architect, and employs workers.
- A bodybuilder.
Synonyms: constructor.
Antonyms: destroyer, wrecker.
người xây dựng

187
Q

decimate

A

decimate
/ˈdɛ.sə.meɪt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A tithe or other 10% tax or payment.
- A tenth of something.
- A set of ten items.
2. Verb
- To kill one-tenth of a group, (specifically) as a military punishment in the Roman army selected by lot, usually carried out by the surviving soldiers.
- To destroy or remove one-tenth of anything.
- To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely.
- To exact a tithe or other 10% tax
- To tithe: to pay a 10% tax.
- To decimalize: to divide into tenths, hundredths etc.
- To reduce to one-tenth: to destroy or remove nine-tenths of anything.
- To replace a high-resolution model with another of lower but acceptable quality.
Synonyms: decimalize, tithe, tithe, devastate, tithe.
quyết định

188
Q

birch

A

birch
/bɝtʃ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
- A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture.
- A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.
- A birch-bark canoe.
Synonyms: makepeace, switch.
2. Verb
- To punish with a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
- To punish as though one were using a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
bạch dương

189
Q

extensive

A

extensive
/ɛksˈtɛn.sɪv/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Having a great extent; covering a large area; vast
- Considerable in amount.
- Serving to extend or lengthen; characterized by extension
- Having a combined system entropy that equals the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.
rộng rãi

190
Q

woodcut

A

woodcut

Meaning:
1. Noun
- An engraved block of wood, especially one used as a printing form.
- A method of printmaking from such a block.
- A print produced with this method.
Synonyms: woodblock, xylograph, woodblock, xylograph, xylography.
khắc gỗ

191
Q

inclusive

A

inclusive
/ɪnˈkluːsɪv/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Including (almost) everything within its scope.
- Including the extremes as well as the area between.
- Of, or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when including the person being addressed.
Bao gồm

192
Q

incredible

A

incredible
/ɪŋˈkɹɛdəbəl/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Too implausible to be credible; beyond belief; unbelievable.
- Amazing; astonishing; awe-inspiring.
- Marvellous; profoundly affecting; wonderful.
Synonyms: unbelievable.
đáng kinh ngạc

193
Q

foible

A

foible
/ˈfɔɪbəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A quirk, idiosyncrasy, or mannerism; unusual habit or way (usage is typically plural), that is slightly strange or silly.
- A weakness or failing of character.
- Part of a sword between the middle and the point, weaker than the forte.
Synonyms: fault.
2. Adjective
- Weak; feeble.
foible

194
Q

formality

A

formality

Meaning:
1. Noun
- The state of being formal.
- Something said or done as a matter of form.
- A customary ritual without new or unique meaning.
- (countable) A specific requirement for obtaining a legal status, conducting a transaction, etc.
hình thức

195
Q

phoenix

A

phoenix
/ˈfiːnɪks/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
- Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.
- A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies.
- A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.
Phoenix

196
Q

brutal

A

brutal
/ˈbɹuːtəl/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel
- Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.
- Harsh; unrelenting
- Disagreeably precise or penetrating
- In extreme metal, to describe the speed of the music and the density of riffs.
Synonyms: barbaric, cold-blooded, savage, vicious.
Antonyms: gentle, kind.
tàn bạo

197
Q

deforestation

A

deforestation
/dɪˌfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with an agricultural system.
- A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program.
Antonyms: afforestation, reforestation.
phá rừng

198
Q

parameter

A

parameter
/pəˈɹæm.ɪ.tə/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
- A variable that describes some system (material, object, event etc.) or some aspect thereof
- An input variable of a procedure definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time (formal parameter).
- An actual value given to such a formal parameter (argument or actual parameter).
- A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
- In the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate.
- The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane.
- The fundamental axial ratio for a given species.
Synonyms: distinguishing, feature, argument.
tham số

199
Q

poke

A

poke
/poʊk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A prod, jab, or thrust.
- A lazy person; a dawdler.
- A stupid or uninteresting person.
- A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.
- The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program or to cheat at a video game.
- A notification sent to get another user’s attention on social media or an instant messenger.
- A poke bonnet.
2. Verb
- To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.
- To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
- To rummage; to feel or grope around.
- To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
- To put a poke (device to prevent leaping or breaking fences) on (an animal).
- To thrust at with the horns; to gore.
- To notify (another user) of activity on social media or an instant messenger.
- To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
- To penetrate in sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: drill, nail, pound, fumble, glaum, root.
xô

200
Q

electoral

A

electoral

Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Relating to or composed of electors.
- Of, or relating to elections.
bầu cử

201
Q

predictable

A

predictable
/pɹɪˈdɪktəbl̩/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Able to be predicted.
Antonyms: unpredictable.
có thể dự đoán được

202
Q

dissection

A

dissection
/daɪˈsɛkʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of dissecting, or something dissected
- A minute and detailed examination or analysis
mổ xẻ

203
Q

strand

A

strand
/stɹænd/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.
- The shore or beach of a lake or river.
- A small brook or rivulet.
- A passage for water; gutter.
- A street (perhaps from the similarity of shape).
2. Verb
- To run aground; to beach.
- To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
- To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
Synonyms: abandon, desert, beach.
sợi

204
Q

mint

A

mint
/mɪnt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
- A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc.
- Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
Synonyms: bundle, pile.
2. Verb
- To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.
- To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
3. Adjective
- (with condition) Like new.
- In near-perfect condition; uncirculated.
- Unused with original gum; as issued originally.
- Very good.
- Attractive; beautiful; handsome.
bạc hà

205
Q

professional

A

professional
/pɹəˈfɛʃənəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person who belongs to a profession
- A person who earns their living from a specified activity
- A reputation known by name
- An expert.
2. Adjective
- Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
- That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.
- (by extension) Expert.
chuyên nghiệp

206
Q

inexplicit

A

inexplicit

Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Not explicit.
Không thể bỏ qua

207
Q

scramble

A

scramble
/ˈskɹæmbl̩/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A rush or hurry, especially making use of the limbs against a surface.
- An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
- A motocross race.
- Any frantic period of competitive activity.
Antonyms: sortie.
2. Verb
- To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
- To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
- (of food ingredients, usually including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.
- To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
- To quickly deploy (vehicles, usually aircraft) to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.
- To be quickly deployed in this manner.
- To partake in motocross.
- To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
- To gather or collect by scrambling.
- To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.
- To throw something down for others to compete for in this manner.
3. Interjection
- Shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item, causing them to rush for it.
tranh giành

208
Q

colonise

A

colonise

Meaning:
1. Verb
- To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony.
- To settle (a group of people, a species, or the like) in a place as a colony.
- To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area).
- To begin a colony or colonies.
- (by extension) To intrude into and take over (the autonomy, experience, social movement, etc, of a less powerful person or group); to commandeer or appropriate.
thuộc địa

209
Q

refrain

A

refrain
/ɹɪˈfɹeɪn/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To hold back, to restrain (someone or something).
- To show restraint; to hold oneself back.
- To repress (a desire, emotion etc.); to check or curb.
- (with preposition “from”) To stop oneself from some action or interference; to abstain.
- To abstain from (food or drink).
kiềm chế

210
Q

dun

A

dun
/dʌn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A brownish grey colour.
2. Adjective
- Of a brownish grey colour.
Dun

211
Q

acquisition

A

acquisition
/æ.kwɪ.ˈzɪ.ʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act or process of acquiring.
- The thing acquired or gained; a gain.
- The process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting these signals into digital numeric values that can be manipulated by a computer.
Synonyms: accession, acquirement, accession, procurement.
Antonyms: abandonment.
sự mua lại

212
Q

haughty

A

haughty
/ˈhɔːti/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.
kiêu căng

213
Q

bizarre

A

bizarre
/bəˈzɑɹ/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Strangely unconventional in style or appearance.
kỳ quái

214
Q

fret

A

fret
/fɹɛt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- Herpes; tetter.
- (in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
2. Verb
- Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat.
- To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
- To be anxious, to worry.
- To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
băn khoăn

215
Q

evergreen

A

evergreen
/ˈɛvɚɡɹin/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A tree or shrub that does not shed its leaves or needles seasonally.
- (specifically) A conifer tree.
- A news story that can be published or broadcast at any time.
2. Verb
- (pharmaceuticals) To extend the term of a patent beyond the normal legal limit, usually through repeated small modifications.
- To set the repayment rate of a loan at or below the interest rate, so low that the principal will never be repaid.
3. Adjective
- Of plants, especially trees, that do not shed their leaves seasonally.
- Continually fresh or self-renewing.
- Suitable for transmission at any time; not urgent or time-dependent.
Synonyms: sempervirent, timeless.
Antonyms: deciduous.
Cây thường xanh

216
Q

onset

A

onset
/ˈɑnˌsɛt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An attack; an assault especially of an army.
- The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.
- The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.
- (acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak.
- A setting about; a beginning.
- Anything added, such as an ornament or as a useful appendage.
Synonyms: beginning, start, storming.
Antonyms: coda.
2. Verb
- To assault; to set upon.
- To set about; to begin.
bắt đầu

217
Q

bacterial

A

bacterial
[bækˈtɪəɹɪəɫ]
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of, relating to, or caused by bacteria.
vi khuẩn

218
Q

brainstorm

A

brainstorm
/ˈbɹeɪnstɔː(ɹ)m/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A sudden thought, particularly one that solves a long-standing problem.
- A session of brainstorming, investigating a problem to try to find solutions.
- An unexpected mental error.
Synonyms: brainwave.
2. Verb
- To investigate something, or solve a problem using brainstorming.
- To participate in a brainstorming session.
động não

219
Q

rebellious

A

rebellious
/ɹəˈbɛliəs/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Showing rebellion.
Synonyms: defiant, restive.
Antonyms: docile.
nổi loạn

220
Q

instrumentation

A

instrumentation

Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments
- The arrangement of a musical composition for performance by a number of different instruments; orchestration; instrumental composition; composition for an orchestra or military band.
- The act or manner of playing upon musical instruments; performance
- On a vehicle, dashboard gauges monitoring engine functions and performance, along with other essential functions.
thiết bị

221
Q

papyrus

A

papyrus
/pəˈpaɪɹəs/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- (usually uncountable) A plant (Cyperus papyrus) in the sedge family, native to the Nile river valley.
- (usually uncountable) A material similar to paper made from the papyrus plant.
- A scroll or document written on papyrus.
giấy cói

222
Q

universality

A

universality

Meaning:
1. Noun
- The property of being universal, common to all members of a class
Tính phổ quát

223
Q

gable

A

gable
/ˈɡeɪ.bəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches).
Gable

224
Q

deception

A

deception
/dɪˈsɛpʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.
lừa dối

225
Q

spew

A

spew
/spjuː/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Vomit
- Ejaculate or ejaculation.
- Nonsense or lies.
- Material that has been ejected in a stream, or the act of spewing.
- A white powder or dark crystals that appear on the surface of improperly tanned leather.
- Adhesive that is squeezed from a joint under pressure and held across the joint by a fillet, thereby strengthening the joint.
2. Verb
- To eject forcibly and in a stream
- To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading.
- To vomit
- To ejaculate
- (leather-working) To develop a white powder or dark crystals on the surface of finished leather, as a result from improper tanning.
phun ra

226
Q

unadorned

A

unadorned
/əˌnʌˈdɔːɹnd/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To add a feature or embellishment that makes something uglier; uglify.
- To remove the adornments from.
2. Adjective
- Having no additional decoration or embellishment; plain and simple
không được trang trí

227
Q

explicit

A

explicit
/ɪkˈsplɪsɪt/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Very specific, clear, or detailed.
- Containing material (e.g. language or film footage) that might be deemed offensive or graphic.
Synonyms: raunchy, express, manifest, overt.
Antonyms: circumspect, implicit, unexplicit, vague.
rõ ràng

228
Q

ethics

A

ethics
/ˈɛθ.ɪks/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct.
- Morality.
- The standards that govern the conduct of a person, especially a member of a profession.
Synonyms: moral philosophy.
Đạo đức

229
Q

crocodile

A

crocodile
/ˈkɹɑkədaɪl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any of the predatory amphibious reptiles of the family Crocodylidae; a crocodilian, any species of the order Crocodilia, which also includes the alligators, caimans and gavials.
- A long line or procession of people (especially children) walking together.
- A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.
Synonyms: croc.
2. Verb
- To speak one’s native language at an Esperanto-language gathering, rather than Esperanto.
cá sấu

230
Q

determinant

A

determinant
/dɪˈtɝmɪnənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.
- A scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a given transformation matrix; the unique scalar function over square matrices which is distributive over matrix multiplication, multilinear in the rows and columns, and takes the value 1 for the unit matrix; abbreviated as: det.
- A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
2. Adjective
- Serving to determine or limit; determinative.
quyết định

231
Q

modification

A

modification
/ˌmɑdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The form of existence belonging to a particular object, entity etc.; a mode of being.
- The change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am => ‘m in I’m)
- The result of modifying something; a new or changed form.
- The act of making a change to something while keeping its essential character intact; an alteration or adjustment.
- A change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring.
- A change to a word when it is borrowed by another language
sửa đổi

232
Q

credible

A

credible
/ˈkɹɛdəbl̩/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Believable or plausible.
- Authentic or convincing.
Antonyms: incredible.
đáng tin cậy

233
Q

pharmacy

A

pharmacy
/ˈfɑɹməsi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- (countable) A place where prescription drugs are dispensed; a dispensary.
- (uncountable) The science of medicinal substances comprising pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, phytochemistry and forensics.
- (uncountable) The occupation of a pharmacist.
Dược phẩm

234
Q

incompatible

A

incompatible
/ˌɪŋkəmˈpætɪbəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- (chiefly in the plural) An incompatible substance; one of a group of things that cannot be placed or used together because of a change of chemical composition or opposing medicinal qualities.
- A consequent of a contrary.
2. Adjective
- Of two things: that cannot coexist; not congruous because of differences
- Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines.
Synonyms: irreconcilable.
Antonyms: compatible.
không tương thích

235
Q

overweight

A

overweight

Meaning:
1. Noun
- An excess of weight.
- An overweight person.
- (investment) A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.
2. Verb
- To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.
- To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.
Antonyms: underweight.
3. Adjective
- (of a person) Heavier than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
- (of a vehicle) Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.
- (investment, followed by a noun or prepositional phrase indicating a security or type of security) Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.
Synonyms: fat, morbidly obese, obese, overnourished.
thừa cân

236
Q

literate

A

literate
/ˈlɪtəɹət/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person who is able to read and write.
- A person who was educated but had not taken a university degree; especially a candidate to take holy orders.
2. Adjective
- Able to read and write; having literacy.
- Knowledgeable in literature, writing; literary; well-read.
- Which is used in writing (of a language or dialect).
Antonyms: illiterate.
biết chữ

237
Q

kidnap

A

kidnap

Meaning:
1. Noun
- The crime, or an instance, of kidnapping.
2. Verb
- To seize and detain a person unlawfully; sometimes for ransom.
bắt cóc

238
Q

antifreeze

A

antifreeze

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A substance, such as glycol, used to lower the freezing point of water;
- Automotive antifreeze, a solution of ethylene glycol, used as an additive to water or replacement for water, in the radiators of motorcars.
- Deicer, a heated glycol solution used to remove ice from the aerodynamic surfaces of airplanes, and prevent icing while on the tarmac.
chất chống đông

239
Q

forefront

A

forefront
/ˈfɔɹfɹʌnt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The leading position or edge.
2. Verb
- To bring to the forefront; to emphasize, or focus on.
hàng đầu

240
Q

ongoing

A

ongoing

Meaning:
1. Verb
- To be ongoing (occurring, happening); to last, proceed or continue.
2. Noun
- Something that is going on; a happening.
3. Adjective
- Continuing, permanent, lasting.
- Presently or currently happening; being in progress.
đang diễn ra

241
Q

dent

A

dent
/dɛnt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
- A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.
- (by extension) A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action
2. Verb
- To impact something, producing a dent.
- To develop a dent or dents.
vết lõm

242
Q

fossilise

A

fossilise

Meaning:
1. Verb
- To make into a fossil
- To become a fossil
- (by extension) to become inflexible or outmoded
- (by extension) To make antiquated, rigid, or fixed; to deaden.
Synonyms: fossilate, fossilify.
Hóa thạch

243
Q

infestation

A

infestation
/ɪnfɛsˈteɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The presence of a large number of pest organisms in an area or field, on the surface of a host or anything that might contact a host, or in the soil.
sự phá hoại

244
Q

chimpanzee

A

chimpanzee
/tʃɪmˈpæn.zi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A species of great ape in the genus Pan, native to Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans.
Synonyms: chimp.
Tinh tinh

245
Q

prodigy

A

prodigy
/ˈpɹɑdɪdʒi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An extraordinary thing seen as an omen; a portent.
- An extraordinary occurrence or creature; an anomaly, especially a monster; a freak.
- An amazing or marvellous thing; a wonder.
- A wonderful example of something.
- An extremely talented person, especially a child.
Synonyms: boy wonder, child prodigy, wunderkind.
Thầy

246
Q

unravel

A

unravel
/ʌnˈɹævəl/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To separate the threads (of); disentangle.
- (of threads, etc.) To become separated; (of something woven, knitted, etc.) to come apart.
- To clear from complication or difficulty; to unfold; to solve.
- To separate the connected or united parts of; to throw into disorder; to confuse.
- To become undone; to collapse.
Synonyms: solve, unriddle, disentangle, unsnarl.
làm sáng tỏ

247
Q

reassure

A

reassure
/ɹiəˈʃʊɹ/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or self-doubt.
- To reinsure.
yên tâm

248
Q

farmyard

A

farmyard

Meaning:
1. Noun
- The area around a farm, excluding the fields.
Farmyard

249
Q

individualise

A

individualise

Meaning:
1. Verb
- To give something its own individuality; to characterize or differentiate.
- To modify something to suit an individual; to personalize.
Cá nhân

250
Q

subsequent

A

subsequent
/ˈsʌbsəkwənt/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely.
- Following in order of place; succeeding.
Synonyms: next.
Antonyms: preceding.
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