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pragmatic 
- thực tế
- this ís a pragmatic approach to management problems
- the company responded pragmatically to local conditions.
- syn: realistic
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ethology
- phong thuc hoc
- ex: Since the growth of ethology in the 1950s, we have tried to understand animal behaviour from the animal's point of view.
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constraint
/'kan streint/
- su ep buoc, su kim che
- syn: restriction
- ex: constraint of time/money/space
- financial/economic/legal/ political constraint
- this decision will impose serious financial constraint on all school
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disconcert (v)
disconcerting (adj)
- syn: disturb
- lam roi, lam mat binh tinh
- ex: I found all that noises rather disconcerting
- his answer rather disconcerted her
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tremendous (adj)
ghe ghom, khung khiep, to lon, ky la
- syn: remarkable, huge
- It was a tremendous experience
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squat (v), (n) (adj)
- squatter
- v: ngoi xom, o khu dat cong
- ex: children were squatting on the floor
- they ended up squatting in the empty houses on Oxford road
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n: nha cong khong duoc phep o nhung bi mot so nguoi chiem va khong tra tien thue
ex: to live in a squat
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adj: map lun
the man had a broad face and a squat neck
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