1. UNIT 5 VOCABULARY LIST

A lawyer, especially one who can act for somebody in court

About two dozen women qualified as attorneys by the end of the decade

The last line in an audit

Ex: For those of us who sometimes wonder if it's really worth recycling that extra battle to lighten our impact on the planet, the bottom line is that our actions matter, even if we don't see how.

Definition: different but useful or attractive when used together.

Example: They have different but complementary skills.

Definition: distribute power from one main authority to smaller ones

Collocation: decentralize something

Ex: the German constitution is an excellent model of decentralised government.

Designed to mislead either deliberately or inadvertently

Ex: Appearances can often be deceptive.

to say something officially or publicly

Declare something

Ex: The government has declared a state of emergency.

Move away from each other.

- Definition: Very keen and excited about something that is going to happen or about something you want to do.

- Collocation: 

+ Eager for something.

+ Eager to do something.

- Ex: 

+ She is eager for her parents' approval.

+ Everyone in the class seemed eager to learn.

_a meeting, especially one that happensby chance  

_ Example: 

On their way home they encountered a woman selling flowers.

Definition : an interest followed with exaggerated zeal

Example: will Tom continue to collect stamps or is it only a passing fad?

( liệu Tom có tiếp tục sưu tập tem hay đó chỉ là một thích thú kỳ quặc nhất thời?)

- Definition:

(noun) A group of something or somebody.

- Example: They see a flock of birds.

(verb): to go or gather together somewhere in large numbers.

Example: Thousands of people flocked to the beach this weekend.

• Definition: 

(1) to clean something by causing water to pass through it

• Collocation: flush sth out (with sth); flush sth out through sth

• Examples: Flush the pipe out with clean water; Drinking lots of water will help to flush toxins out of the body

(2) (of a person or their face) to become red, especially because you are embarrassed, angry or hot

• Collocation: flush + adj; flush sth

• Example: Sam felt her cheeks flush red; A rosy blush flushed her cheeks

Definition: the cracking or breaking of a hard object or material.

Ex :"bone density testing can predict the risk for fracture"

Colocation :VERB + FRACTURE suffer, sustain

​shared by, including or typical of a whole group of things; not specific
Example: Vine fruit’ is the generic term for currants and raisins.

Definition: Atlantic fish that swims in very large groups and is used for food

Ex: I'd love fresh herring fillets for my dinner

• Definition: ​Very unfriendly or aggressive and ready to argue or fight

• Collocation: Hostile to/towards to sb/sth

• Example: The speaker got a hostile reception from the audience

Definition : reproduce someone's behaviour or look

Synonym: mimic

Example: parrots imitate human speech (con vẹt bắt chước tiếng người)

Definition: someone who enter a place or a situation without permission

Example: Soon several more robots arrived to form a perimeter around the pink intruder

- Definition: To control or influence somebody or something.

- Collocation: Manipulate somebody into something/ into doing something.

- Ex: They manage to manipulate us into agreeing to help.

to copy the way somebody speaks, moves, behaves, etc., especially in order to make other people laugh.

mimic somebody/something

Example: She's always mimicking the teachers.

Definition: Axis consisting of a shaft supporting something that turns.

Example: The most important person, the central object

Definition: any animal that lives by preying on other animals

Example: wolves are major predators of rodents

To use fact, evidence to show that something is true

They hope this new evidence will prove her innocence.

Definition: a question, especially one asking for information or expressing a doubt about something

Examples: 

1. Our assistants will be happy to answer your queries.

2. When you type in a search query. Google surveys billions of Webpages on its index servers to identify the most relevant ones.

Definition : ​unusual or surprising in a way that causes people to take notice

Example: Winning the cup was a remarkable achievement.

Definition: Be similar or bear a likeness to.

Example: a small object resembling a pin.

Definition: functioning or behaving like a machine

Ex: there is something a little robotic about him

Definition: cause to separate and go to in different directions

Example: A scatter of hailstones

(Adj)        /ʃruːd/

Definition: ​clever at understanding and making judgements about a situation

Meaning: the act of imitating the behavior of some situation.

Ex: An important part of training is role-play and the simulation of court cases.

- Definition: 

. following or copying somebody/something exactly without having any original thought at all

. pertaining to a slave; slave-like, servile,subservient; base; imitative, lackingoriginality

- Example: a slavish adherence to the rules

not growing or living in groups or colonies

Ex: She enjoys long solitary walks

- Definition: having worldly knowledge and refinement.

- Ex: Medical techniques are becoming more sophisticated all the time.

to (cause to) cover, reach, or have an effect on a wider or increasing area

Ex: The fire spread very rapidly because of the strong wind.

Definition: be a guiding or motivating force or drive

Eg: So, in 1986, he created a deceptively simple steering program called boids.

Definition: openly distrustful and unwilling to confide

Collocation: suspicious about/ of anything

Example: I am always suspicious about his kindness

A group of many thing in the air or on the ground.

Definition: to move around quickly in a circle

Eg: He took a mouthful of water and swirled it around his mouth.

Meaning: to happen at the same time or to move at the same speed as something.

synchronize (with something)

Ex: The sound track did not synchronize with the action

(a) unable to be governed or controlled

Ex: He struggled hard to control his unruly emotions.

The feeling aroused by something strange surprising

Ex: i wonder if he loves me