3/6/13 Flashcards
Palimpsest
can refer to anything that has been changed numerous times but which traces of former instantiations can still be seen.
The downtown was a palimpsest of the city’s checkered past – a new Starbucks had opened up next to an abandoned, shuttered building, and a freshly asphalted road was inches away from a pothole large enough to swallow a house pet.
checkered
شطرنجی,
دارای تحولات,متغیر
Serendipity
Finding something pleasant that you weren’t even looking for.
نعمت غیر مترقبه
something you were never looking for you end up buying. Though if this becomes a habit, it may cease to be serendipitous
hapless
بی چاره
lad
جوانک
defenestrate
comical way of saying to throw someone out of a window
Invective
سخن حمله امیز
ناسزا گویی
coax
چاپلوسی کردن,نوازش کردن
rishkhand kardan
inveigh
با سخن حمله کردن
inveigle
سرگرم کردن,گمراه کردن و بردن
fariftan
Diatribe
strong verbal attack against someone or something
انتقاد تلخ
Screed
an abusive rant that has since become tedious and hackneyed
سخن یا نامه دراز وخسته کننده
rant
بیهوده گویی
tedious
خسته کننده
hackneyed
pishe paa oftade,gheire ghable tavajjoh
Tirade
angry speech
Harangue
tirade and diatribe
Vituperation
violently launch into an invective or tirade
fahhashi, na seza gooyi
Precipitate
adj. to be hasty or rash,v.make something happen suddenly
and n:
رسوب شیمیایی
hasty
شتاب زده
Amalgam
in the chemistry sense, is an alloy made of mercury and some other metal,
Generally speaking, an amalgam is a mixture of two or more things.
solvent
حلال
قادر به پرداخت قروض
dissolve
حل کردن
Catalyst
anything that speeds up (or precipitates) an event is a catalyst
Slapdash
hastily put together
کاری که سرسری یا از روی بیپروایی انجام دهند
Heyday
the pinnacle, or top, of a person, time period or career
اوج خوش بختی
Hodgepodge
confusing mixture or jumble
چیز درهم و برهم
Long after his heyday as Germany’s pre-eminent visionary philosopher, Nietzsche began to populate his writing with a hodgepodge of aphorisms
jumble
درهم امیختگی
aphorisms
کلمات قصار
eminent
برجسته
Aboveboard
honest
“bi shile pile”
Thoroughgoing
absolute
تمام و کمال
Telltale
revealing
Cadaverous
emaciated,gaunt
جسدوار
Some actors take challenging roles in which they have to lose so much weight that they appear cadaverous
gaunt
نحیف
emaciated
لاغر
Macabre
story, film, or, for that matter, any description is filled with gruesome details about death and horror, we say that it is macabre
ترسناک
gruesome
مخوف
Goosebumps
describe that sensation on our skin when we become frightened.
BUMP
دست انداز
pimple
جوش
lest
مبادا
Diabolical
adj.be extremely wicked like the devil
Phantasmagorical
series of images that seem as though they are out of a dream,
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whether those images are real or in one’s head.
“sahne ohaam, “
Gregarious
be likely to socialize with others,flocking
garrulous
talkative
Ingenuous
naïve and innocent
صاف و ساده
if you are likely to go along with a devious plan, whether or not it is ingenious, you are ingenuous
naive
ساده
ingenious
دارای هوش ابتکاری
devious
منحرف
Peruse
read very carefully
Disabuse
persuade somebody that his/her belief is not valid goes together with the word notion
notion
مفهوم
Mettlesome
poke your nose in somebody else’s business
“gheiratmand,”
A soldier on the battlefield is mettlesome when he runs into enemy fire to save a comrade
mettle
courage or valor
غیرت
jorboze
valor
delavari
comrade
رفیق