advance 3 Flashcards
portentous
adj
ominous
The black crows slowly circling the front entrance to your office building at 6:00 am may have a portentous quality
primacy
noun
if someone or something has primacy, they are the best or most important person or thing.
like primary
like prime minister
moribund
like a moribund economy that has been stuck in a recession for years.
در حال مرگ
A cut in interest rates will help the country’s moribund housing market.
artlessness
بی ژیله پیله گی
the quality of innocence
“But in contrast to New York itself, I wanted to design it with extreme simplicity, unsophisticated, almost primitive and with naïve artlessness,” Kawakubo says.
impute
attribute s.th to s.th
چیزی رو ب چیزی نسبت دادن
“People impute great cleverness to cats”
The fall in the number of deaths from heart disease is generally attributed to improvements in diet.
“The teacher imputed the student’s failure to his nervousness”
raconteur
قصه گوی خیلی خوب
کسی که از هر اتفاق ساده ای میتونه ی داستان قشنگ در بیاره (یجوری میگش ک آدم دوس داره گوش بده هرچند خیلی داستان مهیجی نباشه)
effrontery
noun
He has the effrontery to tell me to my face that I’m too old to ride with him.
وقاحت و گستاخی like gall
If you rudely behave as if you have a right to something that you have no right to, you’re committing effrontery.
litany
a long list of problems, excuses
an endless litany of complaints
duplicity
noun
دورویی - ریاکاری
Nor will I tolerate any lying or duplicity
Creatures have no duplicity, like man.
epiphany
noun
الهام
وقتی یدفه یچیزی بهت گفته میشه از طرف خدا اون ی اپیفنی هست.
When inspiration hits you out of the blue, call it an epiphany.
“See, we don’t even know each other. I have to find out if I believe in epiphanies,
derelict
of a building : abandoned متروکه
of a person : if a person has abandoned his responsibilities, you can say that he is derelict in his duties.
As a noun, a derelict means a homeless person.
recapitulation
A recapitulation is a short summary. At the end of an hour-long speech, you should probably give a recapitulation if you want your audience to remember anything you’ve just said. Like abstract
recapitulate: to repeat the main points of something that has just been said. syn recap
approbatory
adj acclaim
expressing praise
showing approval
Perhaps something of this kind is to be found in the approbatory response,
Mrs. Colesworthy enfolded her in an approbatory embrace, and hurried home to tell me about it.
enjoin
1 to order or try to persuade someone to do something
If your doctor enjoins you to stop smoking, he is suggesting strongly that you quit.
2 to legally prevent someone from doing something
The defendant was enjoined from using the patent
temerity
خایه جیگر
جرعت و جسارت و شجاعت
If you have the temerity to jump off the bridge even after hearing about the risk of instant death, you truly are a nutcase.
enthrall
verb
خیییییلی خفنه
it’s a thrilling action-adventure film, a breathtaking work of art, or even the person you have a crush on.
The children were enthralled by the story she was telling.
like stun
hagiography
it is something written about holy people.
a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint(قدیس))
زندگی نامه اولیا و مقدسین
pecuniary
adj
monetary related to money
If your grandfather’s antique watch has pecuniary value, it’s worth money — you could sell it for cash if you weren’t sentimentally attached to keeping it.
He was trying to get a pecuniary advantage for himself.
The plaintiffs’ loss of business was pecuniary or economic damage.
importune
Or importunate
التماس کردن
We saw them surrounded, and observed as they begged and importuned
hail
verb
1- تگرگ باریدن
2- greet enthusiastically or joyfully
3- praise or acclaim
In June 2000, the press rushed to hail a study supposedly showing that Minnesota’s welfare-to-work program had sharply reduced poverty
4- be a native of
5- call for
By the time we hail taxis for the ride to the hotel, Lili is holding tight onto my hand, pulling me along.
cede
relinquish - give up your position, power, or rights, especially unwillingly.
In the Treaty of Greenville, signed in 1795, the nations of the alliance ceded a great deal of their Ohio territory to the US.
“She reluctantly ceded the coveted position as the baby of the family to her brother when he was born.
maunder
1- wander aimlessly. Like meander
2- speak or complain about unimportant matters
کوس پرت
vitriolic
adj
harsh and bitter in tone
مث زهر سگ میمونه
باعث شکستن قلب میشه
vitriolic remarks
vitriolic
adj
harsh and bitter in tone
مث زهر سگ میمونه
باعث شکستن قلب میشه
vitriolic remarks like diatribe
sagacious
adj
شم خوبی دارن - تشخیص بالایی دارن
someone who is wise and insightful like an advisor to the president
semblance
noun
شبیهشه ولی خودش نیست (یعنی بدتره)
Cramming all of your dirty clothes into the closet gives the semblance, or false appearance, that you’ve done your laundry — but the stench might give you away.
According to the skeptics, Maya society was divided into a small number of blocs, each controlled by a dominant city, each striving to achieve some semblance of empire.
Until then, gods had had no semblance of reality.
lugubrious
adj
lugubrious songs make you devastated.
داغون کننده
rainy days and Mondays are lugubrious.
I was feeling great when I got to the concert, but the lugubrious music left me in a terrible mood.
sinecure
If you have a cushy job — one that pays, but involves minimal work — then you have a sinecure. “Because he was the brother of the CEO, he was offered a sinecure in the company: he showed up each day and collected a paycheck, but others actually did his work.”
کاری ک فقط کس موش چال میکنه
lampoon
verb
دست انداختن - تیکه انداختن
ridicule with satire
a bad way of criticizing
anemic
adj
lacking energy and vigor
بی جون و رنگ پریده
“an anemic attempt to hit the baseball”
He will get a very high fever, and since his blood cells were damaged and cannot reproduce, he will also get anemic.
flummox
verb
bewildered
وقتی از ی چیزی سر در نمیاری یا واست نامفهومه اون چیز تورو فلامکس کرده.
Things that flummox you are probably not that serious, and often pretty amusing and informal: a TV remote or a crossword puzzle,
She didn’t know how to answer and she looked at him, quite flummoxed.
“I’m thinking these lads have mixed themselves up to flummox us.
charlatan
noum
شارلاتان
“I’ll find a specialist…someone who knows what he’s doing…not like those charlatans in white coats that call themselves doctors.”
unforthcoming
adj
forthcoming means coming soon or cooperative
unforthcoming کسی ک اطلاعات نمیده uncooperative
insouciance
noun
Insouciance is a feeling of careless indifference.
بی اعتنایی
For all her apparent insouciance, she was desperately unhappy.
anodyne
adj
1-capable of relieving pain
When your back is killing you from helping your friend move furniture into his new apartment, you need to take an anodyne, a painkiller.
2- inoffensive
bland
punctilious
adj
s.o who is punctual
A punctilious person pays attention to details.
redoubtable
adj
کسی ک از روی ترس باید بش احترام بذاری
He had never met a more redoubtable fighter.
illustrious
adj
Our illustrious Elector Primo had just accepted another four-year presidential term.
well known famous
bowdlerize
verb
expurgate censor
But despite bowdlerizing content, my family has been entirely faithful about visiting.
mordant
adj
نیش دار
mordant wit/satire/humour
unkind and insulting humour etc that is also funny SYN biting (snide نیشدار ولی خنده دار نیست)
The play’s mordant comedy makes for compelling viewing.
satire طنز
wit بذله گویی
quick/dry/sharp etc wit
His sharp wit had them all smiling.
wits
your ability to think quickly and make the right decisions
gather/collect/recover etc your wits (کله تو ب کار انداختن)
I felt helpless, but tried to gather my wits.
pit your wits against somebody (همه هوشتو واسه شکست دادن ی نفر خرج کردن)
be at your wits’ end (هرکاری میتونستی کردی ولی نشد)
have the wit to do something (to be clever enough to know the right thing to do)
not be beyond the wit of somebody (not be too difficult for someone to do)
It’s surely not beyond the wit of man to come up with a solution.
to wit (namely)
half-wit (ی تختش کمه)
prognostication
noun
forecast anticipation
In the event, these gloomy prognostications proved to be unfounded.
prolixity
noun
اضافه گویی
Prolixity is similar to “wordiness” — using too many words, or too many long words — when a few would get the job done.
Verbosity..wordiness
umbrage
noun
When someone takes umbrage at something, they (find it offensive), and it probably makes them angry.
Neighbors who had not yet gone took umbrage at this.
If they take umbrage, then they were never a proper friend in the first place.
solecism
noun
بی ادبی - بی تربیتی
She commits a lot of solecisms
Search online and you will not find an image of Prince Philip committing a style solecism.
grandiloquent
adj
puffed up with vanity از غرور پف کرده
قلمبه
quail
noun : بلدرچین
verb
از ترس لرزیدن
She quailed visibly at the sight of the prison walls.
plucky
adj
brave
یجورایی کله خر - کوتاه نمیاد
having temerity
A short person playing basketball is plucky. You can be plucky in fighting a terrible disease. Anyone who refuses to give up, no matter what, is plucky.
gaffe
noun
گاف
perspicacious
adj
wise perceptive
A perspicacious child can’t be fooled when her parents try to keep a secret by talking in Pig Latin.
a perspicacious critic
Perspicacity=acuity(ability to think, see or hear clearly) like acumen or trenchant
probity
integrity
having strong moral principles
integrity
1 the quality of being honest and strong about what you believe to be right
personal/professional/political etc integrity
a man of great moral integrity
2 formal the state of being united as one complete thing
the territorial integrity of the country
provident
long-sighted - cautious
If you are provident, that means you plan carefully for the future. You have your Christmas lights up in early December, you have a well-stocked pantry, and you have some savings tucked away just in case.
