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Question 1

Eponym

Answer 1

“naam dahande”

Question 2

spellbound

Answer 2

مسحور

Question 3

mesmerize

Answer 3

hold spellbound.

هیپنوتیزم کردن,”shifte kardan”

Question 4

salamander

Answer 4

سمندر

Question 5

split up

Answer 5

تقسیم کردن

Question 6

Gerrymander

Answer 6

the manipulation of boundaries to favor a certain group

بطور غیر عادلانه تقسیم کردن,تقسیم حوزههای انتخاباتی و غیره بطور غیر عادلانه

Question 7

bully

Answer 7

گردن کلفت,

قلدری کردن

Question 8

intimidate

Answer 8

ترساندن,

Question 9

hector

Answer 9

bully and intimidate.

The boss’s hectoring manner put off many employees, some of whom quit as soon as they found new jobs.

Question 10

Pollyannaish

Answer 10

extremely optimistic.
Even in the midst of a lousy sales quarter, Debbie remained Pollyannaish, never losing her shrill voice and wide smile, even when people hung up on her.

Question 11

put off

Answer 11

“be aghab andakhtan,narahat kardan”

Question 12

midst

Answer 12

در میان

Question 13

lousy

Answer 13

پست

Question 14

shrill

Answer 14

روشن,صدای خیلی زیر

Question 15

hang up

Answer 15

“telephone ra gozashtan ya ghat kardan.”

Question 16

Chauvinist

Answer 16

who thinks that their group is better than anybody else’s group.
You can have male chauvinists, political party chauvinists, and even female chauvinists.

Question 17

Pyrrhic

Answer 17

So any win that comes at so great a cost that it is not even worth it is a pyrrhic victory.

Question 18

Kafkaesque

Answer 18

absurdity we have to deal with living in a world of faceless bureaucracies

Question 19

churn out

Answer 19

“be sorat tolid kardan”

Question 20

quotidian

Answer 20

روزمره

Question 21

absurd

Answer 21

پوچ

Question 22

predicament

Answer 22

مخمصه

Question 23

Quixotic

Answer 23

wildly idealistic.

ارمان گرای

Question 24

Maudlin

Answer 24

cries in public for no good reason

ضعیف وخیلی احساساتی

Question 25

disciple

Answer 25

شاگرد