advance 2

Question 1

bilious

Answer 1

adj
1-feeling as if you might vomit
She felt a bilious attack coming on.
2-bad-tempered
a bilious old man

Question 2

factitious

Answer 2

adj
artificial - not natural
a factitious diamond made by plastic
(fake)

Question 3

invective

Answer 3

noun : (insult)
“you dirty rotten scoundrel.” is an invective
rude and insulting words

Question 4

disabuse

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

execrate

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

hedge

Answer 6

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)

Question 7

Pyrrhic victory

Answer 7

earn by a great cost that the victory is not worthwhile.

Question 8

picayune

Answer 8

(adj) small, trivial, and unimportant
It may sound picayune but, in big organizations, such things matter.

Question 9

gerrymander

Answer 9

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.

Question 10

propitiate

Answer 10

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

Question 11

sybarite

Answer 11

noun
addicted to luxurious things and all of life’s pleasures
negative meaning
(syb yani apple yani luxury bazi)
pleasure seeker

Question 12

maudlin

Answer 12

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

Question 13

histrionic

Answer 13

referred to acting in a play, and it still conveys a sense of pretending. نمایشی
Exaggerated crying, unnecessary yelling, and overdone gestures

Question 14

parvenu

Answer 14

تازه ب دوران رسیده

Question 15

imbroglio

Answer 15

noun
a difficult, embarrassing, or confusing situation
شرایط اسف ناک
The Soviet Union became anxious to withdraw its soldiers from the Afghan imbroglio.

Question 16

cupidity

Answer 16

extreme greed for material wealth
حرص و طمع

Question 17

curmudgeon

Answer 17

پیر خرفت و خسیس
پیری کیری

Question 18

schadenfreude

Answer 18

خوشحالیی ک تو باخت بقیه پیدا میکنی

Question 19

jejune

Answer 19

adj
1- dull - lacking flavor or interest or significance
“jejune novel”
2- immature and childish
“jejune responses to our problems”

Question 20

apotheosis

Answer 20

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

Question 21

quisling

Answer 21

noun
betrayer
خائن

Question 22

blinkered

Answer 22

narrow-minded. Like insular or myopic
He’s very blinkered in his outlook.

Question 23

quixotic

Answer 23

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

Question 24

remonstrate

Answer 24

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

Question 25

martient

Answer 25

noun
s.o who is very strict
The woman in charge was a martinet who treated us like children.

Question 26

sangfroid

Answer 26

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)

Question 27

mettlesome

Answer 27

brave

Question 28

tendentious

Answer 28

adj
When something is tendentious, it shows a bias towards a particular point of view, especially one that people disagree about.
controversial
like contentious

Question 29

juggernaut

Answer 29

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

Question 30

venial

Answer 30

adj
a venial sin / mistake
easily forgiven - pardonable - negligible

Question 31

excoriate

Answer 31

before you excoriate your little sister for borrowing your favorite jacket without permission, consider whether she truly deserves such harsh treatment.
like vituperate

Question 32

mellifluous

Answer 32

adj
pleasing to the ear
گوش نواز

Question 33

limpid

Answer 33

adj
clear and bright and serene
limpid stream or a limpid lake.
like lucid

Question 34

benighted

Answer 34

naive
گرفتار تاریکی جهل
Some of the early explorers thought of the local people as benighted savages who could be exploited.

Question 35

sententious

Answer 35

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.

Question 36

sartorial

Answer 36

related to fashion or clothes
a man of great sartorial elegance

Question 37

fell

Answer 37

terribly evil
like lord voldemort in harry potter

Question 38

mulct

Answer 38

noun - verb
defraud - swindle
fine
اخازی کردن

Question 39

jaundiced

Answer 39

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

Question 40

impecunious

Answer 40

indigent - penurious
I first knew him as an impecunious student living in a tiny apartment.

Question 41

palimpsest

Answer 41

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

Question 42

arriviste

Answer 42

parvenu - social climber
تازه ب دوران رسیده

Question 43

phantasmagorical

Answer 43

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.

Question 44

protean

Answer 44

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

Question 45

expurgate

Answer 45

censor
edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
if you hear some words bleeped out, those words have been expurgated.

Question 46

malapropism

Answer 46

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

Question 47

arch

Answer 47

1-mischievous
2-characteristic of those who treat others with condescension (supercilious)

Question 48

Pollyannaish

Answer 48

extremely optimistic

Question 49

vituperate

Answer 49

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.

Question 50

peremptory

Answer 50

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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