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placebo

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placebo
/pləˈsi.boʊ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
- The vespers sung in the office for the dead.
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innovation

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innovation
/ˌɪnəˈveɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of innovating; the introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc.
- A change effected by innovating; a change in customs
- Something new, and contrary to established customs, manners, or rites.
- A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses.
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proceeding

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proceeding
/pɹəˈsiːdɪŋ/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on
- To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
- To come from; to have as its source or origin.
- To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically
- To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
- (of a rule) To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
- To begin and carry on a legal process.
- To take an academic degree.
Synonyms: forthgo, progress.
Antonyms: recede, regress.
2. Noun
- The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction
- An event or happening; something that happens
- (always in plural) A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society.
- Progress or movement from one thing to another.
- A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction
- Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit.
Synonyms: measure, procedure, step.
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rodent

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rodent
/ˈɹəʊdənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A mammal of the order Rodentia, characterized by long incisors that grow continuously and are worn down by gnawing.
- (bulletin board system slang, leet) A person lacking in maturity, social skills, technical competence or intelligence; lamer.
Synonyms: gnawer.
2. Adjective
- Gnawing; biting; corroding; applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.
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hypothesis

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hypothesis
/haɪˈpɑː.θə.sɪs/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation and/or experimentation. As a scientific term of art, see the attached quotation. Compare to theory, and quotation given there.
- (general) An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation.
- (grammar) The antecedent of a conditional statement.
Synonyms: educated guess, guess, supposition, theory, thesis.
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copyright

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copyright
/ˈkɑpiˌɹaɪt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The right by law to be the entity which determines who may publish, copy and distribute a piece of writing, music, picture or other work of authorship.
- Such an exclusive right as it pertains to one or more specific works.
2. Verb
- To obtain or secure a copyright for some literary or other artistic work.
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sensor

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sensor
/ˈsɛn.sɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A device or organ that detects certain external stimuli and responds in a distinctive manner.
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cane

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cane
[kʰeɪn]
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
- The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool
- A rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane
- Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like
- A local European measure of length; the canna.
2. Verb
- To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement
- To destroy; to comprehensively defeat
- To do something well, in a competent fashion
- To produce extreme pain
- To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
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perceive

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perceive
/pɚˈsiv/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To become aware of, through the physical senses or by thinking; to see; to understand.
Synonyms: ken.
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guideline

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guideline

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A non-specific rule or principle that provides direction to action or behaviour.
- A plan or explanation to guide one in setting standards or determining a course of action.
- A light line, used in lettering, to help align the text.
Synonyms: rule of thumb, rule of thumb.
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predominant

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predominant

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A subdominant.
2. Adjective
- Common or widespread; prevalent.
- Significant or important; dominant.
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ingredient

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ingredient
/ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.
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emerald

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emerald
/ˈɛm(ə)ɹəld/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any of various green gemstones, especially a green transparent form of beryl, highly valued as a precious stone.
- Emerald green, a colour.
- Any hummingbird in the genera Chlorostilbon and Elvira; and some in the genus Amazilia
- A size of type between nonpareil and minion, standardized as 6½-point.
Synonyms: smaragd, minionette.
2. Verb
- To ornament with, or as if with, emeralds; to make green.
3. Adjective
- Of a rich green colour.
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indigenous

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indigenous
/ɪnˈdɪdʒənəs/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Born or originating in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.
- Innate, inborn.
Synonyms: connatural, natural, aboriginal, autochthonous, local.
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moth

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moth
/mɔθ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.
- Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.
Synonyms: lep.
2. Verb
- To hunt for moths.
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utilise

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utilise

Meaning:
1. Verb
- To make use of; to use.
- To make useful; to find a practical use for.
- To make best use of; to use to its fullest extent, potential, or ability.
- To make do with; to use in manner different from that originally intended
Synonyms: employ, exploit, use.
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arena

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arena
/əˈɹiːnə/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An enclosed area, often outdoor, for the presentation of sporting events (sports arena) or other spectacular events; earthen area, often oval, specifically for rodeos (North America) or circular area for bullfights (especially Hispanic America).
- The building housing such an area; specifically, a very large, often round building, often topped with a dome, designated for indoor sporting or other major events, such as concerts.
- The sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre where contests were held in Ancient Rome.
- A realm in which events take place; an area of interest, study, behaviour, etc.
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archaeologist

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archaeologist

Meaning:
1. Noun
- Someone who studies or practises archaeology.
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implementation

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implementation

Meaning:
1. Noun
- The process of moving an idea from concept to reality. In business, engineering and other fields, implementation refers to the building process rather than the design process.
- A result of implementing something; a finished product, system or device.
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profile

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profile
/ˈpɹoʊfaɪl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
- The shape, view, or shadow of a person’s head from the side; a side view.
- A summary or collection of information, especially about a person
- A specific space or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
- Reputation.
- The amount by which something protrudes.
- Prominence; noticeability.
- A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.
- Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
- A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
- A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
- An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.
Antonyms: portrait.
2. Verb
- To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).
- To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.
- To draw in profile or outline.
- To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
- To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.
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peacekeeping

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peacekeeping
/ˈpiːskiːpɪŋ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of preserving peace, specifically between hostile groups or states, especially by a sanctioned military force.
- (as a noun modifier) (for example) a peacekeeping force.
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medalist

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medalist
/ˈmɛdəlɪst/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- One who has received a medal; one who has medalled.
- An engraver, designer or collector of medals.
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flexibility

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flexibility

Meaning:
1. Noun
- The quality of being flexible; suppleness; pliability.
- The quality of having options.
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shrimp

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shrimp
/ʃɹɪmp/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any of many swimming, often edible crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.
- The flesh of such crustaceans.
- A small, puny or unimportant person.
Synonyms: prawn.
2. Verb
- To fish for shrimp.
- To contract; to shrink.
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therapy

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therapy
/ˈθɛɹ.ə.pi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Attempted remediation of a health problem following a diagnosis, usually synonymous with treatment.
- Healing power or quality.
2. Verb
- To treat with a therapy.
- To undergo a therapy.
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panel

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panel
/ˈpænəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
- A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
- An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
- A type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.
- A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff; hence, more generally, the whole jury.
- A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
- A piece of cloth serving as a saddle.
- A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
- (joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
- One of the faces of a hewn stone.
- A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
- A heap of dressed ore.
- One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
- A frame for carrying a mortar.
- A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
- A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
- A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.
- A group of tests or assays, a battery.
2. Verb
- To fit with panels.
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iceberg

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iceberg
/ˈaɪsbɝɡ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf
- An aloof person.
- (after an adjective) An impending disastrous event whose adverse effects are only beginning to show, in reference to one-tenth of the volume of an iceberg being visible above water.
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penetrate

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penetrate
/ˈpɛnɪtɹeɪt/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
- To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
- To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
- To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
- To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus.
- To move a piece past the defending pieces of one’s opponent.
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neuron

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neuron
/ˈn(j)uɹɑn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites. Neurons are connected by synapses.
- A nervure of an insect’s wing.
- An artificial neuron (mathematical function serving as an essential unit of an artificial neural network)
Synonyms: nerve cell, neurocyte.
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delegate

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delegate

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy
- A representative at a conference, etc.
- An appointed representative in some legislative bodies
- A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer
2. Verb
- To authorize someone to be a delegate
- To commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate
- (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one’s own
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enhancement

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enhancement

Meaning:
1. Noun
- Improvement.
- (radiology) The degree to which the image of a scan stands out as a bright area.
Antonyms: dehancement.
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dioxide

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dioxide
/daɪˈɒksaɪd/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any oxide containing two oxygen atoms in each molecule.
Dioxide

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coral

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coral
/ˈkɔɹəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A hard substance made of the limestone skeletons of marine polyps.
- A colony of marine polyps.
- A somewhat yellowish pink colour, the colour of red coral.
- The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their colour.
- A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
2. Adjective
- Made of coral.
- Having the yellowish pink colour of coral.
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permanent

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permanent
/ˈpɝmənənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm.
- Given an n \times n matrix a_{ij} \,, the sum over all permutations \pi \, of \prod_{i=1}^n{a_{i\pi(i)}}.
- (trading card games) A card whose effects persist beyond the turn on which it is played.
2. Verb
- To perm (the hair).
3. Adjective
- Without end, eternal.
- Lasting for an indefinitely long time.
Synonyms: durable, intransient, everlasting, neverending, unending.
Antonyms: impermanent, temporary.
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moveable

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moveable

Meaning:
1. Noun
- Something which is movable; an article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture.
2. Adjective
- Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; not fixed or stationary
- Changing from one time to another
Antonyms: immovable.
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biomedical

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biomedical
/ˌbaɪoʊˈmedɪkl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A product of the biomedicine industry.
2. Adjective
- Of or pertaining to biomedicine.
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quantitative

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quantitative
/ˈkwɑntɪˌteɪtɪv/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of a measurement based on some quantity or number rather than on some quality
- Of a form of analysis that determines the amount of some element or compound in a sample
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segment

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segment

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A length of some object.
- One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
- A portion.
- A portion.
- A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.
- An Ethernet bus.
- A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.
- (travel) A portion of an itinerary: it may be a flight or train between two cities, or a car or hotel booked in a particular city.
- A bearing representing only one part of a rounded object.
Synonyms: circular segment, lith, line segment.
2. Verb
- To divide into segments or sections.
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herbicide

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herbicide

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A substance used to kill plants.
Thuốc diệt cỏ

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agrarian

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agrarian
/əˈɡɹɛ(ə)ɹi.ən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person who advocates the political interests of working farmers
2. Adjective
- Of, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land.
- Agricultural or rural.
- Wild; said of plants growing in a cultivated field.
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maximise

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maximise

Meaning:
1. Verb
- To make as large as possible
- To expand (a window) to fill the main display area
Antonyms: minimize.
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arctic

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arctic

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A warm waterproof overshoe.
- Any of various butterflies of the genus Oeneis.
2. Adjective
- (now only in compounds) Pertaining to the celestial north pole, or to the pole star.
- Pertaining to the northern polar region of the planet, characterised by extreme cold and an icy landscape.
- Extremely cold, snowy, or having other properties of extreme winter associated with the Arctic.
- Designed for use in very cold conditions.
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cottonwood

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cottonwood

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A tree from one of number of species of tree in the genus Populus (poplars), typically growing along watercourses, with fluffy catkins.
- Populus sect. Aigeiros, a taxonomic section of the poplar genus
- Cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), a flowering shrub or tree in the mallow family
Cottonwood

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specialise

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specialise

Meaning:
1. Verb
- To make distinct or separate, particularly:
- To become distinct or separate, particularly:
Antonyms: generalize.
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mammoth

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mammoth
/ˈmæməθ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia.
- A mastodon.
- Something very large of its kind.
2. Adjective
- Comparable to a mammoth in its size; very large, huge, gigantic.
Synonyms: colossal, enormous, gigantic, huge, titanic.
Mammoth

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diabetes

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diabetes
/ˌdaɪəˈbiːdiːz/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Diabetes insipidus; any condition characterized by excessive or incontinent urine, now specifically as caused by impaired production of, or response to, the antidiuretic hormone vasopressin.
- Any of a group of metabolic diseases whereby a person (or other animal) has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, or inability to metabolize, sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin.
- Any food or beverage with a high amount of sugar.
Synonyms: DM, diabeetus, diabetes mellitus.
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herbal

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herbal
/ˈɝbəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A manual of herbs and their medical uses
- An herbal supplement
2. Adjective
- Made from or with herbs.
- Made from natural herbs specifically as opposed to from synthetic materials.
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renewable

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renewable

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A thing that is renewable; especially, a renewable source of energy.
- A renewable resource.
2. Adjective
- Able to be renewed; capable of renewal.
- (of a resource) Sustainable; able to be regrown or renewed; having an ongoing or continuous source of supply; not finite.
Antonyms: non-renewable.
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extinction

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extinction
/ɪkˈstɪŋkʃ(ə)n/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
- The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects by intervening dust and gas before it reaches the observer.
- The inability to perceive multiple stimuli simultaneously
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submissive

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submissive
/səbˈmɪsɪv/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- (BDSM) One who submits to a dominant partner in sexual practices.
- One who submits.
2. Adjective
- Meekly obedient or passive.
Synonyms: biddable, docile, meek, obedient, slavish, subservient, timid.
Antonyms: defiant, rebellious, dominant, domineering.
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editorial

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editorial
/ˌɛdɪˈtɔɹiəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An article in a publication giving the opinion of its editors on a given topic or current event.
- A similar commentary on radio or television.
2. Adjective
- Of or relating to an editor, editing or an editorial.
- Appropriate for high fashion magazines.
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architect

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architect
/ˈɑɹkɪtɛkt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A professional who designs buildings or other structures, or who prepares plans and superintends construction.
- A person who plans, devises or contrives the achievement of a desired result.
- A title given to architects. Usually capitalized or abbreviated as Arch./Ar. before the person’s name.
2. Verb
- To design, plan, or orchestrate.
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voter

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voter
/ˈvoʊtɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Someone who votes.
cử tri

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seminar

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seminar

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A class held for advanced studies in which students meet regularly to discuss original research, under the guidance of a professor.
- A meeting held for the exchange of useful information by members of a common business community.
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paraphrase

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paraphrase

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning.
- One of a certain number of Scripture passages turned into verse for use in the service of praise.
2. Verb
- To restate something as, or to compose a paraphrase.
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mortality

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mortality
/mɔɹˈtælɪti/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The state or quality of being mortal.
- The number of deaths.
- Death.
- Mortals collectively.
Synonyms: humanity, humankind, mankind.
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isolation

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isolation
/ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The state of being isolated, detached, or separated.
- The state of being away from other people.
- The act of isolating.
- (of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
- The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
- The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
- A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
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cosmic

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cosmic
/ˈkɒz.mɪk/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of or from or pertaining to the cosmos or universe.
- Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast.
- Rising or setting with the sun; not acronycal.
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hue

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hue
/hju/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
- The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.
- A character; aspect.
- Form; appearance; guise.
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intrigue

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intrigue

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
- The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
- Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
2. Verb
- To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
- To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
- To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
- To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
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elite

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elite
/eɪˈliːt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A special group or social class of people which have a superior intellectual, social or economic status as, the elite of society.
- Someone who is among the best at a certain task.
2. Adjective
- Of high birth or social position; aristocratic or patrician.
- Representing the choicest or most select of a group.
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indicator

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indicator
/ˈɪn.dɪ.ˌkeɪ.tə(ɹ)/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A pointer or index that indicates something.
- A meter or gauge.
- The needle or dial on such a meter.
- Any of many substances, such as litmus, used to indicate the concentration of a substance, or the degree of a reaction.
- A plant or animal whose presence is indicative of some specific environment.
- A measure, such as unemployment rate, which can be used to predict economic trends.
- A turn signal; each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which indicate a turn is being made to left or right, or a lane change etc.
- A bird, the honeyguide.
Synonyms: blinker, directional, directional signal, trafficator, turn indicator, turn signal.
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innovative

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innovative
/ˈɪn.oʊˌveɪɾɪv/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Characterized by the creation of new ideas or inventions.
- Forward-looking; ahead of current thinking.
Synonyms: innovatory.
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linear

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linear
/ˈlɪn.i.ɚ/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Having the form of a line; straight or roughly straight; following a direct course.
- Of or relating to lines.
- Made, or designed to be used, in a step-by-step, sequential manner.
- (of leaves) Long and narrow, with nearly parallel sides.
- Of or relating to a class of polynomial of the form y = ax + b .
- A type of length measurement involving only one spatial dimension (as opposed to area or volume).
Antonyms: nonlinear.
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identifiable

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identifiable

Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Capable of being distinguished and named.
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behavioural

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behavioural

Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of or pertaining to behaviour.
hành vi

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unprecedented

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unprecedented
/ʌnˈpɹɛsɪdɛntɪd/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Never before seen, done, or experienced; without precedent.
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vocal

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vocal
/ˈvoʊ.kəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic; distinguished from a subvocal, and a nonvocal
- (Roman Catholic Church) A man who has a right to vote in certain elections.
2. Adjective
- Of or pertaining to the voice or speech
- Having a voice
- Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral
- Of or pertaining to a voice sound; spoken
- Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals (m), (n), ng; sonant; intonated; voiced. See voice, and vowel
- Of or pertaining to a vowel; having the character of a vowel; vowel
- Loud; getting oneself heard.
Synonyms: audible, loud, audible.
Antonyms: inaudible, quiet, silent, inaudible, quiet, silent, voiceless.
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morality

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morality
/məˈɹælɪti/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Recognition of the distinction between good and evil or between right and wrong; respect for and obedience to the rules of right conduct; the mental disposition or characteristic of behaving in a manner intended to produce morally good results.
- A set of social rules, customs, traditions, beliefs, or practices which specify proper, acceptable forms of conduct.
- A set of personal guiding principles for conduct or a general notion of how to behave, whether respectable or not.
- A lesson or pronouncement which contains advice about proper behavior.
- A morality play.
- Moral philosophy, the branch of philosophy which studies the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.
- A particular theory concerning the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.
Synonyms: ethics, moral philosophy, homily, ethics, moral philosophy, morals, decency, rectitude, righteousness, uprightness, virtuousness, convention, morals, mores.
Antonyms: amorality, immorality.
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accountant

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accountant
/ə.ˈkæʊn.(t)ən̩(t)/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- One who renders account; one accountable.
- A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).
- One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
- One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.
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trait

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trait
/tɹeɪ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.
- An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.
Synonyms: characteristic.
đặc điểm

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entrepreneur

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entrepreneur
/ˌɑn.trə.prəˈnɝ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person who organizes and operates a business venture and assumes much of the associated risk.
- A person who organizes a risky activity of any kind and acts substantially in the manner of a business entrepreneur.
- A person who strives for success and takes on risk by starting their own venture, service, etc.
Doanh nhân

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truant

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truant
/ˈtɹʊənt ~ ˈtɹuː.ənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- One who is absent without permission, especially from school.
2. Verb
- To play truant.
- To idle away; to waste.
- To idle away time.
3. Adjective
- Absent without permission, especially from school.
- Wandering from business or duty; straying; loitering; idle, and shirking duty.
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initiative

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initiative
/ɪˈnɪʃətɪv/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A beginning; a first move.
- A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
- The ability to act first or on one’s own.
- An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public.
Synonyms: direct initiative.
2. Adjective
- Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.
- In which voter initiatives can be brought to the ballot.
Antonyms: noninitiative.
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depression

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depression
/dəˈpɹɛʃ(ə)n/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future.
- An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
- In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self-inflicted injury or suicide.
- An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting hurricanes and tornadoes.
- A period of major economic contraction.
- Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
- The act of lowering or pressing something down.
- A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, in contrast to elevation.
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physiological

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physiological
/ˌfɪzi.əˈlɑdʒɪkəl/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of, or relating to physiology.
- Relating to the action of a drug when given to a healthy person, as distinguished from its therapeutic action.
Synonyms: physiologic.
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photography

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photography
/fəˈtɑɡɹəfi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.
- The occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs.
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nectar

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nectar
/ˈnɛk.təɹ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The drink of the gods.
- (by extension) Any delicious drink, now especially a type of sweetened fruit juice.
- The sweet liquid secreted by flowers to attract pollinating insects and birds.
2. Verb
- To feed on nectar.
Nectar

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prototype

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prototype
/-ɾə-/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models.
- An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
- A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
- An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
- A type of race car, a racing sports car not based on a production car. A 4-wheeled cockpit-seating car built especially for racing on sports car circuits, that does not use the silhouette related to a consumer road car.
Synonyms: prototype racecar, racing prototype, sports prototype.
2. Verb
- To create a prototype of.
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posture

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posture
/ˈpɑːstʃɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The way a person holds and positions their body.
- A situation or condition.
- One’s attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
- The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
2. Verb
- To put one’s body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired
- To pretend to have an opinion or a conviction
- To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
tư thế

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caterpillar

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caterpillar
/ˈkætɚˌpɪlɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm.
- A vehicle with a caterpillar track; a crawler.
Synonyms: leafworm.
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millennium

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millennium
/mɪˈlɛnɪəm/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
- The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations).
- A period of universal happiness, peace or prosperity; a utopia.
- (with definite article) The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.
Synonyms: ka, kiloannum, kiloyear, kyr, yearthousand.
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genome

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genome
/dʒɨˈnoʊm/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The complete genetic information (either DNA or, in some viruses, RNA) of an organism.
bộ gen

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eruption

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eruption
/ɪˈɹʌpʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A violent ejection, such as the spurting out of lava from a volcano.
- A sudden release of pressure or tension.
- An infection of the skin resulting in a rash or blemishing.
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fundamental

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fundamental
/ˌfʌndəˈmɛntəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- (usually in the plural) A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; an essential part
- The lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
- The lowest partial of a complex tone.
2. Adjective
- Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation.
- Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary.
Synonyms: groundlaying.
cơ bản

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clinical

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clinical
/ˈklɪnɪkəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A medical student’s session spent in a real-world nursing environment.
2. Adjective
- Of or pertaining to a medical clinic or facility.
- Dealing with practical management of patients; contrasting with prehealth sciences.
- Cool and emotionless.
- Of or relating to a bed.
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cluster

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cluster
/ˈklʌstɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A group or bunch of several discrete items that are close to each other.
- A number of individuals grouped together or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob.
- A group of galaxies or stars that appear near each other.
- A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, bundle, or lexical bundle.
- A secundal chord of three or more notes.
- A group of consonants.
- A group of computers that work together.
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block).
- A significant subset within a population.
- Set of bombs or mines.
- A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.
- Euphemism of clusterfuck.
- An ensemble of bound atoms or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.
2. Verb
- To form a cluster or group.
- To collect into clusters.
- To cover with clusters.
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audition

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audition

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent.
- The sense of hearing.
- An act of hearing; being heard.
- Something heard.
Synonyms: casting, tryout.
2. Verb
- To evaluate one or more performers in through an audition.
- To take part in such a performance.
thử giọng

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pesticide

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pesticide
/ˈpɛstɪ̈ˌsaɪd/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or virus, bacterium, or other organism, which kills or suppresses the activities of pests.
thuốc trừ sâu

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archaeology

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archaeology
/ˌɑɹ.kiˈɑ.lə.dʒi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains:
Khảo cổ học

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pedestrian

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pedestrian
/pəˈdɛst.ɹi.ən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A walker; one who walks or goes on foot, especially as opposed to one who uses a vehicle.
- Specifically, an expert or professional walker or runner; one who performs feats of walking or running.
Synonyms: footer, footfarer, footgoer, footman.
2. Adjective
- Of or intended for those who are walking.
- Ordinary, dull; everyday; unexceptional.
- Pertaining to ordinary, everyday movements incorporated in postmodern dance.
đi bộ

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inadvertently

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inadvertently

Meaning:
1. Adverb
- Unintentionally, because of an oversight
Antonyms: advert, advertently.
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peanut

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peanut
/ˈpinət/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea.
- A very small clam.
Synonyms: goober, goober pea, monkey nut.
2. Verb
- To pull on somebody’s tie as a prank, causing the knot to tighten.
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calcium

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calcium
/ˈkælsi.əm/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The chemical element (Symbol Ca), with an atomic number 20. It is a soft, silvery-white alkaline earth metal which occurs naturally as carbonate in limestone and as silicate in many rocks.
- An atom of this element.
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psychologist

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psychologist
/ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An expert in the field of psychology.
nhà tâm lý học

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palm

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palm
/pɑlm/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics.
- A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.
- (by extension) Triumph; victory.
- Any of 23 awards that can be earned after obtaining the Eagle Scout rank, but generally only before turning 18 years old.
Synonyms: palm tree.
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spike

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spike
/spaɪk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- In a violin-family instrument, the carved wooden plug which sits in the bottom block of the instrument.
Synonyms: button, endpin.
2. Noun
- The spike of a cello or double bass that makes contact with the floor and supports the weight of the instrument.
3. Noun
- A sort of very large nail.
- A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
- Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
- An ear of corn or grain.
- A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
- (chiefly in the plural) A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
- A sharp peak in a graph.
- A surge in power or in the price of a commodity etc.
- The long, narrow part of a high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
- A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
- An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- An adolescent male deer.
- The casual ward of a workhouse.
- Spike lavender.
Synonyms: catkin, cluster, corymb, raceme, umbel, spindle.
4. Verb
- To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
- To set or furnish with spikes.
- To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
- To fix on a spike.
- To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
- To increase sharply.
- To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into a drink.
- To add a small amount of one substance to another.
- To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
- (football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
Synonyms: attack, hit.
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pollen

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pollen
/ˈpɑlən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A fine granular substance produced in flowers. Technically a collective term for pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants. (This specific usage dating from mid 18th century.)
- Fine powder in general, fine flour. (16th-century usage documented by the OED.)
2. Verb
- To cover with, or as if with, pollen.
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nutritional

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nutritional

Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of, pertaining to, or providing nutrition.
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anthropologist

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anthropologist
/ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- One who is versed in anthropology.
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impair

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impair
/ɪmˈpɛə/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
- To grow worse; to deteriorate.
Synonyms: blunt, diminish, hurt, lessen, mar, reduce, weaken, worsen.
2. Adjective
- Not fit or appropriate; unsuitable.
suy yếu

102
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dwell

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dwell
/dwɛl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
- A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
- A planned delay in a timed control program.
- In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each).
2. Verb
- To live; to reside.
- To linger (on) a particular thought, idea etc.; to remain fixated (on).
- To be in a given state.
- To abide; to remain; to continue.
sống

103
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representation

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representation
/ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛn.ˈteɪ.ʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- That which represents something else.
- The act of representing.
- The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
- The ability to elect a representative to speak on one’s behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
- An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces; (more formally) a homomorphism from a group on a vector space to the general linear group (group of all bijective linear transformations) on the space.
- A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
- A theatrical performance.
Synonyms: likeness.
đại diện

104
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complexity

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complexity
/kəmˈplɛk.sɪ.ti/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
- That which is and renders complex; intricacy; complication.
Synonyms: complicacy.
Antonyms: simplicity.
sự phức tạp

105
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toxin

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toxin
/ˈtɑksɪn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A toxic or poisonous substance produced by the biological processes of biological organisms.
độc tố

106
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miraculous

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miraculous
/məˈɹækjələs/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- By supernatural or uncommon causes, e.g. by a god; that cannot be explained in terms of normal events.
- Very surprising; amazing.
kỳ diệu

107
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invasive

A

invasive
/ɪnˈveɪsɪv/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An invasive organism, as, a plant or animal.
2. Adjective
- That invades a foreign country using military force.
- Relating to military aggression generally.
- (of a plant or animal) That grows in environments which do not harbor natural enemies, often to the detriment of native species or of food or garden flora and fauna.
- (of a carcinoma etc) That invades healthy tissue; (of a procedure) in which part of the body is entered
- Intrusive on one’s privacy.
- Coming from outside; originating externally.
xâm lấn

108
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glamour

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glamour
/ˈɡlæmɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seems beauteous.
- Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
- Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing.
- Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, or person, through which it or they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
- A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
- An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.
2. Verb
- To enchant; to bewitch.
sự quyến rũ

109
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entity

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entity
/ˈen.tɪ.ti/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.
- The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
- Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts.
- The state or quality of being or existence.
- A spirit, ghost, or the like.
- An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.
thực thể

110
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clown

A

clown
/klaʊn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.
- A person who acts in a silly fashion.
- A stupid person.
- A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.
- One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl; a yokel.
Synonyms: buffoon, fool.
2. Verb
- To act in a silly or playful fashion.
- To ridicule.
chú hề

111
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pollinate

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pollinate

Meaning:
1. Verb
- To apply pollen to (a stigma).
2. Adjective
- Pollinose.
thụ phấn

112
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distortion

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distortion
/dɪsˈtɔːʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An act of distorting.
- A result of distorting.
- A misrepresentation of the truth.
- Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
- An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal.
- (optics) an aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view.
Synonyms: deformation, disfigurement.
biến dạng

113
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sizeable

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sizeable

Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Fairly large.
lớn

114
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auditory

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auditory

Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of, or relating to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing
Synonyms: otic.
thính giác

115
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peasantry

A

peasantry

Meaning:
1. Noun
- Impoverished rural farm workers, either as serfs, small freeholders or hired hands.
- Ignorant people of the lowest social status; bumpkins, rustics.
Nông dân

116
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reproductive

A

reproductive

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A reproductive organism (especially such as in an insect).
2. Adjective
- Of or relating to reproduction.
- That reproduces.
sinh sản

117
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imperial

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imperial
/ɪmˈpɪ.ɹi.əl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 6 liters of fluid, eight times the volume of a standard bottle.
- A writing paper size measuring 30 × 22 inches, or printing paper measuring 32 × 22 inches.
- A card game differing from piquet in some minor details, and in having a trump.
- Any of several combinations of cards which score in this game.
- A crown imperial.
- A tuft of hair on the lower lip (so called from its use by Napoleon III).
- A kind of dome, as in Moorish buildings.
- An outside seat on a diligence.
- A variety of green tea.
Synonyms: royal.
2. Adjective
- Related to an empire, emperor, or empress.
- Relating to the British imperial system of measurement.
- Very grand or fine.
- Of special, superior, or unusual size or excellence.
Synonyms: old money.
Hoàng gia

118
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fertiliser

A

fertiliser

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A natural substance that is used to make the ground more suitable for growing plants.
- A chemical compound created to have the same effect.
phân bón

119
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distraction

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distraction
/dɪsˈtɹækʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Something that distracts.
- The process of being distracted.
- Perturbation; disorder; disturbance; confusion.
- Mental disorder; a deranged state of mind; insanity.
- Traction so exerted as to separate surfaces normally opposed.
phân tâm

120
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biocontrol

A

biocontrol

Meaning:
1. Noun
- The biological control of pests by the use of organisms that are natural predators, parasites, or pathogens
2. Verb
- To exercise such control
Biocontrol

121
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influx

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influx
/ˈɪnˌflʌks/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A flow inward or into something; a coming in.
- That which flows or comes in.
- Influence; power.
Synonyms: importation, infusion, introduction, intromission, instreaming.
Antonyms: efflux.
Dòng chảy

122
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adviser

A

adviser
/ædˈvaɪz.ɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- One who advises
Cố vấn

123
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ministerial

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ministerial
/ˌmɪn.əˈstiɹ.i.əl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A member of the mediaeval estate or caste of unfree nobles.
2. Adjective
- Related to a religious minister or ministry.
- Related to a governmental minister or ministry.
- Having the power to wield delegated executive authority.
- Serving as an instrument or means (i.e., procedural or ancillary, not substantive).
Synonyms: instrumental.
Bộ trưởng

124
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scenario

A

scenario
/sɪˈnæɹioʊ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An outline of the plot of a dramatic or literary work.
- A screenplay itself, or an outline or a treatment of it.
- An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events.
kịch bản

125
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impressionism

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impressionism

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A movement in art characterized by visible brush strokes, ordinary subject matters, and an emphasis on light and its changing qualities
- A style that avoided traditional harmony, and sought to invoke the impressions of the composer
- A style that used imagery and symbolism to portray the poet’s impressions
Ấn tượng

126
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designate

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designate
/ˈdɛzɪɡ.neɪt/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To mark out and make known; to point out; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description
- To call by a distinctive title; to name.
- To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; — with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.
Synonyms: denominate, entitle, name, style, denote, describe, indicate, note, allocate, earmark.
2. Adjective
- Designated; appointed; chosen.
- Used after a role title to indicate that the person has been selected but has yet to take up the role.
chỉ định

127
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octopus

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octopus
/ˈɑːk.tə.pəs/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any of several marine molluscs of the family Octopodidae, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid and cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers.
- The flesh of these marine molluscs eaten as food.
- An organization that has many powerful branches controlled from the centre.
Synonyms: polypus.
2. Verb
- To put (or attempt to put) one’s fingers, hands or arms in many things or places at roughly the same time.
- To spread out in long arms or legs in many directions.
- To plug a large number of devices into a single electric outlet.
- (by extension) To grow in use vastly beyond what was originally intended.
- To hunt and catch octopuses.
- To behave like an octopus.
Bạch tuộc

128
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metropolis

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metropolis
/mɪˈtɹɒpəlɪs/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- (history) The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony.
- A large, busy city, especially as the main city in an area or country or as distinguished from surrounding rural areas.
- (canon law) The see of a metropolitan archbishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops.
- A generic focus in the distribution of plants or animals.
Synonyms: archbishopric, metropole, mother city.
đô thị

129
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beetle

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beetle
[ˈbiɾəɫ]
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A small car, the Volkswagen Beetle (original version made 1938–2003, similar models made 1997–2010 and since 2011)
Synonyms: Bug.
2. Noun
- Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
- A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
Synonyms: bug.
3. Verb
- To move away quickly, to scurry away.
bọ cánh cứng

130
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folklore

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folklore
/ˈfəʊk.lɔː/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The tales, legends and superstitions of a particular ethnic population.
Văn hóa dân gian

131
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gravitational

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gravitational
/ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪʃənəl/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Pertaining to, or caused by, gravity or gravitation.
Synonyms: gravitic.
hấp dẫn

132
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offspring

A

offspring
/ˈɑfspɹɪŋ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person’s daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person’s children.
- All of a person’s descendants, including further generations.
- An animal or plant’s progeny or young.
- Anything produced; the result of an entity’s efforts.
- A process launched by another process.
Synonyms: binary clone, descendant, fruit of one’s loins, get, lineage, progeny, seed, baby, child, fruit of one’s loins, get, issue, kid.
Antonyms: father, genitor, mother, parent, progenitor, ancestor, forbears, forebears, forefathers.
con cái

133
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viper

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viper
/ˈvaɪpɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A venomous snake in the family Viperidae.
- A dangerous, treacherous, or malignant person.
- A person who smokes marijuana.
Synonyms: adder.
Viper

134
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counsel

A

counsel
/ˈkaʊn.səl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The exchange of opinions and advice especially in legal issues; consultation.
- Exercise of judgment; prudence.
- Advice; guidance.
- Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.
- A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.
- A lawyer, as in Queen’s Counsel (QC).
2. Verb
- To give advice, especially professional advice, to (somebody).
- To recommend (a course of action).
tư vấn

135
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conceive

A

conceive
/kənˈsiːv/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate.
- To understand (someone).
- To become pregnant (with).
quan niệm

136
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rumble

A

rumble
/ˈɹʌmb(ə)l/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.
- A street fight or brawl.
- A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
- A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
2. Verb
- To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.
- To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.
- To move while making a rumbling noise.
- To fight; to brawl.
- (of a game controller) to provide haptic feedback by vibrating.
- To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
- To murmur; to ripple.
3. Interjection
- An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise
ầm ầm

137
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dome

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dome
/dəʊm/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere; a cupola
- Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover
- Head (uppermost part of one’s body)
- Head, oral sex
- A building; a house; an edifice
- Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
- A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form
2. Verb
- To give a domed shape to.
- To perform fellatio on.
Mái vòm

138
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maple

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maple
/ˈmeɪpl̩/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A tree of the Acer genus, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds.
- The wood of such a tree, prized for its hardness and attractive appearance
cây phong

139
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controversy

A

controversy
/ˈkɑntɹəˌvɝsi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A debate or discussion of opposing opinions; (generally) strife.
tranh cãi

140
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migrant

A

migrant
/ˈmaɪɡɹənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A migratory bird or other animal.
- Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.
- An immigrant or refugee.
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called an emigrant.
2. Adjective
- Migratory.
người di cư

141
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interdisciplinary

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interdisciplinary

Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of or pertaining to multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study.
- Of or pertaining to a linkage between multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study.
liên ngành

142
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advertisement

A

advertisement
/ədˈvɝtɪzmənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.
- A public notice.
- A recommendation of a particular product, service or person.
- Notoriety.
- In gin rummy, the discarding of a card of one’s preferred suit so as to mislead the opponent into thinking you do not want it.
Synonyms: ad, advert.
quảng cáo

143
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metabolism

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metabolism
/məˈtæ.bəlˌɪz.əm/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.
- (by extension) The processes that maintain any dynamic system.
Chuyển hóa

144
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drowsy

A

drowsy
/ˈdɹaʊzi/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness
- Causing someone to fall sleep or feel sleepy; lulling; soporific.
- Boring.
- Dull; stupid.
Synonyms: dozy, lethargic.
buồn ngủ

145
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shipwreck

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shipwreck
/ˈʃɪpɹɛk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy.
- An event where a ship sinks or runs aground.
- Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss
Synonyms: shipbreach.
2. Verb
- To wreck a boat through a collision or mishap.
Đóng tàu

146
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allergic

A

allergic
[ə.ˈlɝ.dʒɪk]
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person with a tendency to having allergies; a person with multiple or severe allergies.
2. Adjective
- Of or pertaining to allergy.
- Having an allergy.
- Excessively sensitive; susceptible.
dị ứng

147
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unauthorised

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unauthorised

Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Not authorised; having no authority.
trái phép

148
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overdue

A

overdue
/ˌoʊ.vəɹˈdu/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.
Quá hạn

149
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proximity

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proximity
/pɹɑkˈsɪ.mɪ.ti/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Closeness; the state of being near as in space, time, or relationship.
Synonyms: closeness, nearness.
sự gần gũi

150
Q

resultant

A

resultant

Meaning:
1. Noun
- Anything that results from something else; an outcome
- A vector that is the vector sum of multiple vectors
2. Adjective
- Following as a result or consequence of something
kết quả

151
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vibrant

A

vibrant
/ˈvaɪbɹənt/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Pulsing with energy or activity.
- Lively and vigorous.
- Vibrating, resonant or resounding.
- (of a colour) Bright.
Synonyms: dazzling, luminous, nitid, dynamic, energetic, spirited, booming, remugient.
sôi động

152
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ramp

A

ramp
/ɹæmp/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
- A road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.
- A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport
- A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron)
- A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
- A speed bump.
- A leap or bound.
- A concave bend at the top or cap of a railing, wall, or coping; a romp.
2. Verb
- To behave violently; to rage.
- To spring; to leap; to bound, rear, or prance; to move swiftly or violently.
- To climb, like a plant; to creep up.
- To stand in a rampant position.
- To (cause to) change value, often at a steady rate.
- To adapt a piece of iron to the woodwork of a gate.
RAMP

153
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integrity

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integrity
/ɪnˈtɛɡɹəti/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
- The state of being wholesome; unimpaired
- The quality or condition of being complete; pure
- With regards to data encryption, ensuring that information is not altered by unauthorized persons in a way that is not detectable by authorized users.
- The ability of a system to provide timely warnings to users when they should not be used for navigation.
chính trực

154
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irrigate

A

irrigate
/ˈɪɹəˌɡeɪt/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To supply (farmland) with water, by building ditches, pipes, etc.
- To clean (a wound) with a fluid.
tưới

155
Q

bar code

A

bar code

Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any set of machine-readable parallel bars or concentric circles, varying in width, spacing, or height, encoding information according to a symbology
- A portion of a gene that identifies a particular species
Mã vạch

156
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canine

A

canine
/kəˈnaɪn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any member of Caninae, the only living subfamily of Canidae.
- Any of certain extant canids regarded as similar to the dog or wolf (including coyotes, jackals, etc.) but distinguished from the vulpines, which are regarded as fox-like.
- In heterodont mammals, the pointy tooth between the incisors and the premolars; a cuspid.
- A king and a nine as a starting hand in Texas hold ‘em due to phonetic similarity.
Synonyms: dog, cuspid.
2. Adjective
- Of, or pertaining to, a dog or dogs.
- Dog-like.
- Of or pertaining to mammalian teeth which are cuspids or fangs.
- Of an appetite: depraved or inordinate; used to describe eating disorders.
Synonyms: doglike, dogly, houndly, dogly, houndly.
răng nanh

157
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trade-off

A

trade-off

Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any situation in which the quality or quantity of one thing must be decreased for another to be increased.
Synonyms: compromise.
sự đánh đổi

158
Q

rampant

A

rampant
/ˈɹæm.pənt/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Rearing on both hind legs with the forelegs extended.
- Rearing up, especially on its hind leg(s), with a foreleg raised and in profile.
- Tilted, said of an arch with one side higher than the other, or a vault whose two abutments are located on an inclined plane.
- Unrestrained or unchecked, usually in a negative manner.
- Rife, or occurring widely, frequently or menacingly.
hung hăng

159
Q

geological

A

geological
/ˌdʒi.əˈlɑdʒ.ɪk.əl/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of, or relating to geology or a geologic time scale.
Synonyms: geological.
Địa chất

160
Q

endurance

A

endurance
/ɪnˈdɝəns/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The measure of a person’s stamina or persistence.
- Ability to endure hardship.
- The length of time that a ship’s rations will supply
Synonyms: thole.
sức chịu đựng

161
Q

virtual

A

virtual
/ˈvɝtʃuəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A virtual member function of a class.
2. Adjective
- In effect or essence, if not in fact or reality; imitated, simulated.
- Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or measurable part; potential.
- Nearly, almost. (A relatively recent development in meaning)
- Simulated in a computer or online.
- Operating by computer or in cyberspace; not physically present.
- (of a class member) Capable of being overridden with a different implementation in a subclass.
- Pertaining to particles in temporary existence due to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
Synonyms: de facto.
Antonyms: real.
ảo

162
Q

periodic

A

periodic
/ˌpɪɹiˈɑdɪk/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Relative to a period or periods.
- Having repeated cycles.
- Occurring at regular intervals.
- Periodical.
- Pertaining to the revolution of a celestial object in its orbit.
- (stochastic processes, of a state) For which any return to it must occur in multiples of k time steps, for some k>1.
- Having a structure characterized by periodic sentences.
Synonyms: cyclic, cyclic.
Antonyms: aperiodic, non-periodic.
định kỳ

163
Q

elevation

A

elevation
/ˌɛlɪˈveɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.
- The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
- That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station.
- The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude.
- The measured vertical distance from the peak of a mountain or hill to its bordering lowlands.
- The angle which the gnomon makes with the substylar line.
- The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line of sight; distinguished from direction.
- A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; called by the ancients the orthography.
- The raising of the host—representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.
Antonyms: demotion, depression, diminishment, disgust, reduction.
độ cao

164
Q

epidemic

A

epidemic
/ˌɛpɪˈdɛmɪk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A widespread disease that affects many individuals in a population.
- An occurrence of a disease or disorder in a population at a frequency higher than that expected in a given time period.
Antonyms: endemic.
2. Adjective
- Like or having to do with an epidemic; widespread
Synonyms: common, ubiquitous.
Antonyms: endemic.
bệnh dịch

165
Q

photographer

A

photographer
/fəˈtɑɡɹəfɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- One who takes photographs, typically as an occupation.
Synonyms: photographist.
nhiếp ảnh gia

166
Q

juror

A

juror
/ˈdʒʊəɹɔɹ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A member of a jury.
Synonyms: jurat.
JUROR

167
Q

crucial

A

crucial
/ˈkɹuː.ʃəl/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important.
- Cruciform or cruciate; cross-shaped.
- (Bermuda) Very good; excellent; particularly applied to reggae music.
chủ yếu

168
Q

disrupt

A

disrupt
/dɪsˈɹʌpt/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To throw into confusion or disorder.
- To interrupt or impede.
- To improve a product or service in ways that displace an established one and surprise the market.
2. Adjective
- Torn off or torn asunder; severed; disrupted.
phá vỡ

169
Q

stance

A

stance
/stæns/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The manner, pose, or posture in which one stands.
- One’s opinion or point of view.
- A place to stand; a position, a site, a station.
- A place for buses or taxis to await passengers; a bus stop, a taxi rank.
- A place where a fair or market is held; a location where a street trader can carry on business.
- A stanza.
Synonyms: position, posture, stand, stand, stand.
2. Verb
- To place, to position, to station; (specifically) to put (cattle) into an enclosure or pen in preparation for sale.
lập trường

170
Q

iridescent

A

iridescent
/ɪ.ɹɪˈdɛs.ənt/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Producing a display of lustrous, rainbow-like colors; prismatic.
- Brilliant, lustrous, or colorful.
ánh bạc

171
Q

gear

A

gear
/ɡɪɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Equipment or paraphernalia, especially that used for an athletic endeavor.
- Clothing; garments.
- Goods; property; household items.
- A wheel with grooves (teeth) engraved on the outer circumference, such that two such devices can interlock and convey motion from one to the other; a gear wheel.
- A particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved.
- A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque.
- Recreational drugs, including steroids.
- Stuff.
- Business matters; affairs; concern.
- Anything worthless; nonsense; rubbish.
Synonyms: cog, cogwheel, gearwheel.
2. Verb
- To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.
- To be in, or come into, gear.
- To dress; to put gear on; to harness.
- (usually with to or toward(s)) To design or devise (something) so as to be suitable (for a particular type of person or a particular purpose).
- To borrow money in order to invest it in assets.
3. Adjective
- Great or fantastic
bánh răng

172
Q

toxic

A

toxic
/ˈtɑk.sɪk/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities.
- Appearing grossly unwell; characterised by serious, potentially life-threatening compromise in the respiratory, circulatory or other body systems.
- Severely negative or harmful.
- (of a person) Hateful or strongly antipathetic.
Synonyms: poisonous, venomous.
độc hại

173
Q

identity

A

identity
/aɪˈdɛntəti/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
- The difference or character that marks off an individual or collective from the rest of the same kind, selfhood, sense of who something or someone or oneself is, or the recurring characteristics that enable the recognition of such an individual or group by others or themself.
- A name or persona—a mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
- An equation which always holds true regardless of the choice of input variables.
- Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
- An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this second element.
- A well-known or famous person.
Synonyms: individuality, selfhood, celebrity, personality, identity function.
danh tính

174
Q

flip

A

flip
/flɪp/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A maneuver which rotates an object end over end.
- A complete change of direction, decision, movement etc.
- A slingshot.
- A hairstyle popular among boys in the 1960s–70s and 2000s–10s, in which the hair goes halfway down the ears, at which point it sticks out
- The purchase of an asset (usually a house) which is then improved and sold quickly for profit.
2. Verb
- To throw so as to turn over.
- To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger.
- To win a state (or county) won by another party in the preceding elections
- To turn state’s evidence; to agree to testify against one’s co-conspirators in exchange for concessions from prosecutors.
- To induce someone to turn state’s evidence; to get someone to agree to testify against their co-conspirators in exchange for concessions.
- To go berserk or crazy.
- To buy an asset (usually a house), improve it and sell it quickly for profit.
- To invert a bit (binary digit), changing it from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.
Synonyms: toss, turn, turn over.
Lật

175
Q

stroll

A

stroll
/stɹoʊl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.
2. Verb
- To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
- To go somewhere with ease.
- To walk the streets as a prostitute.
Synonyms: ramble, range, roam, rove, stray, rove.
đi dạo

176
Q

duel

A

duel
/ˈd(j)uəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.
- Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat)
- Any struggle between two contending persons, groups or ideas.
2. Verb
- To engage in a battle.
đấu tay đôi

177
Q

spawn

A

spawn
/ˈspɔːn/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
- To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers.
- To bring forth in general.
- To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
- To plant with fungal spawn.
- To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
- To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
- (of a character or object) (To cause) to appear spontaneously in a game at a certain point and time.
sinh sản

178
Q

salmon

A

salmon
/ˈsælmən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.
- (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
- The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
- Snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
Synonyms: lax, salmon pink.
2. Verb
- To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.
3. Adjective
- Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.
Cá hồi

179
Q

developmental

A

developmental
/dɪˌvɛləpˈmɛntəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A trainee flight controller.
2. Adjective
- Related to development.
phát triển

180
Q

bishop

A

bishop
/ˈbɪʃəp/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church’s priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
- The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
- Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
- A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
- The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil (“elephant”) and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
- Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
- A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
- A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
- A bustle.
- A children’s smock or pinafore.
Synonyms: consecrator, diocesan bishop, suffragan bishop, hierarch, ordinary.
2. Verb
- To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another’s membership in the church.
- To make a bishop.
- To provide with bishops.
- To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops’ role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
- (by extension, of horses) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
Giám mục

181
Q

artery

A

artery
/ˈɑɹ.təɹɪ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An efferent blood vessel from the heart, conveying blood away from the heart regardless of oxygenation status; see pulmonary artery.
- A major transit corridor.
động mạch

182
Q

stun

A

stun
/stʌn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The condition of being stunned.
- That which stuns; a shock; a stupefying blow.
- A person who lacks intelligence.
- The effect on the cue ball where the ball is hit without topspin, backspin or sidespin.
2. Verb
- To incapacitate; especially by inducing disorientation or unconsciousness.
- To shock or surprise.
- To hit the cue ball so that it slides without topspin or backspin (and with or without sidespin) and continues at a natural angle after contact with the object ball
choáng

183
Q

inevitable

A

inevitable
/ɪnˈɛvɪtəbəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Something that is predictable, necessary, or cannot be avoided.
Antonyms: evitable, impossible.
2. Adjective
- Impossible to avoid or prevent.
- Predictable, or always happening.
Synonyms: certain, necessary, impreventable, inescapable, unavoidable, natural, necessary.
Antonyms: impossible, incidental, avoidable, escapable, evitable, preventable.
không thể tránh khỏi

184
Q

potential

A

potential
/po(ʊ)ˈtɛnʃəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to)
- The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
- The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified location in the presence of a force field, for example to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.
- (grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
Synonyms: noumenon, spirit.
Antonyms: matter, phenomenon.
2. Adjective
- Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
- Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result
- A potential field is an irrotational (static) field.
- A potential flow is an irrotational flow.
- (grammar) Referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable.
Synonyms: efficacious, influential, noumenal, spiritual, virtual.
Antonyms: actual, phenomenal, real.
tiềm năng

185
Q

revolutionise

A

revolutionise

Meaning:
1. Verb
- To change radically or significantly, as in a revolution.
cách mạng hóa

186
Q

buck

A

buck
/bʌk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.
- An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
- A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
- A fop or dandy.
- A black or Native American man.
- A dollar (one hundred cents).
- A rand (currency unit).
- (by extension) Money.
- One hundred.
- An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
- (in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
- The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
- One million dollars.
- A euro.
- A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
- A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting
- A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork. See Street Rodder “Making a Wood Buck”.
Synonyms: button, stag, hob, hob-ferret, billy, billygoat, buck-goat, buckling, he-goat, ram, tup, bill, bone, clam, cucumber, dead president, greenback, note, one-spot, paper, simoleon, single, smackeroo.
2. Verb
- To copulate, as bucks and does.
3. Noun
- A type of African American traditional clogging.
4. Noun
- The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
- The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
- A hybrid plant.
- A stubborn person.
- A person paid to smuggle drugs.
- A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
- A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner’s primary character.
- Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.
- A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.
- A kind of cotton-spinning machine.
5. Noun
- A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot.
Buck

187
Q

socioeconomic

A

socioeconomic

Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of or pertaining to social and economic factors.
Kinh tế xã hội

188
Q

patent

A

patent
/ˈpeɪtənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A declaration issued by a government agency declaring someone the inventor of a new invention and having the privilege of stopping others from making, using or selling the claimed invention; a letter patent.
- A specific grant of ownership of a piece of property; a land patent.
- License; formal permission.
- Patent leather: a varnished, high-gloss leather typically used for shoes and accessories.
2. Verb
- To successfully register an invention with a government agency; to secure a letter patent.
bằng sáng chế

189
Q

cultivation

A

cultivation
/ˌkʌltɪˈveɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The art or act of cultivating; improvement of land for or by agriculture
- The state of being cultivated or used for agriculture
- Devotion of time or attention to the improvement of (something)
- Advancement or refinement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition
Synonyms: culture, education, refinement, tillage.
tu luyện

190
Q

artefact

A

artefact

Meaning:
1. Noun
- An object made or shaped by human hand or labor.
- An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.
- Something viewed as a product of human agency or conception rather than an inherent element.
- A finding or structure in an experiment or investigation that is not a true feature of the object under observation, but is a result of external action, the test arrangement, or an experimental error.
- An object, such as a tool, ornament, or weapon of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
- An appearance or structure in protoplasm due to death, the method of preparation of specimens, or the use of reagents, and not present during life.
- A perceptible distortion that appears in an audio or video file or a digital image as a result of applying a lossy compression algorithm.
đồ tạo tác

191
Q

simplistic

A

simplistic
/sɪmˈplɪstɪk/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Overly simple.
- In a manner that simplifies a concept or issue so that its nuance and complexity are lost or important details are overlooked.
- Of or relating to simples, or medicinal herbs.
đơn giản

192
Q

bard

A

bard
[bɑɹd]
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
- (by extension) A poet.
thi nhân

193
Q

exploration

A

exploration
/ˌɛkspləˈɹeɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The process of exploring.
- The process of penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of (especially geographical) discovery.
- The (pre-)mining process of finding and determining commercially viable ore deposits (after prospecting), also called mineral exploration.
- A physical examination of a patient.
khám phá

194
Q

archive

A

archive
/ˈɑɹkaɪv/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.
- The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
- Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
2. Verb
- To put into an archive.
lưu trữ

195
Q

anthropology

A

anthropology
/ˌænθɹəˈpɑːlədʒi/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The holistic scientific and social study of humanity, mainly using ethnography as its method.
Nhân chủng học

196
Q

vicious

A

vicious
/ˈvɪʃəs/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Violent, destructive and cruel.
- Savage and aggressive.
- Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
Synonyms: scathy.
độc ác

197
Q

respondent

A

respondent

Meaning:
1. Noun
- One who responds; one who replies.
- A defendant, especially in a case instituted by a petition or in appellate and divorce proceedings.
- A person replying to a questionnaire.
2. Adjective
- Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding.
người trả lời

198
Q

entitlement

A

entitlement
/ənˈtaɪtəlmənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The right to have something, whether actual or perceived.
- Power, authority to do something.
- Something that one is entitled to.
- A legal obligation on a government to make payments to a person, business, or unit of government that meets the criteria set in law, such as social security in the US.
quyền

199
Q

plausible

A

plausible
/ˈplɔːz.ə.bəl/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; conceivably true or likely
- Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious.
- Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
hợp lý

200
Q

sentiment

A

sentiment
/ˈsɛn.tɪ.mənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A general thought, feeling, or sense.
- Feelings, especially tender feelings, as apart from reason or judgment, or of a weak or foolish kind.
tình cảm

201
Q

insulin

A

insulin
/ˈɪnsəlɪn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A polypeptide hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism.
insulin

202
Q

sheer

A

sheer
/ʃɪɹ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A sheer curtain or fabric.
2. Adjective
- Very thin or transparent.
- Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.
- (by extension) Downright; complete; pure.
- Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
- Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
Synonyms: downright, mere, pure, unmitigated, pure, undiluted, perpendicular, steep, vertical, diaphanous, see-through, thin.
3. Adverb
- Clean; quite; at once.
tuyệt đối

203
Q

excavate

A

excavate
/ˈɛk.skə.veɪt/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To make a hole in (something); to hollow.
- To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out.
- To uncover (something) by digging.
Khai quật

204
Q

offence

A

offence

Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of offending:
- The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.
- A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; contrasted with defense.
- The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so; contrasted with defense.
Antonyms: defence, defense.
xúc phạm

205
Q

console

A

console
/ˈkɑːn.soʊl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A stand-alone cabinet designed to stand on the floor; especially, one that houses home entertainment equipment, such as a TV or stereo system.
- A cabinet that controls, instruments, and displays are mounted upon.
- An instrument with displays and an input device that is used to monitor and control an electronic system.
- A storage tray or container mounted between the seats of an automobile.
- An ornamental member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.
Bảng điều khiển

206
Q

gut

A

gut
/ɡʌt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
- The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged
- The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
- A person’s emotional, visceral self.
- A class that is not demanding or challenging.
- A narrow passage of water.
- The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. When dry, it is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fishing line.
Synonyms: abdomen, beer belly, beer gut, belly, paunch, potbelly, stomach, tum, tummy, alimentary canal, digestive system, guts, innards, intestine, tharm, catgut.
2. Verb
- To eviscerate.
- To remove or destroy the most important parts of.
3. Adjective
- Made of gut.
- Instinctive.
ruột

207
Q

forum

A

forum
/ˈfɔːɹəm/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A place for discussion.
- A gathering for the purpose of discussion.
- A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.
- An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.
- A square or marketplace in a Roman town, used for public business and commerce.
Diễn đàn

208
Q

exploratory

A

exploratory

Meaning:
1. Noun
- An exploration or investigation
2. Adjective
- Serving to explore or investigate.
khám phá

209
Q

accordion

A

accordion
/ə.ˈkɔɹ.di.ən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.
- A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents.
Synonyms: squeezebox.
2. Verb
- To fold up, in the manner of an accordion
accordion

210
Q

tidal

A

tidal
/ˈtaɪd(ə)l/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Relating to tides
thủy triều

211
Q

landmark

A

landmark
/ˈlændmɑɹk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An object that marks the boundary of a piece of land (usually a stone, or a tree).
- A recognizable natural or man-made feature used for navigation.
- A notable location with historical, cultural, or geographical significance.
- A major event or discovery.
Synonyms: mark, marker, merestone, milestone, monument, sight.
2. Verb
- To officially designate a site or building as a landmark.
mốc

212
Q

constitutional

A

constitutional
/ˌkɑnstɪˈtuːʃənəl/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A walk that is taken regularly for good health and wellbeing.
2. Adjective
- Relating to a legal or political constitution.
- In compliance with or valid under a legal or political constitution.
- Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind.
- For the benefit of one’s constitution or health.
Antonyms: unconstitutional, anticonstitutional.
hiến pháp

213
Q

willow

A

willow
/ˈwɪloʊ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.
- The wood of these trees.
- A cricket bat.
- (1800s) The baseball bat.
- A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads.
Synonyms: withy.
2. Verb
- To open and cleanse (cotton, flax, wool, etc.) by means of a willow.
- To form a shape or move in a way similar to the long, slender branches of a willow.
cây liễu

214
Q

sidewalk

A

sidewalk
/ˈsaɪdwɔːk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A footpath, usually paved, at the side of a road for the use of pedestrians; a pavement (UK) or footpath (Australia, New Zealand)
- (by extension) any paved footpath, even if not located at the side of a road
Synonyms: footpath, footway, pavement, platform.
vỉa hè

215
Q

beaver

A

beaver
/ˈbivɚ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
- A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
- The pubic hair and/or vulva of a woman.
- The fur of the beaver.
- Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
- A brown colour, like that of a beaver (also called beaver brown).
- A man who wears a beard.
hải ly

216
Q

soybean

A

soybean

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A legume plant (Glycine max), commonly cultivated for human and animal consumption and as a nitrogen-fixing ground cover.
- The edible seed of this plant.
Synonyms: soy, soy bean, soya, soya bean.
Đậu nành

217
Q

remittance

A

remittance

Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of transmitting money, bills, etc. to a distant place, in return or payment for goods purchased.
- That which is remitted; a payment to a remote recipient.
Chuyển tiền

218
Q

archeological

A

archeological

Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Relating to the science or research of archaeology.
Khảo cổ học

219
Q

lush

A

lush
/lʌʃ/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Juicy, succulent.
- Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile.
- (of vegetation) Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant.
- (of food) Savoury, delicious.
- (miscellaneous) Thriving; rife; sumptuous.
- Beautiful, sexy.
- Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.
- Lax; slack; limp; flexible.
Synonyms: sapful, sappy.
tươi tốt

220
Q

doctoral

A

doctoral
/ˈdɒktəɹəl/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Relating to a doctorate.
- Pertaining to a medical doctor or physician.
tiến sĩ

221
Q

peacemaker

A

peacemaker

Meaning:
1. Noun
- One who sets the pace in a race, to guide the others.
- A set of nerves which stimulate the heart to beat.
- (hence) A medical implement that is used to stimulate a heart to beat by simulating the action of the natural pacemaker.
2. Noun
- A person who restores peace, especially by settling disputes.
người hòa giải

222
Q

profitable

A

profitable
/ˈpɹɑfɪtəbl̩/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Producing a profit.
Synonyms: beneficial, lucrative.
Antonyms: unprofitable.
có lợi

223
Q

biomass

A

biomass
/ˈbaɪ.ə(ʊ)ˌmæs/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The total mass of a living thing or part thereof, such as a cell.
- The total mass of all living things within a specific area, habitat etc.
- Vegetation used as a fuel, or source of energy, especially if cultivated for that purpose.
Sinh khối

224
Q

overture

A

overture
/ˈoʊvəɹtʃəɹ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An opening; a recess or chamber.
- Disclosure; discovery; revelation.
- (often in plural) An approach or proposal made to initiate communication, establish a relationship etc.
- A motion placed before a legislative body, such as the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
- A musical introduction to a piece of music.
Antonyms: coda.
2. Verb
- To make overtures; to approach with a proposal.
quá mức

225
Q

sociological

A

sociological

Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of or pertaining to sociology.
Xã hội học

226
Q

demolish

A

demolish
/dəˈmɒl.ɪʃ/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To destroy.
- To defeat or consume utterly (as a theory, belief or opponent).
phá hủy

227
Q

dynamics

A

dynamics

Meaning:
1. Noun
- The branch of mechanics that is concerned with the effects of forces on the motion of objects.
- The volume of the sound, such as piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, and forte.
động lực

228
Q

cacophony

A

cacophony
/kəˈkɑfəni/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A mix of discordant sounds; dissonance.
Antonyms: euphony, harmony.
Cacophony

229
Q

linger

A

linger
/ˈlɪŋɡɚ/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so; to loiter.
- To remain alive or existent although still proceeding toward death or extinction; to die gradually.
- (often followed by on) To consider or contemplate for a period of time; to engage in analytic thinking or discussion.
Synonyms: abide, tarry.
nán lại

230
Q

subterranean

A

subterranean

Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Below ground, under the earth, underground
Synonyms: hypogean, subterraneous, subterrene, underground.
Subterranean

231
Q

invert

A

invert

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A homosexual.
- An inverted arch (as in a sewer). *
- The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.
- The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
- An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
- A skateboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.
- Invertebrate
2. Verb
- To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
- To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
- To undergo inversion, as sugar.
- To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
- To turn (the foot) inwards.
3. Adjective
- Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.
Đảo ngược

232
Q

superstition

A

superstition
/ˌs(j)u.pɚˈstɪ.ʃn̩/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A belief or beliefs, not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, that events may be influenced by one’s behaviour in some magical or mystical way.
- Excessive nicety; overscrupulousness.
mê tín

233
Q

divergent

A

divergent
/dɪˈvɝdʒənt/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Growing further apart; diverging.
- Of a series, not converging; not approaching a limit.
- Disagreeing from something given; differing.
- Causing divergence of rays.
khác nhau

234
Q

migraine

A

migraine
/ˈmaɪɡɹeɪn/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A severe, disabling headache, usually affecting only one side of the head, and often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, photophobia and visual disturbances.
- A neurological condition characterised by such headaches.
Synonyms: hemicrania, megrim, sick headache.
đau nửa đầu

235
Q

medication

A

medication
/mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient.
- The administration of medicine.
thuốc

236
Q

plaque

A

plaque
/plæk/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any flat, thin piece of clay, ivory, metal, etc., used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a dish, plate, slab, etc., hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn by a person, such as a brooch.
- A piece of flat metal with writing on it, attached to a building, monument, or other structure to remind people of a person or an event.
- A small card representing an amount of money, used for betting in casinos; a sort of gaming chip.
- A clearing in a bacterial lawn caused by a virus.
- In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system: any flat, thin musical instrument.
- A broad patch of abnormal tissue distinguishable from surrounding tissue, especially a broad papule on the skin.
- An abnormal accumulation of material in or on an organ of the body, often associated with disease.
Mảng bám

237
Q

extinct

A

extinct
/ɛkˈstɪŋkt/
Meaning:
1. Verb
- To make extinct; to extinguish or annihilate.
2. Adjective
- Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)
- No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.
- (of a group of organisms, as a species) No longer in existence; having died out.
- No longer active.
Synonyms: dead.
Antonyms: extant, burning, active, dormant.
tuyệt chủng

238
Q

recession

A

recession
/ɹɪˈsɛʃn̩/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
- A period of reduced economic activity
- The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
- The act of ceding something back.
Synonyms: procession, return, withdrawal.
Antonyms: boom.
suy thoái

239
Q

flute

A

flute
/fluːt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.
- A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
- A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
- A lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a classical column, or a groove on a cutting tool (such as a drill bit, endmill, or reamer), which helps to form both a cutting edge and a channel through which chips can escape
- A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
- A long French bread roll, baguette.
- An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
- A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.
Synonyms: edge-blown aerophone, Western concert flute.
2. Verb
- To play on a flute.
- To make a flutelike sound.
- To utter with a flutelike sound.
- To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).
sáo

240
Q

falcon

A

falcon
/ˈfælkən/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.
- A female such bird, a male being a tiercel.
- A light cannon used from the 15th to the 17th century; a falconet.
2. Verb
- To hunt with a falcon or falcons.
chim ưng

241
Q

remnant

A

remnant
/ˈɹɛmnənt/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The small portion remaining of a larger thing or group.
- The remaining fabric at the end of the bolt.
- An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.
Synonyms: lave, relic, remainder, residue, remains.
2. Adjective
- Remaining; still left.
Tàn dư

242
Q

longevity

A

longevity
/lɒnˈdʒɛ.vɪ.ti/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- The quality of being long-lasting, especially of life.
- Duration over time; persistence.
Synonyms: permanence.
tuổi thọ

243
Q

astronomical

A

astronomical
/ˌæstɹəˈnɑːmɪkəl/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Of or relating to astronomy.
- Very large; of vast measure.
Synonyms: astronomic.
thiên văn

244
Q

reproduction

A

reproduction

Meaning:
1. Noun
- The act of reproducing new individuals biologically.
- The act of making copies.
- A copy of something, as in a piece of art; a duplicate.
Synonyms: procreation, repro.
sinh sản

245
Q

breathtaking

A

breathtaking
/ˈbɹɛθˌteɪ.kɪŋ/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Stunningly beautiful; amazing
- Very surprising or shocking; to such a degree as to cause astonishment.
ngoạn mục

246
Q

fingermark

A

fingermark

Meaning:
1. Noun
- A blemish made by a dirty finger.
ngón tay

247
Q

granular

A

granular
/ˈɡɹæn.jə.lə(ɹ)/
Meaning:
1. Adjective
- Consisting of, or resembling, granules or grains
- Grainy
Synonyms: granulous.
dạng hạt

248
Q

feasibility

A

feasibility

Meaning:
1. Noun
- The state of being feasible or possible.
tính khả thi

249
Q

sniff

A

sniff
/snɪf/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- An instance of sniffing.
- A quantity of something that is inhaled through the nose
- A brief perception, or tiny amount.
- Cocaine.
2. Verb
- To make a short, audible inhalation, through the nose, as when smelling something.
- To say something while sniffing, for example in case of illness or unhappiness, or in contempt.
- To perceive vaguely
- To be dismissive or contemptuous of something.
- To intercept and analyse packets of data being transmitted over a network.
- To inhale drugs in powder form (usually cocaine) through the nose.
3. Interjection
- A short inhalation sound, sometimes associated with crying.
đánh hơi

250
Q

sibling

A

sibling
/ˈsɪblɪŋ/
Meaning:
1. Noun
- A person who shares a parent; one’s brother or sister who one shares a parent with.
- A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
- The most closely related species, or one of several most closely species when none can be determined to be more closely related.
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