basic 2

Question 1

misanthrope

Answer 1

a person who hates or mistrusts other people.
Kevin is such a misanthrope that he refused to attend the Christmas party, claiming that everyone’s happiness was fake and annoying.

Question 2

imponderable

Answer 2

impossible to estimate or figure out
غیر قابل تامل
“What is the meaning of life?” is one of those imponderable questions that defies humans’ ability for understanding
such imponderable human factors as aesthetic sensibility(زیبایی شناختی)

Question 3

pre-emptive

Answer 3

done before someone else can do it.
pre-emptive strike/attack
a series of pre-emptive strikes on guerrilla bases
Before you could be accused of eating the whole cake, you decided to make a preemptive apology.

Question 4

sanctimonious

Answer 4

مذهبی نما
“a sickening sanctimonious smile”

Question 5

lassitude

Answer 5

tiredness and lack of energy or interest بی رمق
upon finishing a 6-hour exam, Dahlia emerged from the testing center overcome by lassitude.
like lethargic. Anemic

Question 6

cadaverous

Answer 6

looking extremely thin, pale, and unhealthy. like emaciated پوست و استخون
His face was very bony, cadaverous.
cadaverous appearance

Question 7

hodgepodge

Answer 7

ریخت و پاش
a number of things mixed up without sensible order or arrangement

Question 8

bellicose

Answer 8

eager for war - aggressive
پاچه گیر - like belligerent or pugnacious
“bellicose young officers”

Question 9

pittance

Answer 9

a small amount (of money) - چس تومن
The restaurant may pay you a pittance, but you can do well if you get a lot of good tips.
Like paltry amount of something which is too small o be useful or important. Trivial or meagre

Question 10

check

Answer 10

1 همون چک کردن خودمون
2 to stop something bad from getting worse or continuing to happen
The police are failing to take adequate measures to check the growth in crime.

Question 11

ferret

Answer 11

to search for something persistently until finding it.
“She ferreted out the truth”
She ferreted in her bag for a pen.

Question 12

virago

Answer 12

زن وحشی - از اونا ک همیشه پریودن
like your next door neighbor who is always yelling at kids to get off her lawn.
like pugnacious, bellicose, belligerent

Question 13

exhort

Answer 13

encourage especially by cheers and shouts
“When he heard the crowd exhort him with stomping and cheers, he knew that he could finish the marathon.”
Police exhorted the crowd to remain calm.

Question 14

aboveboard

Answer 14

open and honest
When a company’s business dealings are aboveboard, they act in an honorable, open manner.

Question 15

stem

Answer 15

1 to stop something from happening, spreading, or developing. like check
stem the tide/flow/flood of something
The measures are meant to stem the tide of illegal immigration.
stem the growth/rise/decline etc
an attempt to stem the decline in profits

2 noun
ساقه

Question 16

paucity

Answer 16

lack opp flush or replete
a paucity of information
But there was a paucity of buyers.

Question 17

wax

Answer 17

1 to increase in size or intensity OPP wane(to grow smaller or decrease.)
her enthusiasm for the Diva’s album only waxed with each song.
2 بدنه شمع

Question 18

cardinal

Answer 18

1 very important or basic SYN fundamental
Having clean hands is one of the cardinal rules when preparing food.
an issue of cardinal importance
2 red
3 cardinal number اعداد معمولی

Question 19

errant

Answer 19

adj
از راه ب در شده
“errant youngsters”
their errant son
An errant bird might end up in northern Canada while his friends fly to southern Mexico for the winter.
errant walk through the university campus.

Question 20

fleece

Answer 20

1 to deceive. LIKE hoodwink OPP guileless (as noun)
many people have been fleeced by internet scams and never received their money back.
2 لباس درست شده از پشم گوسفند یا بز
Dont confuse it with fleeting(lasting only a short time. Like brief)

Question 21

flush

Answer 21

1 You might be flush with cash, meaning you have a lot of it.
the exam’s passage is flush with difficult words.
2 to become red in the face, for example when you are angry or embarrassed SYN blush
Susan flushed deeply and looked away.
He flushed angrily.
3 if you flush a toilet, or if it flushes, you make water go through it to clean it
Why do children never remember to flush the loo?
She flushed the rest of her drink down the toilet.

Question 22

raft

Answer 22

1 A raft is a vessel or structure that’s made to float on water.
2 a raft of something ( like flush or replete with something) means a large number of it
The company has launched a whole raft of new software products.
Like surfeit, glut

Question 23

catalyst

Answer 23

something that speeds up an event. Like expedite
They hope his election will act as a catalyst for reform.

Question 24

corroborate

Answer 24

to provide information that supports or helps to prove someone else’s statement, idea etc SYN back upتایید کردن حدودا
We now have new evidence to corroborate the defendant’s story.
Experiments elsewhere corroborate these results.

Question 25

checkered

Answer 25

have a checkered history/career/past etc
to have had periods of failure as well as successful times in your past یعنی بالا پایینای زیادی داشته
This is an unusual building with a checkered history.

Question 26

pugnacious

Answer 26

like bellicose or belligerent or virago
eager to fight or argue
The professor had been pugnacious and irritable.

Question 27

unconscionable

Answer 27

unreasonable
The war caused an unconscionable amount of suffering.

Question 28

extenuating

Answer 28

extenuating circumstances/factors etc
formal facts or reasons which make you feel that it was reasonable for someone to break the usual rules, or make you have sympathy for someone who did something wrong or illegal
یجورایی حق دادن

Question 29

apex

Answer 29

the highest point

Question 30

scintillating

Answer 30

describe as brilliant and lively
scintillating lecture
scintillating conversation
a scintillating performance

Question 31

melee

Answer 31

a situation in which a lot of people rush around in a confused way SYN tumult - turmoil غوغا
Luckily no one was hurt in the melée.

Question 32

amok

Answer 32

run amok
a) to suddenly behave in a very violent and uncontrolled way
Drunken troops(دسته) ran amok in the town.
b) to get out of control and cause a lot of problems
an age in which global capitalism has run amok
افسار پاره کردن

Question 33

becoming

Answer 33

adj
appropriate
her dress was becoming and made her even more beautiful.

Question 34

vicarious

Answer 34

experienced by watching or reading about someone else doing something, rather than by doing it yourself
vicarious pleasure/satisfaction/excitement etc
the vicarious pleasure that parents get from their children’s success

Question 35

desecrate

Answer 35

to spoil or damage something holy or respected هتک حرمت کردن OPP consecrate
Kelly’s grave was also desecrated.
• Most of the Egyptian tombs were desecrated and robbed.

Question 36

disparate

Answer 36

adj
fundamentally different
a meeting covering many disparate subjects
the difficulties of dealing with disparate groups of people

Question 37

cogent

Answer 37

clear and persuasive
cogent argument/reason/case etc
a cogent argument for banning the drug

Cognizant: informed.aware

Question 38

junta

Answer 38

حکومت نظامی
a military government that has gained power by using force
The country was ruled by a military junta from 1974 until 1982.

Question 39

sanguine

Answer 39

cheerful and optimistic
Other economists are more sanguine about the possibility of inflation.
a sanguine view

Question 40

moment

Answer 40

significant and important value
virtue is of more moment than security

Question 41

heyday

Answer 41

top of a period or career

Question 42

animosity

Answer 42

intense hostility. like antipathy or acrimony خصومت
There is no personal animosity between the party leaders.
animosity towards/against
She felt a certain amount of animosity towards him.

Question 43

replete

Answer 43

full of something like flush or fraught
replete with
Literature is replete with tales of power.

Question 44

beatific

Answer 44

a beatific look, smile etc shows great peace and happiness دل نشین like convivial
She had an almost beatific expression on her pretty face.

Question 44

immaterial

Answer 44

1 irrelevant OPP apposite, germane, pertinent
The content of the mathematics qualification to them is immaterial.
The nature of the seller’s possession is immaterial.
2 formal not having a physical body or form
our immaterial soul

Question 45

badger

Answer 45

to pester
to try to persuade someone by asking them something several times SYN pester, goad
She badgered me for weeks until I finally gave in.
My friends keep badgering me to get a cell phone.
I had to badger the kids into doing their homework.

Question 46

chauvinist

Answer 46

1 someone, especially a man, who believes that their own sex is better or more important than the other sex
He’s a bit of a male chauvinist.
a male chauvinist pig (=an insulting name for a male chauvinist)
2 someone who believes that their own country or race is better or more important than any other

Question 47

contrite

Answer 47

feeling guilty and sorry for something bad that you have done - پشیمان. like contrition
a contrite apology
Her tone was contrite and I thought Puddy was going to get all choked up.

Question 48

avarice

Answer 48

greed- cupidity
I interpreted his secrecy as emotional avarice.
Avaricious = extremely greedy= rapacious