Thẻ ghi nhớ: CAM 17 TEST 4 | Quizlet

thriving (a)

thịnh vượng (= blooming, increasing)

feast (v)

eat a lot of good food and enjoy it very much (= eat, devour, indulge)

a plague of

a large number of things that are unpleasant or likely to cause damage
eg. several species of bats are giving Madagascar's rice farmers a vital pest control service by feasting on plagues of insects.

ease (v)

xoa dịu, giảm nhẹ (= relieve, reduce, lessen)

insectivorous (a)

eating only insects

state-of-the-art (a)

hiện đại (= advanced, high-tech, up-to-the-minute)

infest (v)

phá hoại, tàn phá

roost (v)

đậu (= settle, rest, sleep)

compile (v)

sưu tập (= collect, accumulate, compose)

inventory (n)

list, record, account

archive (n)

kho lưu trữ

conundrum (n)

câu hỏi hóc búa

critical (a)

quan trọng (= significant, important, vital)

industriousness (n)

hard work, diligence, productiveness

chastise (v)

trừng phạt (= penalize, scold, punish)

reprimand (v)

khiển trách (= tell off, scold, rebuke)

defiance (n)

disobedience, insolence, rebelliousness

threshold (n)

ngưỡng (= line, limit, base)

legislate (v)

lập pháp (to make laws)

undermine (v)

weaken, destabilize, threaten

oppose to (v)

phản đối (= counter)

rarefied (a)

hiếm có, khác biệt (= different, exclusive)

kick (n)

sự phấn khích (= pleasure, excitement, thrill)

uninitiated (a)

nghiệp dư (= amateur, nonprofessional, inexperienced)

accomplished (a)

tài năng (= talented, skillful, gifted)

faithfully (adv)

chính xác, chân thật (= accurately, precisely, believably)

taxing (a)

exhausting, draining, tiring

tentative (a)

chưa chắc chắn (not certain or agreed, or said/done in a careful but uncertain way because you do not know if you are right)