A Flashcards
Abate
To make something less strong
Abrogate
لغو کردن
Abolish or annul by authority; put down
Abscission
Act of cutting of or removing
Abscond
To steal off and hide
Abstain
Refrain from an activity
خودداری کردن
Abstruse
Hard to understand
Accolade
An award
Accretion
Increase by successive addition
Growth , build up
Acerbic
Having a sour or bitter taste or character
Acumen
Quick keen or accurate knowledge
Admonish
To reprove, express warning or disapproval
Adroit
Adept, Dexterous, نادان
Adulation
Exessive praise, intense adoration, تحسین
Adulterate
To reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
Adumbrate
Intimate, suggest , طرح کلی
Aesthetic
Dealing with, appreciative of, وابسته به زیبایی
Aggrandize
Increase in intensity, power. To make appear greater
Alacrity
Eager and enthusiastic willingness, نشاط
Alchemy
Magical or wonderful transformation
Alloy
To commingle, ترکیب کردن مواد
Amalgamate
Combine several elements into a whole
Ambiguity
Uncertainty in meaning
Ambivalence
Having opposing ideas or feeling, سردرگم
Ameliorate
Make better or tolerable
Amenable
Agreeable, responsive to suggestion
Anachronism
Something or someone out of place in terms of historical context, نابهنگامی
Anathema
موردلعن واقع شدن، solemn or ecclesiastical curse
Anodyne
تسکین دهنده، soothing
Antagonize
Irritate or cause hostility, مخالفت کردن
Antipathy
Dislike, aversion
Antithetical
Diametrically opposed, دارای ضد و نقیض
Antithesis
Opposite of something
Apathy
Lack of interest or feeling
Apocryphal
Dubious authenticity or origin, ساختگی، جعلی
Apogee
Farthest or highest point, culmination, zenith
Apostate
One who abandons long-held religious, از دین برگشته
Apotheosis
Deification, the perfect example
Apposite
Appropriate, pertinent, relevant, apropos
Apprise
Give notice to, inform
Approbation
An expression of approval or praise
Appropriate (as verb)
To take for one’s own use, confiscate, مصادره کردن
Confiscate
Appropriate, توقیف و مصادره کردن
Spurious
جعلی
Arabesque
Complex, ornate design
Arcane
Mysterious, abstruse, estieric
Archaic
Outdated, associated with an earlier time
Arduous
Strenuous, requiring significant effort
Arrant
Used to emphasize how bad something/somebody is. Impudent
Articulate
To express oneself clearly
Ascetic
مرتاض,Austere
Asperity
Severity, خشونت, acrimony, irritability
Aspersion
An act of defamation or maligning, توهین
Assiduous
Diligent, hardworking
Assuage
To ease or lessen, to appease or pacify
Astringent
Having a tightening effect on living tissue, harsh, severe
Attenuate
To rarefy, weaken or make thinner, lessen
Audacious
Daring and fearless; recklessly bold
Augury
Omen, reading of omens, فال، پیشگویی
August
Majestic, venerable, باشکوه
Auspice
Protection or support, patronage
Auspicious
Favorable, propitious, successful
Austere
Without adornment, Bare, severely simple, ascetic
Avarice
Greed, especially for wealth, حرص ، طمع
Aver
To confirm or support, to state as a fact
Axiom
Universally recognized principle, a generally accepted or common saying
Baleful
Sinister, pernicious, ominous, غم انگیز
Bane
Cause of injury, source of harm
Beatify
To bless, make happy
Bedizen
To adorn, especially in a cheap showy manner, festoon, زرق و برق دار کردن
Beguile
To influence by tricky, flattery, to mislead, گول زدن
Belie
To give a false impression of, to misrepresent , افترا زدن
Bellicose
Belligerent, pugnacious, warlike, آماده به جنگ
Benign
Favorable, harmless, مهربان، ملایم
Bent
Leaning, inclination, tendency, proclivity تمایل،انحراف
Blandish
To coax with flattery, today or fawn چاپلوسی کردن
Blithe
Carefree, merry, خوش و بیخیال
Boisterous
Loud, noisy, rough
Bolster
To provide support or reinforcement
Bombastic
Pompous, grandiloquent, پرشکوه
Adorn
Bedizen, آراستن
Boor
A rude or insensitive person, lout, yokel
Bridling
To control or hold back, restrain
Broach
Bring up, announce, begin to talk about
Brook
To tolerate, endure, countenance, تحمل کردن
Bucolic
Rustic and pastoral, characteristic of rural areas, روستایی، کویلو
Burgeon
To grow rapidly or flourish
Burnish
To polish, rub to a shine
Byzantine
Labyrinthine, complex
Cacophony
Harsh, jarring, discordant sound, dissonance صدای ناهنجار
Cadge
To sponge, beg, or mooch, با التماس خواستن
Cajole
To inveigle, coax, wheedle, sweet talk, گول زدن
Calumniate
To slander, make a false accusation افترا زدن
Canny
Careful, cautious, knowing
Canon
An established set of principles or code of laws
Capricious
Inclined to change one’s mind, impulsively, erratic, unpredictable
Cardinal
Basic importance or consequence, primary اساسی
Carnality
Something relating to the body or flesh, شهوانی
Castigation
Severe criticism or punishment
Causality
Relationship between cause and effect علیت
Caustic
Burning or stinging, causing corrosion ,تند, تیز
Censure
To criticize severely, to officially rebuke , انتقاد
Chaos
Condition of confusion or unpredictability
Chary
Wary, cautious, sparing , محتاط
Chasten
To chastise or correct, subdue, تربیت و اصلاح کردن
Chauvinist
One blindly devoted to a group of which one is a member, میهن پرست متعصب
Chicanery
Trickery or subterfuge, حیله بازی
Chimera
An illusion
Choleric
Tending toward anger, تمایل به عصبانیبودن
Churlish
Boorish, vulgar, loutish, difficult and intractable
Circumscribe
Enclose within bonds, limit or confine, especially narrowly, محدوده مشخص کردن
Clangorous
Making a loud, resonant sound
Coalesce
To come together, to fuse or unite
Coda
Concluding section to a musical or literary piece, something that concludes or completes, قطعه آخر آهنگ یا کتاب
Cogent
Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason, convincing
Color
Influence, distort or gloss over, تحریف کردن
Commensurate
Matching, corresponding, proportionate in degree size amount, متناسب
Complaisance
Willingness to comply with the wishes of others خوشرویی
Confound
To cause to be confused, to frustrate
Connoisseur
An informed and astute judge in matters of taste, expert خبره
Consequential
Pompous, self-important با اهمیت
Contemn
Scorn or despise حقیر کردن
Contentious
Argumentative, quarrelsome, causing controversy or disagreement دعوایی
Contiguous
Sharing a border, touching, adjacent مجاور
Contrite
Regretful, penitent, seeking forgiveness
Convention
Generally agreed upon practice or attitude پیمان
Convoluted
Complex or complicated
Corrigible
Capable of being set right, correctable, reparable اصلاح پذیر
Countenance
To approve of or tolerate پشتیبانی کردن
Cozen
To deceive, beguile, hoodwink فریب دادن
Craven
Contemptibly fainthearted, pusillanimous, lacking any courage ترسو
Credulous
Tending to believe too readily, gullible زودباور
Crescendo
A gradual increase in intensity, particularly in music قوی شدن صدا به صورت تدریجی
Culpable
Deserving blame
Cynicism
Attitude or quantity of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness بدبینی
Damp
To diminish the intensity or check something, such as a sound or feeling
Daunt
To intimidate or dismay ترساندن
Dearth
Smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; lack
Debacle
Complete failure, fiasco, rout, افتضاح، سرنگونی
Debunk
To expose as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated کسی رو آگاه و هدایت کردن
Decorum
Politeness or appropriateness of conduct or behavior , رفتار بجا
Deleterious
Injurious; harmful
Demur
To question or oppose
Denigrate
Blacken, belittle, sully, defame, disparage , لکه دار کردن
Denouement
An outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot, نتیجه نهایی
Deprecate
To disparage or belittle کم ارزش کردن
Depredate
Plunder, pillage, ravage or destroy
Derision
Scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment , تمسخر
Derivative
Unoriginal, obtained from another source
Desiccate
To dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull
Desuetude
Disuse, عدم استعمال
Desultory
Random, thoughtless, marked by a lack of plan or purpose
Detraction
Slandering, verbal attack, aspersion
Diaphanous
Transparent; gauzy
Diatribe
A harsh denunciation, انتقاد سخت
Didactic
Intended to teach or instruct
Diffident
Reserved, Shy, unassuming, lacking in self confidence
Digress
To stray from the point, to go off on a tangent, گریز از موضوع
Dilate
To become wider or more open
Dilatory
Causing delay, procrastinating
Dilettante
One with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge ناشی
Din
Loud sustained noise
Dirge
A mournful song or poem for the dead
Disabuse
To undeceive, to set right
Discomfit
To defeat, put down
Discordant
Conflicting, dissonant or harsh in sound ناسازگار
Discretion
Cautious reserve in speech, ability to make responsible decision احتیاط
Disinterested
Free from self-interest; unbiased , بی طرف
Disparage
To slight or belittle
Disparate
Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
Dissemble
To disguise or conceal; to mislead, فریب دادن
Dissolution
Disintegration, looseness in morals تجزیه
Dissonance
Lack of harmony; conflict
Distrait
Distracted, absentminded specially due to anxiety سربه هوا
Divulge
To disclose something secret, فاش کردن
Doctrinaire
Fanatical, merely theoretical, impractical اصولی
Doggerel
Trivial, poorly constructed verse شعر بد
Dogmatic
Authoritatively and or arrogantly assertive of principles which cannot be proved, متعصب
Dross
Slang, waste or foreign matter, impurity تفاله
Dulcet
Melodious, harmonious
Dupe
One who is deceived
Dynamo
Generator ; forceful, energetic person
Ebullience
The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings. گرمی و نشاط
Eccentric
Departing from norms or conventions, عجیب و غریب
Eclectic
Composed of elements drawn from various sources.
Edifying
Enlightening, informative
Efficacy
The ability to produce an intended result
Efflorescence
the state or a period of flowering; an example or result of growth and development, گل دادن
Effrontery
extreme boldness; presumptuousness, گستاخی
Effusive
gushing, excessively demonstrative, پرحرارت و علاقه
Egress
exit
ELEGY
a mournful poem
Eloquent
Well-spoken; expressive; articulate
Emollient
soothing, especially to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying
Empirical
Based on observation or experiment
Encomium
Glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy; ستایش
Endemic
Characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people; بومی
Enervate
To weaken; to reduce in vitality
Engender
to cause, produce, give rise to
Enigmatic
mysterious, obscure, difficult to understand
Ennui
Dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy
Enormity
excessive wickedness, evilness
Ephemeral
brief; fleeting, short-lived
Epicure
one devoted to sensual pleasure, particularly in food and drink; gourmand, sybarite. لذت
Episodic
Loosely connected, not flowing logically, occurring at intervals, رخ دادن در فواصل زمانی
Epithet
disparaging word or phrase
Epitome
embodiment; quintessence, خلاصه ، نماد
Equanimity
Composure, self-possession, خودداری و متانت
Equable
level, not able to be easily disturbed
Equivocate
to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent. مبهم
Errant
traveling, itinerant, peripatetic, حادثه جو
Erudite
Very learned, scholary
Eschew
to shun or avoid
Esoteric
intended for or understood by a small, specific group, محرمانه
Essay
To test or try; attempt, experiment
Estimable
worthy, formidable, تخمین پذیر
Eulogy
a speech honoring the dead
Evanescent
tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing
Evince
To show clearly, to indicate, نشان دادن
Exacerbate
to make worse or more severe
Exact
to demand, call for, require, take
Excoriate
to censure scathingly, to upbraid, سرزنش
Exculpate
exonerate, to clear of blame, بی گناه شمردن
Exemplar
typical or standard specimen; paradigm, model, نمونه، سرمشق
Exhort
to incite, to make urgent appeals, ترغیب کردن
Exigent
urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention
Exonerate
to remove blame
Expatiate
discuss or write about at length; to range freely, به تفصیل شرح دادن
Expiate
to atone or make amends for, جبران کردن
Expurgate
to remove obscenity, purify, censor, تطهیر کردن
Extant
existing, not destroyed or lost
Extemporaneous
improvised; done without preparation
Extirpate
to destroy, exterminate, cut out, pull out by the roots
Facetious
playful; humorous; not serious
Fallacy
an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief
Fallow
untilled, inactive, dormant
Fanatical
zealous, single-mindedly obsessed with one thing, متعصب
Fastidious
excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please, سخت گیر و ریزبین
Fatuous
silly, inanely foolish
Fawn
To flatter or praise excessively، تملق چاپلوسی
Feckless
ineffectual; irresponsible
Felicitous
suitably expressed, well chosen, apropos, delightful
Fervent
greatly emotional or zealous, پر شور و شعف
Fetid
stinking, having a heavy bad smell
Fickle
Likeliness to casually change one’s mind, دمدمی