common 6

Question 1

sullen

Answer 1

1 A bad-tempered or gloomy person is sullen. Sullen people are down in the dumps. like bleak
Bill sat in sullen silence and refused to eat his lunch.
Teenagers are often described as sullen, especially when they’re being grumpy and silent.
2 literary a sullen sky or sea is dark and looks as if bad weather is coming SYN overcast

Question 2

misconsture

Answer 2

interpret in a wrong way. misinterpret
the politician never trusted journalists because he thought they would misconstrue his words and misrepresent his positions.

Question 3

truncate

Answer 3

to make something shorter SYN shorten
If the list is too long, it will be truncated by the computer.
The report is also available in a truncated version.

Question 4

impartial

Answer 4

If you’re in a contest, you’d better hope the judges are impartial. That means that they aren’t biased toward one competitor over another. بی طرف unbiased, disinterested
biased
1 unfairly preferring one person or group over another
Of course I’m biased, but I thought my daughter’s paintings were the best.
racially biased attitudes
biased against/towards/in favour of
news reporting that was heavily biased towards the government

Question 5

duress

Answer 5

compulsory force or threat اجبار
the witness said he signed the contract under duress and argued the court should cancel the agreement.

Question 6

timorous

Answer 6

timid or shy
your timorous friend who likes to hang out with close pals but gets nervous around big groups of new people.
“timorous little mouse”
“in a timorous tone”

Question 7

jovial

Answer 7

Use jovial to describe people who show good humor and are full of joy. Santa Claus, with his constant “ho-ho-hoing” is a jovial figure.

Question 8

harried

Answer 8

harry. Like harass or hound. Or badger , pester
1 to keep attacking an enemy
2 to keep asking someone for something in a way that is upsetting or annoying
Someone who is harried is feeling the stress of being rushed, overworked, or harassed (آزار و اذیت شده).
All day, every day, they are harried by everyone they meet.

Question 9

posit

Answer 9

1 to assume or suggest that it is true.
You can posit an idea or opinion.
initially Einstein posited a repulsive force to balance gravity, but then rejected that idea as a blunder (embarrassing mistake)

2 verb put (something somewhere) firmly
“She posited her hand on his shoulder”

Question 10

deleterious

Answer 10

harmful to living things کشنده detrimental
Smoking has obvious deleterious effects on your health, not to mention your social life.

Question 11

capricious

Answer 11

impulsive and unpredictable. Like impetuous and precipitous
like a capricious bride who suddenly leaves her groom standing at the wedding altar.
every month our capricious CEO had a new plan to turn the company around.

Captious: pedantic گیر

Question 12

specious

Answer 12

1 based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
almost every image on TV is specious and not to be trusted.

2 plausible but false like spurious
“a specious claim”
specious theory of the solar system

Question 13

disseminate

Answer 13

to spread information or ideas to as many people as possible. Like promulgate
Her findings have been widely disseminated.

Question 14

esoteric

Answer 14

arcane
known and understood by only a few people who have special knowledge about something
the esoteric world of scientific supercomputing

Question 15

maladroit

Answer 15

adroit تیز و بز و زبر و زرنگ
an adroit negotiator
maladroit شل و ول و دس پا چلفتی clumsy

clumsy like bumbling
moving or doing things in a careless way, especially so that you drop things, knock into things etc
A clumsy waiter spilled wine all over her new skirt.
a clumsy attempt to catch the ball

Question 16

anomaly

Answer 16

s.th that is not normal, standard or expected
abnormality inconsistency incongruity deviation

after finding an anomaly in the data, she knew that she would have to conduct her experiment again.

Question 17

opulence

Answer 17

luxury like ostentatious
Something with opulence is drenched in wealth and luxury.
• Morishita leads an opulent lifestyle.

Question 18

contrition

Answer 18

Contrition is a strong, powerful feeling that people get when they’ve done something wrong. احساس گناه
If you did wrong and feel bad about it, you’re feeling contrition — you’re contrite.

expiate: to show you are sorry for something you have done wrong by accepting your punishment willingly, or trying to do something to improve what you did

Question 19

craven

Answer 19

coward
lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
“the craven fellow turned and ran”
“a craven proposal to raise the white flag”

Question 20

arduous

Answer 20

دشوار و پرزحمت
an activity that takes a lot of effort. Writing all those college essays and filling out the applications is an arduous process!

Question 21

appease

Answer 21

To make peace with someone by giving in to their demands. SYN propitiate
• This was a clever attempt to appease the people, but it backfired.
Chamberlain tried to appease Hitler and in doing so sent a clear message, you can walk all over us.
the cold drink appeased his thirst.

appease, propitiate, conciliate, mollify, placate, pacify

Question 22

reproach

Answer 22

verb , noun
to criticize
He argued that the reproaches were unfair.
He publicly reproached his son for his behavior.

reproach, excoriate, vituperate, objurgate, censure, lambast

Question 23

polemic

Answer 23

a strong verbal or written attack
A polemic is something that stirs up controversy by having a negative opinion.
She has published a fierce anti-war polemic.

diatribe, broadside, vitriol, tirade, harangue, polemic

Question 24

ignominious

Answer 24

humiliating
ignominious defeat/failure/retreat etc
an ignominious end to his career
Losing a football game stinks, but losing a game where, at the end, you are lying face down in a puddle of mud and the fans are burning effigies of you in the streets? That is an ignominious defeat.

Question 25

transient

Answer 25

lasting a very short time

Question 26

maverick

Answer 26

independent person
someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action

Question 27

bolster

Answer 27

support and strengthen
the case for the suspect’s innocence was bolstered considerably by the fact that neither fingerprints nor DNA were found at the scene.
When you cheer up a friend who’s feeling down, you bolster them.

Question 28

pejorative

Answer 28

pejorative is used to show disapproval or to insult someone
Tree-hugger (someone who is regarded as foolish or annoying because of being too concerned about protecting environment) is a pejorative term for an environmentalist.
تحقیرآمیز

Question 29

fastidious

Answer 29

very careful about small details in your appearance, work etc SYN meticulous
people who are fastidious about personal hygiene

Question 30

flux

Answer 30

1 constant change
“his opinions are in flux”
“the newness and flux of the computer industry”
2 uncertainty
ever since Elvira resigned as the head of marketing, every thing about our sales strategy has been in a state of flux.
The education system is still in a state of flux.

Question 31

antipathy

Answer 31

a feeling of intense dislike like acrimony
antipathy to/towards
a growing antipathy towards the government
antipathy between
There’s always been a certain amount of antipathy between the two doctors.
“cats were his greatest antipathy”

Question 32

elicit

Answer 32

verb
بیرون کشیدن
like pull out or bring out
The test uses pictures to elicit words from the child.
just smiling can elicit feelings of pleasure and happiness

Evoke: برانگیختن
Revoke: ی قانون رو برداشتن
Provoke: برانگیختن-to couse a reaction or feeling

Question 33

imprudent

Answer 33

not wise. Like insular OPP judicious. Sage
imprudent move of invading Russia in winter by Hitler.
“very imprudent of her mother to encourage her in such silly romantic ideas”
“”would be imprudent for a noneconomist to talk about the details of economic policy”- A.M.Schlesinger”

Prudent & provident (2 with the ‘im’ means wise and long-sighted)
Prodigal & profligate (2 without opposite preffix) wasteful with money or anything. Like dilatory

Question 34

placate

Answer 34

appease
If you placate someone, you stop them from being angry by giving them something or doing something that pleases them. If your dad is annoyed that you forgot to take out the trash, you might be able to placate him by doing the dishes.

Question 35

efficacious

Answer 35

effective
an equally efficacious method of treatment
Some found bathing the patient in a bath of nitric acid to be efficacious!

Question 36

askance

Answer 36

if you look askance at someone or something, you do not approve of them or think they are good. like admonitory
A waiter looked askance at Ellis’s jeans.
There’s always been cops hanging around, looking askance at everyone.
چش خوره رفتن

Question 37

rebuke

Answer 37

criticize harshly - censure, objurgate, reproach, lambast
admonish, blame
the police chief rebuked the two officers whose irresponsible decisions almost led to the deaths of 7 innocent by-standers.

Question 38

stringent

Answer 38

demanding strict attention to rules and procedures. سختگیرانه
a stringent law, rule, standard etc is very strict and must be obeyed
stringent anti-noise regulations

Question 39

banality

Answer 39

a trite or obvious remark

Question 40

mundane

Answer 40

1 ordinary and not interesting or exciting SYN boring
Initially, the work was pretty mundane.
The mundane task of setting the table can be fun on holidays.

2 concerned with the world or worldly matters
“mundane affairs”
terrestrial

Question 41

dispassionate

Answer 41

unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice خونسرد like impartial (with aplomb)
“a journalist should be a dispassionate reporter of fact”
It’s something you’d want to see in a surgeon, who keeps cool under pressure, but not in a romantic partner.

Question 42

indecorous

Answer 42

inappropriate
Indecorous behavior isn’t proper or socially acceptable. It would be indecorous to publish your sister’s diary in the newspaper or to tell your extended family an offensive joke at Thanksgiving dinner.

Question 43

erudite

Answer 43

adj
having or showing profound knowledge SYN learned
“an erudite professor”

Question 44

edifying

Answer 44

enlightening or uplifting
Edifying things uplift people intellectually or morally and help them learn. Good literature, art, and music are edifying.

Question 45

furtive

Answer 45

behaving as if you want to keep something secret SYN secretive
There was something furtive about his actions.
furtive glances/looks
Chris kept stealing furtive glances at me.

Question 46

nonplussed

Answer 46

unsure how to act or respond. Like irresolute
bewildered, puzzled, often speechless.

Question 47

mendacity

Answer 47

noun
Mendacity is a tendency to lie.
i can forgive her for her mendacity but only because she is a child.
Mendacious: dishonest

Question 48

dilatory

Answer 48

adj
wasting time
dilatory tactics

like prodigal, profligate