OLYMPIC 30-4

- Longstanding problems
- Aqueduct: cống dẫn nc
- Cognizance: knowledge, understanding
- Take cognizance of = consider/understand/take notice of
- Execrable = terrible
- Scurrilous = rude and offensive
- Transcendent = extremely great
- Perimeter: chu vi
- Conspiracy = plot
Conspirator (n) kẻ có âm mưu
- Recuperation = recovery
- Concur = agree
- Sanctity: extreme importance
= sacredness
- There is no comparison between A and B: A is very different from B
- Vestige = trace
- Dividend: cổ tức
- Indictment /ai/ bản cáo trạng
Indictment: dấu hiệu của sự mục ruỗng
- Hallowed = sacred
- Pharynx: cổ họng
- Panorama = a wide view
- Apropos of = related to / in connection with
- Commiserate = sympathize
- Saturnine: trầm mặt
- Satirical: châm biếm
Satire: nghệ thuật châm biếm
- Savagery = violence
- Excrutiating = awful
- Expeditious = efficient
- Explicit = clear
- Brash: hồ hởi, vồ vập
- Sluggish: ì ạch
- Itinerant: Traveling from place to place = Peripatetic
- Perpetual = continuous
- Rapturously = ecstatically = delightedly
- Exultantly = triumphantly
- highbrow = intellectual >< lowbrow
- dreary = dull = heartrending
- Inure to = accommodate to difficulties
- Blissful: unaware of dangers/unpleasant things
- Gait: dáng đi
- Push ahead: stick to a plan determinedly
- Covetous (adj)
- Fickle (adj) = unpredictable
- Loath = unwilling
- Loathsome = repulsive = disgusting
- Acupuncture: châm cứu
- Aromatherapy: liệu pháp hương thơm
- Implicate sb in sth: suggest that sb is involved in sth bad
- In contrast to sth
- Ready-made (adj)
- Admittance = entering
- Autograph = a celeb’s signature
- Pernicious: unrecognizably harmful
- Instantaneous = cumulative
- Remedy (n) >< solution
Remedy (v) = remediate correct/improve -> remediation (n), remedial (a)
Remediable = curable = solvable
- In expectation of sth
- Dislike of/for/to
- Majestic (adj) = impressive
- Endure the bad time
- Permissive: thả rông, quá tự do
- Make a success
- Announce sth to sb
- Be received with sth: nhận đc (a reaction: criticism, approval…)
- Practicable = feasible
- Obstinacy (n)
- Objectionable = offensive, unpleasant
- Invaluable help
- Lend sth to sb
- Appendage (n) = attachment
- Appendix: ruột thừa
Appendicitis: bệnh viêm ruột thừa
Appendectomy: phẫu thuật loại bỏ ruột thừa
- Clasp (v) xiết
(n) dụng cụ để xiết (vòng)
- Mouth-watering = tempting
- Irretrievable : ko thể sửa chữa, không thể cứu vãn
- Irrevocable = unchangeable
- Panoramic = wide
- Single-minded:
- Theatricality: sự phóng đại, nghệ thuật cường điệu hóa
- Theatricals = stage performance
- Westernize (v): phương tây hóa
- Ladylike (adj): nhu mì, nữ thục
- Antiquity (n) sự cổ, sự lâu năm
- Memorabilia: kỉ vật (của celeb / lien quan đến 1 sự kiện quan trọng)
- Memorandum: bản ghi nhớ
- Be held responsible for sth
- Be up in arms about/over sth: be angry
- Turn one’s hand to sth = be able to do sth well
- Take offence at sth = take sth amiss
- Conscience: lương tâm
- Bronchitis: viêm phế quản
- Chauffeur: tài xế riêng
- Exempt from: được miễn trừ
- Gourmet (a) cao cấp, thượng hạng
- Instep: mu bàn chân
- Condominium: căn hộ (sang hơn chung cư, vì có thêm 1 số công trình phụ
tích hợp trong khuôn viên (công viên mini, bể bơi…). Ng mua chỉ sở hữu
mỗi căn hộ của mình mà thôi, còn lại công trình phụ là của chung)
- A dab hand at doing sth/with sth: do/use sth skillfully
- Own up to sth/doing sth = confess
- Keep a straight face: nhịn cười
- Intercollegiate (a) thi đấu giữa các trường ĐH
- Menace = threat
- A wild goose chase: cuộc tìm kiếm mò kim đáy bể
- A dirty joke: abt sex
A sick joke: abt death/disease
- Cash crop: crops for sale/export, not for growers
- Prerequisite = fundamental
- Ouster: phế truất
- In a whisper
- Attractant (n) mồi nhử
- Frontier = limit of knowledge
- Thought-provoking
- Afforestation (n) sự trồng rừng
- Nonracial (adj)
- Catch sb on the hop = surprise sb
- Touch/catch sb on the raw: upset sb by reminding sensitive matters
- In look: về vẻ ngoài
- Make a point of doing sth: make sure sth is done ’cause it’s important
- Stagnant = static: ù lì, ko pt, ko tiến bộ, ko thay đổi
- Tune in to sth: watch tele / listen to radio
- Get off with sth: receive no punishments for misdeeds
- Abase = submit = yield
- Adversary (n) = opponent
- Caravansary (n): group of travelling people
- Repudiate = reject/deny
- Disown: cự tuyệt, cắt đứt liên hệ
- Entrench (v) = firmly establish / settle (an idea/prejudice)
- Femme fatale: a sexually attractive women who causes men troubles
- Social climber: kẻ hay bắt quàng làm họ, đú fame
- In default of sth = because of a lack of sth
- What has become of sth = what has happened to sth
- Take exception to
- Amenable to sth: susceptible to sth
- Flattery: lời xu nịnh
- Feud = conflict
Blood feud: thù truyền kiếp (mâu thuẫn giữa các gia đình)
- Lose out to sb/sth: have sth you want taken away by sb/sth
- Be liable to/for: have to do sth by law
- Beacon: đèn hiệu
- Put sth to good use
- Supercilious = superior
- Thenceforth: từ đó về sau
- Herein: ở đó (trạng)
VD: No organizations fund our program, and herein lies the main problem.
- Heretofore: từ đó trở về trước.
VD: Light bulb was invented in 1879. Heretofore, people lit their ways with
oil lamps.
- Herewith: with this.
VD: I enclose herewith the letter.
- Lymph: bạch cầu
- Verbiage: complicated language
- Typhoid: sốt thương hàn
- Myopia: cận thị
- Sentimental: sến súa
- Pious = devout: ngoan đạo >< impious
- Commendable = praiseworthy
- Cordial = friendly
- Valor = great courage
- Stout (a): đầy bản lĩnh
Stout (a): múp, mũm mĩm
- Do sb/sth down = criticize
- Cave in to sth = yield to sth
- Lay on = provide
- Send sb off: yc vđv ra khỏi sân/khu vực thi đấu vì vi phạm luật lệ
- Ease up = ease off
- Hot up: get more exciting
- Play-off (n): hòa
- Itemize: liệt kê

- Betrothal (n) sự đính hôn = engagement

Betrothed (adj)
- Deposition = temperament
- Let it be known = declare
- Should the need arise = if it is necessary
- Distance oneself from sth: not get involve/associated with sth
- Be a source of sth to sb: make sb feel sth
VD: amuse sb = be a source of amusement to sb
- Shrink from doing sth = be reluctant to do sth
- Be indicted for sth = be charged with
- Chauvinism = insularity
- Male chauvinism: tư tưởng trọng nam khinh nữ
- Exhibitionist ng thích phô trương, khoe mẽ, thích sự chú ý
- Exogenous (adj) attributable to objective factors stemming from surrounding
world
>< endogenous
- Mix -> miscible (adj) can be mixed >< immiscible
- Missus = wife
- Minuscule = extremely small
- Luminous = shining
- Clatter (v) kêu leng keng
- Plenitude = abundance
A plenitude of sth
- Flaccidity = mềm, nhão, ko săn chắc
- Pliability = flexibility
= impressionable, susceptible
- Platitude: bài diễn văn
- Stringent = very strict
- Innocuous = harmless
- Scourge = bane
- Blight (v,n) have a bad effect on sb/sth
Cast a blight on sb/sth
- Throw sth back at sb = remind sb of their past mistakes to annoy them
- Wrestle with sth = struggle to deal with sth difficult
- Take up with = befriend with sb with bad reputation
- Integrity (n) sự chính trực
Integrity = unity
- Vouch for = confirm
- Procure = obtain
- Prosaic = unimaginative
- Predispose: make sb susceptible to sth / likely to do sth
- Light-heartedly: một cách dí dỏm
- Delve into = obtain further information
- Endear sb/oneself to sb: make sb/oneself popular
- Abject = hopelessly terrible
- Arcane = mysterious
- Obtuse: chậm hiểu
- Trailblazer = pioneer (n)
- Stand sb in good stead: be off great use to sb
- Empirical: scientifically proven
- Stockade: hàng rào phòng thủ
- Clammy: ướt nhèm nhẹp, ẩm ướt
- Voluminous = very large
- Crystalline = transparent
- Courtship (n): thời gian hẹn hò
- Encapsulate = sum up
- Put stock in sth = have faith in sth
- Ardent = passionate
- Correlate = closely connect
- Mistrust = distrust: ko tin tưởng
- Empire (n) -> imperial (adj)
- Put oneself out for sb: make special effort to do sth
- Go at hammer and tongs: argue/fight with a lot of energy/noise
- With bated breath: feeling anxious/excited
- Like a dog with two tails: extremely happy
- A pat on the back: a praise or approval for sth done well
- Take stock of: stop and carefully consider sth
- Get a grasp of sth = understand sth
- Lunatic = maniac: tên khùng chuyên làm những trò mạo hiểm
- As time wear on
- Set in: bắt đầu lan ra/tệ đi/… (Infection, rain, bad weather…)
- Sublimation: transformation from solid to gas
- Conspicuous = noticeable
- Be teeming with sth = be full of
- Self-explanatory = understandable, not needing further information
- Drive sb to distraction = distract sb
- Fly in the face of sth = oppose sth usually accepted
- Forthcoming = willing to give information
= provided (information)
- Be a (complete) sell-out: have all the tickets/items sold
- Combatant (n) chiến sĩ, ng chiến đấu
- Proprietor: person who own properties
- Be in the pipeline = awaiting/processing/forthcoming
- Prudent = wise
- Acute (adj): nhanh nhạy
Acumen (n) sự nhanh nhạy
- As a matter of prudence = to avoid unnecessary risks
- Aerial (adj) trên không
- Rebound (v): bounce back
Rebound on sb = backfire: phản tác dụng
- recoil (v): giật lùi
- retract (v): rút lại, co lại
- chop and change: hay đổi ý
- cut and dried: fixed, unchangeable
- divulge = reveal
- concede: thừa nhận
- get/come to grips with: begin to understand/deal with sth difficult
- in the grip of: experiencing sth unpleasant but cannot be stopped
- lose one’s grip on sth: bất lực vì ko làm chủ/giải quyết đc điều gì
- dole out: chia khẩu phần
- butt in: interrupt a conversation immediately
- enlistment (n) nhập ngũ
enlistment (n) sự chiêm mộ, sự kêu gọi
- overstate = exaggerate
- overshadow = dwarf
- menial: nghề nhỏ, lặt vặt
- elongation (n)
Elongate = lengthen
- tumult (n) sự hỗn độn, huyên náo
Tumultuous (adj) = very loud / nhiệt tình, vồ vập, hồ hởi
= tempestuous: đầy biến động, đầy bão tố
- barb: a disheartening remark
- underwhelmed: not impressed at all
- eloped with sth: run away with sb in order to marry him/her secretly
- flirt with: nghĩ vẩn vơ
- put down: kill animals because of diseases/age
- weld = stir = mix
- hyper- : too much
- hypersensitive: extremely sensitive / very easily offended
- alumni (n) : cựu hs, sinh viên
- proverbial = famous
- shake off: get away from sb who is running after you
- spent = exhausted
- be faced with sth
- persona (n) tính cách xã giao, khác với tính cách thật
- bombast (n) words used to exaggerate/signify sth to impress people
- extricate = escape
- witty (adj): sắc sảo
witticism (n) lời bình sắc sảo
- moronic = very stupid
- altercation = noisy argument
- tenuous (adj) mỏng manh, yếu ớt
- ordain (v): phong chức
= be destined
- conservatoire = conservatory: nhạc viện / viện sân khấu điện ảnh
- beyond one’s means: cannot be afforded by sb
- shun: hắt hủi, tránh né
- work on the same terms as sb: work under same condition
- take it for granted that = assume that
- celestial (adj): thiên thể
- gay = happy
Gaiety (n)
- controvert = refute = deny
- macadamia: hạt macca
- entomology: côn trùng học
- miscellaneous = diverse
- veterinary (adj): thuộc về thú ý
- affidavit: bản tuyên thệ
- accomplice: kẻ đồng lõa
- barricade (n): biển báo chặn đường
Barricade (v)
- imminent (adj) likely to happen very soon
- torment (v) = torture
Torment (n) = anguish = agony = extreme pain
- dismal = miserable / gloomy
- chafe (v): đau rát vì bị chà xát
Chafe (v) = be annoyed
- be in with a chance of doing sth = be likely to succeed
- on the off chance of doing sth/that: đề phòng trường hợp/khả năng nào đó
- something is anything to go by: điều gì đó là thứ duy nhất dám nghĩ về
- cadence (n) = intonation
- overarching (adj) = significant and influential
- cluster (n) = group
- proofread (v): đọc sàng lọc văn bản trước khi in/xuất bản
- sprout (v): develop/appear/grow in large number
- sequined (adj) lấp lánh long lanh
- in the face of = despite
- spit it out! : nói mẹ luôn đi
- not bat an eyelid: show no surprise
- up the creek (without a paddle): in a difficult situation
- drive sb round the bend: drive sb crazy
- whacked (adj) = wrecked = exhausted
- crack up = become ill
= make sb laugh a lot
- solitude = privacy
- have your head screwed on (the right way) = to be a sensible person
- go under the name of = be called by the name
- pass out = faint
- mope about (v): đi đi lại lại vì bứt rứt
- pull out of = withdraw from sth, stop being involved in sth
- against a background of: trên cơ sở
- budding (adj) lên hương, bắt đầu phát triển, thành công
- take to somewhere: go away, head for a place
- famine-stricken: bị nạn đói hoành hành
Stricken (adj): seriously affected by a bane
Be stricken with/by sth
- far-fetched = unbelievable
- martyr (n,v): tử đạo, (chết vì có tư tưởng tôn giáo sai lệch)
Martyrdom: the death of a martyr
- martyred (adj): giả vờ đau khổ để được thương hại
- bygone (adj) happen a long time ago
- divide -> individuality (n)
- by one’s own admission, …: sb admits that…
- be up to scratch = satisfactory, acceptable
- play second fiddle to sb: chịu thua thiệt hơn ai đó
- play havoc with sb/sth: doing great harm, causing great damage to sb/sth
- sworn enemies: kẻ thù không đội trời chung
- tie in with = link to
- get/catch the drift of sth: understand the general meaning of sth
- gist = drift
- outlast (v) last longer
- gauche (adj) ngượng ngùng lúng túng
- epoch = era
- schematic (adj): sơ lược
- hyperbole (n) = exaggeration
- conclave (n) a secret meeting
- concourse (n) đại sảnh
- disequilibrium (n) loss of balance
- penitentiary = prison
- penitential = remorseful = apologetic
- ameliorate (v) = improve
- caricature (n) tranh biếm họa, sự châm biếm
- in custody = in prison
- derelict = vagrant (n) người cơ nhỡ không nhà cửa, không việc làm
- prerequisite = fundamental
- prequel (n): tiền truyện
- loopy = crazy
- chivvy = hurry
- cheerio = bye
- bibliophile (n) person who loves books
- mellifluous (adj) êm tai, dễ nghe
- conjecture = guess
- cynosure (n) tâm điểm chú ý (ai đó)
- concubine (n) thê thiếp, vợ lẽ
- idiolect (n) cách ăn nói
- in a stew = be upset
- enervate (v) make sb feel weak and tired
- extirpate = get rid of
- looming on the horizon = (sth worrying) likely to happen soon
- for good measure: in addition to what has already been done/said/given
- beyond measure = very much
- exile (n) lưu vong, tha hương
- donkey’s year: for a very long time
- give sb a smack = kiss sb loudly
- inbuilt (adj) = essential, inseparable
- presumptuous (adj) too confident, xấc láo
- incorrigible = incurable
- devitalize (v) = exhaust sb
- vigour = vitality: energy and enthusiasm
- write-off: sth severely damaged
- ambience = atmosphere (không khí, bầu cảm xúc)
- ambient (adj) surrounding
- put sb/sth/oneself in for sth: apply for sth , enter a competition
- immaterial = irrelevant
- of no consequence to sb: không liên quan đến ai
- set sth out = present sth in details / in an organized way
- there is nothing like + sth = sth is very enjoyable
- impromptu (adj,adv) = improvised: without planning/preparation
- take sth in one’s stride = cope with calmly
- back to square one = start again from scratch
- give the green light to sth = permit sth
- have no qualms about sth = have no misgivings about sth
- qualm = misgiving
- be on the same/different wavelength = have the same/different way of
thinking
- hear tell of sth: nghe ng ta nói
- ludicrous = absurd
-