Test your GRE Vocabulary Knowledge - GRE Vocabulary Test 8 Flashcards

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Obviate

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Prevent
Do away with

make unnecessary
Synonyms: anticipate, avert, block, counter, counteract, deter, do away with, forestall, forfend, hinder, interfere, interpose, intervene, preclude, prevent, remove, restrain, rule out, stave off, ward

معنی: رفع کردن، عدول کردن، مرتفع کردن، رفع نیاز کردن
معانی دیگر: نا بایسته کردن، غیر ضروری کردن، نا لازم کردن، بر طرف کردن، از سر راه بر داشتن

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Perfidy

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Deceitfulness
پیمان‌شکنی، خیانت، نقض عهد، بی‌دینی

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Utilitarian

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Functional

مطلوبیت چیزی به‌دلیل سودمندی آن، معتقد به اصل اخلاقی سودمند‌گرایی، سودمندگرا

  • to subordinate the aesthetic aspects of a library to its utilitarian aspects
  • جنبه‌های زیباشناسی کتابخانه را نسبت به جنبه‌های عملی آن در درجه‌ی دوم اهمیت قرار دادن
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Evanescent

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Short lasting
Transient
محو‌شونده، ناپایدار
- evanescent like a spring storm
- زودگذر همچون توفان بهاری
- evanescent isotopes
- ایزوتوپ‌های ناپایا
- evanescent flowers
- گل‌های کم‌دوام
- evanescent joys
- خوشی‌های ناپایدار
- the evanescent wings of a butterfly
- بال‌های ظریف یک پروانه

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Accentuate

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Highlight

focus attention on
Synonyms: accent, bring attention to, call attention to, draw attention to, emphasize, feature, give prominence to, highlight, point up, spotlight, stress, underline, underscore

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Palpable

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Discernible
پرماس‌پذیر، پرماسیدنی، حس‌کردنی، قابل‌لمس، آشکار، واضح
Very easy to be noticed
- an enlarged palpable spleen
- طحال بزرگ شده و ملموس
- a barely palpable dust
- گرد و خاکی که به دشواری قابل‌لمس بود
- a palpable lie
- دروغ آشکار
- palpable absurdity
- پوچی مشهود

clear, obvious
Synonyms: apparent, appreciable, arresting, believable, blatant, certain, colorable, conspicuous, credible, detectable, discernible, distinct, evident, manifest, noticeable, observable, open, ostensible, patent, perceivable, perceptible, plain, plausible, positive, remarkable, seeming, sensible, straightforward, striking, sure, tangible, unequivocal, unmistakable, visible
Antonyms: hidden, obscure, unclear, vague

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Innocuous

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Harmless

بی‌ضرر
- an innocuous insect
- حشره‌ی بی‌آزار
- Numerous tests have proven that this substance is innocuous.
- آزمایش‌های متعدد ثابت کرده‌اند که این ماده بی‌زیان است.
- an innocuous snake
- مار بی‌زهر
- an innocuous speech
- نطق بی‌بو و خاصیت

harmless
Synonyms: banal, bland, flat, innocent, innoxious, inobnoxious, inoffensive, insipid, jejune, kind, painless, safe, sapless, unobjectionable, unoffending, weak
Antonyms: bad, damaging, destructive, harmful, hurtful, injurious

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Decadent

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Depraved

رو به نابودی، رو به زوال، نابودشده، پست، رو به فساد رونده
- decadent art
- هنر منحط
- a decadent person
- آدم فرومایه
adjective corrupt, self-indulgent
Synonyms: debased, debauched, decaying, declining, degenerate, degraded, depraved, dissolute, effete, evil, gone bad, gone to the dogs, immoral, lost, moribund, overripe, perverted, wanton, wicked
Antonyms: benevolent, good, humble, kind, moral

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Scant

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inadequate
Synonyms: bare, barely sufficient, close, deficient, exiguous, failing, insufficient, limited, little, meager, minimal, narrow, poor, rare, restricted, scrimpy, short, shy, skimpy, slender, spare, sparing, sparse, stingy, thin, tight, wanting
Antonyms: abundant, adequate, ample, covering, plentiful, substantial, sufficient

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Sagacious

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دانا، زیرک، عاقل، باهوش، بافراست، هوشمند
پیشنهاد و بهبود معانی
مترادف و متضاد
Shrewd
adjective smart, judicious
Synonyms: acute, apt, astucious, astute, cagey, canny, clear-sighted, clever, cool, discerning, discriminating, far-sighted, foxy, gnostic, heady, hip, insightful, intelligent, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, perceptive, perspicacious, prudent, rational, sage, sapient, savvy, sensible, sharp, shrewd, smooth, sophic, wise, witty
Antonyms: careless, foolish, ignorant, stupid

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Egregious

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فاحش، بزرگ، برجسته، نمایان، انگشت‌نما
- an egregious error
- اشتباه لپی
پیشنهاد و بهبود معانی
مترادف و متضاد
Appalling

adjective outstandingly bad; outrageous
Synonyms: arrant, atrocious, capital, deplorable, extreme, flagrant, glaring, grievous, gross, heinous, infamous, insufferable, intolerable, monstrous, nefarious, notorious, outright, preposterous, rank, scandalous, shocking, stark
Antonyms: little, minor, secondary, slight

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Galvanize

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Motivate

برق آب‌طلا یا نقره دادن به، آب‌فلزی دادن، آبکاری فلزی کردن، روی‌اندود کردن
- The news galvanized the whole country.
- آن خبر در سرتاسر کشور و لوله انداخت.
- galvanized iron
- آهن گالوانیزه
پیشنهاد و بهبود معانی
مترادف و متضاد

verb inspire, stimulate
Synonyms: animate, arouse, astonish, awaken, commove, electrify, energize, excite, fire, frighten, innervate, invigorate, jolt, motivate, move, pique, prime, provoke, quicken, shock, spur, startle, stir, stun, thrill, vitalize, wake, zap
Antonyms: depress, deter, discourage, disparage, dissuade, retard

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Ousted

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Kicked out

برکنار کردن، دورکردن، اخراج کردن
- His political rivals ousted him from office.
- رقبای سیاسی او را از کار برکنار کردند.
- They are trying to oust the prime minister.
- آن‌ها می‌کوشند که نخست‌وزیر را اخراج کنند.
- We should not let quantity oust quality.
- نباید بگذاریم کمیت جای کیفیت را بگیرد.
پیشنهاد و بهبود معانی
مترادف و متضاد

verb expel, get rid of
Synonyms: banish, bereave, boot out, bounce, bundle off, cast out, chase, depose, deprive, dethrone, discharge, disinherit, dislodge, displace, dispossess, divest, drive out, eject, evict, expulse, fire, force out, give the 1-2-3, kick out, lay off, let go, lose, ostracize, pack off, pink slip, relegate, remove, rob, sack, send packing, show the door, throw out, topple, transport, turn out, unseat
Antonyms: hold, keep, retain

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Pugnacious

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Aggressive

جنگجو، ستیزه‌گر
پیشنهاد و بهبود معانی
مترادف و متضاد

adjective belligerent
Synonyms: aggressive, antagonistic, argumentative, bellicose, brawling, cantankerous, chip on shoulder, choleric, combative, contentious, defiant, disputatious, have a bone to pick, hot-tempered, irascible, irritable, itching to fight, militant, petulant, pushing, pushy, quarrelsome, ready to fight, rebellious, salty, scrappy, self-assertive, truculent, warlike
Antonyms: easy-going, kind, laid-back, nice

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Profuse

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فراوان، وافر، سرشار، ساری، لبریز، سرشار ساختن
- She is profuse in her apologies.
- او در معذرت‌خواهی زیاده‌روی می‌کند.
پیشنهاد و بهبود معانی
مترادف و متضاد

adjective abundant, excessive
Synonyms: abounding, alive with, ample, aplenty, bounteous, bountiful, copious, crawling with, dime a dozen, extravagant, extreme, exuberant, fulsome, galore, generous, immoderate, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, no end, openhanded, opulent, overflowing, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, profusive, prolific, riotous, sumptuous, superfluous, swarming, teeming, thick with, unstinting
Antonyms: lacking, sparse, wanting

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Skullduggery

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فریب‌کاری، دغل‌کاری، حیله‌گری، آب‌زیرکاهی، رفتار یا فعالیت پنهانی و غیرصادقانه
Underhandedness
- The company’s skulduggery in hiding its financial losses was eventually exposed by the media.
- دغل‌کاری این شرکت در پنهان کردن زیان‌های مالی خود در نهایت توسط رسانه‌ها افشا شد.
- His skullduggery in the stock market earned him millions, but it was all illegal.
- حیله‌گری او در بازار سهام میلیون‌ها درآمد برای او به همراه داشت، اما این کار کاملاً غیرقانونی بود.

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Mundane

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Not very interesting

عادی، معمولی، پیش‌پا‌افتاده، مثل همیشه
- it’s a mundane book.
- کتاب پیش‌پا‌افتاده‌ای است.
- Be willing to do even mundane tasks.
- آماده باش، حتی وظایف پیش‌پا‌افتاده انجام بدهی.
Adjective
دنیوی، این جهانی
- the problems of mundane life.
- مسائل زندگانی این جهانی.
پیشنهاد و بهبود معانی
مترادف و متضاد

adjective ordinary
Synonyms: banal, commonplace, day-to-day, earthly, everyday, humdrum, lowly, normal, prosaic, routine, workaday, workday, worldly
Antonyms: exciting, extraordinary, heavenly, supernatural, wonderful

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Momentary

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Temporary

آنی، زودگذر
- momentary pleasures
- لذت‌های زود‌گذر
- They live in momentary fear of earthquakes.
- آن‌ها در هر لحظه در ترس از زلزله به سر می‌برند.
پیشنهاد و بهبود معانی
مترادف و متضاد

adjective brief, fleeting
Synonyms: cursory, dreamlike, ephemeral, evanescent, flashing, flitting, flying, fugacious, fugitive, gone in flash, hasty, impermanent, impulsive, instantaneous, in wink of an eye, like lightning, passing, quick, shifting, short, short-lived, spasmodic, summary, temporary, transient, transitory, vanishing, volatile
Antonyms: lasting, long-lasting, permanent, staying

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Convivial

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Friendly
Affable

جشنی، اهل کیف و خوشگذرانی، وابسته به جشن و عشرت
- a convivial gathering of friends
- گردهمایی پر بزن و بکوب دوستان
- He was rich and convivial.
- او پولدار و معاشرتی بود.
پیشنهاد و بهبود معانی
مترادف و متضاد

adjective fun-loving
Synonyms: back-slapping, cheerful, clubby, companionable, conversible, entertaining, festal, festive, friendly, gay, genial, glad-handering, happy, hearty, hilarious, holiday, jocund, jolly, jovial, lively, merry, mirthful, pleasant, sociable, vivacious
Antonyms: blah, dull, serious, solemn, staid

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Conjectural

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Speculative
You claim something but don’t have enough evidence
حدسی
پیشنهاد و بهبود معانی
مترادف و متضاد

adjective speculative
Synonyms: academic, assumed, doubtful, figured, guessing, guesstimated, hypothetical, on a hunch, on a long shot, putative, reputed, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, suppositive, surmised, surmising, suspect, tentative, theoretical, uncertain, unresolved
Antonyms: certain, factual, proven, real, truthful

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Nullify

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بی‌اثر کردن، لغو کردن
Avoid
- His claim was nullified by the court.
- دادگاه ادعای او را باطل کرد.
- We tried to nullify the enemy’s propaganda.
- کوشیدیم که تبلیغات دشمن را خنثی کنیم.
پیشنهاد و بهبود معانی
مترادف و متضاد

verb cancel, revoke
Synonyms: abate, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, ax, blue pencil, bring to naught, call all bets off, compensate, confine, counteract, counterbalance, countervail, disannul, forget it, invalidate, kill, limit, negate, neutralize, nig, offset, quash, render null and void, renege, renig, repeal, rescind, restrict, scratch, scrub, squash, stamp out, take out, torpedo, trash, undo, veto, vitiate, void, wash out, wipe out, zap
Antonyms: affirm, pass, sanctify, validate

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Trivial

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Inessential

جزئی، ناچیز، ناقابل، کم‌مایه، مبتذل
Adjective
بدیهی، ناچیز، مبتذل
پیشنهاد و بهبود معانی
مترادف و متضاد

adjective not important
Synonyms: atomic, beside the point, commonplace, diminutive, evanescent, everyday, flimsy, frivolous, immaterial, inappreciable, incidental, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, irrelevant, little, meager, mean, meaningless, microscopic, minor, minute, momentary, negligible, nonessential, nugatory, of no account, paltry, petty, piddling, puny, scanty, skin-deep, slight, small, superficial, trifling, trite, unimportant, valueless, vanishing, worthless
Antonyms: consequential, important, significant, useful, valuable, weighty, worthwhile

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Vapid

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Uninspired
بی‌مزه، خنک، مرده، بی‌روح، بی‌حس، بی‌حرکت
- a vapid talk
- نطق بی‌بو و بی‌خاصیت
پیشنهاد و بهبود معانی
مترادف و متضاد

adjective flat, dull
Synonyms: bland, boring, colorless, dead, driveling, flat tire, flavorless, inane, innocuous, insipid, jejune, least, lifeless, limp, milk-and-water, milquetoast, nothing, nowhere, stale, tame, tasteless, tedious, tiresome, unimaginative, uninspiring, uninteresting, unpalatable, vacant, vacuous, watery, weak, wishy-washy, zero
Antonyms: lively, pungent, sharp, spicy, strong

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Indiscriminate

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Discriminate: Select carefully
Non selective
ناشی از عدم تبعیض، خالی از تبعیض، یکسره
- They didn’t just kill soldiers; they rather carried out an indiscriminate massacre of women and children, young and old.
- آنان فقط سربازان را نکشتند؛ بلکه اقدام به کشتار بدون ‌استثنای زن و بچه و پیر و جوان کردند.
- The indiscriminate viewing of T.V. programs.
- تماشای هر برنامه‌ی تلویزیونی که پیش بیاید.
- indiscriminate sexual intercourse
- جماع با هر کس که پیش آید
- an indiscriminate mixture of several languages
- آمیزه‌ی آشفته‌ای از چندین زبان خارجی
- an indiscriminate collection of colored pictures
- مجموعه‌ی قاتی‌پاتی از تصویرهای رنگی
پیشنهاد و بهبود معانی
مترادف و متضاد

adjective random, chaotic
Synonyms: aimless, assorted, broad, careless, confused, designless, desultory, extensive, general, haphazard, heterogeneous, hit-or-miss, imperceptive, jumbled, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, mongrel, motley, multifarious, promiscuous, purposeless, shallow, spot, superficial, sweeping, unconsidered, uncritical, undiscriminating, unmethodical, unplanned, unselective, unsystematic, varied, variegated, wholesale, wide
Antonyms: chosen, critical, definite, discriminatory, methodical, particular, selective, specific, systematic

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Omnipresent

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Ubiquitous

حاضر در همه‌جا
پیشنهاد و بهبود معانی
مترادف و متضاد

adjective all-present
Synonyms: everywhere, infinite, pervading, pervasive, ubiquitary, ubiquitous, universal

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Sanguine

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Optimistic

سرخ، قرمز، به رنگ خون
پیشنهاد و بهبود معانی
مترادف و متضاد

adjective happy; optimistic
Synonyms: animated, assured, buoyant, cheerful, confident, enthusiastic, expectant, hopeful, lively, positive, secure, self-assured, self-confident, spirited, undoubtful, upbeat
Antonyms: depressed, pessimistic, sad, unhappy
adjective reddish; flushed
Synonyms: bloody, florid, flush, glowing, red, rubicund, ruddy, scarlet
Antonyms: pale, pallid, sallow

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Flamboyant

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پر‌زرق‌و‌برق، جلف و خود‌نمایانه، (بیش‌ا‌زحد) پر‌نقش‌ونگار
Animated
- a flamboyant costume
- جامه‌ی پر زرق‌و‌برق
- The writer’s flamboyant lifestyle was well known.
- سبک زندگی پرزرق‌و‌برق نویسنده معروف بود.
Adjective
شعله‌مانند، فروزان، شعله‌فام، وخشه‌سان، افرازه‌سان
- flamboyant designs
- طرح‌های پر‌آب‌و‌رنگ (شعله‌مانند)
Adjective
(معماری - گوتیک فرانسوی) وابسته به تزیینات شعله‌مانند پنجره و طرح‌های پر گل و بوته و قرمز دیوار
Noun
رجوع شود به: royal poinciana
پیشنهاد و بهبود معانی
مترادف و متضاد

adjective extravagant, theatrical
Synonyms: baroque, bombastic, brilliant, camp, chichi, colorful, dashing, dazzling, elaborate, exciting, flaky, flaming, flashy, florid, gassy, gaudy, glamorous, jazzy, luscious, luxuriant, ornate, ostentatious, peacockish, pretentious, resplendent, rich, rococo, showy, splashy, sporty, swank, swashbuckling
Antonyms: calm, moderate, modest, restrained, tasteful, unflashy

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Forestall

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پیش‌دستی کردن بر، پیش جستن بر، پیش افتادن، ممانعت کردن، کمین، کمینگاه
Block
- They wanted to attack us, but we forestalled them by attacking first.
- آن‌ها می‌خواستند به ما حمله کنند؛ ولی ما پیش‌دستی کردیم و اول به آن‌ها حمله کردیم.

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Nettlesome

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آزاردهنده، رنج‌آور
پیشنهاد و بهبود معانی
مترادف و متضاد

adjective irritating
Synonyms: aggravating, annoying, bothersome, burdensome, distressing, disturbing, exasperating, irksome, nagging, troublesome, trying, vexatious, vexing

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Gainsay

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مخالفت، انکار، انکار کردن، رد کردن، نقض کردن
- This is a fact that cannot be gainsaid.
- این واقعیتی ‌انکارناپذیر نیست.
- I disagree with him and I will gainsay him!
- با او مخالفم و (حرف) او را نفی می‌کنم!
- No country is strong enough to gainsay us.
- هیچ کشوری آن‌قدر نیرومند نیست که با ما مخالفت کند.
پیشنهاد و بهبود معانی
مترادف و متضاد

verb contradict
Synonyms: combat, contravene, controvert, cross, deny, disaffirm, disagree, disclaim, disprove, dispute, fight, impugn, negate, negative, oppose, refute, repudiate, resist, traverse, withstand