50 SAT Series

replete (v)

full, esp. with food

e.g: We must remember that masque performances were great occasions, __ with distractions - royalty, nobility, fancy dress, beautiful women, glorious jewellery.

bellicose (a)

warlike, wishing to fight or start a war

e.g: The general made some ___ statements about his country's military strength.

flippant (a)

not serious/respectful

e.g: We had lost thousands of dollars, so we did not appreciate his ___ remark about "better luck next time."

acerbic (a)

critical in a direct and rather cruel way

e.g: Colonial opportinity for self-advancement created inexplicable cases of rise to fortune which attracted ___ comment.

garrulous (a)

talkative

e.g: The __ people, generally speaking, are those who turn up at old meetings, knowing nothing about the subject and seek to advertise themselves.

ignominious (a)

shameful because of being a complete failure

e.g: His career was brought to an __ end.

nihilism (n)

belief in nothing - CHỦ NGHĨA HƯ VÔ

-> cynicism and nihilism (chủ nghĩa hoài nghi & hư vô)

relegate (v)

assign to a lower position -> ĐÀY XUỐNG

e.g: African-American men were often relegated to jobs as cooks and stewards.

delineate (v)

to describe accurately

sophistry (n)

clever but deceptive reasoning - NGUỴ BIỆN

e.g: His explanations have been dismissed as __.

antediluvian (a)

extremely old-fashioned

e.g: My mother has some hopelessly ___ ideas about the role of women.

vignette (n)

a short scene or story

e.g: place the subject into one of six vignette-based categories of medical severity.

irreproachable (a)

blameless; impeccable

e.g: irreproachable and careful analyses

rectitude (n)

moral uprightness

e.g: an austere man of unquestioned moral rectitude

nebulous (a)

not definite; vague

e.g: nebulous ideas

hedonism (n)

YOLO; self indulgence; pleasure-seeking

e.g: Unless one adopts ___, there is no justification for bringing in good feelings.

erudition (n)

profound scholarly knowledge

e.g: The book is widely acclaimed for its __ and sophistication.

recant (v)

to formally withdraw

e.g: Behaviors that inhibit autonomy include recanting without having persuaded.

frugal (a)

economical, avoiding waste and luxury

e.g: He is frugal in his personal life.

blithe (a)

happy and without worry

e.g: They cannot pass on increased costs to their customers with blithe disregard for the consequences.

reprehensible (a)

deserving blame; recognized as bad

e.g: However, it should not be forgotten that obliging elders to live in substandard nursing homes represents an equally __ form of social exclusion.

fatuous (a)

stupid, not correct, or not carefully thought about

e.g: He went on to make equally __ remarks about international financiers drawing tribute from the rest of the world.

disingenuous (a)

Insincere, not genuine

e.g: In this context, they appreciate consistency and authenticity in their communications, and find inconsistencies or __ communications particularly troublesome.

galvanize (v)

to startle into sudden activity (gây thích thú/ khích động/ kích động)

e.g: The prospect of his mother coming to stay ___(ed) him into action and he started cleaning the house.

surfeit (n)

an excessive amount
-> a surfeit of...

erudite (a)

learned; scholarly

e.g: It should also be said immediately that the book gives great pleasure: it is elegant, beautifully written, __ and morally concerned.

astemious (a)

khắc khổ
not doing thíngs that give you pleasure, esp. not eating good food or drinking alcohol

e.g: I believe the people in my country are as sober and __ as the people of any other country.

castigate (v)

to criticize or punish severely

e.g: Health inspectors __(ed) the kitchen staff for not keeping the place clean.

eulogy (n)

ĐIẾU VĂN
a speech containing praise for sb đã chết hoặc nghỉ hưu

e.g: Their work is a form of __ on the provisional nature of our existence and mortality in praise of place.

nebulous (a)

vague, having no form

e.g: She has a few __ ideas.

boorish (a)

rude; insensitive

e.g: Why should we tolerate rude and __ passengers without complaint?

prattle (v)

to talk in a silly way or giống con nít

e.g: Anyone can ___ nonsense, and they'll always be able to find people to believe it, esp. if they can dress it up in superstitious flummery.

bemoan (v)

express discontent or sorrow over

e.g: bemoan the losses of the community

raze (v)

too completely destroy a city, building,...

e.g: The town was razed to the ground.

reprobate (n)

a person of bad characters and habits

e.g: rehabilitating hard-core ___(s)

efface (v)

remove sth intentionally

e.g: efface the history of the past and find solutions of various problems

forsake (v)

leave sb forever, esp khi họ cần bạn

e.g: young people studying medicine must __ the humanities and social sciences for physics, chemistry, and biology

abstruse (a)

difficult to understand

e.g: abstruse matters

catharsis (n)

a release of emotional tension (viết/rạp hát/...)

e.g: help patients to set goals, problem solving and facilitating ___.

disparage (v)

belittle

e.g: He disparages his business competitors.

proclivity (n)

a natural inclination

e.g: A dangerous disease which feeds on ethnocentric __ often concealed and hidden by seemingly democratic and legitimate acts.

indelible (a)

having permanent influence

e.g: In his 20 years working for the company, Joe made an __ impression on it.

avuncular (a)

friendly, kind, như một UNCLE

e.g: I have often remarked that people who have the best __ status are the people who have regional accents.

belabour (v)

nói đi nói lại explain more than necessary

e.g: We have listened with interest to this discussion and none of us wants to __ the point.

effusive (a)

emotionally excessive; overly demonstrative

e.g: A character may sing because he is especially happy or feel particularly __ or enthusiastic.

sacrosanct (a)

sacred, too special to be changed

misanthrope (n)

hater of mankind

e.g: We weren't ___(s): our relationships with people were excellent and enjoyable; but we were more at home with animals.

loquacious (a)

having the habit of talking a lot

e.g: The people who say that are precisely the people who hamper it most by their ___ methods.

dexterous (a)

skilful with both hands

e.g: Raccoons have highly __ front feet that are shaped like human hands.

verbose (a)

using or containing more words than are necessary

e.g: painfully ___ code.

incorrigible (a)

impossible to improve/correct

e.g: Many prison officials agreed that, as long as security confinement had not become law, "incorrigible" immates should at least be excluded from most benefits.

belie (v)

to show sth to be false/hide sth VD như emotion

e.g: And the variety produced is of a richness that seems to ___ the smooth, unobtrusive (KHÔNG PHÔ TRƯƠNG) functioning of the instrument.

fecund (v)

fertile; productive

e.g: __ women

portent (n)

a warning sign; omen

e.g: The ___(s) for future publication are good, since we continue to receive a steady flow of good manuscripts.

droll (a)

humorous nhưng mà hơi lạ

e.g: The music ranges from dreamy to dramatic to ___, sometimes with sudden changes of style in a single song.

admonish (v)

to tell sb that they have done sth wrong

e.g: He has never been __(ed) by the justices for giving false evidence.

cajole (v)

nịnh nọt

e.g: The two editors have managed to __ a highly credible team of 10 other authors to join them in an ambitious project.

extrapolate (v)

guess/think about what might happen dựa trên cơ sở nào đó

e.g: Speaking about global warming, she said that time periods of 15 and even 30 years are too brief to __ changes in climate patterns.

nonentity (n)

a person or thing of no importance

e.g: She was once a political ___.

obdurate (a)

stubborn

e.g: All those important factors are as nothing compared with his __ determination to impose privatization on his dogmatic terms.

taciturn (a)

silent; not talkative

e.g: If he has had no doubts about the system, why has he been so __ about it before today?

protean (a)

easily and continuously changing

e.g: It is this __ nature of the symptoms and the fluctuation of clinical findings that have made this disease so difficult to diagnose and treat.

phlegmatic (a)

calm and unemotional

e.g: He brings to these talks qualities which might be described as both imaginative and __.

turpitude (n)

bad behavior

e.g: The question of moral __ of the driver does not enter into the question of the new general driving test.

pensive (a)

thoughtful in a serious facial expression

e.g: background music for __ or nocturnal (VỀ ĐÊM) scenes in film.

levity (n)

lack of seriousness (trong trường hợp cần seriousness)

e.g: There has been a small streak of __ in some of the speeches.

burgeon (v)

to grow and flourish

e.g: Product placement has __ to the extent that corporate logos are now found in most mainstream films.

peripatetic (a)

travelling khắp nơi do làm việc ở nhiều nơi

e.g: All three schools had weekly visits from ___ instrumental teachers.

punctilious (a)

pay strict attention to detail

e.g: Within this restricted focus, however, the editors have been __ in including a wide range of topics and disciplines.

torpor (n)

laziness; inactivity; dullness

e.g: Many animals survive cold frosty nights through __.

unctuous (a)

giả tạo

e.g: He can sometimes be pompous (KHOA TRƯƠNG), occasionally ___.

obfuscate (v)

to confuse; to bewilder

e.g: The browser extension is designed to __ browsing data and protect users from tracking by advertising networks.

belittle (v)

hạ thấp ai đó

e.g: Though she had spent hours fixing the computer, he ___ her efforts.

nefarious (a)

morally bad

e.g: The company's CEO seems to have been involved in some __ activities.

inane (a)

silly

e.g: That is why her speech can be described as being not merely __ and innate (BẢN NĂNG) but totally inapposite (KHÔNG THÍCH HỢP) to our problems today.

inaugurate (v)

to put sb into an official position with a ceremony

e.g: He wants to __ his museum with elaborate opening ceremonies.

dilettante (n) [ˌdɪl.əˈtæn.ti]

sb who is /seems to be interested in sth but does not know very much about it

e.g: Marsh was not a musician by profession but trained as a lawyer and for his entire life considered himself no more than a musical ___.

obstreperous (a)

noisy and difficult to control

e.g: Suppose that he has already, in the judgment of the licensee, consumed too much alcoholic refreshment so that he is becoming noisy and ___.

parsimonious (a)

not willing to spend money - stingy

e.g: They blamed the ailing state education system on a series of ____ governments.

munificent (a)

very generous with money

e.g: They have no means of meeting those munificent ladies and gentlemen who are prepared to pay sth extra by way of a special tip.

lassitude (n)

physical or mental tiredness

e.g: The symptoms associated with myelofibrosis (=BỆNH XƠ TUỶ) are variable and in more than 50% of patients include marked ___, loss of weight and night sweats.

ethereal (a)

light and delicate, esp. in an unnatural way

e.g: In a translucent sky, the domes and spires of the city looked almost ___. (Trong bầu trời trong mờ, những mái vòm và ngọn tháp của thành phố trông gần như thanh tao.)

fitful (a)

irregular (full of fitness là 1 điều không duy trì được liên tục đâuuu)

e.g: They were worn out by years of fighting and frustrated by the indecisiveness of the ___ campaigns.

redolent (a)

smell strongly -> gợi nhớ tới cái gì (re-gợi)

e.g: The following chapter takes up the memoirs, visual arts, and documentary films that are ___ with nostalgia for the old city and contribute to its association with status.

venerate (v)

to respect deeply

e.g: Agricultural labor, house construction and road paving were ___(ed) as "pioneering", but several sources reveal that cleaning remained unprestigious.

obsequious (a)

too eager to serve or obey sb (khúm núm)

e.g: He is ___ towards the powerful, arrogant towards the weak, sententious (GIẢ BỘ WISE) and narrow-minded.

salutary (a)

beneficial

e.g: If this speculation is correct, this may constitute a ___ instance of the potential relevance of philosophy to scientists.

surreptitious (a)

done secretly

e.g: She seemed to be listening to what I was saying, but I couldn't help noticing her ___ glances at the clock.

flout (v)

to intentionally disobey a rule or law/avoid behavior that is usual or expected

e.g: First, conservatives attached civil rights to lawlessness by arguing that civil disobedience _ laws and would inevitably lead to more lawless behavior.

patronize (v)

treat others in a manner that shows you consider yourself

e.g: When you explain this to them, they feel wounded because you appear to be ___ and showing some kind of superiority towards them.

dirge (n)

a slow sad song or piece of music, sometimes played because sb has died

e.g: That rather triumphant, lyrical song which they sang is rapidly becoming a ___.

maudlin (a)

overly sentimental (esp sau khi uống đồ có cồn)

e.g: In the most __ of words, almost in tears, he ended his peroration (SPEECH) by saying that this country will survive.

exemplify (v)

to serve as a good example

e.g: This painting perfectly ___ the naturalistic style which was so popular at the time.

vapid (a)

dull, showing no intelligence or imagination

e.g: When a hospital board chooses a __ slogan to market organizational values, this sort of weak consensus often follows.

obtrusive (a)

noticeable in an unpleasant/unwanted way

e.g: On the other hand, we might not want to see ___ reminders that and what the law is when going about our everyday life.

veracity (n)

truthfulness

e.g: His claim of rationality, morality, and ____ guarantees his authority to make assertions about immigration and the behavior of immigrants.

squander (v)

to waste

e.g: Ireland __(ed) several chances, including a penalty that cost them the game.

moribund (a)

dying (business, market) >< living

e.g: Potential food sources thus include both living and __ material that vary in abundance and distribution within the forest.

omnipotent (a)

having unlimited power

e.g: It does not follow that one could be free of this liability only if one were ___, omniscient, and perfectly reasonable.

hackneyed (a)

overused, cliched

e.g: A second imperative is the avoidance of the cliche, the tired, the trite, the ___.