ENGLISH SPECIALTY // WF NEC (2 PARTS)

CLEAR

• CLARITY

• CLEARANCE

• CLEAR-HEADEDLY

• CLEAR-CUT

• CLEAR-SIGHTEDLY

HUMOUR

• HUMOROUSLY

• ILL/GOOD-HUMOURED

ENTERTAINMENT

• ENTERTAININGLY

• EDUTAINMENT

• INFOTAINMENT

CONCEDE

• CONCESSIONARY = ưu đãi (a)

• CONCESSIONAIRE = SB who has been given a concession to sell or do STH

• CONCEDEDLY

• CONCESSIONAL

• CONCESSIVELY

ADD/LEND/GIVE CREDENCE TO STH

make STH more believable

BUG OUT

• (of someone's eyes) to stick out or open very wide

  
  

• to behave or think in a strange way, especially because of being very worried, frightened, or angry

  
  

• to leave a place or situation quickly, especially because of danger

DO ONE’S HEART GOOD

makes one very happy

HOLD

• WITHHOLD

• BEHOOLDEN

• HOLD-UP

• STRONGHOLD

• UPHOLDER

• HOLDOUT

• HOLD-DOWN

• HOLDBACK

• HOLDOVER

• HOLDALL

MAIDEN

HANDMAIDEN

PART

• SELF-PARTIALITY

• IMPARTIALITY

• APART

• PARTITION

• COUNTERPART

• NON-PARTISANSHIP

• COMPARTMENTALIZATION

• INTERDEPARTMENTAL

• TRIPARTITE

• PARTLY

• DEPARTURE

• PARTNERSHIP

• PARTICULARITY

• IMPARTATION

• IMPARTIBLE

SINGLE

• SINGLE-MINDED

• SINGLE-HANDED

• SINGLISM

ADVERTISE

• ADVERTISEMENT

• COUNTER-ADVERTISING

ILLUSION

• ILLUSIONISTICALLY

• DISILLUSIONMENT

• ILLUSIVE = chimerical ; apocryphal ; unrealizable

• ILLUSIONARY = not real and based on illution

POINT

• APPOINTMENT

• ALL-POINTS bulletin

• WELL-APPOINTED

• PINPOINT

• POINT-BLANK

• CHECKPOINT

• COUNTERPOINT

• VIEWPOINT

TEST

• ATTEST

• DETESTATION

• TESTIMONY // TWSTIMONIAL

• TESTIFY // TESTIFICATION // TESTIFICATOR

• UNTESTED

• TEST-DRIVE

• TESTINESS // TESTILY

• TESTAMENT = will

==»» TESTAMENTARY

• BE A TESTAMENT TO STH = proof that STH exists or is true

• BE A MONUMENT TO STH

• TESTATOR // TESTATRIX(testatrices) = người lập di chúc

==»» TESTATION = sự lập đi chúc

• DIE TESTATE = die with will

• PRETEST

• RETEST

• PROTEST

• TESTEE

• TESTABLE

SIMILAR

• DISSEMBLER

• DISSEMBLE

• Verisimilitude

• Sameness

• Assimilation

• ASSIMILATED

• DISSIMILARITY

• DISSIMILATE

  ==>> Dissimilitude

• UNASSIMILABLE

PULSATE

• PULSATING

• PULSATILE = beating or moving with a strong, regular rhythm

• PULSATION

• PULSATILLA = phương pháp dùng cây bạch đầu ông để chữa bệnh tiềm mãn kinh

• PULSELESS

BOOK

• YEARBOOK

• SCRAPBOOK

• STORYBOOK

• BOOKKEEPER

• BOOKBINDER

• BOOKISHLY

• BOOKWORM

• BOOKMAKING

• BOOKCASE // BOOKSHELF

• BOOKSELLER

• BOOKREST = giá đọc sách

• BOOKMOBILE = thư viện lưu động

• BOOKMARK

• BOOKLET

• BOOKLORE = factual info concerning books

ETHNIC

• ETHNICITY

• ETHNICENTRIC

COMPLETE

• COMPLETENESS // completely

• COMPLETION

• COMPLETISM // COMPLETIONISM

CURE

• PROCUREMENT >> PROCURATOR >> PROCURABLE

• CURATOR

• CO-CURATE

• Incurable

• Curability

• Cureless disease

• CURE-ALL = panacea

• Curative potential

  Medicinal // nutritional

CONTEMPORARY

• CONTEMPORANEOUSLY

• NON-CONTEMPORARY (a)

EXAMPLE

• EXEMPLIFICATION

• EXEMPLARY

• ENTREPRENEUR

• ENTREPRENEURIALISM

• ENTREPRENEURSHIP

TRIBUTE

• TRIBUTARY

• CONTRIBUTION // contributory

• UNATTRIBUTABLE

• MISATTRIBUTION

OFFFEND

• RE-OFFENDER

• OFFENSE

• INOFFENSIVELY

TURBID

PERTUBATION

UNPERTURBED

IMPERTURBABILITY

DISTINCT // DISTINGUISH

• CONTRADISTINGUISH

• IN CONTRADISTINCTION WITH/TO

• DICHOTOMY // ANALOGY

• DISTINCTLY

• Distinction

• Indistinguishable = Ko phân biệt được

  
  

• Undistinguished = xoàng,tầm thường,Ko có gì nổi bật

  
  

• Distinguishing = thể hiện sự khác biệt,đặc trưng

  ==>> distinguishing features/characteristic

  
  

• DISTINCT VS DISTINCTIVE VS DISTINGUISHED

  
  

CROOK

• ENCROACHMENT

• CROOKEDLY // CROOKEDNESS

• CROOK-BACKED = gù lưng

• CROOKERY = CARRYING-ON

SPORT

• SPORTSMANSHIP

• UNSPORTING = unfair or generous in your behavior or treatment of others

• UNSPORTSMANLIKE = unfair, generous, or sportsmanlike

DEBUT

• DEBUTANT (nam)

• DEBUTANTE (nữ)

CENTER

• OFF-CENTER

• DECENTRALIZATION

• CENTRIFUGAL // CENTRIFUGATION

• HELIOCENTRIC = đo từ tâm mặt trời

• CENTERPIECE = vấn đề trọng tâm // vật trang trí giữa bàn

• CENTRE-FOLD = ảnh tạp chí

• CENTRALITY

• CENTRICITY

• CENTRALISM

• EGOCENTRIC

• SOFT-CENTRED

• SELF-CENTRED

• ETHNOCENTRIC

  ==»» CORNUCOPIA 1

SOUND

• SONOROUS

• ASSONANCE

• DISSONANCE

• CONSONANT

• SOUNDPROOF

NARRATE

• NARRATOR

• NARRATIVE =:

  • a story or a description of a series of events

  • a particular way of explaining or understanding events

  
  

• NARRATION = trần/tường thuật // kể/dẫn chuyện (phương thức tự sự cơ bản)

  • the act of telling a story

  • a spoken description of events given during a film or TV programme

RUN

• RUNAWAY

  • having escaped or run away from SW

  • out of control

  • suprisingly sudden or great (easy)

• ALSO-RAN

• FORERUNNER

• OVERRUN

• RE-RUN

• FRONT-RUNNER

• RUNNER-UP

• RUNDOWN (a)

• RUN-OF-THE-MILL

HABIT

• COHABITATION

• HABITUÉ

• HABITUALLY // HABITUATION

• HABITAT

• UNINHABITABLE

• UNINHABITED

• HABIT-FORMING

• REHABILITATION

• INHABITANTS

• HABITUDE = habitual ỏ charactersitci condition/behavior ò mind and body

• HABITUS =:

  • one’s general constitution

  • the way a person of a particular background perceives and reacts to the world

STREAM

• MAINSTREAM

• MAELSTROM

• STREAMLINE

SURGE

• RESURGENT

• COUNTER-INSURGENCY

VOICE

• VOCAL

• UNVOICED

• VOCIFEROUS(LY)

• UNEQUIVOCALLY

• VOCALIZE

• INVOICE (n/v) = a list of things provided or work done together with their cost, for payment at a later time

KEEP

KEEPSAKE

TIME

• DOWNTIME

• TIME-SERVING // SRTVER

• TIMELESS

• TIME-POOR

• UNTIMELY

• TIME-HONORED

• TIMTABLE

• TIMEOUT

• TIME-KEEPER

• TWO-TIMER

• OLD-TIMER

• ILL-TIMED

• OVERTIME

• FLEXITIME

POLAR

• INTRAPOLATE // EXTRAPOLATE

• BIPOLAR disorder

• POLARITY

• POLARIZATION

AFFECT

• AFFECTION

• DISAFFECTED

• AFFECTATION

• AFFECTEDLY=

• UNAFFECTIONATELY

• AFFECTINGLY = heart-rendingly ; harrowing

• AFFECTIVE = sensitive // AFFECTIVITY

• AFFECTLESS = impersonal

• compassionate // dispassionate // impassioned

AMEND

• AMENDMENT

• UNAMENDABLE

• AMENDATORY

• MENDACIOUS

STRIDE

• BESTRIDE

• OVERSTRIDE = take longer steps // overstep

• ASTRIDE (adv)

USE

• UTILITARIAN(ISM)

• UTILITY

• USER-FRIENDLINESS

• USABILITY

• MISUSE

• DISUSE

• USAGE

• UNUSED

• PERUSE // PERUSAL

• outlive one’s USEFULNESS // USEFULLY

• USELESSNESS

• UNDERUSED

• OVERUSE

• REUSABLE

• DISABUSE // ABUSIVE

SUSTAIN

• SUSTENANCE

• SUSTAINABILITY

• UNSUSTAINABLY

CHARLATAN

CHARLATANRY

VERB

• VERBOSITY

• VERBIAGE

• VERBALIZE // VERBALIZATION

• VERBATIM

• VERBOTEN = forbidden

• NON-VERBAL

• VERBIGERATE = repeat a word or sentence endlessly and meaninglessly /// VERBIGERATION

• VERBICIDE = deliberate distortion of the sense of a word

• VERBALIST = word critic

• CRUCIVERBALIST = a person skillful in creating or solving crossword puzzles

LAND (LAC VIET DICT)

• Wasteland

• Landfill

• Landscaper

• Land-locked

• Outlandish

• Homeland

• INLAND

• LANDWARD

• Landmark

• Landslide

• Landlord // LANDLADY

• Landocracy = giai cấp địa chủ

• Landownership

• Landholder // LANDHOLDING

• LAND-POOR

• LANDLUBBERS = a person who has little knowledge or experience of ships and travelling by sea

• LANDMASS = a massive expanse of land or continent

• LANDMINE

• LANDFALL = the first land that is reached or seen at the end of a journey across the sea or through the air, or the fact of arriving there

• LANDGRABBER = SB who illicitly arrogate land

• LANDLOPER = vagabond ; vampire

WARM

• HEART-WARMING // WARM-HEARTED

• WARMTH

• WARMLY

• WARMISH = slightly warm

• HOUSEWARMING

• WARMED-OVER

• WARM-UP

• LUKEWARM

• WARM/HOT-BLOODED

PATRON

• PATRONIZING

• PATRONAGE

• EMPATRON

CONSPIRE

• CONSPIRACY

• CONSPIRATORIAL

MYSTERY // MYSTIC

• MYSTERIOUSLY

• MYTH-BUSTING

• MYSTIFICATION

• DEMYSTIFY

• MYSTIQUE

OFFICIAL (CORNUCOPIA I)

• OFFICIATE // OFFICIATION

• OFFICE-BEARER

• SEMI-OFFICIAL

• (OVER)OFFICIOUS

• OFFICIALITY

• OFFICIALDOM

INQUIRE

• INQUISITIVE

• INQUISITORIAL

EXCEED

• EXCEEDINGLY

PRACTICE

• MALPRACITCE

• PRACTITIONER

• IMPRACTICAL

• PRACTICEABILITY

• PRACTICALITY

• PRACTICUM

LEGAL

• LEGALIZE

• PARALEGAL

• LEGALITY

• LEGITIMIZE

• LEGITTIMATE = LEGALIZE

• OUTLAW = criminalize ; ban

HOMOGENEOUS

• cultural HOMOGENEITY

• HOMOGENIZATION

REGULATE // REGULAR

• IRREGULARLY // IRREGULARITY

• REGULARIZE = make regular // REGULARIZATION

• SELF-REGULATING = self-adjusting

• REGULATORY

• REGULATION

• UNREGULATED market

• RE-REGULATE an industry = introduces laws to control the industry's activities again after a period of letting the industry make its own rules

• DEREGULATION = the action of removing national or local government controls or rules from a business or other activity

  ==»» FEDERAL // ECONOMIC // MEDIA // FINANCIAL DEREGULATION

STONE

• STONY // STONILY

• STONY-HEARTED

• STONELESS = seedless

• STONE-FACED

• STONEWARE

• STONEWORK

• CORNERSTONE

• KEYSTONE

• STONE-BLINDNESS

• STONNE-COLD

• STONECUTTER

  
  

• STONEWALL =:

  • to stop a discussion from developing by refusing to answer questions or by talking in such a way that you prevent other people from giving their opinions

  • to prevent someone from discovering information by not being helpful or by refusing to answer questions

FUGITIVE

• CENTRIFUGAL

• ULTRACENTRIFUGATIONN

REFER

• REFEREE

• REFERENDUM = PLEBISCITE

• REFERABLE

• CROSS-REFERENCE

• REFERENTIAL =allusive

• SELF-REFERENTIAL = ironic

• REFERENCE

  
  

• REFERRAL = the act of directing someone to a different place or person for information, help, or action, often to a person or group with more knowledge or power

MEASURE

• COUNTERMEASURE

• MADE-TO-MEASURE

• IMMEASURABLY

• COMMENSURATE

• INCOMMENSURABLE

• MEASURABILITY

• MEASURED = careful and controlled, or not fast

• RE-MEASURE

• MISMEASURE

• MENSURATION // MENSURAL // MENSURABILITY

• MEASURELESS

• MEASUREMENT

HALF MEASURES

actions that only achieve part of what they are intended to achieve

• A MEANS TO AN END

• SHARP PRACTICE

ON A GLIDE PATH TO STH

a series of event or actions that lead to a particular result, usually a successful one

POSTURE

• a way in which a government or other organization thinks about and/or deals with a particular matter

• to behave in a way that is intended to attract attention and interest, or to try to make people believe something that is not true

SHOWBOATING

a slightly annoying form of behaviour, especially in sport, that is intended to attract attention or admiration because it is very skilful

TINSEL

• something, especially the entertainment business or someone's way of living, that seems exciting and attractive, but is really of low quality or value

  • BE ALL TINSEL AND GLITTER

MAKE THE SPARKS FLY

• to caue disruption, confusion, or turmoil

• create a lot of tension between two or more people, especially that which is of a sexual or romantic nature

• MAKE THE FUR FLY // SET THE FLUR FLYING

• THE RED MIST DESCENDS

• A BRIGHT SPARK

POKE THE BEAR TOO HARD

To deliberately aggravate somebody

• OUTPLACEMENT services

• MISPLACED

• DISPLACEMENT

• COMMONPLACE

• PLACEHOLDER

• PLACEBO

• FIREPLACE

• IRREPLACEABLE

• REPLACEMENT

• EMPLACEMENT

• UNPLACED = ranked below 3

• MARKETPLACE

• BIRTHPLACE

• WORKPLACE

PLACE

FLICKERING

FLICK

• Legitimately

• file a LAWSUIT against

• LEGITIMIZE // DELEGITIMIZE ==»» delegitimization

• LEGITIMACY

• LEGITIMATE (a/v)

• Paralegal

• Lawyer

• OUTLAW (v/n)

• Unlawfully

• Lawlessness

• Law-abiding

• Illegally

• LAWMAKERS

• LAW-BREAKER

• ILLEGALS (n)

• ILLEGALITIES = hành động Ko hợp pháp

• Legalization // DELEGALIZE

LEGAL // LAW

• CREDENCE

• UNCREDENTIALED

• CREDULITY

• INCREDULOUSLY

CREDO

• DOG-EAT-DOG

• DOGGEDLY

• DOGFOODING

• LAPDOG = a small dog kept as a pet.

DOG

• DISTRUST // MISTRUST

• UNTRUSTWORTHY // TRUSTWORTHINESS

• DISTRUSTFUL = implies a lack of trust ( with previous experiences and definite facts)

• MISTRUSTFUL = implies being doubtful based on intuition

• TRUSTEE = a person, often one of a group, who controls property and/or money for another person or an organization

• CO-TRUSTEE = one of two or more people or organizations who together control the property and/or money for another person or organization

• TRUSTEESHIP = the position or responsibility of a trustee

• TRUSTBUSTER = a person or organization that works to prevent illegal arrangements between companies

  ==»» TRUSTBUSTING

• TRUSTABLE source

• TRUSTING // TRUSTFUL = always believing that other people are good or honest and will not harm or deceive you

• TRUSTY = able to be trusted, especially because of having been owned and used for a long time

TRUST

• GEO-TARGETED = designed for customers or users according to where in the world they live

• OFF-TARGET

TARGET

• COURTESY // DISCOURTEOUSLY

• COURTSHIP

• COURTESAN

COURT

FORENSIC AUDITOR

• CAREER PROSPECTS

• ABIDING CONCERN

• TAKE THE PLUNGE

• THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN // THE CREAM OF THE CROP

• IRON OUT

SB whose job is examining financial records to help find out whether a crime has been committed

• AUTOPSY // ANATOMY // NECROPSY // NECROSCOPY // POSTMORTEM

• FORENSIC EVIDENCE // SCIENCE

• BACKSLIDE = relapse

• LANDSLIDE

SLIDE

• DEVIOUS = [of people/plans] dishonest, often in a complicated way, but often also clever and successful /// [of roads] indirect

• DEVIANT = [of behaviours] not usual and is generally considered to be unacceptable // = a degenerate

• DEVIATION

• UNDEVIATING = showing no deviation; constant and steady.

• DEVIANCE // DEVIANCY = the quality of not being usual, and of being generally considered to be unacceptable

DEVIANCE // DEVIANCY

the quality of not being usual, and of being generally considered to be unacceptable

• SEXUAL DEVIANCY

• SOCIAL DEVIANCE

• A DEVIANCE FROM

• COUNTER-POWER = power that opposes the power of another person, organization, group, etc. // a powerful person, organization, or country that opposes another powerful one

• POWERHOUSE =powerplant

• POWER-SHARING

• WILLPOWER

• POWERLESSNESS

• OVERPOWERING

• HYDROPOWER

• DISEMPOWERED

• EMPOWERMENT

• POWERFULLY

• SUPERPOWER

• WIND-POWERED

POWER

• BLAST-OFF

• COUNTERBLAST

BLAST

• DEPRESSURIZATION

• ANTIDEPRESSANTS

• COUNTER-PRESSURE

PRESSURE

• WELL/ILL-ADIVSED

• ADVISEMENT

• INADVISABLE

ADVICE

• PERMANENTLY

• IMPERMANENCE

PERMANENCE

• ILLICITLY

• RE-LICENSE

• OFF-LICENSE

LICENSE

• OVER-HANDLE

• HANDOUTS = succor

• EVEN-HANDED

• SHORTHAND

• OFF-HANDEDLY

• HIGH-HANDEDLY

• SINGLE-HANDEDLY

• UNDERHANDEDLY

• HANDS-OFF //ex-directory

• HANDFUL

• HANDINESS // HANDYMAN // HANDILY

• BEHINDHAND

• BEFOREHAND

• HAND-ME-DOWN = CAST-OFF

• HANDMADE

• HAND-PICKED

• HAND-TO-MOUTH

• HANDS-ON // FIRST-HAND

• HANDSHAKE

• HANDWRITTEN

• ONE-HANDED

• HANDCRAFTED

• BACK-HANDED

• HAM/CACK-HANDED

• HANDINESS

• HANDEDNESS

• RED-HANDED

• OPEN-HANDED = generous

• HEAVY-HANDED = oppressive

• HAND-HOLDING

• A SLEIGHT OF HAND

• SHORT-HANDED = understaffed

• GLAD-HAND SB

HAND

• BELLYACHE

• BELLICOSITY

• UNDERBELLY

• POTBELLY // POTBELLIED = having a fat, round stomach

• YELLOW-BELLIED

BELLY

• RAZOR-THIN = [of difference] very small

• RAZOR-SHARP

RAZOR

• INTERPOSITION // INTERPOSE ONESELF BETWEEN

• POSTURE

• PROPOSE // PROPOSITIONAL

• REPOSE

• SUPERIMPOSED // IMPOSITION

• OPPOSITION // OPPOSITION

• POSABLE

• COMPOSE // COMPOSITION

• DECOMPOSED

• EXPOSURE

• DISCOMPOSURE

• EXPOSITION

• POSITIONALLY

• REPOSITION

• INDISPOSED // INDISPOSITION

• PREDISPOSITION

• DEPOSE

• WELL-DISPOSED

• IMPOSTURE

• SUPPOSITIONAL // SUPPOSEDLY

• APPOSE = place STH next to or close to STH else

• SELF-IMPOSED = imposed by oneself ; voluntarily assumed

POSE //POSITION

COLLATERAL

• valuable property owned by someone who wants to borrow money, that they agree will become the property of the company or person who lends the money if the debt is not paid back

  • USE/PLEDGE STH // PUT STH UP AS COLLATERAL

• connected but less important, or of the same family although not directly related

  • A COLLATERAL BRANCH OF THE FAMILY

COLLATERAL DAMAGE

during a war, the unintentional deaths and injuries of people who are not soldiers, and damage that is caused to their homes, hospitals, schools, etc.

MARKETING COLLATERAL

printed or electronic information used to help encourage people to buy a product, for example information sheets, websites, etc.

COLLATERAL DEFLATION

a situation in which collateral becomes less valuable

MORTGAGE

• an agreement that allows you to borrow money from a bank or similar organization, especially in order to buy a house, or the amount of money itself

  • TAKE OUT A MORTGAGE OF ___

  • MONTHLY MORTGAGE PAYMENT

• to borrow money to buy a house

• MORTGAGE = a type of loan that you can use to finance the purchase of a property.

• COLLATERAL = an asset that provides the backing for a loan — any sort of loan.

MORTGAGE // COLLATERAL