common 3 Flashcards
abstain
If you abstain from something, you restrain yourself from consuming it. People usually abstain from things that are considered vices (bad habit) — like eating French fries every day for lunch.
Like eschew (avoid) or shun or refrain پرهیز
unequivocal
If there is no doubt about it, it’s unequivocal. An unequivocal response to a marriage proposal? “Yes. Yes! A thousand times yes!”
itinerant
An itinerant is a person who moves from place to place, typically for work
doctors used to be itinerant, traveling between patient’s homes.
like peripatetic
jingoism
Jingoism is fanatical(متعصب), over-the-top patriotism(وطن پرست). If you refuse to eat, read, wear, or discuss anything that wasn’t made in your own country, people might accuse you of jingoism.
like chauvinism
forlorn
adj hopeless devastated
showing hopelessness
“the last forlorn attempt”
the forlorn hope of finding a peace formula
incongruous
نامتناجس
inconsistent - incompatible
spurious
plausible but false like specious
when listening to a politician speak, it is hard to distinguish the spurious claims from the authentic ones.
spurious solution
tenacious
1 determined to do something and unwilling to stop trying even when the situation becomes difficult
a tenacious negotiator مصمم
2 tenacious beliefs, ideas etc continue to have a lot of influence for a long time
a tenacious religious tradition that is still practised in Shinto temples
haughty
having arrogant superiority
Someone who is haughty is arrogant and full of pride. When you’re haughty, you have a big attitude and act like you’re better than other people.
مغرور
treacherous
tending to betray or dangerously unstable and unpredictable. غیرقابل اعتماد
Treacherous means either not trusted or dangerous. A treacherous road might be icy or otherwise likely to cause a car accident. A treacherous friend will betray you.
otherwise
وگرنه 1
You’ll have to go now, otherwise you’ll miss your bus.
They got two free tickets to Canada, otherwise they’d never have been able to afford to go.
2 except
He was tired but otherwise in good health.
3 differently
say/think/decide etc otherwise
The government claims that the economy is improving, but this survey suggests otherwise.
A lot of people think otherwise.
4 used to refer to the opposite of what has just been mentioned (or otherwise)
We welcome any comments from viewers, favourable or otherwise.
The truth or otherwise of this diagnosis would be revealed in the future.
contrive
When you contrive, you make a plan or a plot. It may take you longer to contrive your way out of doing your homework than would to actually do it.
Contrived: seeming false and not natural
1 to succeed in doing something in spite of difficulties. Like prevail
contrive to do something
Schindler contrived to save more than 1,000 Polish Jews from the Nazis.
2 to arrange an event or situation in a clever way, especially secretly or by deceiving people
The lawsuit says oil companies contrived the oil shortage in the 1970s.
subsume
contain or include
“This new system subsumes the old one”
A wide range of offences are usually subsumed under the category of robbery.
juxtapose
place side by side کنار هم چیدن
Juxtapose is used often when referring to contrasting elements in the arts. “The music juxtaposed the instrumentation of jazz with the harmonies of soul.”
fallacious
adj
غلط
Predictions that the whole state of California will snap off from the rest of North America and float away have proven to be fallacious
1 containing or based on a fallacy (استدلال غلط)
“fallacious reasoning”
2 based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information
“fallacious hope”
3 intended to deceive
“fallacious testimony(شهادت)”
appeal
1 request
2 attractiveness
What is the particular appeal of this island?
The program has a very wide appeal.
ameliorate
to step in and make a bad situation better.
he wanted to ameliorate poverty and the lack of education in Afghanistan.
avaricious
extremely greedy. Like rapacious
Someone who is avaricious is greedy or grasping, concerned with gaining wealth. The suggestion is that an avaricious person will do anything to achieve material gain, and it is, in general, not a pleasant attribute.
belligerent
If someone is belligerent, they’re eager to fight. It’s a good idea to avoid hardcore hockey fans after their team loses — they tend to be belligerent. جنگ طلب
like bellicose
travesty
noun and verb
A false, absurd or distorted representation of something.
اون چیزی ک فک میکردی نیست
used in order to say that something is extremely bad and is not what it is claimed to be
Their marriage was a complete travesty.
travesty of
O’Brien described his trial as a travesty of justice.
eclectic
comprised of a variety of styles. Like catholic
She listens to hip-hop, Gregorian chant, and folk music from the ’60s. He’s been seen wearing a handmade tuxedo jacket over a thrift-store flannel shirt. They both have eclectic tastes. قروقاطی
disaffected
کسی ک روش تاثیر بد گذاشته شده
The adjective disaffected describes someone who is dissatisfied or rebellious. Usually if you’re disaffected, you’re upset with people in authority. You and your fellow disaffected workers might become so upset about the lack of raises that you decided to boycott work.