Vocab Flashcards
Colossal
هائل
“a colossal mistake”
Hoax
“they recognized the plan as a hoax”
خدعه
Onerous
“he found his duties increasingly onerous”
مرهق
dissenting
“there were a couple of dissenting voices”
Opposition
معارض
Exhortations
“no amount of exhortation had any effect”
عظة
Dispel
أزال
Make doubt disappear
Dispel
أزال
Make doubt disappear
Pertinent
“she asked me a lot of very pertinent questions”
Relevant
Polemics
“the history of science has become embroiled in religious polemics”
مجادله
Egregious
“egregious abuses of copyright”
Disgraceful
فاضح
Diametrically
“two diametrically opposed viewpoints”
تماما
Diametrically
“two diametrically opposed viewpoints”
تماما
Engender
Give birth
Cursory
“a cursory glance at the figures”
Brief/ fast
Emphatic
“an emphatic movement of his hand”
Strong emphasis
Conjured
“she had forgotten how to conjure up the image of her mother’s face”
يستحضر
Derision
“my stories were greeted with derision and disbelief”
سخريه
Extirpate
“the use of every legal measure to extirpate this horrible evil from the land”
Rooted out and destroyed
مستأصل
Proliferation
“The proliferation of information has led to ft the world in panic”
A rapid increase in amount
Extravaganzas
“an extravaganza of dance in many forms”
انتاج فني مذهل
Brouhaha
“all that election brouhaha”
A noisy overreaction to something.
Gravitate
“More people were gravitated to his character”
Attracted to or moved toward something
Intransigence
“The problem was that they thought intransigence was strength”
تصلب
Refusal to change even when wrong
Inimical
“Actions inimical to our interest”
Hostile
Tendencies to obstruct
معاد
Incendiary
“incendiary grenades”
Designed to cause fire
Convoluted
“its convoluted narrative encompasses all manner of digressions”
complex and difficult to follow.
معقد
Sanguine
“He was not sanguine about their future in the company.”
Positive
