1. UNIT 3 VOCABULARY LIST

Definition: adjective to describe something wonderful, amazing, incredible 

Example: Superman has a miraculous power. 

Ex: Photography has opened our eyes to a multitude of beauties, things we literally could not have seen before the advent of the frozen image.

Definition : concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.

Characterized by an appreciation or beauty or good taste

An aesthetic person (người có óc thẩm mỹ)

Aesthetic sense (khiếu thẩm mỹ)

definition: avoid something

example: at other times, it's an almost electric reaction that seems to bypass the thought process entirely and fire straight to instinct

Collocation: Condemn for/as something.

Example: The editor of the newspaper was condemned as lacking intergrity.

Definition: ​marked with spots of a different colour; with areas of light and shade

Collocation: dappled shade, dappled sunlight 

Ex: The floor was dappled with pale moonlight.

to make something easier to understand and less complicated by explaining it in a clear and simple way.

​demystify something

e.g. The class is intended to demystify the process of using a computer.

- Definition: very happy and excited because of something good that has happened, or will happen.

- Collocation: elated (at/by something)

- Example: They were elated at the result.

Definition: fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing

to understand another person’s feelings and experiences, especially because you have been in a similar situation.

empathize (with somebody/something)

e.g. A glamorous 20-year-old stylist is unlikely to empathize with a working mother of three.