Thẻ ghi nhớ: Word formation 30/4 - Grade 10 (part 2)

I find her story about UFOs hardly _____________.

Believe

believable

This is really _____________ news.

Marvel

marvellous/marvelous (a): extremely good

They may be travelling in space and examining _____________ beings.

Humanity

human

Don't be frightened. This is just an _____________story.

Imagine

imaginary

I hate him because of his _______________.

Honest

dishonesty

The development of synthetic fabrics has brought new challenges and new opportunities to _______________ engineers.

Chemistry

chemical

Women now are more and more _______________ and can earn their own living.

Depend

independent

The exact origin of universe remain a _______________.

Mysterious

mystery

The earthquake is one of the most natural _______________ that we have experienced.

Disastrous

disasters

The Red Cross is sending emergency aid to the _______________ country.

Famine

famine-stricken (a): suffering severely from the effects of something unpleasant

A performance of synchronized swimming is often very _______________.

Eye

eye-catching (a): bắt mắt

synchronized swimming (n): bơi nghệ thuật

If you are sweating a lot, you should wear a/an_______________.

Odour

deodorant (n): a substance that you put on your body to prevent or hide unpleasant smells (chất ngăn mùi)

Her explanation sounded rather _______________ and I don't think I believe it.

Fetch

far-fetched (a): very unlikely to be true, and difficult to believe (xa vời)

In Africa there still many tribes that are _______________ by civilization.

Corrupt

uncorrupted

corrupt (v): sụp đổ

Somewhere is space there could be other _______________ beings

Think

thinking

My grandpa has an almost _______________ memory. He remembers the events of World War II in detail.

Fall

infallible (a): never wrong, failing, or making a mistake (không thể lầm được)

This book describes the_______________ of many saints.

Martyr

martyrdom (n): an occasion when someone suffers or is killed because of their religious or political beliefs

martyr (n): liệt sĩ

The exhibition contains faded photographs reminding us of a _______________ era.

Go

bygone (a): đã qua

Everyone should try to maintain their _______________.

Divide

individualities

The six long years long years in prison had _______________ him.

Coarse

coarsened

coarsen (v):

- become rough or cause something to become rough

- become simpler and less polite or more offensive, or to make something do this

The _______________of natural resources is becoming inadequate for the support of increasing population.

Place

replacement

I'm afraid the hospital is desperately _______________at the moment.

Staff

short-staffed

We should arrive two days early in order to _______________.

Climate

acclimatize (v): change to suit different conditions of life, weather, etc., or to make someone or something do this (làm quen với thời tiết)

The grammar section provides coverage of all the most _______________ areas.

Problem

problematic

The audience burst into _______________ at the end of the play.

Applaud

applause

Due to the clerk's _______________, we missed the train.

Stubborn

stubbornness (n): sự bướng bỉnh, cứng đầu

The lovers stood, hand in hand, gazing at the _____________ sky.

Star

starry

Whether the entrance exam should be abandoned remains _______________ .

Controversy

controversial

Please _______________ our letter of the 25th. We have not had a reply.

Know

acknowledge

Eating fish and lots of vegetables greatly increase your life_______________.

Expect

expectancy

The illegal payments were discovered by a journalist working _____________.

Cover

undercover (adv): secretly and using a false appearance in order to get information for the police or government

undercover (a): working secretly using a false appearance in order to get information for the police or government

His height gives him a(n) _____________ advantage over his opponent.

Build

inbuilt (a): gắn liền, vốn có, sẵn có

Would it be _____________ of me to ask to borrow your car?

Presume

presumptuous (a): tự phụ

He is always late. It is _____________ .

Correct

incorrigible

The judge made a serious mistake and it later became a(n) _____________.

Try

mistrial (n): a trial that cannot be completed or whose result has no legal value, usually because a legal mistake has been made

Our team plays a number of _____________basketball games with California teams.

College

intercollegiate

When he doesn't like anyone, he often speaks in _____________.

Syllable

monosyllables

The last recession _____________the economy.

Vital

devitalized

devitalize (v): làm mất sinh khí

One of the cars involved in the accident was a complete _____________.

Write

write-off

Mozart is a(n) _____________ child who started his music career at the age of 5.

Precocity

precocious (a): (especially of children) showing mental development or achievement much earlier than usual

An early example of privatization was the _____________ of public land for use by wealthy and landlords.

Close

closure

The fines are large enough to be an effective _____________against speeding.

Deter

deterrent

His grandfather had met an _____________end as the result of too much whisky .

Time

untimely

They claimed there was an official _____________ campaign by the government.

Inform

disinformation (n): thông tin sai lệch

At the end of each shift, the teams remove their dive suits and drop them in barrels of _____________.

Infect

disinfections

disinfection (n): chất khử trùng

According to _____________ government documents, officials were aware of the tests as early as 1967.

Class

declassified (a): officially stated to no longer be secret

A circle is a shape on which all points are _____________ from some point lying inside.

Distance

equidistant (a): cách đều

The terms "drinking problem" and "alcohol abuse" are often _____________ .

Change

interchangeable (a): có thể thay đổi cho nhau được

Repetitive work can become _____________ after a while.

Destroy

soul-destroying (a): nhàm chán

Some experiences in early life have _____________ effects.

Eradicate

ineradicable (a): not able to be removed

The sports association accepted the inevitability of a(n) _____________ by the elite clubs.

Break

breakaway (n): an act of separating from a group, especially because of disagreement (sự ly khai)

Vandalism used to be a rare _____________here.

Occur

occurrence

vandalism (n): the crime of intentionally damaging property belonging to other people (sự cố ý phá hoại)

The air stewardess made it clear how _____________she was of his behavior.

Contempt

contemptuous (a): khinh thường, coi thường, tỏ vẻ khinh thường

contempt (n): sự không tôn trọng, sự khinh rẻ, coi thường

It is _____________ to bring children on this trip across the dessert.

Advice

ill-advised

There was a _____________ belief that women were inferior to men.

Spread

widespread

I cannot drink wine. Can I have something _____________?

Alcohol

non-alcoholic

Whole stretches of land were laid waste and _____________.

Populate

depopulated

depopulate (v): cause a country or area to have fewer people living in it (giảm dân số)

Elephants losing their habitat is the direct result from _________.

Urban

urbanization

I felt _____________ to know how my own money is being spent.

Title

entitled (a): được quyền làm gì

Jim is very disordered and therefore isn't _____________.

Business

businesslike (a): getting things done in a quick and practical way

The _____________of one or several species may result in the loss of biodiversity.

Appear

disappearance

Everyone should try to maintain their _____________.

Divide

individualities

My friends started going out late to nightclubs so I decided to _____________myself from the group.

Social

dissociate (v): consider as separate and not related (tách khỏi)

New immigrants have been successfully _____________into the community.

Similar

assimilated

He doesn't conform to the _____________image of the businessman with a dark suit and briefcase.

Type

stereotypical (a): khuôn mẫu

He wanted Jill to give up her life of alcohol and _____________.

Destroy

self-destruction

Some people creat a(n) _____________(an alternative social group) and rebel against the traditional way of life.

Culture

counter-culture (n): phản văn hóa (a way of life and a set of ideas that are completely different from those accepted by most of society, or the group of people who live this way)

The six long years in prison had _____________him.

Coarse

coarsened

College _____________ have increased for the pass years in.

Drop

dropouts

While all the deserts are pretty good, the clear _____________ is the lemon pie.

Stand

standout

They all cheered ______________ as their team came out.

Enthusiasm

enthusiastically

Finally a ______________ is brought about between the two sides.

Reconcile

reconciliation (n): a situation in which two people or groups of people become friendly again after they have argued (sự hòa giải)

The child has a ______________ temperament.

Rebel

rebellious (a): ương ngạnh, khó bảo/bạo động

No report can convey the ______________ suffering that this war has caused.

Speak

unspeakable

He will not benefit ______________from the deal.

Finance

financially

The injury was ______________of her handling of the affair.

Criticize

critical (a):

- of the greatest importance

- very bad or dangerous

- showing approval by those whose job is to judge entertainment

- expressing an opinion about something or someone, esp. a negative opinion

Her case was ______________ argued.

Convince

convincingly

I don't find him very ______________.

Communicate

communicative

Mary is a really ______________pessimist.

Cure

incurable

The aid programme was ______________, resulting in large quantities of food failing to reach the famine victims.

Conduct

misconducted

misconduct (v): manage the activities of an organization badly

In some courts, audio recordings are considered ______________ evidence.

Admit

inadmissible (a): unable to be accepted in a law court

Our new neighbor seems the ______________type who seldom talks about themselves.

Efface

self-effacing (a): not making yourself noticeable, or not trying to get the attention of other people

The sculptor always pays great attention to even the tiniest detail of every of his works fearing that it may sink to ______________.

Mediocre

mediocrity (n): sự tầm thường

I can't see why the board of leaders keep ______________over the debate about whether or not to dismiss the current coach.

Commit

non-committal/noncommittal (a): not expressing an opinion or decision

______________ marriage has been made illegal by most modern societies.

Age

Underage (a): younger than the lowest age at which a particular activity is legally or usually allowed

We all find the governments' ______________ effort to solve environmental problems.

Merit

meritorious (a): đáng khen

Although ______________to some people, the impacts of unhealthy lifestyles are not real.

Perceive

imperceptible (a): unable to be noticed or felt because of being very slight

The country is now heavily in debt due to the government's financial ______________.

Manage

mismanagement

He is such a(n) ______________who always pretends to know everything.

Intellect

pseudo-intellectual

I hate admitting defeat but in this case the opposition is ______________ correct.

Refute

irrefutably

Age is ______________. I'm no longer young.

Vary

variable

Surveyors carried out a ______________on your house.

Value

valuation (n): the act of deciding how much money something might be sold for or the amount of money decided on (sự định giá)

I'm afraid I was very ______________with the travelling arrangement.

Satisfy

dissatisfied

Even the most ______________person ought to appreciate the beauty of this music.

Sense

insensitive (a): vô cảm

The thing I hate about John is his ______________.

Rely

unreliability (n): the quality of not being able to be trusted or believed (sự không đáng tin cậy)

The sun and the moon are often ______________in poetry

Person

personified

He was ______________ thinner than he had been the year before.

Decide

decidedly (adv): certainly and obviously

She has great powers of ______________.

Persuade

persuasion (n): the action of persuading someone or of being persuaded

______________, did you know there was a fire in my neighborhood, too?

Incident

Incidentally (adv): tình cờ

People who are very ______________ rarely have many friends.

Argue

argumentative (a): often arguing or wanting to argue