advance 2 Flashcards
bilious
adj
1-feeling as if you might vomit
She felt a bilious attack coming on.
2-bad-tempered
a bilious old man
factitious
adj
artificial - not natural
a factitious diamond made by plastic
(fake)
invective
noun : (insult)
“you dirty rotten scoundrel.” is an invective
rude and insulting words
disabuse
make you aware of a misunderstanding you have about s.th. like chasten
However, I do not believe that I will be able to disabuse him of his beliefs.
execrate
to curse(loathe) or hate. Revile
نفرین کردن و بد و بیراه گفتن
to have or show feelings of hate towards someone or something:
I execrate any policy that interferes with the rights and freedoms of others.
hedge
1- avoid to answer directly to cover yourself. Like prevaricate
If you’re not sure what your boss’s political views are, you can hedge by not revealing yours.
2- green walls made by bushes (شهرصنعتی)
Pyrrhic victory
earn by a great cost that the victory is not worthwhile.
picayune
(adj) small, trivial, and unimportant
It may sound picayune but, in big organizations, such things matter.
gerrymander
to change the borders of an area in order to increase the number of people within that area who will vote for a particular party or person:used to show dissapproval
The Prime Minister tried to gerrymander the recent elections in two ways.
The districts are so badly gerrymandered that a challenger can’t win.
propitiate
verb placate appease
دلجویی کردن یا از دلش دراوردن
If you forgot flowers on your grandma’s birthday, you can still propitiate her by sending a bouquet the next day.
like conciliate
sybarite
noun
addicted to luxurious things and all of life’s pleasures
negative meaning
(syb yani apple yani luxury bazi)
pleasure seeker
maudlin
1 talking or behaving in a sad, silly, and emotional way, especially when drunk
get/grow/become maudlin
Sir Ralph was becoming maudlin after his third glass of claret.
2 a maudlin song, story, film etc tries too hard to make people feel emotions such as love or sadness and seems silly
a song that is tender without being maudlin
histrionic
referred to acting in a play, and it still conveys a sense of pretending. نمایشی
Exaggerated crying, unnecessary yelling, and overdone gestures
parvenu
تازه ب دوران رسیده
imbroglio
noun
a difficult, embarrassing, or confusing situation
شرایط اسف ناک
The Soviet Union became anxious to withdraw its soldiers from the Afghan imbroglio.
cupidity
extreme greed for material wealth
حرص و طمع
curmudgeon
پیر خرفت و خسیس
پیری کیری
schadenfreude
خوشحالیی ک تو باخت بقیه پیدا میکنی
jejune
adj
1- dull - lacking flavor or interest or significance
“jejune novel”
2- immature and childish
“jejune responses to our problems”
apotheosis
noun
1 the best and most perfect example of something
apotheosis of
the apotheosis of romantic art
2 the best or highest point in someone’s life or job SYN apex
apotheosis of
the apotheosis of his career
quisling
noun
betrayer
خائن
blinkered
narrow-minded. Like insular or myopic
He’s very blinkered in his outlook.
quixotic
unrealistic - impractical
Despite the quixotic claims of modern neuroscience, there is no cure for trauma.
trauma:
an unpleasant and upsetting experience that affects you for a long time
traumas such as death or divorce
remonstrate
to tell someone that you strongly disapprove of something they have said or done
The Everton manager remonstrated angrily with the referee.
اعتراض کردن like protest or demonstrate
Demonstrate
1 to show or explain. Like manifest
2 to protest
Demonstrative: someone who shows his feelings OPP non-demonstrative
martient
noun
s.o who is very strict
The woman in charge was a martinet who treated us like children.
sangfroid
noun
poise and calmness
ی ارامش و اعتماد بنفس درونی که باعث میشه حتی تو شرایط سخت هم کنترل خودتو احساساتتو داشته باشی.
(az sangi vali froidi)
mettlesome
brave
tendentious
adj
When something is tendentious, it shows a bias towards a particular point of view, especially one that people disagree about.
controversial
like contentious
juggernaut
نیروی عظیم منهدم کننده
If you’re trying to market a new Cola product, you’re up against corporate giant Coca-Cola, a beverage juggernaut.
نمیشه با ی جاگرنات در بیفتی
venial
adj
a venial sin / mistake
easily forgiven - pardonable - negligible
excoriate
before you excoriate your little sister for borrowing your favorite jacket without permission, consider whether she truly deserves such harsh treatment.
like vituperate
mellifluous
adj
pleasing to the ear
گوش نواز
limpid
adj
clear and bright and serene
limpid stream or a limpid lake.
like lucid
benighted
naive
گرفتار تاریکی جهل
Some of the early explorers thought of the local people as benighted savages who could be exploited.
sententious
If you speak in sententious phrases, your listeners are probably falling asleep, as your speech is pompous and pretentious, and full of moralistic babble.
“Do you mind if I’m sententious for a second?” he says to an interviewer.
sartorial
related to fashion or clothes
a man of great sartorial elegance
fell
terribly evil
like lord voldemort in harry potter
mulct
noun - verb
defraud - swindle
fine
اخازی کردن
jaundiced
thinking that people or things are bad, especially because you have had bad experiences in the past.
He has a very jaundiced view of the world.
like paranoid or misanthrope
impecunious
indigent - penurious
I first knew him as an impecunious student living in a tiny apartment.
palimpsest
noun
s.th that has been changed numerous times but on which traces of former iterations can still be seen.
the downtown is a palimpsest.
ی ورقه ک توش قبلا چیزی نوشتی..بعد پاک کردی و دوباره روش نوشتی
arriviste
parvenu - social climber
تازه ب دوران رسیده
phantasmagorical
surreal - unrealistic - quixotic - chimera
phantasmagorical paintings are equally full of odd
A phantasmagorical film is surreal and strange
If you have a phantasmagorical nightmare, it might be hard to describe to another person, it’s so weird and fantastic.
protean
adj
versatile
Protean means able to change shape.
Picasso changed the way he worked many times.
مث بازیگری ک هر نقشی بش بدن میتونه بازی کنه
protean actor
expurgate
censor
edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
if you hear some words bleeped out, those words have been expurgated.
malapropism
nounوقتی دوتا کلمه رو باهم اشتباه میگیری
confusion of a word with another word that sounds similar.
A malapropism occurs when you say one word but you mean another
arch
1-mischievous
2-characteristic of those who treat others with condescension (supercilious)
Pollyannaish
extremely optimistic
vituperate
excoriate
to criticize harshly
ب توپره بستن
Republicans routinely curse the Constitution, profane America’s ideals and vituperate its values.
They vituperate even though what she and Sanders have said is, well, true.
peremptory
peremptory behaviour, speech etc is not polite or friendly and shows that the person speaking expects to be obeyed immediately
a peremptory demand for silence
“a peremptory decree”
“spoke in peremptory tones”
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