51 Từ vựng thường gặp trong kỳ thi IELTS
1. fragrant (adj): having a pleasant or sweet smell | Cinnamon is a sweet, fragrant spice. |
2. biblical (adj): relating to or based on the Bible | Cinnamon was known in biblical times, and is mentioned in several books of the Bible. |
3. condiment (n): a substance, such as salt, that you add to food to improve its taste | The ability to purchase an expensive condiment. |
4. exotic (adj): unusual and exciting because of coming a distant foreign country | an expensive condiment from the exotic’ East. |
5. at someone’s disposal (phr): available to be used by someone | At a banquet, a host would offer guests a plate with various spices piled upon it as a sign of the wealth at his or her disposal. |
6. the elite (n): the richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in a society | The European middle classes began to desire the lifestyle of the elite, including their consumption of spices. |
7. merchant (n): a person or business that buys and sells goods | At that time, cinnamon was transported by Arab merchants. |
8. monopoly (n): complete control of an area of business | The English arrived on Ceylon, thereby displacing the Dutch from their control of the cinnamon monopoly. |
9. exorbitant (adj): unreasonably high | Because Venice had a virtual monopoly of the trade, the Venetians could set the price of cinnamon exorbitantly high. |
10. cultivation (n): the process of growing crops or plants | Before Europeans arrived on the island, the state had organized the cultivation of cinnamon. |
11. ethnic (adj): relating to a particular race of people | People belonging to the ethnic group called the Salagama would peel the bark off young shoots of the cinnamon plant in the rainy season. |
12. enslave (v): to make someone a slave | When the Portuguese arrived, they enslaved many other members of the Ceylonese native population. |
13. ally yourself to/with sb (phr): to start to support someone | The Dutch allied themselves with Kandy, an inland kingdom on Ceylon. |
14. expel (v): to force someone to leave a school, organization, or country | By 1658, the Dutch had permanently expelled the Portuguese from the island. |
15. lucrative (adj): producing a lot of money |
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16. appetite (n): the feeling that you want to eat food | Europe’s ever-increasing appetite for cinnamon |
17. supersede (v): to replace something, especially something older or more old-fashioned | The spice trade overall was superseded by the rise of trade in coffee, tea. |
18. reinforce (v): to make stronger | reinforce the bonds between prairie voles |
19. trigger (v): to cause something to start | triggers the motherly behaviour |
20. empathetic (adj): showing an ability to understand and share the feelings of another | One sniff of oxytocin can make a person more trusting, empathetic, generous and cooperative. |
21. emerge (v): to appear, to come out of something | Oxytocin’s role in human behaviour first emerged in 2005. |
22. groundbreaking (adj): using new methods, innovative | in a groundbreaking experiment. |
23. placebo (n): a substance that is not medicine but that a patient who is taking it believes is medicine, and so they get better | The team found that participants who had sniffed oxytocin via a nasal spray beforehand invested more money than those who received a placebo instead. |
24. charitable (adj): kind, and not judging other people in a severe way | People become more charitable, better at reading emotions on others’ faces. |
25. fuel (v): to make something increase or become stronger | The results fuelled the view that oxytocin universally enhanced the positive aspects of our social nature. |
26. disposition (n): the particular type of character that a person naturally has | a person’s disposition |
27. conduct (v): to organize and perform a particular activity | studies conducted by Carolyn DeClerck of the University of Antwerp, Belgium |
28. favouritism (n): the practice of giving unfair preferential treatment to one person or group | Volunteers given oxytocin showed favouritism. |
29. bias (n): inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group | It appears that oxytocin strengthens biases. |
30. goodwill (n): helpful, or cooperative feelings or attitude | promoting general goodwill |
31. subtlety (n): a small but important detail | There were signs of these subtleties from the start. |
32. take (no) notice of (phr): (not) pay attention; (not) show signs of interest | Researchers took no notice of such findings. |
33. attuned (to) (adj): receptive or aware | making people more attuned to their social environment. |
34. perplexing (adj): confusing, baffling, very puzzling | Perhaps we should not be surprised that the oxytocin story has become more perplexing. |
35. manifest (v): show, demonstrate | These basic processes could manifest in different ways. |
36. identify (v): to recognize | Most managers can identify the major trends of the day. |
37. profound (adj): serious, showing serious thought and wise ideas | recognize the less obvious but profound ways these trends are influencing consumers |
38. aspiration (n): something that you hope to achieve | consumers’ aspirations, attitudes, and behaviors |
39. jeopardize (v): to put something in danger of being harmed or damaged | They can jeopardize a company by ceding to rivals the opportunity to transform the industry. |
40. engender (v): to cause a feeling or attitude to exist | engender new value propositions in their core markets |
41. adept (at) (adj): skillful | adept at analyzing and exploiting trends |
42. opulence (n): great wealth or luxuriousness | The Coach brand had been a symbol of opulence and luxury for nearly 70 years. |
43. downturn (n): a reduction in economic or business activity | the economic downturn of 2008 |
44. mindset (n): a way of thinking about things | Coach saw the new consumer mindset as an opportunity for innovation and renewal. |
45. commitment (n): a promise to do something, enthusiasm for something | the company’s commitment to protecting the environment |
46. augment (v): to increase the size or value of something | Tesco has augmented its business with these innovations. |
47. infuse (v): to fill someone or something with an emotion or quality | infusing its value proposition with a green streak |
48. incorporate (v): to include something as part of something larger | to incorporate elements of a seemingly irrelevant trend into one’s core offerings |
49. apparel (n): clothes of a special type | a focus on athletic apparel |
50. reinvigorate (v): to strengthen something or someone | The infuse-and-augment strategy will allow you to reinvigorate the category. |
51. counteract (v): to reduce the negative effect of something by doing something that has an opposite effect | The ME2 counteracted some of the widely perceived negative impacts of digital gaming devices. |
By Mytour Academy of English