advance 6 Flashcards
transmute
Transmute is a verb meaning to change in appearance or form. For example, magical creatures can transmute into other beings. When you’re fighting a wizard, don’t be surprised if he transmutes into a terrifying dragon.
like transform
elegiac
If there’s one song on your playlist that always brings tears to your eyes, maybe it’s because it has an elegiac quality. Elegiac means “mournful or sad.” like dolorous
“an elegiac poem on a friend’s death”
“an elegiac lament (سوگواری) for youthful ideals”
pellucid
like lucid
A sentence that teaches a new vocabulary word should always be pellucid, that is, its style and meaning should be easily understandable
proselytize
To proselytize is to try to persuade someone to switch to your religious beliefs or your way of living. If you are going to proselytize, try not to be too pushy!
The Jesuit scientists went to learn, not to proselytize.
dolorous
describes someone showing great sadness
a dolorous and repetitive tale of atrocity
Like elegaic, mournful
غم انگیز
impervious
An impervious surface is one that can’t be penetrated. The word is often followed by “to,” as in “His steely personality made him impervious to jokes about his awful haircut.”
تاثر ناپذیر
غیر قابل نفوذ
panegyric
a formal speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something a lot.
After having made a few preparatory experiments, he concluded with a panegyric upon modern chemistry, the terms of which I shall never forget:
Dave asked Andrew to do just a simple toast, but Andrew launched into a full panegyric.
مثلا وقتی یکی میمیره دوستش میاد ی سخنرانی فرمال راجب خوبیای یارو میکنه
bromide
A bromide is a common saying or proverb that is obvious and not that helpful, like “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.”
همون جملات قصار کس شر
وقتی خسته شدی بدو
like apothegm or epigram
assiduously
Something done assiduously is done with care and dedication.
adverb with care and persistence
she worked assiduously on the senior thesis
complaisant
adjective showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others
If only the world were populated entirely with complaisant people! Complaisant means willing to do something to please others, and complaisant people or animals are wonderful to be around.
desiccated
To be desiccated is to be dried out. If you like desiccated fruit, you like dried fruit
During a drought, the ground becomes cracked and desiccated.
adjective lacking vitality(زنده دلی) or spirit; lifeless
Few novelists over 80 are able to produce anything more than desiccated works.
unassailable
without flaws - immune(مصون) to attack
not able to be criticized, made weaker, or beaten
The party’s position looked unassailable.
The result gave the team an unassailable lead.
You are too used to dealing with theists(خدا پرستان) who adopt a position of unassailable certainty in their beliefs.
virtue تقوا opp vice فسق و فجور
impugn
to express doubts about someone’s honesty, courage, ability etc
I did not mean to impugn her professional abilities.
To impugn means to call into question or attack as wrong. If your usually grumpy brother is suddenly nice and sweet, you’ll impugn his motives if you’re smart — he probably just wants something from you.
زیر سوال بردن like belie, discredit, debunk, impugn
internecine
1 internal داخلی (of conflict) درگیری داخلی
2 bloody خونین
It’s an adjective you’d use to describe a bloody battle where both sides are badly hurt. On a lighter note, it can also mean a conflict that tears an organization apart.
appropriate
verb
1 To take something for yourself when you don’t have the right to do this SYN steal or pilfer
the government appropriated land that was occupied by squatters.
2 to allocate
the committee appropriated the funds to its various members.
fecund
1 adjective capable of producing offspring or vegetation
Synonyms:
fertile
capable of reproducing
2 adjective intellectually productive
“a fecund imagination”
The adjective fecund describes things that are highly fertile and that easily produce offspring or fruit. Rabbits are often considered to be fecund animals, and you may hear jokes in poor taste about people reproducing like rabbits if they have a lot of children.
inviolable
never to be broken
an inviolable right, law, principle etc is extremely important and should be treated with respect and not broken or removed
Wedding vows and vault combinations that can’t be broken are considered inviolable. (Of course, divorce lawyers and bank robbers consider this a challenge.)
Like unassailable
vaunted
highly praised or boasted (لاف زدن فخر فروختن) about
a plan, system, achievement etc that is vaunted is praised or talked about too much and in a way that is too proud
There’s little sign that the much-vaunted IT investment is pulling France out of recession.
complicit
همدست - شریک جرم
When you’re complicit, you’re guilty of being involved in some underhanded or illegal activity. If you see your brother steal the neighbor’s cat and don’t say anything, you’re complicit in a catnapping!
Abet: to help someone do something illegal or wrong.
turgid
turgid writing or speech is boring and difficult to understand SYN dull - tedious
a turgid Social Science textbook