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 3000 Level 3 - 4 - Matching Quizzes
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pugilist  Speak Example sentences
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[vỗ] blow away; separate good parts from bad; sort or select desirable; extract
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[vo si] one who fights with his fists, especially a professional prize fighter; boxer
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[phỉ báng] debase; degrade; spread negative information about
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[biếng nhác] lazy; disinclined to work or exertion; inactive; sluggish
rostrum  Speak Example sentences
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[ăn nói mau lẹ] fluent; glib; talkative; marked by a ready flow of speech
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[khác nhau về màu sắc] streaked, spotted, or marked with a variety of color; very colorful
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[mỏ chim] elevated platform for public speaking; pulpit
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[cười gượng] laugh in a restrained, nervous way; giggle
satirize  Speak Example sentences
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[châm biếm] make object of satire; attack with satire; censure with keenness or severe sarcasm.
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[náo nhiệt] characterized by loud, confused noise, or by noisy and uncontrollable laughter
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[ăn nói mau lẹ] fluent; glib; talkative; marked by a ready flow of speech
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[thiên thần] angelic; having sweet nature befitting an angel
saunter  Speak Example sentences
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[dâm ô] lustful; suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
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[đi vơ vẩn] stroll slowly; walk at a leisurely pace
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[châm biếm] make object of satire; attack with satire; censure with keenness or severe sarcasm.
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[người a dua] a person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; yes man
scurrilous  Speak Example sentences
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[tục tỉu] obscene; indecent; expressing offensive reproach
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[đi vơ vẩn] stroll slowly; walk at a leisurely pace
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[cười gượng] laugh in a restrained, nervous way; giggle
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[bề ngoài] seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading intentionally
slothful  Speak Example sentences
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[công quan] providing general overview; summary
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[bài diển văn] of a speech given in farewell, especially one delivered by an outstanding member of graduating class
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[châm biếm] form of literature in which irony and ridicule are used to attack human vice and folly
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[biếng nhác] lazy; disinclined to work or exertion; inactive; sluggish
snobbish  Speak Example sentences
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[bài diển văn] of a speech given in farewell, especially one delivered by an outstanding member of graduating class
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[quá để ý đến địa vị] of or pertaining to a snob; vulgarly pretentious
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[xấu xí] ugly; displeasing to eye; unpleasant to look at
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[chép] copy; write over again in same words
specious  Speak Example sentences
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[châm biếm] make object of satire; attack with satire; censure with keenness or severe sarcasm.
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[sự thật đương nhiên] undoubted or self-evident truth; obvious truth
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[bề ngoài] seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading intentionally
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[thuốc ngu] sleep-causing; marked by sleepiness
stilted  Speak Example sentences
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[sàn] stiff and artificially formal; inflated
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[hôn loạn] turmoil; bewildering jumble; confused mass
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[sự lung lay] act of vacillating; moving one way and other; wavering
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[tánh kỳ khôi] not able to be explained or understood; unreasonable or mysterious
truncate  Speak Example sentences
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[vỗ] blow away; separate good parts from bad; sort or select desirable; extract
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[nhấp nhô] moving with wavelike motion
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[cắt ngắn] cut the top off; make something shorter as if by cutting off
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[có nhiều châm ngôn] concise and full of meaning; using as few words as possible