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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 ensue | follow as a consequence of, happen as a result of |
| propitious | خوش یمن (neg: unfavorable) |
| coy | shy; bashful |
| aboveboard | obvious (neg: guile) |
| cutthroat | قاتل |
| alate | having wings |
| catharsis | پالایش |
| ritual | تشریفات مذهبی |
| retrospection | act of viewing past events نگاه به گذشته |
| pretense | وانمود کردن |
| elusive | hard to understand |
| empathy | understanding; همدلی |
| pariah | outcast, one who is despised and rejected; member of a low caste in south India |
| attorney | lawyer |
| balk | refuse to move forward; hesitate; hinder |
| blunder | make a stupid mistake; move back and forth in a clumsy manner, move blindly, grope |
| cessation | stopping; ceasing |
| burlesque | mock, imitate in a comic fashion |
| debacle | sudden downfall; complete disaster (ex: the d... of an airplane) |
| despicable | nasty, abominable ; پست ،خوار،زبون ،نکوهش پذير،مطرود |
| incipient | initial, beginning, commencing, starting |
| mettlesome | brave; spirited |
| pernicious | malignant; damaging, harmful, injurious; destructive; deadly, fatal |
| pine | have a desire for something or someone who is not present; languish; decline |
| gloat | express evil satisfaction |
| gush | flow, stream, spurt; burst forth; express oneself emotionally and effusively |
| interregnum | period of time between the end of one king's rule and the beginning of the next, time when a country has no ruler or official government; freedom from some authority; pause, interval |
| improvise | ad-lib, extemporize, make up on the spur of the moment, perform without advance preparation |
| imposture | deception, fraud |
| leaven | cause to rise or grow lighter; enliven خمير مايه،مخمر کردن ،خمير کردن ،ور اوردن |
| meager | scant, poor, little, insufficient, lacking in amount of quantity; |
| mettle | bravery; spirit |
| moat | خاکريز،خندق کندن |
| ominous | delivering bad news; foreboding; threatening |
| overture | مقدمه; پیش درآمد |
| pertinent | relevant, related; appropriate, fitting |
| pitch | erect(بر پا کردن) and fasten (ex: p... a tent) |
| impregnable | invulnerable, able to resist an attack; fertilizable, able to be impregnated |
| notion | concept; opinion; idea |
| impromptu | بداهتا،تصنيف ،کارى که بى مطالعه و بمقتضاى وقت انجام دهند،بالبداهه حرف زدن |
| arable | قابل کشتکارى ،قابل زرع ،زمين مزروعى |
| heterodox | unorthodox; unconventional |
| figurative | metaphorical; مجازى ،تمثيلى ،رمزى ،کنايه اى |
| vagary | odd or unexpected action or idea |
| provident | displaying foresight; thrifty; providing for emergencies |
| deflect | turn from a straight course, deviate, swerve |
| fortress | secure place, stronghold ; سنگر |
| dismantle | take apart; پياده کردن قطعات مونتاژ |
| mulish | stubborn as a mule, obstinate, unwilling to yield or comply |
| motility | mobility, capacity to move |
| servility | condition of being a slave; extreme submissiveness, |
| shrewish | evil-tempered, quarrelsome, nagging |
| manifest | verb: show clearly, reveal, make obvious, prove |
| cloy | cause to feel satiated or gorged; سيرکردن ،بى رغبت کردن ،بى ميل شدن |
| palate | roof of mouth; sense of taste; aesthetic taste |
| pratfall | a humiliating mishap or blunder (p...: embarrassment :: windfall:jubilation) |
| jubilation | joyfulness, gladness; celebration, festivity, rejoicing, exultation |
| splendor | magnificence, grandeur; brilliance, brightness, radiance |
| rumor | شایعه |
| tactful | showing skill in dealing with people (neg: gauche) |
| anecdote | حکايت ،قصه ء کوتاه ،امثال ،ضرب المثل |
| limerick | rhymed nonsense poem consisting of five lines |
| qualm | regret, sorrow; doubt |
| counterfeit | تقلبی (ex: c... money) |
| forfeit | جريمه کردن ،محروميت ،ضبط کردن ،بطور جريمه يا تاوان گرفتن ; penalty; loss |
| corroborate | neg: gainsay |
| catch | a kind of poem just as limerick is a kind of poem |
| mingle | mix, blend together with, merge; become combined into a mixture (neg: sequester) |
| turncoat | renegade; traitor |
| agitator | trouble maker |
| anathemize | neg: bless (ex: anathemizing one's foe) |
| repudiate | neg: accept |
| muffle | silence or lessen a sound (ex: m... the sound) |
| gibber | chatter foolishly |
| fortification | strengthening, fortifying; corroboration; something which fortifies or defends |
| destitution | extreme poverty (neg: affluence) |
| dawdle | waste time |
| feral | wild; brutal (ex: a f... animal should be domesticated) |
| crude | raw; unrefined; rude (ex: c... oil) |
| viral | relating to or caused by a virus |
| untoward | rebellious; causing trouble, unfortunate; inappropriate, not seemly; unexpected |
| veritable | real, actual, authentic; substantial (neg: specious) |
| faucet | شير اب ،شير بشکه |
| millinery | کلاهدوزى; women's hats and paraphernalia of a milliner |
| talon | claw of an animal, especially a bird of prey; چنگال ،ناخن ،پنجه ،پاشنه پا،پاشنه |
| SCINTILLA | trace ;جرقه ،اثر |
| CONTUMACIOUS | headstrong, rebellious |
| INSURRECTION | rebellion |
| INGRATIATE | خود شيرينى کردن to gain favor with another by deliberate effort; to seek to please somebody so as to gain an advantage |
| IMPRECATION | a curse |
| panache | flamboyance or dash in style and action; verve; self-confidence of showy manner |
| prattle | meaningless; foolish talk |
| linger | delay; move slowly |
| prudery | excessively modest behavior; کوته فکری |
| vice | moral weakness; نقص |
| census | counting and surveying of the population for official purposes ; سر شماری |
| inventory | لیست موجودی |
| ballot | vote; cast a vote |
| ledger | accounting book in which debits and credits are recorded |
| rumination | نشخوار |
| idyll | a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life |
| tribute | compliment; احترام (neg: denunciation) |
| menace | threat; danger; bother |
| peripatetic | moving, wandering, nomadic; occurring while walking about (neg: stationary) |
| tamper | meddle, interfere; tinker, fiddle; engage in secret or improper activities مداخله وفضولى کردن |
| superimpose | روی چیزی قرار گرفتن; اضافه شدن بر |
| ominous | threatening (ex: those clouds are o...) |
| dire | disastrous |
| engrave | carve out letters or designs on hard surfaces; impress deeply |
| headstrong | stubborn |
| hew | cut into pieces with an ax or sword |
| gusto | enthusiasm, great enjoyment, zest; |
| haggard | نحیف (neg: plump) |
| hedonist | neg: puritan |
| hermetic | airtight; sealed (neg: permeable) |
| hibernal | of or pertaining to winter; occurring in winter (neg: estival) |
| hirsute | پشمالو |
| impalpable | cannot be perceived by touch, intangible; not easily understood, difficult to grasp, imponderable (neg: obvious) |
| mellifluous | sweetly flowing, pleasing to the tongue or ear, sweet as with honey, |
| cadaverous | very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold (neg: obese) |
| infatuation | شیفتگی; شیدایی |
| outset | start; beginning |
| dally | waste time |
| plait | بافتن مو |
| haven | sheltered place, refuge, harbor, sanctuary; anchorage |
| stomach | verb: tolerate |
| canonical | شرعى ،قانونى ،(ر ).استاندارد،معيار،متعارفى (neg: heterodox) |
| obstruct | block; interfere; hinder |
| infilterate | permeate, penetrate, pass in or through |
| expiate | کفاره دادن |
| vanquish | win; conquer, defeat |
| sate | سیر کردن (neg: starve) |
| appreciable | قابل تحسین; محسوس (neg: imperceptible) |
| disposed | willing; inclined |
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