Vocab List 13

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Vocab list #13

- Implausible: difficult to believe (25%) ≠ plausible = believable

- Eccentric: weird or odd (25%)

- Rhetoric: the art of using language effectively and persuasively (25%) (từ này

nên dùng trong viết bài SAT Essay nè)

- Subtle: difficult to detect or describe (25%)

- Complacent: showing satisfaction with oneself or one's achievement (24%)

- Rigorous: extremely strict (25%)

- Embellish: to make beautiful, to decorate (24%)

- Modest: humble ≠ immodest = lack of humility, humbleness (24%)

- Suppress: forcibly put an end to something (24%)


Example: But not even the threat of death can suppress the urge to live
vicariously through Jack Dawson and James Bond.
- Oppress: to keep something down using cruel or unjust power (nhân tiện đang

học Suppress thì học luôn Oppress. 2 từ này thường xuất hiện trong bài Political

hoặc History với nghĩa là 1 bên đàn áp bên còn lại).

Example: The government oppresses political activists.

- Vindicate: clear someone from claim or accusation (24%)

- Disdain: to treat with contempt (22%) (contempt tuần 12 học rồi nhen)
- Mundane: everyday and dull, boring (22%)

- Naive: lack of experience, wisdom (22%) (từ này tiếng Việt là “ngây thơ” đó^^)

- Superficial: shallow, having no depth of character (22%)

- Alleviate: to relieve from pain (22%)

- Eloquent: being persuasive as a communicator (20%) (từ này nên dùng trong

viết bài SAT Essay nè)

- Dubious: having doubts (20%)

- Precedent: an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to

be considered in subsequent similar circumstances (20%) (từ này tiếng Việt là

“tiền lệ”) ≠ unprecedented (“chưa từng có trong tiền lệ”).

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