Vocabulary Knowledge - GRE Vocabulary Test 9 Flashcards
Quirky
عجیب، عجیب و غریب، غیرعادی
- He was tall and had a quirky sense of humour.
- قدش بلند بود و حس شوخ‌طبعی عجیبی داشت.
- Stacy’s rise to orchestra fame is a quirky one.
- مشهور شدن استیسی در ارکستر عجیب و غریب است.
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adjective eccentric
Synonyms: bizarre, far out, freakish, freaky, idiosyncratic, in left field, kinky, odd, off-the-wall, out of the ordinary, outre, peculiar, strange, unconventional, unorthodox, unusual, wacky, way-out, weird
Antonyms: conventional
Forbear
r ) (به‌طور معمول به‌صورت جمع) نیا، اجداد، جد اعلی
Adverb Noun
دوری کردن، بازایستادن، خودداری کردن از، صرف‌نظر کردن، گذشتن از، پرهیز کردن از، گذشت کردن
- He could not forbear from protesting.
- او نمی‌توانست از اعتراض کردن خودداری کند.
- We must forbear our friend’s faults.
- بایستی از عیب‌های دوستان خود چشم‌پوشی کنیم.
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verb resist the temptation to
Synonyms: abstain, avoid, bridle, cease, curb, decline, desist, escape, eschew, evade, forgo, go easy, hold back, inhibit, keep, keep from, omit, pause, refrain, restrain, sacrifice, shun, stop, withhold
Antonyms: continue, indulge, involve, partake, use
Mordant
Mordant sense of humor
زننده، جگرسوز، گوشه‌دار، نیش‌دار، (رنگرزی) ماده
ثابت‌کننده، ماده ثبات به‌کار بردن
- mordant satire
- طنز نیش‌دار
- mordant pain
- درد تند و تیز
- They etch designs on metallic surfaces with the help of mordants.
- آن‌ها به کمک مواد خورنده روی سطوح فلزی کنده‌کاری می‌کنند.
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adjective sarcastic
Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, biting, bitter, caustic, cutting, cynical, disparaging, disrespectful, mean, poignant, pointed, sardonic, scathing, sharp
Hodgepodge
خوراک همه‌چیز درهم، چیز درهم‌وبرهم
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noun mixture, mess
Synonyms: collection, combination, goulash, hash, jumble, medley, mélange, miscellany, mishmash, mixed bag, olio, patchwork, potpourri, salmagundi
Antonyms: singularity
Feeble
ضغیف، کم‌زور، ناتوان، عاجز، سست، نحیف
- a feeble old man
- پیرمرد نزار
- That woman is so feeble that she can’t walk.
- آن زن آن‌قدر نزار است که نمی‌تواند راه برود.
- a feeble light
- نور کم‌سو، نور ضعیف
- a feeble attempt
- سعی کم، کوشش ناچیز
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adjective not strong; ineffective
Synonyms: aged, ailing, chicken, debilitated, decrepit, delicate, doddering, dopey, effete, emasculated, enervated, enfeebled, etiolated, exhausted, failing, faint, flabby, flat, fragile, frail, gentle, helpless, impotent, inadequate, incompetent, indecisive, ineffectual, inefficient, infirm, insubstantial, insufficient, lame, languid, low, out of gas, paltry, poor, powerless, puny, sapless, sickly, slight, strengthless, tame, thin, unconvincing, vitiated, weak, weakened, weakly, wimpy, woozy, zero
Antonyms: able, effective, hardy, healthy, hearty, powerful, solid, sound, strong
Erudite
فرجاد، آموزنده، عالم، دانشمند، متبحر، دانشمندانه
- She is truly erudite.
- او واقعاً دانشمند است.
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adjective
well-educated, cultured
Synonyms: brainy, cultivated, educated, highbrow, in the know, into, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, literate, savvy, scholarly, scholastic, studious, well-read, wise up
Antonyms: common, ignorant, uncultured, uneducated
Deleterious
زیان‌آور، آسیب‌رسان
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adjective harmful, damaging
Synonyms: bad, destroying, destructive, detrimental, hurtful, injurious, mischievous, nocent, nocuous, pernicious, prejudicial, prejudicious, ruining, ruinous
Antonyms: aiding, assisting, helpful
Circumspect
Wary
Not weary: tired
بااحتیاط، ملاحظه‌کار، مال‌اندیش، باتدبیر
- Doctors are now more circumspect about contagious diseases.
- دکترها اکنون درمورد بیماری‌های مسری محتاط‌ترند.
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adjective cautious, discreet
Synonyms: attentive, cagey, calculating, canny, careful, chary, considerate, deliberate, discriminating, gingerly, guarded, heedful, judicious, meticulous, observant, politic, prudent, punctilious, safe, sagacious, sage, scrupulous, vigilant, wary, watchful
Antonyms: audacious, bold, careless, incautious, indiscreet, rash, uncareful, uncircumspect, unheedful
Trifling
ناچیز، جزئی
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مترادف و متضاد
Unimportant
adjective insignificant, worthless
Synonyms: banal, dinky, empty, forget it, frivolous, hollow, idle, idling, inane, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insipid, jejune, loitering, measly, minuscule, negligible, niggling, no big deal, no big thing, nugatory, paltry, petty, picayune, piddling, puny, shallow, silly, slight, small, tiny, trivial, unimportant, vain, valueless, vapid
Antonyms: important, significant, useful, worthwhile
Commensurate
Proportional to
متناسب
- Salaries must be commensurate with the cost of living.
- حقوق باید با هزینه‌ی زندگی متناسب باشد.
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adjective adequate, corresponding
Synonyms: appropriate, coextensive, comparable, compatible, consistent, due, equal, equivalent, fit, fitting, in accord, proportionate, sufficient, symmetrical
Antonyms: inadequate, inappropriate, incommensurate, unacceptable, unfitting
Mercenary
Venal
سرباز مزدور، آدم اجیر، پولکی
- The officers were Roman but most of the soldiers were foreign mercenaries.
- افسران رومی بودند؛ ولی بیشتر سربازان مزدوران خارجی بودند.
- a mercenary doctor who pays more attention to money than to his patients
- پزشک آزمندی که به پول بیش از بیمارش توجه دارد
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adjective greedy for money
Synonyms: acquisitive, avaricious, bribable, corrupt, covetous, grabby, grasping, miserly, money-grubbing, selfish, sordid, stingy, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous, venal
Antonyms: generous, unselfish
noun person who fights, kills for money
Synonyms: hireling, legionnaire, merc, professional soldier, slave, soldier of fortune, warrior
Precarious
In a dangerous situation
Insecure
عاریه‌ای بسته به میل دیگری، مشروط به شرایط معینی، مشکوک، مصر، التماس کن، پرمخاطره
- His income is precarious.
- روی درآمد او نمی‌شود حساب کرد.
- He was standing precariously on the edge of the precipice.
- به‌طور خطرناکی لب پرتگاه ایستاده بود.
- a precarious assertion
- ادعای بی‌اساس
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adjective tricky, doubtful
Synonyms: ambiguous, borderline, chancy, contingent, dangerous, delicate, dicey, dubious, dynamite, equivocal, hairy, hanging by a thread, hazardous, iffy, impugnable, indecisive, insecure, loaded, on thin ice, open, out on a limb, perilous, problematic, risky, rocky, rugged, sensitive, shaky, slippery, ticklish, touch and go, touchy, uncertain, unhealthy, unreliable, unsafe, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, unsure
Antonyms: certain, definite, firm, stable, strong, sure, undoubted
Boorish
خشن، بی‌نزاکت، دهاتی
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Coarse
adjective
crude, awkward
Synonyms: bad-mannered, barbaric, bearish, cantankerous, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, coarse, countrified, gross, gruff, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, inurbane, loud, loutish, lowbred, oafish, ornery, out-of-line, out-of-order, provincial, rough, rude, rustic, swinish, tasteless, ugly, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, ungracious, unpoised, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar
Antonyms: charming, cultured, exciting, polite, refined, sophisticated
Repudiate
رد کردن، انکار کردن، منکر شدن
- to repudiate a charge
- اتهامی را رد کردن
- to repudiate a will
- وصیت‌نامه‌ای را غیرقانونی شمردن
- to repudiate a contract
- زیر قرارداد زدن
- to repudiate a debt
- از زیر قرض شانه خالی کردن
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verb
Dispute, reject; turn one’s back on
Synonyms: abandon, abjure, apostatize, banish, be against, break with, cast, cast off, cut off, decline, default, defect, demur, deny, desert, disacknowledge, disapprove, disavow, discard, disclaim, dishonor, disinherit, dismiss, disown, dump, flush, fly in the face of, forsake, nix, oust, rat, recant, refuse, renounce, repeal, reprobate, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, spurn, tergiversate, tergiverse, turn, turn down, wash one’s hands of
Antonyms: admit, approve
Brook
Tolerate
جوی، جو، تحمل کردن، زیرباررفتن
- the cool waters of a mountain brook
- آبهای سرد جویبار کوهستانی
- I will brook no interference.
- هیچ‌گونه مداخله‌ای را تحمل نخواهم کرد.
noun stream of water
Synonyms: beck, branch, burn, creek, rill, rindle, river, rivulet, run, runnel, streamlet, watercourse
Antonyms:
verb endure, accept
Synonyms: abide, allow, bear, be big, countenance, go, hang in, hang in there, hear of, live with, put up with, sit tight, stand, stomach, suffer, support, swallow, take, tolerate, withstand
Turbulent
سرکش، گردنکش، یاغی، متلاطم، آشفته
- a turbulent crowd
- جمعیتی آشوبگر
- turbulent grief
- غم جان‌گداز
- turbulent air currents
- جریان‌های پرتلاطم هوا
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adjective unsettled, raging (referring to weather)
Synonyms: agitated, bitter, blustering, blustery, boiling, bumpy, choppy, coarse, confused, destructive, disordered, disturbed, fierce, foaming, furious, howling, inclement, moiling, noisy, restless, riotous, roaring, rough, ruffled, rugged, stirred up, stormful, storming, stormy, swirling, tempestuous, thunderous, tremulous, tumultous/ tumultuous, unstable, violent, wild
Antonyms: calm, mild, moderate, settled
adjective
rebellious, unmanageable
Synonyms: agitated, anarchic, angry, bitter, boisterous, chaotic, demonstrative, destructive, disorderly, excited, fierce, fiery, foaming, insubordinate, lawless, mutinous, obstreperous, passionate, perturbed, quarrelsome, rabid, rambunctious, rampant, raucous, refractory, riotous, rough, roughhouse, rowdy, rude, seditious, shaking, stern, storming, termagant, tumultous/tumultuous, unbridled, uncontrolled, undisciplined, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, uproarious, vehement, violent, vociferous, wild
Antonyms: calm, manageable, moderate, obedient, stable
Fecund
Producing a lot
بارور، برومند، پرثمر، حاصل‌خیز، پراثر
- fecund herds
- گله‌های پر زادوولد
- Da Vinci’s fecund mind
- مغز پراندیشه‌ی داوینچی
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adjective productive
Synonyms: breeding, fertile, fructiferous, fruitful, generating, pregnant, proliferant, prolific, propagating, reproducing, rich, spawning, teeming
Antonyms: impotent, infertile, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive
Elicit
Motivate audience and make them answer something
بیرون کشیدن، استخراج کردن، استنباط کردن
- My words elicited his angry reply.
- سخنان من پاسخ خشمگین او را برانگیخت.
- His jokes elicited laughter.
- شوخی‌های او موجب خنده شد.
- She elicited harmonious sounds from that old instrument.
- صداهای موزونی را از آن ساز قدیمی بیرون می آورد.
- The questionnaire elicited more aspects of his personality.
- پرسش‌نامه جنبه‌های بیشتری از شخصیت او را آشکار ساخت.
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verb draw out
Synonyms: arm-twist, badger, bite, bring, bring forth, bring out, bring to light, call forth, cause, derive, educe, evince, evoke, evolve, exact, extort, extract, fetch, give rise to, milk, obtain, put muscle on, put the arm on, rattle, shake, shake down, squeeze, wrest, wring
Antonyms: cover, hide, keep, repress, supress
Impetuous
بی‌پروا، تند و شدید
- impetuous winds
- بادهای شدید و متغیر
- an impetuous young man
- جوان هردمبیل
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adjective acting without thinking
Synonyms: abrupt, ardent, eager, fervid, fierce, furious, going off deep end, hasty, headlong, hurried, impassioned, impulsive, passionate, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, rash, restive, rushing, spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment, subitaneous, sudden, swift, unbridled, unexpected, unplanned, unpremeditated, unreflecting, unrestrained, unthinking, vehement, violent
Antonyms: calm, cautious, circumspect, considerate, reflective, sensible, thoughtful, wise
Edifying
Instructive
تهذیب کردن، اخلاق اموختن، تقدیس کردن، تقویت
کردن
- The aim of church paintings was to edify the mind of the worshippers.
- هدف نقاشی‌های کلیسا تعالی بخشیدن به اندیشه‌های نیایش‌گران بود.
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verb instruct
Synonyms: improve, educate, enlighten, uplift, teach
Antonyms:
Cordial
قلبی، صمیمی، مقوی
- He greeted us with a cordial tone.
- با لحنی دوستانه به ما خوشامد گفت.
- Akbar shook my hand cordially.
- اکبر صمیمانه دست مرا فشرد.
- to have a cordial dislike for something
- از ته دل از چیزی بیزار بودن
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adjective friendly, sociable
Synonyms: affable, affectionate, agreeable, amicable, buddy-buddy, cheerful, clubby, companionable, congenial, convivial, cozy, earnest, genial, glowing, gracious, happy, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, hearty, invigorating, jovial, mellow, neighborly, palsy-walsy, polite, red-carpet, responsive, sincere, social, sympathetic, tender, warm, warmhearted, welcoming, wholehearted
Antonyms: aloof, cool, disagreeable, hostile, indifferent, inhospitable, uncordial, unfriendly, unpleasant, unsociable
Outstrip
To become higher than
Surpass
پیش افتادن از، عقب گذاشتن، پیشی جستن از
Meticulous
Conscientious
باریک‌بین، خیلی دقیق، وسواسی، ترسو، کم‌رو
- a meticulous researcher
- پژوهشگر موشکاف
- Her meticulous presentation of details impressed everyone.
- ارائه‌ی موشکافانه‌ی جزئیات توسط او همه را تحت‌تأثیر قرار داد.
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adjective detailed, perfectionist
Synonyms: accurate, cautious, conscientious, conscionable, crossing the t’s, dotting the i’s, exact, fastidious, fussy, heedful, microscopic, nitpicking, painstaking, particular, persnickety, picky, precise, punctilious, punctual, scrupulous, stickling, strict, thorough
Antonyms: careless, messy, sloppy, undetailed
Dichotomy
Contrast
دورستگی، دوگانگی
Noun
تقسیم به دو بخش، انشعاب به دو شعبه، دو حالتی
- the dichotomy between truth and falsehood
- تفاوت میان راستی و نادرستی
- a dichotomy into good and evil
- دو شاخگی خوبی و بدی
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noun division
Synonyms: difference, difference of opinion, disagreement, disunion, separation, split
