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spurt (INCREASE) Hide phonetics
noun [C]
a sudden and brief period of increased activity, effort or speed:
There was a sudden spurt of activity in the housing market.
He tends to work in spurts.
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poach (TAKE) Hide phonetics
verb [I or T]
1 to catch and kill animals without permission on someone else's land:
The farmer claimed that he shot the men because they were poaching on his land.

2 to take and use for yourself unfairly or dishonestly something, usually an idea, that belongs to someone else:
Jeff always poaches my ideas, and then pretends that they're his own.

3 DISAPPROVING to persuade someone who works for someone else to come and work for you:
They were furious when one of their best managers was poached by another company.
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powder
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fetch (SELL) Hide phonetics
verb [T]
to be sold for a particular amount of money:
The paintings fetched over a million dollars.
The house didn't fetch as much as she was hoping it would.
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contraband Hide phonetics
adjective
contraband cigarettes/goods
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aphrodisiac Hide phonetics
noun [C]
something, usually a drug or food, which is believed to cause sexual desire in people:
Are oysters really an aphrodisiac?
They say that power is an aphrodisiac.
thuốc kích thich tình dục

separatist Show phonetics
noun [C]
someone who is a member of a racial, religious or other group within a country and who believes that this group should be independent and have their own government or in some way live apart from other people

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
người theo chủ nghĩa phân lập

tolerate Hide phonetics
verb [T]
to bear something unpleasant or annoying, or to continue existing despite disadvantageous conditions:
It seems these ants can tolerate temperatures which would kill other species.
chịu đưng

decimation
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marsh Hide phonetics
noun [C or U]
ground near a lake, river or the sea, that tends to flood and is always wet:
At the mouth of the river is a large area of marsh.
Rain had been falling steadily all day and the ground had become a marsh.
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