4000 CPE Vocabulary List

tình tiết giảm nhẹ weaken; lessen or attempt to lessen the seriousness of, especially by providing partial excuses

kiệm save money or resource; cut back; be thrifty

khai thác deed or action, particularly a brave deed

bài hát ta thán poem or song expressing lamentation;  mournful poem

ca tụng praise highly; glorify; celebrate

bình thản calmness of temperament; steadiness of mind under stress.

gợi draw out; bring forth or to light;  generate or provoke as response or answer

giảng explain or describe in detail

hốc hác very thin especially from disease or hunger

Xiềng xích restrain with U-shaped bar for ankles or feet; impede; hamper

ưa thích capricious notion; something many people believe that is false

fleece rob; a strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; ask an unreasonable price

viêm não inflammation of the brain, usually caused by a virus

tầm cỡ hugeness in a bad sense; the act of extreme evil or wickedness

chịt twist or interweave as not to be easily separated; make tangled, confused, and intricate; perplex; bewilder; puzzle

vướng throw into confusion; deeply involved, especially in something complicated

xuất tinh act of throwing or shooting out; darting or casting forth; uttering of exclamations, or of brief exclamatory phrases

dương xỉ any of numerous flowerless, seedless vascular plants having roots, stems, and fronds and reproducing by spores

đặc tính disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture, or movement

gây trở ngại burden; put a heavy load on; load with debts or other legal claims

gây trở ngại burden; put a heavy load on; load with debts or other legal claims

hướng ngoại a person interested mostly in external objects and actions

bỏ đói starve, kill, or destroy with hunger; exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger

tầm cỡ hugeness in a bad sense; the act of extreme evil or wickedness

tình tiết giảm nhẹ weaken; lessen or attempt to lessen the seriousness of, especially by providing partial excuses

danh hiệu word or phrase characteristically used to describe a person or thing

cuồng tín crazy; extremely interested in something

fleece rob; a strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; ask an unreasonable price

lọc the device containing such a material, especially one used to extract impurities from air or water

tình tiết giảm nhẹ weaken; lessen or attempt to lessen the seriousness of, especially by providing partial excuses

không phân minh lie; mislead; attempt to conceal the truth

thể dục full of high-spirited fun; gay; given to merry

gây trở ngại burden; put a heavy load on; load with debts or other legal claims

dương xỉ any of numerous flowerless, seedless vascular plants having roots, stems, and fronds and reproducing by spores

sương giá cover with frost; damage or kill by frost; anger or upset

tha pronounce not guilty of criminal charges

số mũ one that expounds or interprets; one that speaks for represents, or advocates

miễn permission not to do something

nuôi chim ưng a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry

quả tang obvious and offensive, blatant, scandalous; flaming into notice