MANHATTAN 8 & TC1200 (SEC1)

Question 1

Lucubration

Answer 1

intense study
after sixteen years’ lucubration he produced this account.

Question 2

magnanimity

Answer 2

بزرگواری - جوانمردی
He showed great magnanimity in not pressing charges when I drove his car into the pond.

Question 3

mettle

Answer 3

Mettle is the courage to carry on. If someone wants to “test your mettle,” they want to see if you have the heart to follow through when the going gets tough.
جیگر - خایه

Question 4

indefatigable

Answer 4

خستگی ناپذیر

Question 5

refractory

Answer 5

adj
rebellious
fractious - stubborn

Question 6

volubility

Answer 6

the quality of being facile in speech and writing - talkativeness زبان روان داشتن
voluble: speaking a lot, with confidence and enthusiasm. Like gregarious

Question 7

equivocation

Answer 7

using ambiguous language to hide the truth
ex: i think SOMEBODY took it.

Question 8

iconoclastic

Answer 8

iconoclastic ideas, opinions, writings etc attack established beliefs and customs
هنجارشکن

Question 9

accolade

Answer 9

noun
a remark (or act) expressing praise and admiration
compliment
Despite all the accolades she received, she doesn’t think her actions were heroic or even out of the ordinary.

Question 10

impinge

Answer 10

Think of it as moving in on someone’s territory. Like invade
Whether you have a habit of standing too close when talking to others or bringing luggage on a crowded rush-hour subway car, you’ll find people don’t like it when you impinge on their personal space.

Question 11

didactic

Answer 11

adj
When people are didactic, they’re teaching or instructing. This word is often used negatively for when someone is acting too much like a teacher.
His novel has a didactic tone.

Question 12

clamor

Answer 12

verb
To clamor is to make a demand — LOUDLY. It’s usually a group that clamors — like Americans might clamor for comprehensive health care coverage.
he clamored for justice and tolerance

Question 13

partisanship

Answer 13

noun: an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives
هواداری - طرفداری
There was considerable partisanship among the family as to the desired sex of the next baby.

Question 14

moderate

Answer 14

adj
1: not very large or very small, very hot or very cold, very fast or very slow
Even moderate amounts of alcohol can be dangerous.
2: having opinions or beliefs, especially about politics, that are not extreme and that most people consider reasonable
3: staying within reasonable or sensible limits
a moderate smoker

Question 15

intrepid

Answer 15

brave - dauntless
intrepid pioneers
Grace wanted intrepid explorers who mined for gold—because they were about to strike it rich. Dont confuse it with interdict: prohibit

Question 16

daunt

Answer 16

to make someone feel afraid or less confident about something مضطرب و ترسیده کردن
Don’t be daunted by all the technology.
She was daunted by what she had agreed to do.

Question 17

extol

Answer 17

to praise something very much
extol the virtues (فضایل) /benefits of something. Like exalt
If you have a crush on a guy who likes your best friend, it can be very depressing to listen to him extol your friend’s virtues, while you just nod and smile.

Question 18

badger

Answer 18

to annoy persistently - endlessly
to try to persuade someone by asking them something several times
My friends keep badgering me to get a cell phone.
I had to badger the kids into doing their homework.

Question 19

espouse

Answer 19

Originally espouse did mean “to marry,” but its meaning has evolved to include other long-term commitments as well, such as support for a principle or a cause. Similar to marriage, if you espouse a belief system, the idea is that you’ve chosen to wed yourself to it.
Ex: your friends who espouse environmentalism and as a result walk whenever possible instead of taking the car.

Question 20

dispel

Answer 20

to get rid of something that’s bothering or threatening you, regardless of whether that’s warts, worries, or wild dogs.
We want to dispel the myth that you cannot eat well in Britain.
Light poured into the hall, dispelling the shadows.

Question 21

promulgate

Answer 21

legislate
To promulgate is to officially put a law into effect. Your state may announce a plan to promulgate a new traffic law on January

Question 22

dissemination

Answer 22

verb meaning is to spread information or ideas to as many people as possible like propagate or promulgate
Both these epoch-changing events were to have huge implications for the dissemination and transformation of music.

Question 23

confound

Answer 23

to confuse and surprise
His amazing recovery confounded the medical specialists.

Question 24

corroborate

Answer 24

تایید کردن - confirm
to provide information that supports or helps to prove someone else’s statement, idea
We now have new evidence to corroborate the defendant’s story.
Experiments elsewhere corroborate these results.

Question 25

incongruous

Answer 25

inconsistent - incompatible

Question 26

refractory

Answer 26

adj
سرکشی
Imagine yourself pulling a dog who doesn’t want to walk. The dog is refractory, or stubbornly resisting your authority.
a refractory disease or illness is hard to treat or cure

Question 27

salubrious

Answer 27

Salubrious is a fancy way to describe something that’s good for you or is generally favorable to mind or body, but it need not be limited to describing healthy foods or liquids.

We salute each other with the cheer, “To your health!” as we chug down something that probably isn’t that good for us. But if it were salubrious, it would be.

Question 28

belie

Answer 28

زیر سوال بردن
Her pleasant manner belied her true character.
His cheerful smile belied his words.

Question 29

capricious

Answer 29

adj
1- impulsive and unpredictable
a capricious refusal
2- changeable
“a capricious summer breeze”

Question 30

insular

Answer 30

having a narrow view of the world
insular attitudes toward foreigners
an insular community
narrow minded
Interesting in your own group, country, way of life and no others.

Question 31

mercenary

Answer 31

a soldier who fights for any country or group that will pay him
an army of foreign mercenaries
a mercenary soldier

Question 32

intransigent

Answer 32

stubborn - refractory
an intransigent attitude
He accused the government of intransigence.

Question 33

haunt

Answer 33

if the soul of a dead person haunts a place, it appears there often
Ex: The pub is said to be haunted by the ghost of a former landlord.
2- be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place
“She haunts the ballet”

Question 34

clamorous

Answer 34

adj: super loud
We would never sit wordlessly in a clamorous world.
verb : clamor means to demand something loudly. Fulminate

Question 35

invidious

Answer 35

unpleasant, especially because it is likely to offend people or make you unpopular.
By innocently lying to detectives, she’d put herself in an invidious position.
منزجرکننده

Question 36

numinous

Answer 36

having a mysterious and holy quality, which makes you feel that God is present
When you enter a temple, church, or mosque, you might feel as though you’ve entered a numinous space.(فضای معنوی)

Question 37

empirical

Answer 37

If knowledge is empirical, it’s based on observation rather than theory.
“an empirical basis for an ethical theory”
“empirical laws”
“empirical data”
“an empirical treatment of a disease about which little is known”
like practical

Question 38

sonorous

Answer 38

adj
having a pleasantly deep loud sound
a sonorous voice
رسا

Question 39

gainsay

Answer 39

like contradict
to say that something is not true, or to disagree with someone
to speak out against
Few could gainsay that such growth poses an unprecedented challenge to mankind.
It may be very difficult to gainsay the claim.
contradict: to disagree with something, especially by saying that the opposite is true
Deborah opened her mouth to contradict, but closed it again.
Dad just can’t bear to be contradicted.

Question 40

enigma

Answer 40

something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
Why do you have to learn difficult words like this? That is an enigma.

Question 41

fickle

Answer 41

بی ثبات - unstable
People who are fickle change their minds so much you can’t rely on them. If your best friend suddenly decides that she doesn’t like you one week, and then the next week she wants to hang out again, she’s being fickle.

Question 42

antiquarian

Answer 42

Something that’s antiquarian is antique, and usually collectible. Antiquarian books are used books that have some value because they’re rare.

Question 43

deviate

Answer 43

از مسیر اصلی خارج کردن
to change what you are doing so that you are not following an expected plan, idea, or type of behaviour
The plane had to deviate from its normal flight path.
“The river was deviated to prevent flooding”

Question 44

succumb

Answer 44

تسلیم شدن یا به چیزی باختن - give in
to stop opposing someone or something that is stronger than you, and allow them to take control
Gina succumbed to temptation and had a second serving of cake.
He could not fight the pain much longer: He had to succumb.

Question 45

recoil

Answer 45

عقب پریدن مث گربه
to move back suddenly and quickly from something you do not like or are afraid of
She recoiled from his touch as if she had been slapped.
He recoils from everything in life that demands hard work.

Question 46

epilogue

Answer 46

The epilogue is a short piece that wraps up the end of a story.
Hence I briefly considered it in the book’s epilogue.
Almost like denouement

Intro
Prologue - preamble - preface
End
Epilogue - coda - denouement(last exciting scenes)

Question 47

hyperbole

Answer 47

extravagant exaggeration
Praising your favorite sports team is one thing, but if you call the team the most incredible group of humans ever to walk the earth, then you’re going overboard and indulging in hyperbole.

Question 48

commentator

Answer 48

Pundit کارشناس برنامه
someone on television or radio who describes an event as it is happening
a sports commentator

Question 49

stern

Answer 49

serious and strict, and showing strong disapproval of someone’s behaviour
‘Wait!’ I shouted in my sternest voice.
“a stern face”

Question 50

prescient

Answer 50

adj
able to imagine or know what will happen in the future. Like premonition
That he insisted I drive him showed that my decision not to keep the jeep with me was prescient.

Question 51

prophetic

Answer 51

adj
correctly saying what will happen in the future
It turned out to be a prophetic piece of journalism.
Lundgren’s warnings proved prophetic.
If you make a prediction and it comes true, your words were prophetic. Like the time you warned your dad against eating a whole box of donuts. He got sick, right? That was a prophetic warning.

Question 52

apathetic

Answer 52

adj
بی تفاوت
Apathetic is an adjective that describes the feeling of being bored with what’s going on around you. If you don’t care one way or another, you’re apathetic.
As he was in London, he is in Paris, unenthusiastic, apathetic.