Thẻ ghi nhớ: WORD FORMATION ADVANCED | Quizlet

1. Democracy died after a period of ________(cease) wars, imperial expansion abroad, and the rise of demagoguery at home.

incessant/ceaseless

2. The consequences of ________ (compel) gambling are comparable to those of any other addictive disease and are not simply those of financial loss.

compulsive

3. The prison service has the twin goals of punishment and ________ (habit).

rehabilitation

4. The first ________ (conceive) is that legal study at university is exclusively for students who intend becoming solicitors or advocates.

misconception

5. Too late, she remembered the ________ (settle) effect such comments would have on Johnny.

unsettling

6. Some economists are now predicting the danger of ________ (run) inflation.

runaway

7. The ________ (narrate) in this book plays second fiddle to the excellent photographs.

narrative

8. They were now faced with seemingly________(mount) technical problems.

INsurmountable

9. When you come down on him too hard, you may only intensify his own ________ (critic)

self-criticism

10. Your speech should not have been ________ (lace) with these facts beside the point.

interlaced

11. Their views lie outside the ________ (stream) of current medical opinion.

mainstream

12. The teachers are fair and avoid ________ (favour) and scapegoating.

favoritism

13. She has become ________(mesh) in a tangle of drugs and petty crime.

enmeshed

14. Do not set your goals too high or else you will always be failing and there is nothing more ________ (moral).

demoralising

15. The demise of the industry has caused ________(tell) misery to thousands of hard-working tradesmen.

untold

16. Attracting the banks are the ________ (surge) economy and reforms that have opened up industries to foreign capital.

resurgent

17. The ordinary reader is impressed by the tone and manner of publication, and the words chosen to ________ (head) a story.

headline

18. At all events, it was this group of the ________ (possess) that gave the first successful impetus to the Revolution.

dispossessed

19. ________(prey) pricing by large supermarkets was threatening the livelihood of smaller businesses.

predatory

20. He is a ________(voice) critic of the president's stance on abortion.

vociferous

21. She made several ________ (par) remarks about the manager she dislikes.

disparaging

22. As women we tend to be ________ (face) and make light of what we have achieved.

self-effacing

23. GEW lamp dimming promise uptime at least 1500 hours, raised productivity and reduces ________ (time).

downtime

24. Would you mind if I took one of the pictures as a________(keep)?

keepsake

25. Mania usually alternates with depression, to form a ________ (pole) disorder.

bipolar

26. This was too a ________ (hole) for the tax planners: no wonder inheritance tax is called a voluntary tax.

loophole

27. The teacher said that he found it difficult to cope with a class of ________ (affect) teenagers.

disaffected

28. He is ________ (fail) polite and tries desperately to understand other people's views.

unfailingly

29. The court ________ (turn) that decision on the grounds that the Prosecution had withheld crucial evidence.

overturned

30. Some of these statements are misleading and some downright ________ (amend).

mendacious

31. The state ________ (fast) refused to settle this matter at any time.

steadfastly

32. What is illustrated by these photographs is as much the culture of shamelessness as the reigning admiration for ________ (apology) brutality.

unapologetic

33. The judge found that in her case there were________(mitigate) circumstances.

mitigating

34. He impressed his audience by the ________ (profound) of his knowledge.

profundity

35. The causes of social ________(stress) include inadequate housing.

distress

36. He was in the ________ (envy) position of having to choose between imprisonment or exile.

unenviable

37. He was ________ (capacity) by old age and sickness.

incapacitated

38. The bank is ________ (solve) and will be unable to live up to its obligations.

insolvent

39. Natalie considered herself very ________ (virtue) because she neither drank nor smoked.

virtuous

40. Their refusal to ________ (tail) spending plans and to increase the burden on poll tax payers is expected.

curtail

41. Rather than a benevolent "socialist" super power China, whose population is made up over 90% Han Chinese, will ________ (stride) the world as a racially homogeneous, and communalistic "Middle Kingdom‖.

bestride

42. Broadly speaking, on-line shopping experiences can be categorized into two distinct dimensions: ________ (use) and hedonic value.

utilitarian

43. It encouraged experimenters to propose ________ (beat) or novel approaches to problems.

offbeate

44. It's a bustling ________ (eat) where the fishy fare is served in cones of butcher's paper.

eatery

45. Several spoke out against the harshly ________ (right) tone of the original motion.

self-righteous

46. Elections are essential for the ________ (sustain) of parliamentary democracy. sustenance: sự tồn tại

sustemance

47. ________ (similar) is consequently difficult, particularly as the minority groups experience considerable hostility.

Assimilation

48. Growth and ________ (mature) of vascular plants are often controlled by light, usually in conjunction with temperature.

maturation

49. The practice of meditation and ________ (temple) is life-long, reflecting this daily process of repentance and change at heart.

contemplation

50. The new policy only serves to ________ (accent) the inadequacy of provision for the homeless.

accentuate

51. Pressure was applied with cool precision: women had discovered that to ________ (step) male dominance was to avoid destructive rage.

sidestep

52. I found your book absolutely ________ (thrall)!

enthralling

53. Listen to both sides and you will be ________ (light), heed only one side and you will be ________ (night).

enlightened

benighted

54. Bertha, exaggerating the seriousness of the affair, thought it ________ (charlatan) to undertake a post without knowledge and without capacity.

charlatanry

She waited her turn to audition, trying to look ________ (charlatan).

nonchalant

55. I write this down ________ (verb), for much the same reason I took notes in college.

verbatim

57. Opposition leaders said they would try to stage nationwide protests, but previous opposition rallies have met only ________ (warm) support.

lukewarm

58. She gave me some friendly advice without a trace of ________ (descend).

condescension

56. She came to the party wearing a(n) ________ (land) costume and blond wig.

outlandish

59. It's that ________ (patron) tone of hers that I can't bear.

patronizing

60. And then, to the audience's ________ (mystic), the band suddenly stopped playing.

mystification

61. The ________ (conspire) of the assissination of the president was brought to light in time.

conspiracy

62. The report is critical of attempts by________(official) to deal with the problem of homelessness.

officialdom

63. The system of counties was essential to Frankish government, and a count could wield considerable power, particularly in ________ (far) regions.

far-FLUNG

64. Jaubert had been a reasonable man to work for, had never asked her to do anything illegal or ________ (taste)

distasteful

65. Darwin's theory of evolution was a(n) ________ (shed) dividing the old way of thinking from the new.

watershed

66. I can find just enough re-run of quality programmes to prevent myself from falling into utter despair and pining for the good old days of ________ (year).

yesteryear

67. If he resigned it would be ________ (amount) to admitting that he was guilty.

tantamount

68. For twenty-five years he ________ (pain) amassed evidence to support his hypothesis.

painstakingly: chịu khó

69. He felt out of place, a(n) ________ (conform) in a society where conformity was highly prized.

nonconformist

70. She unveiled the picture with a(n) ________ (ceremony) gesture.

ceremonious

71. Travellers may be ________ (inquire) about the world, but they also travel to make discoveries about themselves.

inquisitive

72. Both Hathor and her potential victims became ________ (exceed) drunk and merry, so she failed at her task.

exceedingly

73. Operation Rescue was an organization notorious for its ________ (front) tactics and its implacable opposition to abortion under all circumstances.

confrontational

74. A(n) ________ (face) approach to sustainable construction is required for use by policy - makers, practitioners and civil society.

multi-faceted

75. Wage control is the ________ (corner) of the government's economic policy.

cornerstone

76. She's ________ (fail) cheerful no matter what the circumstances.

unfailingly

77. Instead of just ________ (moan) your fate, why not do something to change it?

bemoaning

78. For users, they are still expensive ________ (add) features and come with their own set of integration problems.

add-on

79. Foreign observers also accused the authorities of widespread ________ (practice).

malpractice

80. ________ (type) images of women are used to legitimise male dominance.

Stereotypical

81. It will ________ (legal) sex - far from helping girls resist pressure, it will help boys bully girls into sex.

legitimate

82. Mongolia, although poor, has considerable ________ (tap) resources of oil and minerals.

untapped

83. Towards the end of the ________ (infant) period the child is becoming more perspicacious.

infantile

84. It would be ________ (ingenuity) on our part to pretend ignorance of our book's impact, both in sales and controversy.

disingenuous: gian xảo

85. I think I must have known ________(conscience) that something was going on between them.

subconsiously: tiềm thức

86. If evolution has________ (wire) into us a belief that there are objective moral obligations, then we will believe that there are.

hard-wired: ăn sâu vào

87. You want clothes that are stylish as well as practical, versatile, ________ (task) and low maintenance.

multitasking: nhiều công việc

88. His failures ________ (line) the difference between theatre and film direction.

underline: nhấn mạnh

89. In other words, subcultural cleavage has attenuated and cultural ________ (homogeneous) has extended from structural orientation into policy orientation.

homogeneity: tính đồng nhất

90. As the inspector and others came in, she regarded them ________ (disdain), seemingly unconcerned about her capture.

disdainfully: miệt thị

91. The concert hall itself reminds one ________ (play) of reproduction art deco and is also acoustically first-class and adaptable.

playfully: khôi hài