Day 7

Question 1

venerate

Answer 1

sùng bái

= revere

Question 2

aversion to sth

Answer 2

(a person or thing that causes) a feeling of strong dislike or of not wishing to do something:

Question 3

enigmatic

Answer 3

mysterious and impossible to understand completely:

Question 4

insular

Answer 4

interested only in your own country or group and not willing to accept different or foreign ideas

Question 5

exclusively

Answer 5

only

Question 6

assert

Answer 6

behave in a way that expresses your confidence, importance, or power and earns you respect from others:

to say that something is certainly true:

to do something to show that you have power:

Question 7

derivative

Answer 7

If something is derivative, it is not the result of new ideas, but has been developed from or copies something else:

Question 8

bolster

Answer 8

support, improve sth to be stronger

Question 9

confound

Answer 9

to confuse and very much surprise someone, so that they are unable to explain or deal with a situation:

Question 10

understate

Answer 10

to describe something in a way that makes it seem less important, serious, bad, etc. than it really is:

= overlook

Question 11

substantiate

Answer 11

to show something to be true, or to support a claim with facts:

Question 12

imposing (adj)

Answer 12

having an appearance that looks important or causes admiration:

Question 13

shrewdness

Answer 13

clear understanding and good judgment of a situation, usually resulting in an advantage:

Question 14

render

Answer 14

to cause someone or something to be in a particular state:

to change words into a different language or form:

Question 15

shroud

Answer 15

a layer of something that covers or surrounds something:

Question 16

perpetuate

Answer 16

to cause something to continue:

Increasing the supply of weapons will only perpetuate the violence and anarchy.

Question 17

bewilderment

Answer 17

confusion

Question 18

obscurity

Answer 18

unfamaliar

Question 19

ascendancy

Answer 19

a position of power, strength, or success:

Question 20

xenophobic

Answer 20

showing an extreme dislike or fear of people from foreign countries:

Question 21

repudiate

Answer 21

refuse

Question 22

extricate

Answer 22

remove

Question 23

precarious

Answer 23

in a dangerous state because of not being safe or not being held in place firmly:

Question 24

adroit

Answer 24

very skilful and quick in the way you think or move:

Question 25

capricious

Answer 25

changing mood or behaviour suddenly and unexpectedly:

Question 26

overthrow

Answer 26

to defeat or remove someone from power, using force:

Question 27

dictatorial

Answer 27

độc đoán ## Footnote liking to give orders:

Question 28

fastidious

Answer 28

giving too much attention to small details and wanting everything to be correct and perfect:

Question 29

foolhardy

Answer 29

brave in a silly way, taking unnecessary risks:

Question 30

distracting

Answer 30

making it difficult for someone to give their attention to something: ## Footnote Please turn your music down - it's very distracting.

Question 31

perfunctory

Answer 31

done quickly, without taking care or interest:

Question 32

corroborate

Answer 32

to add proof to an account, statement, idea, etc. with new information:

Question 33

clandestine

Answer 33

planned or done in secret, especially describing something that is not officially allowed: ## Footnote = secret

Question 34

candid

Answer 34

honest and telling the truth, especially about something difficult or painful:

Question 35

embellish

Answer 35

to make something more beautiful by adding something to it:

Question 36

condemn

Answer 36

to criticize something or someone strongly, usually for moral reasons:

Question 37

proffer

Answer 37

offer, put forward