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Question 1

wit

Answer 1

noun
بذله گویی
the ability to say things that are clever and amusing
a woman of great wit and charm

Question 2

prodigious

Answer 2

شگرف
Something exceptional, substantial, or great is prodigious. A blizzard includes prodigious wind and snow. A prodigious writer is one who can write a lot and do it well.

Question 3

enervate

Answer 3

انرژی چیزی رو گرفتن
The hot sun enervated her to the point of collapse.

Question 4

deface

Answer 4

آسیب فیزیکی رسوندن
مثل یادگاری نوشتن رو بناهای تاریخی
Most of the monuments had been broken or defaced.

Question 5

idler

Answer 5

علاف و بیکار

Question 6

berate

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To speak angrily with someone because they have done something wrong.
Reprimandسرزنش کردن - blame
Don’t be stupid, she berated herself.

Question 7

embellish

Answer 7

شاخ و برگ دادن
The dress was embellished with gold threads.

Question 8

testimony

Answer 8

شهادت
When you give testimony you are telling what you saw or what you know.

Question 9

whit

Answer 9

ذره
And, remarkably, it changed her personality not one whit.

Question 10

dissimilitude

Answer 10

عدم شباهت
dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness

Verisimilitude صحت
The quality of being true or real
Questions about the verisimilitude of the document.

Dissimulation: act of faking your true feelings

Question 11

histrionic

Answer 11

نمایشی

Question 12

flamboyance

Answer 12

noun
خودنمایی و پز دادن
Flamboyance is a quality of being showy or flashy.
flamboyant style/character/personality
his flamboyant style of play
He lifted his arms in a flamboyant gesture.

Question 13

prevarication

Answer 13

طفره رفتن
prevaricate like hedge
to try to hide the truth by not answering questions directly
‘I’m not sure, ’ he prevaricated.

Question 14

shun

Answer 14

پرهیز کردن
a shy woman who shunned publicity
Victims of the disease found themselves shunned by society.

Question 15

labyrinthine

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دشوار - مانند هزارتو
A new student at a huge, sprawling high school is likely to find the building labyrinthine as she wanders the halls looking for her math class.

Question 16

terse

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Use few words and shows you are annoyed. Like abrupt. Curt
concise

Question 17

fortunate

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خوشبخت

Question 18

perspicatious

Answer 18

با بصیرت

Question 19

laxity

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شل و ول almost like levity
lax (adj) means not strict or careful enough about standards of behaviour, work, safety

Question 20

abruptly

Answer 20

ناگهانی

Question 21

lest

Answer 21

مبادا
She turned away from the window lest anyone see them.
He paused, afraid lest he say too much.

Question 22

ossified

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Set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behaviour

Question 23

perpetual

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دائم
continuous

Question 24

concoct

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create
When you concoct something, you mix up different ingredients. If you want to become a mad scientist or a wizard, you’ll have to learn how to concoct strange potions.

Question 25

hindsight

Answer 25

علم به گذشته
opp of foresight

Question 26

intuition

Answer 26

Like insight
بصیرت - بینش

Question 27

exculpate

Answer 27

تبرئه کردن
The grand jury exculpated local authorities for their handling of the riots(شورش).
Vindicate. Exonerate. Acquit. Exculpate. Absolve

Question 28

equivocate

Answer 28

طفره رفتن ب خاطر دو ب شک بودن
to avoid giving a clear or direct answer to a question
vacillate
to continue to change your opinions, decisions, ideas etc SYN waver
vacillate between
Her parents vacillated between different approaches to discipline.

Question 29

wane

Answer 29

abate
کم شدن - کاهش یافتن
My enthusiasm for the project was waning.
The group’s influence had begun to wane by this time.
OPP wax

Question 30

abate

Answer 30

to become less strong or decrease SYN subside - wane
We waited for the storm to abate.

Question 31

apprise

Answer 31

اعلام کردن
to tell or give someone information about something SYN inform
apprise somebody of something
The district chairman was fully apprised of all the details.

Question 32

epitome

Answer 32

The best possible example of sth.
Like acme. Pinnacle
اوج - مصداق - قله
OPP nadir
He was the very epitome of evil.

Question 33

hiatus

Answer 33

Talks between the two countries have resumed after a six-year hiatus. SYN lull وقفه
hiatus in
a hiatus in research
a brief/short/long hiatus
There was a brief hiatus in the war.

Question 34

lull

Answer 34

as noun
وقفه - hiatus
a brief lull in the conversation
a lull in the fighting
the lull before the storm آرامش قبل طوفان

as verb
1 to make someone feel calm or as if they want to sleep
The hum of the tyres on the road lulled her to sleep.
2 to make someone feel safe and confident so that they are completely surprised when something bad happens
lull somebody into (doing) something
The police lulled me into believing that they did not suspect us.
Earthquakes here are rare and this has lulled people into a false sense of security (=made people think they were safe when they were not).

Question 35

loquacious

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talkative - garrulous
The normally loquacious Simpson had nothing to say.

Question 36

reticent

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taciturn
She’s strangely reticent about her son.

Question 37

convival

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gregarious

Question 38

enervate

Answer 38

to make you feel tired and weak
The hot sun enervated her to the point of collapse.

Question 39

flag

Answer 39

to become tired or weak
By the fifth game, I could see that my opponent was beginning to flag.
Jenny taught for four hours straight without flagging.

Question 40

wilt

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1 to feel weak or tired, especially because you are too hot.
like flag
2 if a plant wilts, it bends over because it is too dry or old

Question 41

rhetoric

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Rhetoric is the language that’s intended to persuade that sounds impressive but is not actually sincere or useful گزاف گویی like grandstanding
Don’t try to fool us with all those facts and bureaucratic(اداری) rhetoric.
All the noise being made about the hostages at that time was just political rhetoric.

Question 42

grandstanding

Answer 42

خودنمایی
His opening the new school is just a piece of political grandstanding.

Question 43

epistemology

Answer 43

معرفت شناسی
the part of philosophy that deals with how we know things, how firmly we can know things

Question 44

semantics

Answer 44

معنا شناسی
the study of meaning in language. It can be applied to entire texts or to single words. For example, “destination” and “last stop” technically mean the same thing, but students of semantics analyze their subtle shades of meaning.

Question 45

pragmatism

Answer 45

عمل گرایی
a way of dealing with problems in a sensible practical way instead of following a set of ideas
a politician known for his pragmatism

Question 46

spartan

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ساده زیستی
spartan conditions or ways of living are simple and without any comfort
spartan accommodation
a spartan existence

Question 47

salutary

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a salutary experience is unpleasant but teaches you something SYN beneficial
salutary experience/lesson/reminder etc
Losing money in this way taught young Jones a salutary lesson.
تجربه تلخ

Question 48

ephemeral

Answer 48

existing or popular for only a short time SYN transitory

Question 49

infuriating

Answer 49

very annoying
The infuriating thing is that he is always right.

Question 50

agitate

Answer 50

1 [intransitive] to argue strongly in public for something you want, especially a political or social change اغتشاش یا اعتراض
agitate for/against
unions agitating for higher pay
agitate to do something
His family are agitating to get him freed.
2 [transitive] formal to make someone feel anxious, upset, and nervous SYN infuriate
I must warn you that any mention of Clare agitates your grandmother.

Question 51

mollify

Answer 51

to make someone feel less angry and upset about something SYN placate
He attempted to mollify her.
Nature reserves were set up around new power stations to mollify local conservationists.

Question 52

galvanize

Answer 52

motivate
galvanize somebody into (doing) something
The possibility of defeat finally galvanized us into action.
The report galvanized world opinion.

Question 53

sporadic

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inconsistent

Question 54

imperceptible

Answer 54

almost impossible to see or notice SYN blurry
Such changes are imperceptible to even the best-trained eye.

Question 55

removed

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A person who is described as removed is acting emotionally distant, like he or she has been taken away. Like distrait

Question 56

granular

Answer 56

دانه دانه

Question 57

cherish

Answer 57

1 if you cherish something, it is very important to you
He cherished his privacy.
I cherish the memory of that day.
cherish a hope/an idea/a dream etc
willingness to re-examine cherished beliefs
2 to love someone or something very much and take care of them well
In marriage, a man promises to cherish his wife.
his most cherished possession
Many students arrive at college with a new hi-fi, camera, radio, etc., which are cherished possessions.

Question 58

shirk

Answer 58

to deliberately avoid doing something you should do, because you are lazy شانه خالی کردن
He was fired for shirking.
shirk your responsibilities/duties/obligations
parents who shirk their responsibilities towards their children

Question 59

arrogate

Answer 59

غصب کردن
to claim that you have a particular right, position etc, without having the legal right to it
It was up to Kasparov to prove that he still merited the title he arrogated.