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| congenital |
adj. existing at birth
(Bẩm sinh)
eg. congenital malfunction |
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| congenial |
adj. pleasant, friendly, compatible
eg. a congenial atmosphere to work in |
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| congeal |
v. freeze, condense, coagulate, clot
ant. dissolve, liquify, melt
eg. congealed blood |
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| confound |
v. baffle, confuse and surprise, befuddle, fuddle, discombobulate
eg. The sudden rise in share prices has confounded economists |
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| conformity |
n. action that obeys the rules of society, compliance, submission
eg. regulations that are in conformity with European law |
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| confluence |
n. the place where two rivers' flows become one |
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| conflate |
v. fuse, combine, merge
eg. The issues of race and class are separate and should not be conflated. |
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| conflagration |
n. great and destructive fire, inferno, holocaust
eg. conflagration can destroy forests |
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| confiscate |
v. seize, commandeer, take over, sequester, impound
eg. Their land was confiscated after the war |
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| confine |
v. constrain, detain, throttle, circumscribe, trammel, bound
ant. liberate, release |
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| confidant |
n. trusted friend |
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| conduit |
n. passageway for fluids, large pipe
(Cống, ống cáp) |
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| conducive |
adj. helpful, contributive, able to conduct electricity
eg. proper diet are conducive to good health |
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| condone |
v. overlook a problem, forgive, pardon |
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| condole |
v. sympathize, commiserate |
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| condiment |
n. spice (salt, pepper, mustard,...) |
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| condign |
adj. deserved, appropriate, merited
eg. severe and condign punishment |
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| condescend |
v. grant, allow, deign, patronize
eg. When giving a talk, be careful not to condescend to your audience |
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| concurrent |
adj. meanwhile, concomitant, at the same time, simultaneous
eg. a series of concurrent events |
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| concur |
v. agree, concord, acquiesce, assent
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| concord |
n. harmony, unity, agreement
eg. living in concord with neighboring states |
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| concomitant |
adj. accompanying, consequential, resultant
eg. the concomitant savings were considerable |
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| concoct |
v. mix ingredients, cook up, invent (a story)
eg. The soup was concocted from up to a dozen different kinds of fish. |
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| conclave |
n. private meeting, parley, caucus
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| concise |
adj. brief and compact, compendious, crisp, terse, laconic, curt, truncated, elliptical, pithy, sententious |
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| conciliatory |
adj. soothing, appeasing, yielding
eg. a conciliatory approach / attitude / gesture / move |
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| concession |
n. an act of yielding |
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| concerted |
adj. united, conjunctive, collaborative
eg. the concerted influence of fire and strong wind |
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| concentric |
adj. having the same center
eg. concentric circles |
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| conceit |
n. fall and excessive pride in (power, ablility), haughtiness
eg. he is a great man in his own conceit |
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| concede |
v. admit, cede, give in |
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| concave |
adj. curved inward, depressed
ant. convex, distended |
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| concatenate |
v. link as in a chain, string
eg. concatenate these events |
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| compunction |
n. regret, sorrow, remorse |
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| compromise |
v. make mutual concessions, accommodate
ant. contest, controversy, dispute, dissension, dissent, quarrel |
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| comprise |
v. include, consist of |
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| compress |
v. squeeze, make more compact |
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| comprehensive |
adj. inclusive, complete
ant. exclusive, particular, selective, specific |
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| compound |
v. combine, conflate, merge
eg. Common salt is a compound of sodium and chlorine |
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| composure |
n. calmness
eg. he accepted their problems with composure and she with equanimity |
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| comport |
v. behave well, fit
eg. comport with your high status |
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| complicity |
n. involvement in a crime, collusion
ant. ignorance, innocence, refusal |
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| compliant |
adj. obedient, yielding, amenable, meek, docile, tractable
ant. recalcitrant |
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| compliance |
n. obedience, readiness to fulfill requirements
ant. defiance, denial, disagreement, disobedience |
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| complementary |
adj. combining well to make a whole, completing
eg. his personality is complementary to her |
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| complement |
v. complete, make perfect
eg. Rice makes an excellent complement to a curry dish |
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| complaisant |
adj. ready to please, obliging, willingness to do a favor for others
ant. antagonistic, disagreeable, discontented, dissatisfied, obstinate |
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| complacency |
n. self-satisfaction, contentment
eg. we need to improve, no room for complacency |
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| compilation |
n. list of statistical information
eg. the compilation of available scholarship |
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| compensatory |
adj. repaying, making up for, redeeming, remunerative, redress, reimburse
eg. compensatory education program |
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| compendium |
v/n. brief, comprehensive overview |
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| compelling |
adj. irresistible, overpowering, very impressive that you cant resist
eg. Her latest book makes compelling reading. compelling evidence |
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| compatible |
adj. harmonious, suited, congenital
eg. compatible TV section |
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| compact |
n. agreement, contract, covenant
adj. condensed |
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| communal |
adj. shared, for public use
eg. communal property of the spouses |
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| commodious |
adj. convenient, spacious and comfortable, capacious |
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| commiserate |
v. sympathize, pity, condole |
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| commensurate |
adj. appropriate, corresponding
eg. pay should be commensurate with the time worked |
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| commemorative |
adj. remembering, memorable
eg. commemorative stamps/plaque |
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| commandeer |
v. confiscate, seize, take possession of, hijack
eg. commandeer all the automobiles in the village |
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| comeuppance |
n. deserved fate or condign punishment
eg. his rudeness will result in a comeuppance |
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| comestible |
n. suitable food, edible, victual |
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| comely |
adj. attractive (=personable), agreeable
ant. bad-looking, despicable, disagreeable, offensive, repellent, repulsive, revolting, ugly |
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| combustible |
adj. easily burned
eg. combustible materials |
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| comatose |
adj. in a coma, extremely sleepy, unconscious
ant. insomnia |
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| coma |
n. deep unconsciousness |
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| colossus |
n. gigantic statue
eg. colossus of Lincoln |
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| colossal |
adj. huge, immense
eg. a colossal building |
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| collusion |
n. cooperation for cheating purpose, complicity
eg. The police were corrupt and were operating in collusion with the drug dealers |
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| colloquy |
n. informal discussion |
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| colloquial |
adj. informal, conversational |
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| collate |
v. collect info to examine and compare
eg. to collate data / information / figures |
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| collation |
n. a light meal |
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| collateral |
n. security given for loan
adj. side by side, parallel
eg. that large amount of money must be secured by collateral |
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| collage |
n. put fragment together (in art) |
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| collaborate |
v. - work together
- cooperate as a traitor
eg. We collaborated with another research group |
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