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With the emergence of cloud computing, many data owners outsource their local data to cloud server so as to enjoy high-quality data storage services. For the protection of data privacy, sensitive data has to be encrypted before outsourcing, which makes effective data utilization a challenging task. Although existing searchable encryption technologies enable data users to conduct secure search over encrypted data, the functionality of these schemes need to be further improved. In this paper, we construct a secure and efficient multi-keyword ranked search scheme which supports both the semantic extension search and the multi-keyword ranked search. The semantic extension is achieved through the mutual information statistical analysis of keywords. And the multi-keyword ranked search is achieved through a balanced binary tree whose nodes are the vectors of term frequency (TF) values. The splitting operation and secure transformation are utilized to encrypt the vectors of index and query. Note that, the encrypted vectors can be well used to calculate accurate relevance scores. Phantom terms are added to the index vector to blind the search results to resist statistical attacks. Due to the use of tree-based index structure, the proposed scheme can achieve the sub-linear search time. Finally, the experiments are conducted to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed scheme.