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 5000 Words Level 4 - 4 - Matching Quizzes
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pugnacity  Speak Example sentences
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[biện hộ được] capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector
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[tiên phong] advance forces; leading units at the front of army or fleet; persons at the forefront of any group or movement
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[tham lam] excessively greedy; predatory; taking by force; plundering
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[sự hiếu chiến] combativeness; inclination or readiness to fight; quarrelsomeness
rapacious  Speak Example sentences
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[tinh hoa] pure, highly concentrated essence of a thing
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[đoàn tùy tùng] following members; attendants accompanying high-ranking person
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[ăn nhiều quá] eat until excessively full; be more than full; feed someone to excess
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[tham lam] excessively greedy; predatory; taking by force; plundering
recumbent  Speak Example sentences
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[sự tiêu nhập] often indirect effect or result that is produced by an event or action; reflection, especially of sound
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[nằm] reclining; lying down completely or in part
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[quanh co] winding; bending in and out; not morally honest
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[tiên phong] advance forces; leading units at the front of army or fleet; persons at the forefront of any group or movement
remunerative  Speak Example sentences
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[có lợi] compensating; rewarding; profitable or paying
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[tái phát] act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return
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[dể làm] easily managed or controlled; governable; easily handled or worked; docile
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[biện hộ được] capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector
retinue  Speak Example sentences
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[vim] vitality and energy; healthy capacity for vigorous activity
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[đoàn tùy tùng] following members; attendants accompanying high-ranking person
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[làm khổ] tease; torture with disappointment; bait someone by showing something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied
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[quanh co] winding; bending in and out; not morally honest
rote  Speak Example sentences
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[thói quen] memorizing process using routine or repetition; the sound of surf breaking on the shore
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[ăn cho no] satisfy fully; overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
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[nhỏ mọn] marked by precise accordance with details
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[lời đáp lại] retort; comeback; answer to a reply
satirical  Speak Example sentences
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[trào phúng] mocking; exposing human folly to ridicule
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[tái phát] act of recurring, or state of being recurrent; return
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[bó] bundle of stalks of grain; any bundle of things tied together
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[nhỏ mọn] marked by precise accordance with details
sloop  Speak Example sentences
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[thông báo hạm] single-mast sailing boat
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[Pundit] authority on a subject; learned person; expert
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[đoàn tùy tùng] following members; attendants accompanying high-ranking person
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[quanh co] winding; bending in and out; not morally honest
specious  Speak Example sentences
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[sự nói dài giòng] pompous array of words; overabundance of words
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[bồi thường được] capable of being repaired; admitting of repair
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[lời đáp lại] retort; comeback; answer to a reply
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[bề ngoài] seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading intentionally
superintend  Speak Example sentences
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[nằm] reclining; lying down completely or in part
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[nhỏ mọn] marked by precise accordance with details
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[hoài nghi] marked by or given to doubt; questioning
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[trông nom] oversee with the power of direction; take care of with authority; supervise