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English II
Vocabulary
| anecdote (n) | interesting story about real incident |
| asunder (adv) | apart, divided |
| awe-struck (adj) | filled with or revealing awe |
| bias (n) | the unfair of the group compared with another |
| blunder (v) | make the stupid, careless mistakes |
| chasm (n) | deep fissure in rock |
| concede (v) | admit that something is true after denying or resisting it |
| credibility (n) | a quality of be trusted and believed in |
| crevice (n) | a narrow fissure in rock or wall |
| diverted (adj) | cause to change the course, turn from one direction to another |
| drudgery (n) | hard work |
| emulate (v) | mimic |
| encumber (v) | restrict or burden in free action or movement is difficult |
| foreman (n) | the worker, who supervise and directs other workers |
| helter-skelter (adj) | messed up |
| hostile (adj) | unfriendly, antagonistic |
| illusion (adj) | wrongly perceived or interpreted by the sense |
| imagery (n) | visually descriptive or figurative language |
| industrial (adj) | related to industry |
| lucrative (adj) | producing a great deal of profit |
| mantle (n) | sleeveless cloak |
| objectivity (n) | the quality of being object |
| perpetually (adv) | never ends; constantly |
| prescribed (adj) | set by a rule or order |
| refute (v) | prove to be wrong; disprove |
| remorse (n) | a deep regret or guilt |
| resilience (n) | recover quickly form difficulties; toughness ( độ bền) |
| somber (adj) | dark in color; gloomy |
| stealthily (adv) | in the cautious and surreptitious manner, so as not to be seen or heard |
| stifle (v) | restrain or stop oneself acting on |
| thesis (n) | a statement or theory |
| threshold (n) | the bottom of the doorway and crossed in the entering a house or room |
| toil (n) | work extremely hard |
| tranquility (n) | calm, quiet |
| trivial (adj) | mediocre |
| unaccustomed (adj) | not familiar or usual |
| uncompacted (adj) | not closely packed together |
| unfathomable (adj) | incapable of being understood |
| veiling (v) | to cover something |
| wariness (n) | caution about dangers or problems |
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LinhL
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