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    The document defines and provides examples of English words related to preventing, stopping, or restricting actions and movement. It includes verbs like prevent, hinder, obstruct, inhibit, prohibit, impede as well as nouns like prevention, hindrance, obstruction, impediment. The document also contrasts similar words with different meanings such as implicit and explicit, superficial and superfluous.

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    The document defines and provides examples of English words related to preventing, stopping, or restricting actions and movement. It includes verbs like prevent, hinder, obstruct, inhibit, prohibit, impede as well as nouns like prevention, hindrance, obstruction, impediment. The document also contrasts similar words with different meanings such as implicit and explicit, superficial and superfluous.

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    The document defines and provides examples of English words related to preventing, stopping, or restricting actions and movement. It includes verbs like prevent, hinder, obstruct, inhibit, prohibit, impede as well as nouns like prevention, hindrance, obstruction, impediment. The document also contrasts similar words with different meanings such as implicit and explicit, superficial and superfluous.

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    Unit 3

    1 . prevent: stop sb from doing sth or sth from being done

    -> preventive

    -> prevention

    2. hinder: make more difficult for sb to do sth or for sth to happen

    -> hindering

    -> hindrance

    3. obstruct: stop sb or sth from moving forward by blocking their path

    -> obstructive

    -> obstruction

    4. inhibit: make sb unable to express themselves freely

    -> inhibiting

    -> inhibition

    5. stem: stop the flow or spread of sth (usually liquid)

    6. prohibit: forbid sb from doing sth (usually by law or regulation)

    -> prohibitive

    -> prohibition

    7. hamper: to make movement difficult

    8. come of age: to reach the age when you are legally an adult

    9. lisp (nói lẹo): If someone speaks with a lisp, they pronounce "s" and "z" sounds like "th"

    10. bureaucracy: a system for controlling or managing a country, company, or organization that is operated by a large


    number of officials employed to follow rules carefully

    11. to obstruct the course of justice: tell a lie or do sth to prevent the police from finding out the truth

    12. hemorrhage (xuất huyết): loosing a large amount of blood in a short time

    13. fatally: succumbs to his injuries

    14. convey: to make it known

    15. boulder: large rock

    16. infantry: on foot

    17. penitentiary: prison

    18. harsh: severe

    19. restrain: you keep sth under control

    20. irksome: annoying


    21. captive: prisoner

    22. drift: often change jobs

    23. obese -> obesity

    24. scrutinise: to examine something very carefully in order to discover information

    -> scrutiny

    25. impede: to make it more difficult for something to happen or more difficult for someone to do something

    -> impediment (speech impediment)

    26. impartial: not supporting any of the sides involved in an argument

    -> impartiality

    27. disclose: to make something known publicly, or to show something that was hidden

    -> disclosure

    28. profound: felt or experienced very strongly or in an extreme way

    -> profundity

    29. ingenious -> ingenuity

    30. depart -> departure

    31. commit -> commitment

    32. destitude (= poor) -> destitution (= poverty)

    33. flavour: distinctive taste; special quality or characteristic

    34. savour: enjoy the taste or smell of sth

    35. implicit: suggested rather than plainly stated

    36. explicit: clearly and fully expressed

    37. superficial (nông cạn): not thorough or profound

    38. superfluous: more than needed or wanted

    39. pathetic: causing one to feel sympathy

    40. apathetic: showing a lack of interest in matters

    41. apprehend: (legal) arrest, seize

    42. comprehend: understand fully

    43. statute: written law

    44. stature: a person’s body height

    45. induce: persuade or influence

    46. deduce: reach a conclusion by reasoning

    47. imply: to communicate an idea or feeling without saying it directly


    48. infer (from): to form an opinion or guess that something is true because of the information that you have

    49. humane: showing kindness, care, and sympathy towards others, especially those who are suffering

    50. drone: a low continuous noise that does not change its note

    51. prone: likely to show a particular characteristic, usually a negative one, or to be affected by something bad, such
    as damage or an illness

    52. elicit: to get or produce something, especially information or a reaction

    53. illicit: illegal or disapproved of by society

    54. accessory (tòng phạm): someone who helps another person to commit a crime but does not take part in it

    55. populous: A populous country, area, or place has a lot of people living in it

    56. dissent: a strong difference of opinion on a particular subject, especially about an official suggestion or plan or a


    popular belief

    57. descent: the state or fact of being related to a particular person or group of people who lived in the past

    58. stationary: not moving, or not changing

    59. stationery (văn phòng phẩm): the things needed for writing, such as paper, pens, pencils, and envelopes

    60. urbane: (especially of a man) confident, comfortable, and polite in social situations

    61. coil (v): to arrange something in a coil (n): cuộn dây

    62. curve: to form or move in the direction of a line that turns continuously and has no straight parts, or


    to cause something to do this

    63. spiral: to increase rapidly

    64. revolve: to move or cause something to move around a central point or line

    65. be counted as: be considered as

    66. reassure: to comfort someone and stop them from worrying

    67. recline: to lean or lie back with the upper part of your body in a nearly horizontal position

    68. dispute: to disagree with something that someone says

    69. heap: to put things into a large, untidy pile

    70. distribute: to give something out to several people, or to spread or supply something

    71. brood: to think for a long time about things that make you sad, worried, or angry

    72. fret: to be nervous or worried

    73. trouble sb = make sb feel upset, worried

    74. console: to make someone who is sad or disappointed feel better, usually by giving them comfort or sympathy

    75. impoverish: to make someone very poor

    76. augment: to increase the size or value of something by adding something to it

    77. liberate: to help someone or something to be free


    78. quarantine: to stay away from others for a period of time because you have a disease, or may have one, in order to
    prevent the spread of the disease

    79. extol (=praise): to praise something or someone very much

    80. dim: to (make something) become less bright

    81. rigorous: careful to look at or consider every part of something to make certain it is correct or safe

    82. slack: not tight; loose

    83. moderate: neither small nor large in size, amount, degree, or strength

    84. exorbitant: (of prices and demands) much too large

    85. get to: to begin to do or be

    86. come to: to become conscious again after an accident or operation:

    87. hold (sb) to (sth): to make someone do what they promised or agreed to do

    88. take to = begin to do sth as a habit

    89. contagious: A contagious disease can be caught by touching sb who has the disease or a piece of infected clothing

    90. contiguous: next to or touching another, usually similar, thing

    91. contingent: depending on or influenced by something else

    92. congenial: friendly and pleasant

    93. inhospitable: not welcoming or generous to people who visit you

    94. repel: to force someone or something to stop moving towards you or attacking you

    95. compel: to force someone to do something

    96. redeem: to make something or someone seem less bad

    97. plague (bệnh dịch): a serious disease which kills many people

    98. enrich: to improve the quality of sth by adding sth else

    99. exploit: to use sth in a way that helps you

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