C1 level vocab

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referendum
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trưng cầu dân ý
imperialism
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chủ nghĩa đế quốc
imperialist regime
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chế độ đế quốc
blatantly
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một cách trắng trợn
rig
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dựng, lắp ráp thiết bị: they rigged the stage for the concert; dàn xếp, dàn dựng (gian lận): they rigged the contest, the referendum was blatantly rigged.
insurgent
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quân nổi dậy
come to ahead
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đạt tới đỉnh điểm (reach the critical or decisive point, esp. in a conflict or problem): tension between 2 countries came to ahead last week; their marriage problem finally came to ahead
gulf of tonkin
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vịnh Bắc Bộ
full-scale
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toàn diện, quy mô lớn: full-scale war, they lauched a full-scale investigation to the fraud
conventional victory
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chiến thắng theo lối đánh thông thường/truyền thống (by traditional battlefield tactics): the army is aiming for a conventianl victiory without escalating to nuclear weapon
from the outset
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ngay từ đầu: from the outset of war; right from outset
national liberation front
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mặt trận giải phóng dân tộc
wage (v)
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phát động: wage the war; tiến hành: wage a campaign; tham gia: wage a battle
War of attrition
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Chiến tranh tiêu hao, chiến tranh kéo dài làm hao mòn lực lượng
free fire zone
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khu vực tự do bắn súng
deployment
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triển khai: the army began deployment to the border; the deployment of new software will improve the efficency
in one's grasp
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trong tầm tay: the victory is in your grasp;
be/become hardened to sth
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trở nên chai lì với, vô cảm, quen với: he became hardened to the horrors of war, she's hardened to criticism now
fall into one's grasp
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rơi vào tay ai đó
be loath to do sth
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miễn cưỡng/không muốn làm: the pilots were loath to indiscriminate bombing; she was loath to talk about her past
polulace
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quần chúng, dân chúng (more formal or literary than people or population, often carry neutral or slightly criticak tone): the government needs to listen to the demands of the populace; the dictator tried to control the general populace through fears
stave off sth
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ngăn chặn/tránh/đẩy lùi: she tried to stave off covid by taking vitamins; to keep the populace motived and to stave off the effects of war weariness, the DRV maintained strong and effective proganda campaign throughout the conflict
to loathe
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ghê tởm, ghét cay ghét đắng: the American pilots were loathed due to their discriminate bombing; he loathed the corruption
rhetoric
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hùng biện: his speech was full of powerful rhetoric; lời hoa mĩ, tuyên truyền mị dân: propaganda rhetoric, the people were easily swayed by the party rhetoric and quickly volenteerjng to join the army
imperialist aggressor
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kẻ xâm lược đế quốc
catch by surprise
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bị bất ngờ, đánh úp: she was caught by surprised with the birthday party; the 1968 Tet offensive caught the U. S forces by surprise
offensive (n)
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cuộc tổng tiến công, tấn công (n): the Vietcome 1968 offensive
infiltrator
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kẻ xâm nhập: they caught the infiltrator near the base; vietcong's infiltrators lauched an attack on U. S embassy (VC cài người thâm nhập tấn công...)
chancery building
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tòa nhà tòa án, đại sứ
compound (place)
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khuôn viên; khu vực (được bảo vệ)
take toll on sth
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gây thiệt hại/ảnh hưởng nghiêm trọng: the attack took a heavy toll on urban population
defiant
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bất chấp, chống đối, bất tuân: the protestors remain defiant in the fact of police orders; she gave him a defiant look and refused to apologise
morale
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tinh thần, nhuệ khí: the troop's morale had plummeted to the point where soldiers were openly ignoring the orders
deserting
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bỏ trốn, đào ngũ: he was arrested for deserting and ignoring orders
status quo
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tình trạng hiện tại
ho chi minh campaign
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chiến dịch Hồ Chí Minh
smash through
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đập tan/xuyên thủng: the attack smashed through the defense (xuyên thủng phòng tuyến)
defenses
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phòng tuyến
decapitate
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chém đầu; triệt hạ; làm tê liệt: the king was decapitated by the insurgents; the attack totally decapiated the U. S army; the company was capicitated followed by the arrest of the ceo
be scarred by sth
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để lại vết sẹo: many were scarred for life by the war
render
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tái hiện: render an image/scene; cung cấp: render assistance; đưa ra: render a verdict; khiến cho/gây ra: the accident rendered the car useless
domino theory
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thuyết domino/ dây chuyền: the u. s involved in vietnam war because of the domina theory
rift
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rạn nứt/chia rẽ/mâu thuẫn/vết nứt gãy: the misunderstanding furthered the rift in their relationship; an rift opened in the eartg after the quake
manifesto
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tuyên ngôn
notion
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khái niệm, ý niệm, ý tưởng (sudden): the notion that money brings hapiness is often challenged: she had that sudden notion to dye her hair blue; he had a romantuc notion of what war was like but the reality hit him hard
pundit
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