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Forage (v)
- (of a person or animal) to search widely for food
- (of a person) to search for something, especially using hands.
Acquiesce (v)
to accept or agree to sth, often unwillingly
Incorporate (v)
to create a legally recognized company
Flair (n)
- Talent
- Stylishness and originality
Ameliorate (v)
to make a bad or unpleasant situation better
Depletion (n)
=Reduction
Intelligible (adj)
that can be easily understood (understandable) >< unintelligible
Discordant (adj)
- unpleasant
- disagreeing
Impede (v)
= hinder, hamper
Scout (n)
A soldier sent out to get information about the enemy
Murmur
- To speak or say something very quietly
- To complain about something that you disagree with or dislike, but not in a public way
Perseverance (n)
the quality of continuing to try to achive sth despite difficulty
Tariff (n)
- A tax that is paid on goods coming in or out of a country
- Bang gia
Ordain (v)
To officially make someone a religious leader, in a religious ceremony
Posterity (n)
The people who will exist in the future
Lenient (adj)
Not as strict as expected
Precipitation (n)
- A way of behaving too quickly and without thinking
- Water that falls from the clouds to the grouund, especially rain and snow
Suffice (v)
to be enough
Cumbersome (adj)
- bulky
- slow and complicated
eg: cumbersome legal procedures - long and complicated
However much
No matter how much
Reminisce (v)
to think, talk or write about a happy time in your past
Allegiance (n)
loyalty or commitment of a subordinate to a superior or of an individual to a group or cause. (loyalty, faithfulness, fidelity)
Magnanimous (adj)
kind, generous and forgiving, especially toward an enemy or competitor.
Exalt (v)
- hold someone or sth in very high regard
- raise to a higher rank
Benevolence (n)
Kindness
Felicity (n)
- Great hapiness
- The quality of being well chosen or suitable
Inveterate (adj)
Done and felt for a long time and unlikely to change
amicable (adj)
done or achived in a polite or friendly way and without arguing
animosity (n)
strong dislike, opposion or anger
Inducement (n)
Incentive
Compliance
- The practice of obeying rules or requests made by people in authority
- The quality of being to willing to agree to sombody or do what they want
Infatuation (n)
Strong but not usually lasting feelings of love or attraction
Plight (n)
A difficult and sad situation
Ecotype (n)
the type or race of a plant or animal that has adapted to live in particular local conditions
Precipitous (adj)
- very steep, high and often dangerous
eg: precipitous cliffs - sudden and great (abrupt)
eg: a precipitous decline in exports - done very quickly, without enough thought or care (hasty)
eg: a prepitous action
Seismic (adj)
- relating to or caused by an earthquake
- having very great and usually damaging effects
Opaque (adj)
- (of glass, liquid) mờ
- not clear
eg: the system is completely opaque to non-specialists.
Dimension
- the size and extend of a situation
- an aspect, or way of looking at or thinking about something
Exertion (n)
- Physical or mental effort, the act of making an effort
- The use of power to make something happen
Primordial (n)
- existing at or from the begining of the world (primeval)
- basic
eg: primordial impulses
Resonance (n)
- sự dội lại
- The quality of being loud and clear
Oscillation (n)
- A regular movement between 1 position and another or between one amount and another
eg: the oscillation of compass neddle
eg: the economy’s continual oscillation between growth and recession - 1 pha
eg: the natural oscillations between quantum states in atoms - a repeated change between different feelings, types of behaviour or ideas
her oscillation of mood frustrated him
