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amenable
easily persuaded - pushover
even though she did not like the outdoors, Shirley was generally amenable, so her brother was able to persuade her to go camping.
If a person or thing is amenable to something, they are ready, willing, or responsive.
upbraid
reprimand : tell off - scold - castigate - chastise
scold: to angrily criticize someone, especially a child, about something they have done SYN tell off دعوا کردن بچه
Do not scold the puppy, but simply and firmly say ‘no’.
scold somebody for (doing) something
Her father scolded her for upsetting her mother.
scorn
1 to show that you think that something is stupid, unreasonable, or not worth accepting
Many women scorn the use of make-up.
2 to criticize someone or something because you think they do not deserve respect
He scorned the government’s record in dealing with crime.
impertinent
disrespectful - بی ادب - rude
a kid in the back row of class quietly heckling his teacher, you can call him impertinent.
Dont mistake it with intermittent: sporadic
amorphous
shapeless
نظم خاصی تو شکلش نیس
• The molten rock hardens into amorphous forms.
his study was amorphous. he would do questions from random books.
harangue
a long pompous (حق ب جانب) speech - a tirade
to speak in a loud angry way, often for a long time, in order to criticize someone or to persuade them that you are right
harangue somebody about something
He stood on the street corner, haranguing passers-by about the stupidity of the forthcoming war.
censure
Censure is a noun referring to very strong criticism; the verb means to criticize very strongly.
after being caught in bed with a mistress, the mayor was censured by the city council.
excoriate, vituperate, objurgate, denounce, fulminate
innocuous
isn’t harmful or likely to cause injury. بی خطر harmless opp dangerous
an innocuous remark
He’s a perfectly innocuous young man.
amalgam
a mixture of multiple things. blend combination
the band was an amalgam of hip hop and jazz and pop, blending the three styles with good results.
Amalgamate:coalesce
artful
1 هنرمند
2 باهوش و حقه باز
intimate
1 adj صمیمی
2 verb to suggest - imply as a possibility. Insinuate
at first Manfred’s teachers intimated to his parents that he was not suited to skip a grade.
commensurate
Like coterminous هم تراز - معادل
the sentence was commensurate with the heinousness (زشته avv) of his crime.
ambivalent
adj having mixed feelings about something
If you can’t decide how you feel about something, declare yourself ambivalent about it.
i am ambivalent about marriage.
belie
زیر سوال بردن like impugn
the smile on his face belied the pain he must feel after…
disinterested
able to judge a situation fairly because you are not concerned with gaining any personal advantage from it SYN objective, impartial, unbiased
A lawyer should provide disinterested advice.
acrimony
Acrimony is bitterness, or ill will. Acrimony is a spiteful word. It sounds bitter, like acid.
feelings of anger between people who disagree strongly and do not like each other
the acrimony between president and vice-president sent a clear signal to voters.
accountability
If you take responsibility for your own actions, you show accountability. Stepping up and admitting it when you break something shows accountability.
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calumny
بهتان و افترا - تهمت
verbal attacks that are meant to destroy reputations or friendships. You’ve probably seen political ads during election time that rely on calumny to move voters.
venerate
to respect deeply
the professor, despite his sleep-inducing lectures, was venerated among his colleagues.
gregarious
آدم خوش مشرب
undermine
to weaken - به تزلزل انداختن - سست کردن
the students undermined the teacher’s authority by questioning…
restive
restless بی قرار کون یجا نشین نداره
unable to rest or relax as a result of anxiety or boredom.
To be restive is to be impatient or on edge — it’s an edgy state. When you feel like your skin is too tight and your nerves are ready to snap, when you feel ready to explode, you are restive.
maintain
to assert to state firmly that something is true (assert yourself)
the scientist maintained that the extinction of dinosaures was most likely brought about by a drastic change in climate.
galvanize
to motivate someone by shocking or surprising him
galvanize somebody into (doing) something
The possibility of defeat finally galvanized us into action.
to inspire someone to action
parsimonious
cheap
خسیس و حسابگر
extremely miserly and frugal
veracious
صادق - راستگو
like your brutally honest friend who always lets you know what she thinks about your outfits, your hairstyle, your lasagna recipe, and your taste in movies.
while we elect our leaders in the hope that every word they speak will be veracious, history has shown that such a hope is naive.
Veracity=versimilitude
wanting
If something’s wanting, there’s not enough of something necessary in it. If your essay is wanting, it’s missing something important and won’t get an A. Try adding body paragraphs.
like demanding
extant
adj
still in existence (usually refers to documents) OPP defunct
Use the adjective extant to describe old things that are still around, like your extant diary from third grade or the only extant piece of pottery from certain craftspeople who lived hundreds of years ago.
anomalous
aberration
Something that deviates from the norm is anomalous. Something anomalous can be good, such as an exciting new direction in music or art. But that anomalously low score on your math test? Not so good.
frugal
not spending much money (but spending wisely)
Monte was no miser, but was simply frugal, wisely spending the little that he earned.
Parsimonious. Cheap.
Frugal
Prodigal=extravagant
equivocal
confusing or ambiguous
the findings of the study were equivocal - the two researchers had different opinions on what the results signified.
involved
complicated, and difficult to comprehend
the physics lecture became so involved that the undergraduate’s eyes glazed over.
castigate
to reprimand in an especially harsh way.
reprimand : tell off - scold - upbraid - chastise
ingenuous
to be naive and innocent
iconoclast
هنجار شکن - سنت شکن - در معنای مثبت
Like unorthodox
Are you always challenging the establishment? Or provoking popular thought by attacking traditions and institutions? Then you’re definitely an iconoclast.
profligate
wasteful
spending resources recklessly or wastefully
profligate spending
the profligate use of energy resources
parochial
only interested in things that affect your local area – used to show disapproval
Local newspapers tend to be very parochial.
enervate
weaken physically, mentally, or morally
The hot sun enervated her to the point of collapse.
David felt too enervated to resist.
like stultify
betray
When you betray someone or something, you provide information whether you mean to do it or not, like the loud growling of your stomach that betrays your hunger
Like presage نشان از چیزی داشتن
دست لرزان نشان از ترسیدن است.پس داره بیتریش میکنه
aberration
strange
An aberration is something strange that rarely occurs. An example of an aberration is when the temperature in Minnesota hits 90 degrees in January — it’s nice and warm, but it’s really strange.
a deviation from what is normal or expected.
venality
venal :willing to use power and influence in a dishonest way in return for money
our venal politicians پول بگیر-خودفروش
—venality پولدوستی
His venality has discredited Parliament.
auspicious
showing that something is likely to be successful. Like promising or propitious
auspicious start/beginning
There were, indeed, many reasons to have auspicious hopes for the marriage.
egregious
افتضاح
If you make an egregious error during a championship soccer match, your coach might bench you for the rest of the game.
The situation at Zefco was one of the most egregious examples of discrimination we have seen.
prevaricate
When you prevaricate, you lie or mislead. Now, go ahead and tell me whether you already knew that meaning, and don’t prevaricate about it — give me the story straight!
طفره رفتن
prodigal
Use the adjective prodigal to describe someone who spends too much money, or something very wasteful. Your prodigal spending on fancy coffee drinks might leave you with no money to buy lunch. ولخرج
tending to squander and waste
“prodigal in their expenditures”
ambiguous
open to more than one interpretation مبهم
“frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy”
qualify
to make less severe, to limit
to change something slightly, to limit it or add a condition to it.
Chris qualified his love for San Francisco, adding he didn’t like the weather there as much as he liked the weather in Los Angles.
vindicate
to justify, prove, or reinforce an idea — or to absolve from guilt. If your family thinks you hogged the last piece of pie on Thanksgiving, you’ll be vindicated when your younger brother fesses up.
تبرئه کردن - مبرا کردن
like exonerate, acquit
demur
پس زدن
If your mother asks you to clean your room and you refuse, you demur. And if your friend invites you to the Death Metal Forever concert but you hesitate, you demur.
They demurred politely, but finally agreed to stay.
Demur: با احترام پس زدن
Demure: محجوب و با حیا
Immure: put s.o behind walls
Inure: get used to s.th bad
chastise
to reprimand harshly scold
Chastise is a fancy word for telling someone that something they did was really bad. If you pick your nose, your mom will probably yell at you. If you pick your nose in front of the Queen of England, your mom will chastise you.
mercurial
1 moody
liable to sudden unpredictable change
“mercurial twists of temperament”
2 quick and clever
Her mercurial wit
laconic
adjective brief and to the point; effectively cut short
“the laconic reply”
like incisive
