Cam9 Flashcards

(60 cards)

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Synthetic

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Artificial, man-made,…

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Prompt

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To make someone decide to do smt

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Stumb on/across/upon smt

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=come across

= to find or discover smt by chance and unexpectedly

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Run-down

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In bad condition, badly maintained

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Solidified

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=strengthen

=to make an agreement, plan, attitude, etc more definite and less likely to change

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Enthusiasm

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Interest

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Become immersed in

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Become completely involved in an activity

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Devotion

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=commitment
=adherence
=dedication
=the strong love that you show when you pay a lot of attention to someone or smt

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Perceive

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Recognize,see,identify,…

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Enrolment

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The process of arranging to join a school, university, course,…

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Breakthrough

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= advance, innovation, revolution,new idea

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Derived

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To develop or come from smt else

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Substitude

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= altermate, replacement,…

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Manufacture

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Produce,make, create

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Mysterious

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Strange

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Excretion

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The waste material that people or animals get rid from their bodies

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Obtain

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Get, gain, attain

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Extracted smt from smt

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To carefully remove a substance from smt which contains it, using a machine, chemical process etc

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Backdrop

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The conditions or situation in which smt happens

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Grasp

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=Understand, comprehend
=see the point of
=to completely understand a fact or an idea, especially a complicated one

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Fabric

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=Material

= cloth used for making clothes, curtains etc

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Instant

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Immediate

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Recognition

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Detection

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Assured

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Ensure, promise, confirm, guarantee

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Objection
Opposition, doubt,...
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Mentor
Adviser
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Utilise
Make use of
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Flatter
To make someone look as attractive as they can
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Shade
Smt you can use to reduce or block light
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Not to be outdone
In order not to let someone else do better or seem better than you
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Be all the rage
To be very popular or fashionable
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Clamoured for
To demand smt loudly
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Go back to the drawing board
If you go back to the drawing board, you start again with a completely new plan or idea, after the one you tried before has failed
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Merely
Only, just,...
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Vital
Very important Crucial Central
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Extra-terrestrial
Relating to things that exist outside the Earth
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Haunt
to cause problems for someone over a long period of time ( ám ảnh )
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Poised on the brink/ edge of smt
completely ready to do smt or for smt to happen; when it is likely to happen soon
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intermittenly
= sporadically | Stopping and starting often and short period ( từng cơn, từng hồi, không liên tục)
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make an attemp to do smt
to try to do smt, especially smt difficult
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primary
most important, main,...
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drive
force, make
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evolve
develop, change
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foster
promote, encourage,...
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detection
discovery, finding,...
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sufficient
enough, plenty,...
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a cog in the machine/wheel
someone who only has a small unimportant job in a large organization
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tenuous
uncertain,weak, likely to change,..
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wipe smt out
to destroy, remove, get rid of smt completely
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optimism
a feeling or belief that things will get better or more successful in the future
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adopt
to start to deal with or think about smt in a particular way
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ground rules
the basic rules or principles on which future actions or behaviour should be based
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an opend mind
if you have an open mind, you deliberately do not make a decision or form a definite opinion about smt
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convincing
persuasive, believable,compelling, forceful,..
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conservative
traditional,old,...
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radically
very, completely, totally
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sbd's fellows
people that you work with, study with, or who are in the same situation as you
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inconceivable
unthinkable, unimaginable,unbelievable,...
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severely
harshly, strictly,...
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attenuate
to make smt weaker or less