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clamor

demand loudly, outcry, utter and proclaim noisily Fans are five, six, sometimes seven deep, especially when clamoring for a view of their favorite players./ loud clamor of engine/ clamor for justice in a protest

indigent

destitute, poor The groom, also 28, is a lawyer at Appellate Advocates, a nonprofit organization in Manhattan, where he represents indigent criminal defendants appealing their convictions.

ballot

document listing the alternatives that is used in voting/doc listing choices in election example: His replacement, Democratic Sen. Tina Smith, is on Tuesday's ballot as she seeks her first full term. the next ballot will be in Nov. they counted the ballots. Senate seats are on the ballot, and all but one statewide constitutional office is open. she is putting a question on the November ballot asking voters whether they support

reservation

doubt, district that is reserved for particular purpose, condition/claim/statement example: He made his reservations clear: He didn't want his story to be "Hollywood-ized."

dubious

doubtful, questionable, uncertain example: His column became increasingly unreliable as its author engaged in dubious money-making schemes. The prosecution team includes at least four prosecutors who have been involved in dubious cases.

ebullience

eager enjoyment or approval,enthusiasm, exuberance example: Superimposed in the center of this ebullience is an oval frame containing a close-up color image of tangled tree roots, taken in Africa./ If she were a fruit, she would be a ripe apricot. Because of her coloring, her smile, her ebullience.

ample

enough or even too much, abundant : we'd all be happy if we had ample time and money.

plethora

extreme excess, abundance example: It's not a multitude of cultures and a plethora rising up like mushrooms in this country," he said./ But if Democrats seize committee gavels, they would regain a plethora of tools to probe Trump over the next two years.

serenity

goal of meditation is to reach a state of serenity,state of being calm and peaceful.,a disposition free from stress or emotion, ataraxis, heartsease example: Contrary to the volume of the atmosphere and the slight violence of the art, there is a serenity to the shop/ it's true that the longer you're there, the serenity emerges as much as the darkness./ocal leaders were trying to create a contrast to the dingy, cacophonous New York subway by creating spaces with grandiose arcing ceilings and an aural aesthetic of serenity.

stymie

hinder, obstruct or prevent the progress or accomplishment preclude, prevent: keep from happening or arising; make impossible example: I was always stymied by one thing: strawberry pudding.

didactic

informative, instructive آموزشی- پنددهنده didactic / pedantic: Both words relate to teaching, but didactic teaches a lesson and pedantic just shows off the facts. There is no need to be didactic about place; surely we are all able to perceive beauty/Always didactic, he went into a learned exposition of the diabolical properties

crisscross

intersect, to cross in a pattern: dogs crisscross the beach moving back and forth ضربدری- سردرگم example: They spend weeks away from home, crisscrossing the country to keep store shelves stocked and the economy humming.

strangle

kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air, throttle, garrotte, scrag, stop/halter example: your turtleneck sweater is too tight, you might feel like it's strangling you./ She was strangled, and her partially clothed body was found in a shallow

lucubration

laborious cogitation: meditation or study at night, literary work: creative دود چراغ خوردن- شب زنده داری And there isn't a market for these creative writing graduates' in most cases mediocre lucubrations./ Abuse may lead the militant Impressionist to an impasse of assertive agnosticism as pedantic in its way as the lucubrations of the most literary pedant in paint./ coffee keeps me awake during the lucubriation

magnanimity

liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit, generosity, unselfish, munificence, openhandedness We encourage political leaders to show magnanimity in victory and graciousness in defeat

predominantly

mostly, generally, to describe the general, ruling quality of something A neighborhood that is predominantly Indian Egypt's Christians account for about 10 percent of the country's predominantly Muslim population.

scramble

move with difficulty or hurriedly, struggle As it scrambles to ramp up production of the Model 3, Tesla continues to burn cash./ scramble for a living/ scramble eggs to cook cake

occult

mysterious, magical, hidden, incomprehensible example: If you think about this dynamic, it actually goes back to old occult ideas about the "astral plane" and things of that nature.

cacophonous

opp: serenity/euphonious Syn: harsh sound, harsh: strident, raucous The theatre turns cacophonous as representatives from failing economies such as ours roam the floor trying to secure deals with stronger players.

impung

question, challenge, attack as false Lawyers for Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, are determined to impugn the credibility of Gates.

morose

sad, sullen, stern, gloomy, melancholy example: Sampaoli looked morose after Argentina's heaviest defeat in a World Cup Fado music evokes a deep sense of melancholy or longing so irresistible it's like an emotional bruise that you can't stop pressing, hoping the pain lasts just a little bit longer.

lugubriousness

sadness, gloominess, morose example: While James avoids lugubriousness, he does periodically remind us that he is in truly bad shape./ But any lugubriousness was dispelled by unexpected rhythmic pungencies (strong odor/taste, quality) , and balanced by the wondrous serenity of William Byrd and Thomas Tomkins. Its PUNGENCY would smother the flavors of the wine.

grit

sand: he ate shrimp and grits on the waterfront patio of a hotel courageous attitude: she has the grit to attempt a trial clench/squeeze together: grit your teeth

precarious

shaky, unstable, dangerous, parlous precarious financial situation/future example: Now, their lives are slightly more stable, though just as precarious as any refugee's

harbor

shelter, maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) hold back a thought or feeling about "She is harboring a grudge against him" example: she is likely to harbor reservations.

defunct

something that used to exist, but is now gone example: At Brooklyn Bridge Park along the East River's edge, the site included rotting piers, defunct warehouses, land that flooded

adversary

"enemy" or "opponent", antagonist china and Russia, 2 former adversaries grow ever closer today.

Rapprochement

"reunion" or "reconciliation" the reestablishing of cordial relations, If a conflict ends and the parties go back to being on good terms, they achieve rapprochement Our relationship to technology is still evolving, characterized by inevitable spats and rapprochements./The rapprochement ended three months later when the two countries fought a brief conflict

panned

"reviewed negatively" : criticize and is almost always used to refer to plays, movies, etc

Forbearance, Temperance

"self- control" or "moderation."

trenchant

"sharp" or "cutting," clear cut, serious, sharply effective or insightful used to describe political commentary or cultural criticism.

tout

1. advertise in strongly positive terms 2. "to claim." The company touted the lotion as a solution to wrinkles. Broccoli has been touted as the cancer-fighting vegetable.

lassitude/latitude

1. lack of interest: insouciance,indifferent,apathy, torpor, drowsiness, inactivity, dormancy, latency, stagnation, torpid, loaf: lazy 2. lack of energy, weary Latitude: describes the distance of a particular location from the equator. OPP: convolusions, retching

spartan

1. severe, grueling: spartan diet 2. austere, ascetic, self-denial, abstemious OPP: prodigal, dissolute, debauched, immoral In ancient Greece, there were two great city states: Athens and Sparta. Athens had the artists, the good food, the great parties. Sparta had the warriors — the guys who went to bed early and drilled all day. They lived in bare rooms and didn't get sick days or time off. A spartan life is a life of discipline and self-denial.

compendious

1. succinct, terse, concise 2. complete, comprehensive, exhaustive His office produced a compendious report

fruition

1. the condition of bearing fruit 2. something that is made real or concrete when apples in the orchard come to fruition. Your hard work pays off and ideas come to fruition (A: unlikely to ever come to fruition: quixotic B: Opp: pragmatic)

contemplate doing something

1. to think about something that you intend to do in the future:Have you ever contemplated committing suicide? 2. to accept the possibility that something (horrible) is true: The thought that she might be dead was just too awful to contemplate.

slack

(adj, v, n) loose, negligent, lazy, weak (adj); neglect to so one's duties; loosen up, relax (verb); period of little work (noun), reduction, weak It is consistent with continued reduction in slack in the labor market, which is near full employment.

feckless

(adj.) lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak; irresponsible, unreliable

lackadaisical

(adj.) lacking spirit or interest or enthusiasm, languid, lethargic, tepid

illicit

(adj.) not permitted, unlawful, improper, contrary to accepted morality: illicit trade

personable

(adj.) pleasing in appearance or personality, attractive

dumbfounded

(adj.) so amazed that one is unable to speak, bewildered, amazed, surprised

taut

(adj.) tightly drawn, tense; neat, in good order

prologue

(n) introductory part to a book, play, etc. OPP: epilogue Tommy Orange's debut novel begins with a heartbreaking prologue on the history of America's indigenous peoples

artisan

(n.) a craftsman (The artisan uses wood to make walking sticks.)

solace

(n.) comfort, relief; console you may find solace in music.

undulating

(rising or falling in pitch, volume, or cadence

castigate

(v.) to punish severely; to criticize severely

Permeate

(v.) to spread through, pervade, penetrate, soak through

overture

1.a piece of music played by an orchestra 2. noun overture can also mean "a suggestion or approach designed to get a reaction." : I've never been comfortable receiving overtures from people I'm not close to 3.preceding event or introduces what follows, preliminary : drinks were the overture to dinner

maxim

A concise statement, often offering advice; an adage, panegyric

cohort

A group of individuals of the same age. Given all this, is there any reason to hope that this huge, diverse, progressive cohort of Americans will vote in the upcoming midterms?

pragmatic

A pragmatic person is sensible, grounded, and practical OPP: idealistic dogmatic, you follow the rules, stubborn

rampage

A rampage is when a group of people is destructive and out of control, like an angry, violent riot following an unpopular political decision. A single individual can go on a rampage, wreaking havoc and destruction, but the word most often describes the actions of an angry mob

makeshift

A temporary and usually less strong replacement: limping along

Placated and mollified, palliate

Ameliorated is close, but only a problem can be ameliorated, not a person

amicable / amiable

Amicable refers to a friendliness or goodwill between people or groups. Amiable refers to one person's friendly disposition. A group might have an amicable meeting, because the people there are amiable.

depleting

Depleting can apply to a resource, but not to individuals.

dismay

Dismay describes an emotional state of alarm, fear, or serious disappointment. to describe how you feel in a variety of negative situations that you doubt you are able to handle. But Irish survivors and others elsewhere were dismayed that it proposed no concrete steps.

providential

Lucky, fortunate, or relating to divine ,magically lucky. miraculous.,fluke, serendipity Religious conservatives will consider this providential and will, for perhaps the first time, thank God for Kennedy./ providential belief

cognoscenti

Experts in a subject OPP: fledgling, verdant, neophytes

extant

Extant is the opposite of Extinct: it refers to things that are here — they haven't disappeared or been destroyed. to describe old things that are still around, like your extant diary from third grade He beautifully catches the language of Aspen, Davos and the recently extant Clinton Global Initiative, which will doubtless reappear in the newly born Bloomberg initiative.

dissemble/ disassemble

FEIGN, fabricate, pretend, disguise true intentions or feelings behind a false appearance to deceive/ pretend that you don't know something ظاهر رو دستکاری کردن My boyfriend was dissembling the whole time. He was a married man./ person who shields and defends abusers — and then dissembles about it disassemble: to take something apart like motor

lissome

Flexible, supple, agile

exalted

GRAND, paramount, high in regard,power/ extreme happiness

consiglier

Godfather leader: supportive+counselor

Epicurean

Gustatory, taking pleasure in food and drink Carnal/ Voluptuous: sensual luxurious pleasure

idiosyncrasy and eccentricity

Harmless personal oddness

Succor

Help in time of distress,provide comfort or relief

hodgepodge

Mixture of different kinds of things, jumble, mishmash قاطی پاتی The constitutional amendment that repealed a federal ban on booze left regulation to the states, resulting in a hodgepodge of laws and regulations across the country./ On tech issues, progressives often find themselves as junior partners in hodgepodge coalitions with individual rights-minded libertarians.

panaca

Nobles closely related to the emperor

ingenuous AND ingenious

Ingenuous means innocent, artless, simple, while ingenious refers to something original, creative, inventive.

ingenious/ ingenuous

Ingenuous means innocent, artless, simple, while ingenious refers to something original, creative, inventive. The design is an ingenious solution

malicious

Intended to hurt or harm, malice, vindictive, malevolent, venomous, vicious any offensive, intimidating, malicious or insulting verbal or non-verbal communication/ These malicious attacks on Trump must be seen for what they are: an indictment of his millions of supporters.

recant

To formally withdraw انکار کردن

belie

To give a false representation to; misrepresent, To show to be false; contradict: Their laughter belied their outward grief.پوشاندن- عکس وانمود کردن example: tears belied Rose's brave words. war belied any hope for reconciliation.

construe

To interpret or analyze something in a particular way Ellis told the panel that none of his comments or questions should be construed as expressions of his opinions to be considered during their deliberations

recede

To move back or away from,reduce, pull back

recant

To withdraw a statement, abjure, deny انکار- حرف خود را پس گرفتن یا تکذیب کردن Those behaviors include keeping the abuse a secret and recanting allegations about abuse.

facile

Too simplistic or easy, superficial

veracious / voracious

Voracious describes someone super hungry for food or knowledge, like a zombie or a wolf. Veracious (with an "e") means truthful, as in a veracious first president who cannot tell a lie. As the prosecution loses confidence in the veracity of the potential cooperating witness, the value of that testimony to the investigation diminishes./ after years of scandal, he was hardly known for his veracity.

retrofit

When you retrofit something, you replace old parts with new ones. They car companies retrofitted all the old models with new carburetors"

curmudgeon

a bad-tempered or surly person, senior citizenبخیل But it's not only curmudgeons eager to complain about the younger generation who ought to find the survey of interest.

Heresy/Heretic

a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion, heterodoxy, apostate In 1589, three years after his return to England, Gans was charged with heresy for denying the divinity of Jesus Christ.

panopticon

a circular prison, an area where everything is visible, showroom, sales room Either way, as long as we're stuck in a panopticon, no one's going to stop me from a little screen snooping.

opus

a creative work,musical or literary composition.

artifice

a deceptive maneuver:trick (especially to avoid capture)/ skill,workmanship/ invention تردستی- مهارت- حیله Between fantasy and reality, certainly, but also between authenticity and artifice, theater and therapy, art and life.

Quagmire

a difficult situation, morass, plight, predicament

setback

a difficulty or problem that delays or prevents unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes another setback is looming.

constellation

a group of stars that form a pattern, a cluster of things, plan, arrangement If all these constellations are successfully launched around the same time, the number of operational satellites in orbit would quadruple, raising the risk of catastrophic and cascading satellite collisions.

backbencher

a member of the House of Commons who is not a party leader, legislator The meeting will be the prime minister's last chance to rally backbenchers before the summer recess.

fallacy

a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument

Impetus

a moving force, impulse, stimulus

obituary

a notice of someone's death, necrology, obit

Convalescence

a period of recovery from illness; recuperation

vassal

a person loyal or in service to a lord

veteran

a person who has served in the military, expert

toady

a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage, lackey, ass-kisser Following the uproar over his toadying to Putin, he would be foolish to try anytime soon.

prodigies

a person with extraordinary talents, especially a highly gifted child; exceptional

Apothegm

a pithy/short/ succinct, instructive saying: Maxim

enigma

a puzzle; a mystery

proliferation

a rapid increase,

hinterland

a remote and undeveloped rural area, boondocks, backwoods, backwater or undesirable, far-out place. OPP: Arcadian: idyllically rustic, pastoral, bucolic, quiet and calm rural area (+) Most naturist resorts are arcadian retreats from city life.

heuristic / hermeneutic

a rule or a method that comes from experience and helps you think through things, like the process of elimination, or the process of trial and error. You can think of a heuristic as a shortcut. heuristic program/rule hermeneutic: interpretive or explanatory hermeneutic approach

conspiracy

a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful: Terrorists might be accused of organizing a conspiracy to overthrow the government

castaway

a shipwrecked person, a person who is rejected (from society or home): heretic, misbeliever, religious outcast, apostate

dementia

a slowly progressive decline in mental abilities, dementia, he has a brain disorder that's causing him to gradually lose his memory and become disoriented and confused.an illness that causes dementia is Alzheimer's disease.

touchstone/ cornerstone

a standard; a test of authenticity or quality a cultural touchstone is a single important event, place, work of art, etc cornerstone: A cultural cornerstone would be something the whole society is built upon (like individualism, Islam, or the monarchy, depending on the society).

desuetude

a state of disuse or inactivity, dormancy, latency

stagnation

a state of inactivity (in business or art etc),lull, cancel کسادی- رکود: economic stagnation The high price of housing, wage stagnation, job insecurity, crushing child-care expenses, rising health-care premiums and college costs the size of a mortgage are pushing the middle down several rungs of the ladder.

stampede

a sudden rush of animals or people, usually caused by fear More than 200 people were killed in a stampede of pilgrims at a Hindu temple in Jodhpur, India.

credulity

a tendency to believe people too easily

veneer

a thin surface layer profundity, which means "deep insight"; eclecticism gives a work a surface appearance (veneer) of profundity.

veneer

a thin surface layer, semblance, appearance ظاهر retaining the veneer plenitude

myriad

a very large number

forsaken

abandon

dormant

abeyant, inactive,hibernating, torpid: asleep OPP: ACTIVE Volcanoes are described as dormant when they stay cool for a long time/ The cube remained famous, in a nostalgic way, but as a fascination it lay mostly dormant for 20 years./ Smallpox might also lie dormant in mummies and corpses of people

effacement

abolition, elimination, erase, withdrawal

invective

abusing language to blame, insult, vitriol Watch as a threat of a vicious invective Excretes from Donald Trump.

academia

academic world

condone

accept, allow

crdence

acceptance, credit, recognition he gave credence to the gossip

gospel/ tenet

accepted facts/ truths/ principle

convenant

accord, agreement, consensus

chord

accord, concord, agree, harmony If a book "strikes a chord" with you, you feel connected to it. Cureton said Cooper's advice to lighten up on yourself struck a chord with her.

ledger

account book, diary, record in which commercial accounts are recorded Each entry in Bitcoin's database, for example, is a transaction in a digital ledger./ company's ledgers contained slightly more cash than debt.

transgression

act of trespassing or violating a law or rule, an offense

allusion / illusion / delusion

Novelists, magicians, and other tricksters keep these words busy. Novelists love an allusion, an indirect reference to something like a secret treasure for the reader to find; magicians heart illusions, or fanciful fake-outs; but tricksters suffer from delusions, ideas that have no basis in reality. A delusion is a belief that has no evidence in fact — a complete illusion./ An illusion is something that isn't real. It may look real, but it's actually fake/

despondent

OPP: ebullience, exuberance, impulse be forlornly and not lively, hopeless

unitary

OPP: modular, decentralized

imprimatur

Official approval or license to print or publish, especially under conditions of censorship. example: some people feel that self-publishing has a stigma, and that their work needs some kind of imprimatur before it merits publication. Many products appeared to have government imprimatur

effusive

Overflowing with words or feelings; gushing

Infiltrate

Penetrate

persevererant

Perseverance is not giving up. determinded, continue, doggedness It takes skill and perseverance to become captain of a hotshot crew, but also patience, leadership and positivity.

repudiation

Rejection, Renunciation

evangelicals

Religious believers, originally attracted to the Anti-Masonic party and then to the Whigs, who sought to use political power for moral and religious reform/enthusiastic or zealous

costive

Slow; sluggish; stingy, miser, laconic

tantalizing

Teasing; tempting, but beyond reach. example: the gains were tantalizing.

inveighing AND inveigling

inveighing: railing against, express disapproval, ranting, complain inveigling: seduce,entice, coaxازراه به در کردن- فریفتن winning over by flattery

impregnable

invincible, impermeable invincible fortress نفوذ ناپذیر

moot

irrelevant, controversial (moot topic), Though moot can mean to debate endlessly without any clear decision or to think about something carefully, it most often describes ideas and arguments that don't really matter. Eisenberg also told the court the case would become moot once the federal government adopted final rules.

tangential

irrelevant, digressing; diverting He said the plan would be limited to small bases or "tangential facilities" identified by the Pentagon.

dyspeptic

irritable, crotchety

wag

joker, although not necessarily a professional one.

desultory

jumping from one thing to another; purposeless, lack of planگسسته- بی هدف- سرسری They spoke instead in a desultory fashion of current events./Most of which is desultory; it's hard to be agitated at something you don't care about.

keep abreast

keep informed,apprise, trace KFC needs to offer healthier dishes, to keep abreast of social change, and keep politicians off its back.

culling

killing individual members to avoid overpopulation

lore

knowledge or tradition that is passed down among members of a culture The film lives on in the cultural lore for a variety of reasons./ But contrary to liberal lore, smokestacks won't start popping up across America.

conversant

knowledgeable

grueling

laborious, arduous, exhausting/difficult , strenuous grueling schedule She'd spent a month training with them one burning summer, and her muscles still ached at the memory of their grueling exercises./ But stepping back into her grueling regimen - six hours a day, six days a week - after so much time away was anything but easy.

incongruity

lack of agreement

discord

lack of agreement, tension, strife, disagreement The tweets fell on both sides of the vaccine debate and appeared aimed at sowing discord by amplifying the debate — even though the vast majority of Americans believe vaccines' benefits outweigh their risks.

diffidence

lack of confidence, timidity

myrmidons

lackeys: are subordinates who follow without question

Diffident

lacking self-confidence, mutee, introvert

Diffident/ self-effacing

lacking self-confidence, shy self-effacing: putting oneself down

curt

laconic, tacit, curt has the sense of being rudely short with people, whereas laconic is not necessarily negative.

driges

lamented, mourned

caricaturing

lampooning, mocking

trope

language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense (different types of figures of speech, such as puns, metaphors, and similes. Each has its own particular structure, but in each case the actual meaning is different from the literal, dictionary sense. ) On at least one occasion I failed to recognize what I now see were clear antisemitic tropes in a mural.

perennial

lasting for a long time, persistent, chronic

risible

laughable, hilarious

Extravagance and opulence

lavishness, luxurious

idler

layabout, loafer الاف بیکار The article is somewhat misleading, there is nothing to envy about Scandinavian social welfare, unless you are an idler and social parasite.

supine

lazy, lethargic, person or animal is lying on its back, belly-up, it is supine

loaf

lazy,idle

mandate

legal doc command s.th, assign a task to aperson But the organization doesn't mandate those practices, nor punish schools that fail to follow them./ election gave labor no mandateاختیار- دستور-خواسته government accepted the mandate of people.

contemplation

lengthy, intent consideration تفکر مطالعه عمیق: lucubration A library is supposed to be a place for peaceful contemplation/ Yoga requires contemplation

somnolent

lethargic, torpor, sleepy, drowsy

langour

lethargy, inactive

autonomy

liberty, political Independence

libel/libelious

lie in print

Modicum

little, scarce, scintilla paucity: not enough, lack

loath / loathe

loath ("unwilling or reluctant") and loathe ("to hate")

loath/loathe

loath: reluctant loathe: hate

forfeited

lost as a result of crime

clangor

loud noise OPP: SOFT, MELODY, Subdued (quiet, soft)

fealty

loyalty

tepid

lukewarm or half-hearted, uninterested, lackadaisical More than a third of the teams in the Associated Press Top 25 began camp with quarterback competitions ranging from tepid to intense./ tepid welcome: not warm

mendacious

lying; false; deceitful, mendacious person is one who tells lies habitually and intentionally. Yet in these books, the real liar is that mendacious news media.

inured to/ enured

made tough by habitual exposure, used to, made it's usually something negative. People can become inured to pain, inured to violence hardened and desensitized Sometimes it takes an incident to internalize behavior. It's so easy to get inured.

staple

main, essential A Boston-area mayor hopes so, both vowing a political boycott and threatening the Massachusetts staple, a popular brand nationally too.

disquieted

make (someone) worried or anxious, uncomfortable

decisive

make decisions quickly and stick to it, resolute, definite, unhesitating Opp: wishy-washy example: a decisive victory/moment we need decisive leadership

adorn

make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc., beautify, decorate, embellish people adorn their Christmas trees with tinsel and lights/ They wear bright purple garments, decorated with traditional Gozitan handmade lace, and adorned with intricate Maltese cross pendants.

diluting/ elude

making weaker,tenuous, attenuate رقیق کردن- ضعیف dilute: rarefy elude: avoid

plasticity

malleable, flexible, moldable example: DNA methylation changes in plasticity genes accompany the formation and maintenance of memory./ My Plastic Brain" is best appreciated as an enjoyable memoir, not a book that explains the science of how plasticity really works under the hood.

polyglot

many, wide variety, tapestry

seafarer

mariner, sailorدریانورد- ملوان

Elaborateness

marked by complex detail; intricacy

pith

marrow, gist OPP: Claptrap چرت و پرت, dross: bombastic, rant, rhetoric, nonsense, boondoggle, magniloquence Eloquence: fluency, moving language

hysteria

medical condition or general state of extreme fear and panic, emotional chaos OPP: calmness Gill, a former disarmament ambassador for India, sought to quell the rising hysteria sparked by a vision of murderous drone armies.

obtuse

mentally dull,not quick or alert in perception, fool

cluttered

messy, unkempt

mimetic

mimic, copy, imitative

peccadilloes

minor faults, foibles, misdemeanor

providential

miraculous, fortunate Religious conservatives will consider this providential and will, for perhaps the first time, thank God for Kennedy.

gaffe

mistake

motely

mixed, colorful, mismatched, heterogeneous, or ragtag, diverse hodgepodge: mishmash, a motley//random assortment of things OPP: homogeneous, undiversified

derided

mocked, ridiculed

satirical

mocking, making fun of a pre-existing work of art, situation, etc. Farcical risible

potentate vs doyennes

monarch or ruler with great power doyennes: female in power

denomination

money: "lower denomination" or "higher denomination." banknote with same demonination: value group: service is open to people of all denominations. فرقه

lamented

mourned or grieved for late lamented," which implies that the person you're talking about is dead And he lamented the lack of classical repertory theaters that abounded through the Britain

lugubrious

mournful, bleak, sorrowful, anything that makes you sad, gloomy such as funerals or rainy days As Elizabeth Kolbert wrote for the occasion, "It would be hard to think of a more lugubrious milestone."

silt

mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake: Runoff exacerbated by deforestation carries silt and pollution into the lake silt up: clogged with - choke: Britain leaving the bloc without a deal, or with a deal that would silt up the arteries of trade.

murmur/ marring

murmur: unclear complaint marring: damaging,disfiguring

recrimination

mutual accusations: counteraccusation, when u hurl back accusation What followed was a tangle of denials, accusations, recriminations, and non-apology apologies: in other words, politics.

runic

mysterious; magical,enigmatic

agglomerate coalesced (into/around)

agglomerate is to collect or form into a mass or group. Since the people were already in a group, the word is inappropriate (agglomerate is also used more for things than for people)./gather into a cluster/bunch The biggest defect in our mediascape, IMO, is allowing companies to acquire and agglomerate both content production AND delivery pipelines. coalesced: joined together into a whole, amalgamated, consolidated, fused He said back then, Wisconsin politicians coalesced around ideas and not just party affiliation.

agonistic/agnostic

agonistic: combative, contentious,argumentative agnostic: apostate

aperitif

alcoholic beverage taken before a meal as an appetizer, intoxicant

alighted vs petered out

alight: descend physically not music or trend- peter out

parable

allegory, a short moral story (often with animal characters)

palliate

alleviate, diminish

frace

altercation, fight Mutiny (open rebellion against authorities)

benefactor

altruist خیر The synagogue suffered a destructive fire in 1748, but it was rebuilt by benefactors, according to Jewish Heritage Europe/ major benefactor of college

congenial

amicable, amiable, When a relationship goes from something to "chilly at best," you can surmise that the relationship used to be warm or cordial: congenial

disportments

amusement, hobby

polemic

an aggressive argument against a specific opinion

crackpot

an eccentric or foolish person, strange, odd with unusual beliefs or opinions: People who are called crackpots often take up unpopular causes or conspiracy theories. A scientist who doesn't believe in the theories of evolution and gravity could be called a crackpot.

Corollaries

an immediate consequence or easily drawn conclusion

influx

an inward flow influx of immigrants

insouciance

casual lack of concern; indifference, carefreeness: impetuous Her acts of rebellion are familiar in their adolescent insouciance, but the sinister glow in her smiles is something else entirely./ They also possessed this insouciance and ambition that allowed them to perform on the biggest stage in the world.

catastrophe

cataclysm, calamity, sudden disaster, tragic events President Trump this week signed a disaster declaration for the state, pledging to provide federal resources for recovery and catastrophe relief.

incessant

ceaseless, perpetual,interminable, unremitting, constant

protean

changeable: changing shape , variable, shaky, flimsy, iridescence, volatile OPP: fixed: concrete:unwavering protean economy is certainly difficult to enumerate.

transient

changes or moves around, lasting shortly Transient is most often used to modify nouns like nature, threat, source and cause / transient emotion, facial expression, ephemeral:temporary, fugacious

vacillating

changing, fluctuating

berserk

chaos, in a state of violent or destructive rage

turmoil

chaos, violent disturbance usually in protest,convulsion, upheaval. The economy can be in turmoil--the markets behaving erratically, people losing their jobs, and no one understanding why. Growing numbers are fleeing economic meltdown and political turmoil in Venezuela.

chary/ chagrin

char y: wary: worry chagrin:mental distress or unease: disquieted, disappointment, humiliation سرافکندگی

philanthropy

charity, most often refers to the large amounts of money the wealthy donate/ focus on philanthropy in education

stalk

chase-follow-pursue online ad stalks you everywhere. Mountain lions are protected, but state law allows the killing of a mountain lion if the animal is in the process of stalking, killing or consuming livestock.

loquacious

chatty, voluble, garrulous OPP: laconic, taciturn, reticent

swindle

cheat, steal, bamboozle

blithe

cheerful, lighthearted; casual, unconcerned, carefree

genial

cheerful: jocund, friendly,affable, amiable, cordial Bram is genial and a devoted father OPP: standoffish

Sanguine

cheerful; optimistic, pleasant Blithe: carefree, happy, don't pay attention arch: playful, mischievous,roguish Risible: hilarious, laughable

genteel

civilized, well-mannered; refined; polite, someone elegant, fashionable, and well-bred OPP: boorish, churlish

purport

claim, pretend to be, masquerade as

tribe

clan, family, group قبیله- عشایر A tribe of college students

vindicate, exculpate

clear someone of blame or suspicion Excuse means "to lessen the blame" or "forgive someone for a fault," but not to prove they were not at fault in the first place. manumit is technically only used for when someone is freed from slavery

shepherd

clergyman who watches over a group of people

shrewd

clever; astute A shrewd investor, he took clever advantage of the fluctuations of the stock market.

platitude

cliche پیش پاافتاده و تکراری banality his speech contained nothing but platitude. / The point needed reinforcing, this was not just a public platitude

nimbus

cloud, light Nut: a hard problem/task

Discourse

colloquy, conversation

collude with X to do Y

collude with a competitor to raise prices secretly plot together to do something bad. In cahoot with: collusion,agreement on a secret plot

rebound

come back from a slump, recovery, convalescence rebound from an illness, or your country might rebound from an economic recession/loss.

Collate, juxtapose

compare

congruent, concurrent

compatible, harmonious, coincident But those national numbers aren't congruent with what we see on the ground.

grumble

complain about something clearly but quietly, in a low mutter example: While we all grumble that too little of our time is really our own, we still unconsciously see the annual vacation as an experience that ultimately reaffirms the value of labor.

heterogeneous

composed of different parts, modular ناهمگون- نامتجانس OPP: unitary, coalition

sangfroid

composure or coolness, especially in trying circumstances/ equilibrium: mental or emotional balance, and a near synonym in this sense is composure.

budge

compromise OPP: obdurate

pathological

compulsive, related to physical or mental disease آسیب شناسی- بیمارگونه

concession

concession in an argument is the act of yielding/conceding or granting something,

laconic

concise, brief, taciturn, short example: In the next scene, after a quiet lull, we catch a hint of what lies beneath their laconic friendship. website offered a terse announcement

coda

concluding part of a literary or musical composition; something that summarizes or concludes, an ending that sums up what came before

pretension

confidence ادعا- تظاهر make pretensions

Detention

confinement or imprisonment, usually for a short time

putative

conjectural, postulated, supposed, not proven

scrupulous

conscientiously, religiously, careful, exact, and conscientious, so to do something scrupulously is to give it close attention and to strive for perfection. Diligent workers do their jobs scrupulously.

ramification

consequence but usually unintended and bad. is often used in political discussions about laws or government decisions/ bifurcation, complication example: the court's decision had many unforeseen ramifications

egregious

conspicuously and outrageously BAD or reprehensible, intolerable Be careful not to use it to mean "outstanding," since no one wants to be called egregious. They can't believe that so many Americans voted for, and continue to support, such an egregious fraud.

costiveness

constipation

adulterated

contaminated, vitiated (spoiled)

Scurvy

contemptible, despicable

confounding

contradictory The emphasis on boundaries and differences was confounding and frustrating.

polemical

controversial; argumentative, very pointed شدیدا انتقادی to describe speech and writing — a polemical discussion or a polemical essay — that usually starts a war of words. A curious trait of Sontag's critical writing is that, for all its polemical thrust, it often contains opposing views./But the Film Society's retrospective — at once polemical in nature and populist in its programming selections / Its meanings are sometimes obscure and sometimes obvious, nearly to the point of being polemical, and most often somewhere in between

trope

conventional boring (language used ) a TV cop show might use the trope of police vs. thieves to talk about larger issues.

cogent

convincing, persuasive, precise, clear cogent argument We want our response to be as strong and cogent as possible."

convene/ convoke

convoke, to call together for the purpose of a meeting.", to assemble The Justice Department was working on the issue before lawmakers convened their hearing Wednesday/ Iraq's parliament convened for the first time / who might convene grand juries to investigate crimes

nonchalant

cool and confident, not interested, unconcerned or in an indifferent manner, insouciant, sangfroid, equanimity, halcyon

pith

core essence or substance of a matter, vigor/mettle,importance example: get right to the pith of your point/freedom of speech is very pith of liberty/ his speech lacks pithمعانی عمیق ساقه: Stand it on one flat end, then cut down the sides following the curve of the fruit to remove the peel and white pith.

debauchment

corrupting دفن کردن

apprising

counseling, advising

cencus

count, nose-count By the time the Civil War began in 1860, census figures showed the slave population in the United States at nearly 4 million.

fortitude

courage, resilience, mettlesome I think I built up a lot of mental fortitude just going through that last year, so it really was nothing," Phillips said of the wrist injury.

bout

course, period

shrouded

covered, hidden or wrapped Manchester United and its manager would remain shrouded in uncertainty

fabulists

creative liar,prevaricator, liar (prevarication: falsehood, allegation)

reprimand

criticism, reprehension an act or expression of criticism and censure But President Theodore Roosevelt reprimanded the general and ordered him to retire, The New York Times reported.: letter of reprimand حکم اخراج

upbraided

criticized, scolded

transatlantic

crossing the Atlantic Ocean As goes the transatlantic relationship, so goes the possibility of western progress.

Requisite

crucial, indispensable

truculent

cruel,savage, aggressive, ferocious, brutal But why treat the finger-painting of a truculent toddler as if it were a Picasso?

subterfuge

cunning, cleverly deception

malediction/ OPP: benediction (blessing)

curse, bully,evil statement directed at someone condemnation Trump is at his desk, tweeting curses and maledictions at his enemies.

bane

curse, invective Vice: Sin- licentious مشتاق به گناه- absolve حل کردن- آمرزیدن گناه Virtue: skill, luck فضیلت

cursory vs precursory

cursory: perfunctory, superficial precursory: prominent

retrenchment

curtailment, reducing staff or forces; conserving resources the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable

sardonic

cynical; scornfully mocking, disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking his rebellion is the bitter, sardonic laughter of all great satirists"- Frank Schoenberner"

Parlous

dangerous

reverie

day-dreaming This reverie was broken/interrupted as more bolts and nuts bounded down the superstructure onto the car's roof.

libertine

debauched, immoral, dissolute

embellishment

decoration, an untrue detail added to a story to make it more interesting

ornament

decoration, embellish or beatify

rumination on

deep intent consideration

vilify

defame, malign, debase, abase, denigrate, derogate, belittle, besmirch, maledict , slander

renegade

defector, quisling, maverick, rebel

tarry

delay, linger, dally

stalled

delayed; stopped, stonewalled

Exclusion

deliberate act of omission OPP:inclusion

subtlety

delicate, nuance, The subtlety of an argument is in the fine weave of the words and thoughts that it is made up of. زیرکی- ظرافت- مهارت

stipulated

delineated, specified, described

evince

demonstrate, Evidence can evince the innocence of the accused express clearly,convey a msg James novel evinced the perfect balance of technical prowess

derogate

denigrate, to belittle, disparage, cause to look less serous/worthy

absconded

departed suddenly,leave hurriedly/abruptly

contingent

dependent

aleatory

dependent on luck or chance, unpredictable

contingent (on-upon- of)

dependent, conditions or circumstances that follow, a group of soldiers that joins a larger force, a group of people with something in common, The Vikings announced the deal, contingent on Jones passing a physical exam, on Sunday./ the contingent of folks dressed as Batman at Comic-Con.

exile

deportation, expatriation (for country) Don't confuse being exiled with being banned: exile is for countries. If you cause trouble at a restaurant, you might be banned from returning, not exiled. American citizens in exile in Paris. Every day, fresh flowers are laid on Franco's grave, but the fact it exists as a monument is seen as an insult to the millions who suffered and were DRIVEN INTO exile by his regime.

turpitude

depravity, moral corruption, Turpitude often follows the word MORAL, and acts of moral turpitude are usually crimes that are unusually sick or corrupt. rectitude: behavior that is correct, upright and honorable/ adhering to moral principles/moral rectitude/ fiscal rectitude: financial moral

stratified

describe something with many layers, either physically (like the layers of your skin) or socially (a kingdom with the king at the top and peasants at the bottom)., hierarchy

ambiguous

describing a situation or statement than a person Person: Ambivalent, equivocal

wizened

desiccated arid: not describe a person

devastation

desolation, deterioration, impairment, terrible destruction/ serious damage (caused by natural disaster): a whole town being wiped out is devastation/ devastation of wildfires were being caused by a foreign enemy extreme sadness, emotionally wrecked: her departure left him in utter devastation

demolish

destroy completely, pulverize Former Louis Armstrong Stadium is demolished just days after the Open ends.

conflagration

destructive fire, siege fire, inferno helicopters doing their best work when a blaze/spark is transitioning into a bigger conflagration.

havoc

destructive,devastation or total mayhem Havoc often WREAKED by hurricanes, discrimination ,...ویرانی But it soon became clear the heavy use of nitrogen fertilizer wreaks havoc on ecosystems.

degeneration

devolution, decline, weakening OPP: evolution intellectual degeneration

dissolute

devoted to sensual pleasure; lacking moral restraint, But someone who is dissolute not only goes against the grain of normal behavior, but is wasteful and offensive — over the limit. The typed letter condemned King as "a colossal fraud . . . and a dissolute, abnormal moral imbecile."

hedonism

devotion to sensual pleasureعیش و نوش OPP: ethics, morals

autocratic

dictator, monarchistic, despotic, tyrannical OPP: egalitarian

tyrannical

dictatorial (cruel)

parabolic

didactic, aphorism, moral/religious story Parable

moralistic

didactic, narrowly and conventionally moral with moral msg, This year's jury is so moralistic and consensual.

indiscernibly

difficult or impossible to perceive or discern/see/sense, can not distinguish black ball is indiscernible in darkness/ And then the crowd joined in an indiscernible collection of shouts to silence a heckler.

divagation

digression, going off point There aren't many twists or turns or conceptual divagations from the political message/ Perhaps such divagations of the public mind are a necessary diversion.

Ramshackle

dilapidated, run-down, (adj.) appearing ready to collapse, loose and shaky

procrastination

dilatory, postpone

dissent

disagreement, naysayer, detractor curtailing any formal dissent

loathsome

disgusting

revolting

disgusting, engaging in a revolt against government, rebellion , instigator

improbity

dishonesty, impurity, untruthful, mendacity, false

bleak

dismal, depressing, gloomy In the end, the prognosis of her lung cancer was bleak and Barr offered comfort.

consternation

dismay, perplexity, afraid, disoriented, or completely befuddled/feared bcaz of awareness of dangerبهت- حیرت amazement or dismay that leads to confusion to the audience consternation, the corpse began to speak.

impious

disrespectful toward God

tumultuous

disruptive," "troubled," "disorderly," or "turbulent." chaotic, unquiet پرسروصدا- پرآشوب After two tumultuous years, he is back playing football again, with only a little fanfare.

discontent

dissatisfaction example: At the root of the discontent is the desire to have practical, not ideological, solutions to intractable problems (One who is discontented; a malcontent.) SYN: malcontent, heartburn, restless, disgruntled, rebellious

dissimilitude

dissimilar,unlikeness, disparity عدم تشابه Notwithstanding this difference of disposition, the two officers are fast friends; a fact perhaps due to the dissimilitude of their natures.

dispensation

distribution, exemption, penalty

borough

district, town sparse taxi access in the boroughs outside Manhattan/he also accused travellers of thefts in the borough.

Apportioned

divided and allocated

polarized

divided into two extremes

Division and schism

division within or from a religious organization

doggerel

doggerel verse, rhyme, jingle: comic verse of irregular measureشعر بی مایه

tame

domesticate, predictable A circus lion is tame (adjective) because it's been tamed (verb). A "lion-tamer" beat the wildness some people take anger management courses to learn to "tame their tempers." Others work to "tame their tongues" after hurting another person with a careless comment.

hegemony

domination over others

perfunctory

done in a routine way; indifferentسرسری- الابختکی Many of our everyday greetings are perfunctory It would've taken very little effort for the president to mention the Republican senator in some perfunctory way.

latency

dormant, inactive, potency It's designed to be battery-efficient, while providing high quality audio with low latency.

underscore (+)

draw special attention to a fact, idea, or situation To underscore that and ensure others get their chance to cheer

plummet

drop sharply, plump sales that plummet overnight/ Global temperatures will plummet in the years ahead, before rising again to unsurvivable levels.

desiccate

dry up and dehydrate, to preserve food by drying lifeless, exsiccate But there is no reason to think that anyone is likely to benefit from deliberately desiccating themselves during workouts, he says. desiccated vines and leaves.

desiccation

dry up, dehydration

lackluster

dull, banal, boring

Obtundity

dulling

rustic

earthy: primitive, rural, bucolic, pastoral,

peevish

easily irritated or annoyed, (discontented; ill-tempered

Tractable

easily managed or controlled, amenable are synonyms (tractable, amenable people will do whatever you want them to do) OPP: cumbersome

devour

eat greedily, enjoy avidly, destroy completely he devoured three sandwiches She devoured his novels Fire had devoured our home

Eccentricity

eccentric, "uniqueness."

frugal

economical, avoiding waste, providential To be frugal means you are careful and intentional about your expenditures.

efficacious

effective, producing results, full of accomplishment. An efficacious medicine is one that cures you of the ailment you had.

prurient

eliciting or possessing an extraordinary interest in sex

dispell

eliminate

envoy

emissary, a representative or messenger

unstrung

emotionally upset opposition would cause him to become unstrung and fly in to a rage. Famously, he once caned a foe into unconsciousness on the floor of the Senate.

Roundly

emphatically," or "so thoroughly as to leave no doubt

Terminus and cessation

end

imperil

endanger; jeopardize, menace, threaten the imperiled bird /a factory's refusal to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions will imperil the air quality nearby

interminable

endless

coltish

energetic but awkward, playful, full of spirite coltish player/ Harrison Coll, a corps dancer who made his debut as Romeo on Tuesday, is endearingly impulsive and coltish.

beguile

entertain and convince by flatteryسرگرم یا گمراه کردن entertain/amuse: he beguiled kids with games deceive/attract: his beguiling words seduced the girl.

avid

enthusiastic, zealous avid reader

covetousness

envious desire to possess something, greed, avarice

paragon

epitome, idol, emblematic, applies to someone who is a model of perfection in some quality or trait. We link paragon with other words that follow it, such as "paragon of virtue" or "paragon of patience."

tantamount/ Paramount

equivalent his silence is tantamount to admission of guilt. Paramount, which means "the highest" or "primary."

cement

erect, build His cantankerous reputation was cemented by years of grousing/protesting at every conceivable opportunity

capricious

erratic, unpredictable,whimsical, volatile, protean capricious spring storms noun: caprice: a sudden change of mind/behavior

cast off

eschewed , avoid, avoid and stay away from deliberately Will they eschew the compromises and alliances necessary to protect democracy? A soft-spoken Englishman who eschews financial television and social media, Mr. Lee started writing an investment newsletter

attest

evince, affirm, assert, prove, declare to be true, certify, manifest That attests to nothing else but the deeply held misogynistic attitude of the current President of the United States.

poignant

evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret, emotionally moving

Hyperbole

exaggeration

plumbed,

examined closely

jingoism vs euphoria

excessive hatred euphoria: extreme happiness

overweening

excessive/exuberant/extravagant, arrogant (too much and bad), profuse overweening pride or overweening ambition/greed

florid

excessively decorated or embellished, flowery: florid speech/ poem Florid applies to writing, speech, decor, etc.—not the people who produce those things! (Actually, you can apply florid to people, but in that context it means "flushed, ruddy," as in having rosy cheeks, which is not appropriate here.) declamatory and grandiloquent, both of which describe pompous orators (that is, people who make speeches) or the speech of such people.

vainglorious

excessively proud or boastful; norsist

agog (at/ to/ with)

excited, interested, eager, cogent, impatient, When you're agog about s.th, you're goggle-eyed with excitement about something یا نگران نگران: agog at her incorrigibly indelicate behavior/ At Christmas time, you are probably agog to see what's in all the beautiful presents/I wouldn't dream of it. I am agog at your initiative.

Dispensation/ dispenser: to give in portions

exemption from a rule or usual requirement: permission , exception, gift The measure excuses anyone caring for a young child or going to school, among other dispensations.

overarching

exhaustive, very important, because it includes or influences many things

exhilarating

exiting, lively and cheerful enemies was simultaneously exhilarating and scary

exorbitant/ exuberance

exorbitant: unconscionable, outrageous, extortionate, amplify, platitude, plethora exuberance: ebullience, alacrity, urge impulse, rabidity released exorbitant amounts of energy./Prosecutors say Wilson was paid exorbitant fees and used a fraction of the funds to hire cheaper Washington-area contractors for the actual work.

ostracize

expel from a group , banish, shun, boycott women are often ostracised and left to face the struggles of old age alone.

tormented

experiencing intense pain especially mental pain

muckraking

exposure of scandals., exposing corruption: reportorial journalism

reproach

express criticism towards, diatribe If you are caught lying, it is a reproach that might bother you for a while./Deaf to his calm reasoning, to his sense of reality, Arcadio reproached him in public for his weakness of character./ reproach s.b for doing s.th

condemnation

expression of strong disapproval Determined not to keep readers guessing, the Globe is urging editorial boards across the country to publish simultaneous condemnations of Mr. Trump's rhetorical attacks on the press in their Thursday editions.

extrapolate

extend; predict on the basis of known data, estimate, conjecture: استنتاج- قیاس- پیش بینی

Gleaned

extracted from various sources discoveries are gleaned from tomes

penury

extreme poverty

jingoism

extreme, chauvinistic patriotism (warlike)

iniquitous or unjust

extremely immoral or wicked, sinful iniquitous political regime that assassinates its enemies.

flagitious

extremely wicked/brutal

prevarication

fabrication, lying تفره رفتن Zuckerman is Roth by any other name, despite the author's regular denials and prevarications.

default

failure to meet an obligation or appear in court/concert or to pay loan/debt Downs says she's arranging to get current on her defaulted loan.

drip irrigation

fall in drops

Chimerical, fallible

fallible, imaginary, unrealistic, quixotic OPP: prgmatic

prevarication

falsehood Trump's prevarications about Putin upon his return to the U.S. remind us that his own pacts last no longer than a news cycle., demial and prevarication

notoriety

fame you get from doing something bad or being part of a misfortune or scandal

ignorant / fatuous

fatuous, uneducated, narrow minded, rude, foolish, silly ignorant of specific types of information. facetious / factious / fatuous The word facetious describes something you don't take seriously. Remove the middle "e," and factious describes a dissenting group. And finally there's fatuous, which is a fancy way to say dumb.

propitious

favorable, apt, auspicious مطلوب OPP: invidious (insidious: hidden -) The most propitious time for an attack was lost.

auspicious

favorable,bright, hopeful, promising, propitious something seems likely to bring success — either because it creates favorable conditions or you just consider it a lucky sign — label it auspicious. Not just the let-down at the end, but also the auspicious build-up, and the sense that it's all there for the taking.

xenophobic

fear of foreigners

bootless

feckless, ineffective

fecund

fertile; productive

militant

fight, involved in war dozens of militants on motorbikes invaded his village /The militants accuse the neutral humanitarian group of failing to meet its obligations to help Taliban prisoners

pugilist

fighter, boxer, combative The two political pugilists went head-to-head back in August for a special election,

squabbling over/about

fighting noisily over small matters

mores

fixed customs or manners/rules ; moral attitudes

distinctive

flashy, ostentatious,pretentious, flamboyant, and gaudy A rapper's diamond-encrusted teeth might be an ostentatious display of "bling,/ He turned up to his signing announcement in an ostentatious pinstriped white suit, which we guess looked cool in the early noughties.

blandishment

flattery intended to persuade, wheedling, veiling, enticement In Trump they saw opportunity, plying him with flattery and blandishments.

sycophantic

flattery, puffery, toady, obsequious, servile sycophantic followers چاپلوس

impeccable

flawless, perfect, foible-less, without any peccadilloes impeccable timing

foible

flaws, weakness, flaw Most people have a foible, or idiosyncrasy, that stands out to others, but interestingly, a person rarely sees his or her own characteristic foible.

poultry

flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food

lithe

flexible, limber, lissomehale

inundated (with)

flooded; overwhelmed by a large quantity

serendipity

fluke, An accidental but fortunate discovery, luck by chance Blockbuster, for all its managerial faults, did what video stores do best: it relied on people and serendipity to create an atmosphere ripe for customer discovery.

pedestrian

footer, dull, boring, mundane, quotidian

pauper

forlorn, downcast,hapless بدبخت بیچاره

prim

formal

ratified

formally approved

erstwhile

former my erstwhile friend Peter Strzok, the erstwhile FBI agent who became a popular scapegoat among President Donald Trump's supporters, was fired from his job at the bureau, according to a report on Monday.

soviet time/ union

former communist country

fortress

fort, castle, citadel

isolated

found trends can be isolated: found

influential

foundational

restive

fractious, impatient Williamson had a fierce commitment to achieving an accord, spending enormous amount of time trying to forge a consensus out of an often restive/fractious assembly.

freewheeling

free from rule/consequences

No-holds-barred

free from the usual limits or rules/ hampering: feewheeling

disabuse

free somebody from an erroneous belief/misconception/deception example: So he didn't want to disabuse people of their prejudices/illusion?

fret/fray

fret: worry fray: noisy fight

chumminess

friendliness, sociability Mr. Durrani's chumminess with his Indian counterpart was as problematic as his views.

Ran the gamut

from A to Z (cover a wide range)

fleeting

fugitive, short, ephemeral, transient OPP: enduring

teeming or abounding with

full of, bustling with

sated

fully satisfied, surfeited: abundance

tirade

fulmination, speech of violent denunciation

disbursement

funds paid out, expending or dispersing money, payment

misanthropy

general hatred for mankind noun: misanthrope The series' reversal of zombie misanthropy is cheerful, adorable, and entirely conscious.

largess

generosity,magnanimity, munificence

courtly

genteel, elegant, civilized, knight OPP: churlish, boorish, hinterland

dulcet

gentle and melodious sound, mellifluous the dulcet tones of the cello

Bogged down, mired

get stuck Wallow: only a person or animal can wallow

land

get. Ascertain, ensure that

Auxiliary

giving assistance or support, secondary, subsidiary, not central

Floes

glaciers

dismal

gloomy

saturnine

gloomy, torpid, laze, torpor OPP: sedulous, solicitous

plum

good,crack

plutocracy

government by the wealthy

oligarchy

government run by a small number of people such as wealthy landowners, royalty or powerful military figures./ plutocracy

amortize

gradually pay off a loan Borrowers see a significant payment jump when the loan switches from interest-only to a fully amortized loan.

grand farce/ grand gesture

grand farce: (negative) a common English idiom the word farce, or "mockery," grand gesture: (positive) a grand gesture would be something like an elaborate marriage proposal, apology, etc.)

Pernicious

greatly destructive, noxious, fatal, deadly, injurious, or harmful, havoc, subtle

verdant

green, vegetation

verdant

green; lush in vegetation, newcomer, fledgling

sentries

guards

Mirth and felicity

happiness (though mirth additionally often implies laughter)

haven

harbor, sheltered port, sanctuary, shelter He wanted to make this country a haven of peace. Thanks to its good soil and moderate climate, the Cape May peninsula is turning into a wine-growing haven/ haven for refugees seeking for opportunity

wallop

hard punch or another strong hit/ defeat (wallop over). A boxer sometimes wins a match with one single, well-aimed wallop to their opponent./ a boxer walloped the rival. it can also be a huge effect or impact/a strong effect: Japan was walloped by record triple-digit temperatures, killing at least 86 people

cumbersome

hard to handle; slow-moving,difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight, cumbrous, unmanageable, awkward:inept/inapt a cumbersome piece of machinery/ his cumbersome writing style/he found the cumbersome language impossible to maintain./ Its longer and wider body made it cumbersome to handle./ cumbersome regulations

draconian

hard, severe, cruel

Draconian

hard, severe, cruel, acerbic, mordant OPP: amiable, amicable

Prejudicial

harmful, detrimantal

deleterious

harmful/ deleterious effect

noxious

harmful; lethal, baneful, deadly, sisnster

bening

harmless, kind

excoriation of

harsh criticism, condemnation, denunciation, censure, scratch: wound on skin Personally, this exposure of scientific racism recalls my hearing Ashley Montagu's excoriation of scientific racism at the University

excoriate,castigate/ chide, admonish

harsh criticism, mild scold

Mordant/ frantic/ choleric

harshly ironic or sinister, bitter frantic: mad, fast wild movements or a desperate attempt to do something. choleric: angry, irritable, bilious

Eclecticism

having mixed, wide-ranging tastes

inclined

having tendency or preference to do s.th Instead, statistics are lower because women are even less inclined to ask for help than they were before."

having soured on s.b

having turned bad (having a sharp biting taste) example: In his tweet, Mr. Trump seemed to link the tariffs to soured ties between the two nations, suggesting a willingness to impose trade sanctions as a lever in pursuit of unrelated U.S. diplomatic goals. Some of the industry's most prominent players are suffering heavy losses amid soured short bets.

nebulous

hazy; vague; uncertain nebulous and contradictory policy of Trump

Perused

he act of reading — you can peruse a book, but you cannot peruse a discovery from a book.

flagitious

heinous, shockingly brutal or cruel, offensive, criminal

abet

help someone do something wrong,complicit in (in a bad way) adj: abetting

vicissitude

hen you talk of the vicissitudes of life, you're referring to the difficult times that we all go through: sickness, job loss, and other unwelcome episodes. No one can escape the vicissitudes of life., fluctuation It also allows me to cheer or groan along with each country's fans at the vicissitudes of fortune — an expression of patriotic devotion that seldom devolves into toxic nationalism.

patrimony

heritage, inheritance The upshot is that today every American inherits a stunning patrimony

recluse

hermit, one who lives in solitude/isolation , not social A lot of those people are recluses and pull away from society anchorite: is a recluse, especially a religious hermit

clandestine

hidden, secret, covert, surreptitious Often these things have to do with political and spy organizations. The CIA might run a clandestine operation to infiltrate terrorist organizations. McCain seemingly survived by sheer willpower, as well as through the comradeship of other captives who passed messages through a clandestine system of tapping the prison walls.

looming

high, come into view threateningly دستگاه بافندگی looming scandal

Virtuoso

highly skilled/successful , especially in music or art

insinuate: innuendo

hint, imply (indirectly: indicate): adumbrate taunt:When it is bad, she says, tabloid magazines insinuate she's on drugs. ریشه دواندن: fear that enemy propaganda has insinuated / a voice can suddenly insinuate itself into a radio listener's private space innuendo: insinuation when you say something indirectly — often of a hurtful or sexual nature. (to make innuendo) The attempts to mislead the public through vague insinuations and innuendo about the center

mercenary

hired soldier, s.b who fights for money

snag

hitch, s.th that limits you

curtailing

hold back, undermining, preventing, reduce in extent or quantity; impose a restriction on

Atrocious

horrifyingly wicked, egregious, bad

steward

husband, conserve, stay put

stigmatized

identified with disgrace

malady

illness

ape

imitate or mimic, copy

sophomoric

immature, raw, shallow, poorly informed and overconfident: sophomoric view: of youth who hold with confidence due to lack of awareness

callow

immature, young

imperious/impervious

imperious: haughty, hegemony, browbeat impervious: stubborn, refractory,obdurate, tenacious, adamant

imprudent/impudent/impute

imprudent:not shrewd impudent:effrontery, improperly bold impute:attribute, ascribe (+/-) Many detractors imputed racist motives to the woman

impetuous

impulsive, act quickly and thoughtlessly on spur of the moment, act in rush Adolescent behavior goes beyond impetuous rebellion or uncontrollable hormones/And he's not being impetuous, thinking of marriage.

defile

impure defiled, which does not appropriately describe an action (you could defile a holy place by doing something very inappropriate, but for a place or thing to be defiled, it should be very pure beforehand.) OPP: purge

enamored

in love with; charmed by

nominally

in name only: nominally he is the boss

torpid

inactive, dormant, lethargic, sluggish, dull, torpor

inane/ inept

inane: silly inept: ineffective action/ Inept people are dumb or clueless; they don't understand things. More than that, inept people are bad at what they do.: tactless, feckless بی عرضه He was inept at governance, and more interested in protecting his own private interests than reforming Italy's economy.

incongruous

inappropriate, incompatible,not suitable or proper, not in harmony, irrelevant The result is a sad jumble of shops, booths, and bazaars often unpleasing in themselves and incongruous when taken together

nascent

inchoate, incipient

irreconcilable

incompatible; not able to be resolved, inconsistent, not congruent, asymmetric irreconcilable differences/ The president must now find a way to reconcile three sets of irreconcilable facts

indecisive

indefinite, not able to make a decision, hesitant, monologic Pence was indecisive for a moment, unsure what to do as he surveyed the crowd below.

unaffiliated

independent,Not being connected or associated with But more than a fifth of VOTERS in the county are unaffiliated with any party.

harbinger (of)

indication The appearance of a ghost is often thought of as a harbinger of death. And both sides likely see the midterms as a harbinger of authentic political power as the presidential race takes shape.

obliquely

indirectly he has obliquely referred to problems

nostrum

ineffective remedy

futile

ineffective, useless

ineluctable/inexorable

ineluctable: impossible to avoid/evade: :inevitable however, the association is as ineluctable as it is agonising (agonizing: torturous,painful) inexorable:impossible to stop/prevent,grim,stern,implacable person:stubborn,intransigent,adamant,impervious

monolithic

inflexible, unchanging, stubborn

inform

influence, to give substance, character, or distinction to

plagiarism

infringement of copyright, piracy

embolden

inspire

aphorism

instructive/didactic saying پند Of the many aphorisms attributed to him, one of my favorites is this: "Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness."

insurer

insurance company

fungible

interchangeable, malleable

heady

intoxicating; exhilarating, extremely exciting

nullified

invalidate Initially the goal was nullified by an offside call, but Rivero awarded the goal after reviewing video./ Supreme Court nullified the contract

Tyros

novices, beginners, amateurs, fledgling, neophyte, verdant,

obeisant

obedient, slavish, complaisant,Kowtowing: flattery: kneeling and touching one's head to the ground to show respect, used to be a custom in Chinese culture

accommodating

obliging, sycophantically, obsequiously, kowtowing

Arcane and esoteric

obscure, special, understood by few; mysterious or secret

Opacity, Inscrutability

obscure, unclear, or incomprehensible, abstruse

Superannuated

obsolete, extremely old

patent

obvious" or "evident, blatant, conspicuous

sympatric/ Simpatico

occurring in the same or overlapping geographical areas OPP: allopatric sympatric plants and animals/species SIMPATICO: of one mind, congenial,sympathetic, amiable

invidious

offensive evidence of invidious discrimination/racism insidious: deleterious, havoc, pernicious, devastating BUT hidden insidious rumor or problem is one whose negative effect is not realized until the damage is already done. Similarly, an insidious disease develops internally without symptoms, so that you don't realize right away that you are sick./FBI investigation revealed the insidious plot that lead to their deaths.

sanction

official permission or approval, embargo

Progeny

offspring; children; descendants OPP: ancestors

shabby

old, worn out, mean no too shabby: any job well done

mélange

olio, hodge podge, a mixture; medley.

ubiquitous

omnipresent While the mountaintop post office is certainly one of the more unique branches, the postal logo is ubiquitous throughout the country.

prompt

on time, give an incentive for action, provoke, INCITE, MOTIVATE The fire destroyed 18 homes and prompted the evacuation of hundreds of others.

detractor

one who disparages or belittles the worth of something, critical person looking for fault

defector

one who joins the enemy, traitor, quisling

miser

one who lives in wretched circumstances to save and hoard moneyخسیس parsimony (parsimonious) He was also an incredible miser and paranoid about money.

partisan

one-sided, biased

tenet

opinion or doctrine, dogma, usually refers to a philosophy or a religion, but it doesn't have to — for instance, Eastern medicine has different tenets from Western medicine. Eliminating even the appearance of cronyism and nepotism in education hiring was a central tenet of the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990.

factitious

opposite

parochial

ordinary, low class, unsophisticated, narrow or limited point of view If an issue or a matter is parochial, it is trivial or only concerns a local area. Likewise, a person with a parochial mentality is narrow-minded, or not open to new ideas. As a parochial school is a school that is affiliated with a particular church, the connection is easy to see.

espionage

organized spying, harsh snooping

provenance

origin

avant-garde

original, innovative, genius, artless

ossified

outdated,become bony those who are younger and newer to the House, view the current leadership team as ossified and are yearning for generational change.

bombastic

overinflated speech, حرف های قلمبه سلمبه- لاف زدن Turgid: swollen.... speech: inflated

pedantic

overly concerned with small details or rules OPP: wheelfree

maudlin

overly emotional,Maudlin is often paired with sentimental, or even schlocky, to describe cry-fests, as in "I can't watch another second of that overly-sentimental, maudlin soap opera. Turn that schlock off."

Extortionate

overly expensive

quixotic

overly idealistic; impractical,impossible, it also has the sense of romantic nobility. 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, which rapidly evolved from quixotic to credible.

outstrip

overtake, pass

arthritis

painful inflammation and stiffness of the joints.

fable

parable, allegory, apologue, moral story featuring animals

perlious

parlous, precarious a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat This is a perilous moment for which there is no quick fix, but there are ideas worth considering.

burlesque

parody, lampoon, spoof, pasquindane

piteously

pathetically, sorrowfully, pitiful, poor hapless bleat: weak, wavering cry of a sheep, goat, or calf. Basically, saying that someone is bleating is calling his complaints pathetic

penitent/pertinent

penitent: remorseful, contrite/religious person pertinent: apposite, apt, propitious, germane, not tangential Like the 16th-century English penitent who confessed to defamation in Mitford v.

hindsight

perception of events after they happen, intuition ادراک ماوقع- پس نگری This hindsight made me work harder than ever, late into the night, from home and with a baby sleeping on my lap.

perspicuous

perceptive, comprehensible, crystal clear, limpid, lucid, luculent One must be extremely exact, clear, and perspicuous, in everything/ be faultlessly perspicuous and perfect in writing

epitome

perfect example

Dotage

period of old age when one's mental faculties decline (it can also mean "foolishness," especially foolish affection, regardless of age).

tenure

period of time a person holds a position/ demand, desire Your tenure as a student ends when you graduate high school/ A president might have to deal with a recession during his tenure in the White House

Perquisites

perks, benefits and privileges, non-salary reward

perpetuity

perpetual, or lasting forever OPP: ephemeral, transient a stopgap: "temporary fix."

nonplussed

perplexed, confused, surprised

tenacity

persistence, stubborn Tenacious: dogged, obdurate, refractory

diligence

persistent hard work,shoulder ornament, typically worn on military uniforms OPP: laxity

tenacious

persistent, resolute, stubborn, adamant

egalitarian

person who believes in the equality of all people, and an egalitarian society gives everyone equal rights. opposite of an egalitarian system/democracy could be a fascist society or dictatorship or Monarchies/ Many young Israelis want a more egalitarian ceremony and freedom from the strictures/

exacting

person:strict, demanding adj: fastidious, consistent exacting regimen: consistent routine

Dissuading

persuade S.B not to take a particular course of action. only to people: (i.e., "I dissuaded the pirates from mutinying.").

eloquent

persuasive and moving, especially in speech, An eloquent speaker expresses herself clearly and powerfully. Even though eloquent usually describes oral speech, it can also be used to describe powerful writing. OPP: glib

pulchritude

physical beauty (especially of a woman) We need to remember that liking pulchritude used to be a basic desire of men

deface

physically/appearance hurt, blemish, disfigure On a recent day, the center was defaced with swastikas painted on its external walls.

pathetic.

pitiful,awful,haggard, worn out, shabby

piquant

pleasantly pungent; attractive, zesty OPP:insipid: favorless

euphonious

pleasing to hear

profuse

plentiful, bountiful, copious, exuberant, abundant, extravagant, overweening a profuse or copious rainfall employees ignored evidence of her profuse bleeding/ fever and deteriorating medical condition.

lacunae

plural of lacuna: hole, blank, gap, missing part It's used a lot to talk about missing parts of books or manuscripts, either because lost pages have created a lacuna, or because censors have blacked out or removed parts of them.

juxtaposition

positioning close together (or side by side) to shoe compare or contrast. In these juxtapositions lies the poetry of the dance.

impuissant

powerless

adulation

praise or flattery that is excessive, wheedling,blandishment Person: sycophantic, puffery, flattery, toady

lauding

praising, accolade

prognosis

prediction about the course of a disease/ disaster, forecast, foretelling example: Financial analysts frequently change their prognosis of the economy/ That unprecedented storm last May confirmed a grim prognosis

predilection

predisposition, preference for or bias toward something Despite his flair for whimsy and his childlike predilections, Kraft is not childish.

predominate / predominant

predominant: (adj.) dominant, paramount: the greatest in strength or power; most common:Such direct calls for regime change may not represent the predominant public opinion in Syria. Predominate is a verb meaning to prevail, to have greater importance or quantity. You can easily see the root word: dominate, to command over.

ostensible (ostensive)

pretended,apparent, superficial, counterfeit, not genuine, imitative, seeming, hen something is ostensible it appears to be the case but might not beصوری OPP: genuine His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity

coy

pretending to be shy politician is coy: has vague statement

guise and disguise

pretext, pretense, Disguise involves hiding your real identity/ Guise is about trying on new attitudes and mannerisms, such as speaking and acting in the guise of a native while you are tourist/ under the guise of friendship he betrayed them Over time they realized their experience mirrored those of hundreds of other women who were abused by Nassar under the guise of treatment.

Thwart

prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.

fend off

prevent, defend against, avert, obviate, stave off politician fends off a reporter's questions by changing the subject./Ellison is fending off allegations of domestic violence

triage

prioritize, metaphorically separate the wheat from the chaff.

equity

probity, fairness, impartiality

trumpet

proclaim, announce, broadcast, declare announce something very loudly, as if you were playing it on a trumpet.

Debauchment

prodigal, profligate, Libertinous , dissolution: turned to drugs,promiscuity, crime, or just letting his life fall apart/ to live a unrestrained life Person: immoral, dissolute, debauched, libertine, riotus

lucrative

producing large profit, beneficial, advantageous lucrative investment

Erudition

profound scholarly knowledge, cerebrality

effusive

profusely thanked the effusive crowd./ given to or marked by the open expression of emotion: demonstrative lively, full of life, exuberant, eruptive افراط- فورانکننده

Verbose

prolix, talkative, volube, garrulous, expansive OPP: laconic, taciturn, reticent, Terese, concise, retiring

proclamations

promulgation (to publicly trumpet)

indemnify (against/from)

protect against loss or damage, insure, compensate for loss, damage, or injury promising to indemnify Kinder Morgan against further cost overruns

instigate (-)

provoke/instigators often begin trouble but then back off and let others break the rules. instigating coup attempt/protest

Pique

provoke: prick: excite, arouse, spring up, stimulate, to make s.b angry/ noun: outburst of anger peak / peek / pique peak: pointy top of something peek: you take a quick glance/quick look at something pique is to upset or excite someone: to pique s.b's interest

opprobrium

public disgrace, fulmination OPP: plaudits, approbation

heralded

publicly announced, regarded heralded as hero

Priggish

punctilious, strict with rules those who were priggish in regards to values and mores missed out on a certain liveliness

Catharsis

purging of emotional tensions, emotional release When I saw the letter of acceptance for Snap,it was a moment of gratitude, and brief catharsis and relief.

purge

purify, sanctify, rid of impurities purge your mind/ purge water by distillation./ purge your sins by prayer/ purge s.b of claims/charges

wrangle

quarrel or argue angrily or disruptively, fight,intense argument: contention, uproar,strife,squabble مشاجره / herd and care animals, cows example: The one that's creating the most interest is the one with China, as the world's two largest economies wrangle for global influence./For hours, diplomats from both countries wrangled over his fate

meandering

rambling, indirect, oblique

dyslexia

reading disorder Famous dyslexics include Thomas Edison, John Lennon, and Whoopi Goldberg.

maverick

rebel; nonconformist, unconventional: apostate, outcast/: who wants independence and revolution

mutinous/ minutiae

rebellious, disloyal, disobedient minutiae: details

refractory

rebellious, stubborn, fractious, recalcitrant, resistant to control, obdurate temporarily unresponsive to nervous/treatment One featured patients with refractory celiac disease type 2, the most severe form of celiac disease/ HQ refractory period — six to 18 hours — is just long enough to relax you into a state of optimism about playing again.

recapitulate

recap, summarize, concise recapitulate somebody else's point before chopping it down.

precipitate

reckless OPP: calculated

profligate

recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources, selfish behaviour The profligate spending seemed particularly abhorrent in a state as cash-strapped as West Virginia.

abatement

reduction, making less active or inactive, remittal, remission tax abatement

patios

regional dialect, slang, "jargon" or "lingo" used by a group

compunction

regret, feel sorry, remorse, guilt compunction is often used in the negative in phrases like "without compunction" or "no compunction." You might say that the burglar acted without compunction when he stole your baseball card collection.

contrite

regretful, remorseful, or even guilty, with compunction

rebuff

reject, refuse government rebuffed a generous financial support depriving the future progeny of appreciation and studying the history.

banishment

rejection

Turbid

related to turbulent, choppy water, muddy, confusing

Dissipation and profligate

related to wastefulness or irresponsible living, prodigal, dissolute OPP: complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles

affiliated, pertinent, germane

related, relevant, apposite, apt pertinent facts, pertinent to this story

Sartorial

relating to clothes or style Natty: sharp and stylish georgic: rural, cultural style

sidereal

relating to stars or constellations

sidereal

relating to the stars,to do with stars and constellations.stellar A sidereal day is approximately 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds.

unremitting

relentless,persistent

reliance on alms

reliance on charity beggar: mendicant, pauper, outcast,homelessدرویش- گا

assuage

relief, satisfy, ease, make less severe, ameliorate, mitigate, alleviate common things that we assuage are fears, concerns, guilt, grief, anxiety, and anger. example: The draft order includes language that analysts interpreted as an effort to assuage Trump's concerns.

pious

religious; devout

deposed

removed from position or power A leader can be deposed, but you don't depose a role

rend/garner/garnish/ garland/render

rend: tear apart render: to do,make, provide garner: to gather garnish: decorate , florid garland: to crown, ascend

overhaul

renovate, making major changes in order to repair, make adjustment overhaul the health care system/tax overhaul/ The word replaced "deportation" in 1996 as part of a large and ultimately devastating overhaul to our immigration laws/ invest an additional $200 million to overhaul and rename the Triumph

recidivism

reoffend crime

revamp

repair, restore, fix up, If you revamp something, you renovate or remake it.

iteration

repetition, process the solution took hundreds of iterations/crew members standing on cherry pickers removed the final piece of scaffolding from the new iteration of SpaceShipTwo.

supplant

replace, supercede, With digital messages and social media supplanting regular mail/ A core tenet of Beijing's "Made in China 2025" strategy is for Chinese tech companies to supplant U.S. firms, not to cooperate with them.

retort, rejoinder

replication, a witty comeback, quick reply to question or insult retort to current affairs, I'm not sure his rejoinder to these increasingly common practices is adequate.

incorrigible

resistant to correction; beyond control

unwavering

resolute, steady, unshakable unwavering determination/devotion/ committment

denouement

result, the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.

resurrection

resurgence, revitalization, reincarnation something that has been brought back to life

vindictive/ vindicative

retaliatory, revengeful, malicious Vindictive and mean rumors show a spirit full of revenge vindicare: to defend or clear someone from guilt: impeachable: innocent/ Vindicate means to justify, prove, or reinforce an idea — or to absolve from guilt

convolusions

retching, folds in the brain,sudden, violent movement of the body/ violent upheaval or turmoil: earthquake A political upheaval or social turmoil can also be called a convulsion, if it's abrupt and violent.

reprisal

revenge, retaliation

mutiny / putsch / sea change

revolt, rebellion against authority: mutiny doesn't have to be at sea or in the military; it can be to "refuse the order of the person in authority," in other words, every teacher's nightmare. engage in a mutiny against an authority/ to put down a mutiny putsch: illegal overthrow of government The push against Corbyn was portrayed as a putsch - a coup against the membership. sea change: profound transformation Meanwhile, a sea change was taking place in U.S. politics./our relationship to pockets is undergoing a similar sea change.

preposterous

ridiculous, absurd

ludicrously

ridiculously

curfew

roadblock, an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited He added that the draft report was instrumental in his efforts to overturn the convictions of Japanese Americans who defied the curfew and relocation orders.

nomad

roamer, wanderer, someone with no permanent home, like the member of a tribe It became a haven of seafarers, nomads and castaways — including survivors of the Titanic, who were lodged there in 1912.

assignation

romantic meetups/rendezvous It also means that he is required to perform not one, but two dances of assignation with various would-be lovers, with whom he banters in excruciating rhymed couplets. Methane consists of a single carbon atom surrounded by four hydrogen ones, giving the gas its chemical assignation of CH4.

extirpated

root out and destroy completely, exterminated, genocide, effaced, annihilated

insolence / hubris

rude, disrespectful, arrogance HUBRISTIC: person who does not lose opportunity to bragging or bombast

indelicate

rude, indecent, offensive, immoral, no manners, dissolute, not tactful and considerate. flurry of criticism about the indelicate use of race as a punchline last month.

resilient

s.b able to recover from damage quickly, elastic, bouncy example: This includes making satellites more resilient to potential attack by Russia or China. make children stronger and more resilient

anachronism

s.th that is not in its correct time Seeing them arrayed in their broad-brimmed hats and red-and-white sashes, it would be easy to dismiss the Daughters as a quaint anachronism.

bugaboo

s.the cause fear, concern, monster the old bugaboo of inflation still bothers them

immolation

sacrifice, In some ancient societies immolation of animals was a common ritual used to gain favor with the gods, ritual killing the immolation of your Hollywood dreams for the good of the family farm.

melancholy

sadness, lugubrious, bleak, stygian

brackish

salty: the brackish water of a Louisiana bayou unpleasant and harsh, unpalatable: Even the rain turned brackish, sending panicked farmers scrambling to rescue crops.

salubrious

salutary, healthy, wholesome

Volleys

salvos, bullets, discharges of shots; series of shots

specimen

sample a specimen of blood or body tissue/a specimen used for cytologic examination and diagnosis/ The great museums of the world harbor a secret: They're home to millions upon millions of natural history specimens that almost never see the light of day.

sanctimonious

sancti: holy excessively or hypocritically pious, Though sanctimonious people might try to act like saints, their actions are far from pure or holy, which just makes them sound like hypocrites.

hypocrisy

sanctimonious, pretend Many times kids are enraged by their parents' hypocrisy when parents make their children follow rules they don't follow themselves./ People who are vegetarians on a moral basis but wear leather jackets

Slake and quench

satisfy, especially of thirst or desire

chary of

scared of Tremulous: scared

discrete/ discretionary/ discreet

scattered/ not obligatory/ to be cautious

disdain

scorn, contemn,Reject with contempt, despise, put down, lack of respect کسر شان دانستن- تحقیر About the only thing they all agreed on was their collective disdain for the administration's plan to provide aid to farmers.

conclave

secret meeting impromptu conclave

complacency

self satisfaction خودراضی instead of complacency we must try hard to be more successful. / Democratic political complacency guarding against complacency and embracing the pressure of high expectations while dismissing potential as "dormant ability."

Solipsistic

self-centered, Solipsism is literally the theory that only the self exists or can be known to exist (solipsistic is sometimes used a bit figuratively to mean "really selfish").

axiomatic

self-evident, unquestionable, overt, blatant, patent, conspicuous

complacency

self-satisfaction; smugness,l norsist (-)

bishop

senior member of the Christian clergy diocese: The group of churches that a bishop supervises is known as a diocese. Typically, a diocese is divided into parishes that are each overseen by a priest./province/government

doyen

senior member, leader, dean, expert, perhaps in a specialized area Chester became the doyen of the black writers whose aesthetic values were formed in the maelstrom of the 1960s.

staid

serious

homily

sermon or religious speech

anguish

severe mental or physical pain or suffering, dementia

lubricious

sexually immoral; lewd,

penumbra

shadow, The part of a shadow surrounding the darkest part

shudder

shake and shiver due to fear/excitement Of course I shuddered at the insidiousness of a burgeoning movement.

stigmatize

shame or brand a person in a more symbolic way., accuse, condemn بدنام کردن leader was stigmatized as traitor.

disgraced

shamed, An ignominious, an unseemly

barbed

sharp or spiky, setose Barbed wire has very sharp points

mordant

sharply harsh, incisive, trenchant, sharp

pastoralist

shepherd, herdsman چوپان- دامپرور

aghast

shocking, afraid

Pithy and succinct

short and to the point, give the gist , taciturn piteous: feel concerned and sympathy pitiable / pitiful / piteous / pitiless: Pity is to feel sorrow or compassion for someone's misfortunes or sorrows. It can also be something that causes sorrow or disappointment/ Pitiless, then, is without (-less) pity, lacking mercy. Pitiless can be cruel or merciless/ Pitiable describes something that's pathetic or miserable: piteous

abridged / truncated/ adumbrated

shortened, usually in reference to a written or spoken work: abridged version of a book truncated: cut short in duration, shortened truncated picnic due to capricious storm adumbrated: outline, give the main points, describe, hint, draw More than any juice cleanse or lottery win or career switch, a foreign language adumbrates a vision of a parallel life.

Epaulet

shoulder ornament, typically worn on military uniforms

flamboyance

show off The movement, the exaggeration, the unashamed flamboyance

stolid

showing little or no emotion, impassive, insouciance

gauche and uncouth

showing off in a vulgar way, ostentatious showing off in a low-class way (as is often associated with the "newly rich").

penitential

showing that you are sorry for having done something wrong, contrite, compunction

sagacity

shrewdness, soundness of perspective

dwindle

shrink away, diminish gradually in size, amount, or strength Her savings dwindled down/ Since the internet forced most publications to adopt a free online presence funded by click-driven ad revenue, the value of print advertisements — once the main source of print publication revenues — dwindled.

parody/ parity

silly spoof, humorous or mocking imitation of something Comedians and comedy writers love to parody the President./ Anything in the public eye could be the object of a parody. Parity: parity is equality, and that's no joke. A Short Film" parodies — by race, age, gender or inclination — you're less likely to find it witty.

boondoggle

silly trivial useless work

rube

simple and unsophisticated, naive person

plight

situation that's hard to get out of. (extrication is difficult ), predicament, PLEDGE/PROMISE struggle for life: plight of refugees, or the plight of sea birds after an oil spill, plight financial condition example: He also drew attention to the plight of innocent men on death row PREDICAMENT: She is in a predicament: Despite her impressive education, she is unemployed./seeing another baby orca facing starvation are gruesome reminders of the dangerous predicament these magnificent creatures face.

adroit: mercurial چالاک

skilled, successful ماهر nimble

sleight of hand

skillful deceptionتردستی

deft

skillful, nimble, apt, or adept, dexterous Mr. Parks is a deft and often-dulcet pianist

Traduce

slander, aversion, canard

tenuous

slander, not dense and thin: shaky, flimsy/weak Tenuous arguments won't win any debate tournaments.

canard

slander, rumor, aversion cast slander/aversion

soporific

sleepy,drowsy, hypnogogic, somniferous One of his officers then broke the soporific silence of the tent

trundled

slow movement, rolled or moved heavily or noisily Careened: fast, out-of-control movement tarry (tarried): leave slowly and hesitantly (for person): a person lingering

peccadilloes/ malefaction/ trespasses

small or insignificant sins, or peccadilloes, not as such larger failures as malefactions (crimes) or trespasses (sins)./vice

convivial

sociable, gregarious, to describe your friend who is "the life of the party."

intuit

solve by istinct

topical

some information or news is current and of immediate interest

Unscrupulous

someone who behaves in a dishonest or unethical way., immoral, prodigal,dissolute, profligate inane:silly (not speech)

interlocuter

someone who participates in a conversation, "a conversation partner," or for "a third party in a conversation," like a middleman who speaks on behalf of an organization. The king's interlocutors told him that the IPO, far from helping the kingdom, would undermine it.

heckler/ badgering

someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections/ who harasses or badger s.b/ interrupts speech ilde's audiences, then, often minimal, were a disconcerting combination of true believers and rowdy hecklers.

hoax

something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

soporific

somnific, soporiferous, somniferous, slumberous, drowsy, lethargic, blithe

lulled

soothe, convey a false feeling of security, assuage, conciliate

woebegone

sorrowful, downcast, sad, bleak, lugubrious, stygain, melancholy

commodiousness

spaciousness; roominess

malighn

speak unfavorably about, badmouth,evil or harmful in nature:maleficent Invariably, the body with authority is malign and corrupt; any criticisms of the intruder are vilifications or "smears."

Homo sapiens

species to which modern man belongs, Cro-magnon, Boskop man In fact, technology is the divine breath, the animating, ensouling force of Homo sapiens.

casuistic

specious, practicing clever but unsound reasoning

spurious

specious,apocryphal, superficially true or attractive but in fact false.

panegyric

speech in praise of s.b/s.th, tribute encomium, eulogy, paean

dispatch (n)

speed, efficiency, promptness

Mettlesome

spirited or courageous, intrepid

rambling

sprawling, straggly, pedantry گزافه گویی- شاخ و برگ دادن digressive/rambling speech: depart from main point

sprawling

spreading out in different directions,rambling, untidy city or its suburbs described as sprawling/sprawling handwriting

inertia

stagnation, The tendency of an object to resist a change in motion سکون- بی حالی

impasse

stalement, a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible, deadend,deadlock If the impasse continues for months or years — a possibility — the damage to the world economy would be significant.

glacial

standoffish OPP: genial, congenial, amiable, amicable, cordial

crescendo

steadily increasing in volume or force, accumulative

pilfering

stealing, shoplifting

crayon

stick of wax made for drawing and coloring, pencil

Turgid

stiff, swollen or bombastic unhealthy: abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas

Filched, Poached

stolen, make off on belonging of others South Park and College Humor created a similar spoof, then one of them must have "stolen" the sketch from the other.

Allegories

stories with a moral or political meaning

peculiar

strange, aberrant, anomaly

puritan (n)

strict religious person, moral, abstainer, ascetic OPP: dissolute, debauched, libertine, lascivious, lecherous He's a puritan of morality and work ethics

arresting

striking; eye-catching, mesmerizing, impressive Something arresting commands your attention. It's stunning, and you can't turn away. When the police arrest someone, they capture them. Likewise, when something is arresting, it captures your attention because it is so sensational. arresting song/arresting story is captivating and engrossing

windfalls

strokes of luck, unexpected and easily-gained good fortune, typically one involving money, such as the windfall profit from a lucky stock purchase. Lexus is also deemed likely to benefit from a windfall from growing trade tensions between China and the United States. That anomaly was generated by a windfall from Uber's sale

hale

strong and healthy, to breathe

animadversions

strong criticisms

aversion

strong dislike, detest

tempest

strong storm with violent winds, commotion or disturbance

smitten (with)

struck with a powerful feeling; inspired with love Immediately, Morrison was smitten with the natural beauty of the land and the simplicity of daily life.

recalcitrant

stubborn, fractious, refractory, intransigent,disobedient But the president's threats indicate the extent of administration officials' frustration with Canada, which they describe as the most recalcitrant party to the talks.

intransigent

stubborn, obdurate, refractory, adamant intransigent advocate Although Kudlow called China intransigent, he said there were hints of both sides being able to get back around the negotiating table.

addlepated

stupid and confused

loggerhead

stupid, carnivorous turtule be at loggerhead with s.b عدم توافق/ناسازگاری داشتن The United States and China, the world's two largest economies, are increasingly at loggerheads over trade.

modish

stylish, contemporary, modern

quelled

subdued or overcome quell your fear OR ALLAY fear/He was among those who led the attack on Marawi, but managed to escape before troops quelled the uprising in October./ firefighters quelled flames

epiphany

sudden realization, When inspiration hits you out of the blue, call it an epiphany., a divine manifestation burst of clarity There was no epiphany to get the team back into the gear.

volatile

sudden, radical change., unstable, unwavering, shaky OPP: stable A person who is volatile loses his or her temper suddenly and violently. A volatile political situation could erupt into civil war. When the stock market is volatile, it fluctuates greatly. a volatile oil evaporates quickly./ volatile temperament temperament: usual mood, nature

conducive TO

suitable FOR; beneficial TO, appropriate FOR

synopses

summary

bigoted

superior, tenacityprejudiced

transcendence

superiority, beyond ordinary limitations: spiritual state moving beyond physical needs and realities. Their metaphysical tastes range from Carl Jung's psychology to ancient Stoic philosophy, which calls for self-control and transcendence of material wealth.

Undergird

support and strengthen, verify, corroborate, bolster, buttress, fortified

blindside

surprise Cravens told SI he was blindsided by the move.

capitulate, capitulation

surrender, give up

beset

surrounded

Expeditious

swift, fast

Emblematic of

symbolic

emblematic (of)

symbolic, representative of ,typical Sometimes emblematic is used for things that are excellent examples. An A student is an emblematic student, and a war hero is an emblematic soldier. Emblematic people are symbols of what others aspire to be.

genocide

systematic destruction of a race or cultural group, racial extermination

reticent

taciturn

high-handed

tactlessly overbearing, imperious, arrogant, domineering , cavalier Some of Mr Petro's critics worry more about his high-handed managerial style than his ideology.

Annexation

takeover of territory, it can also refer to less major acts of acquisition. the French annexation of Madagascar as a colony in 1896/Much of the region was Austrian until annexation by Italy after World War I,

ranting (against S.TH)

talk angrily, blether,harangue he is still ranting about the damage to his car.

volubility

talkativeness, articulateness چرب زبانی Her passion and volubility were frowned upon in the taciturn world she inhabited.

enmeshed with/in

tangled in a confused mass, decoy, trap enmeshed in further obligations / deeply enmeshed with the Saudis/ country is enmeshed in turmoil

on par with

tantamount to

pedagogy

teacher

needling S.B NOT s.th

teasing

monotony

tedious, banal, boring, lack of variety

penchant for,

tendency toward

Occlusive

tending to occlude, close, seal OPP: straightforward

enclave

territory, district Spanish enclave, enclave of africans

deposed

that word is for kings, dictators, etc., forced out of power

infusion

the act of infusing or introducing a certain modifying element or quality, abscission, extract The Democrats' infusion of tech cash and support originated outside party headquarters. hoping for a fresh infusion of cash, the nascent public works program had to shut down when funds were not forthcoming. القا-تزریق-استخراج- ریزش

rhetoric

the art of using language effectively and persuasively, negative: implying artfulness over real content. If someone gives a clever speech but doesn't really address the problem, you might say, "That's just a lot of rhetoric."

hoi-polloi

the common people; the masses

incumbent

the current officeholder, obligatory

incumbent

the current officeholder, obligatory the incumbent mayor/ It is incumbent upon you to do the dishes.

detente

the easing of hostility especially between countries., a relaxing of tension, relief, catharsis if 2 countries are at loggerheads with each other over trade, but they reach to rapprochement: they have reached a state of detente worry is rising in South Korea that a tentative detente is slipping away./With the detente with Washington at a delicate stage, security analysts are watching whether, and to what extent, North Korea might moderate its show of force.

rife with contention

the field is subject to great debate

zenith

the highest point, culmination

quintessential

the most typical, ideal, or important, perfect example, epitome baseball is the quintessential American sport

Assimilation/Acculturation

the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another, the process of becoming part of a new land and culture.

mask/Masquerade

they hide their true emotions in some way. Masquerade is close, but it means either "to pretend to be someone" or "to be disguised as something else." Neither of these are quite right, so the correct word is mask.

cerebration

think about s.th

tertiary

third

pondering

thoughtful consideration

specter

threat, which can also mean "ghost") is "something widely feared as a dangerous occurrence.

baleful

threatening, financing baleful eyes: scaryyy: teacher

ominously

threateningly,possibly indicating danger or evil is in the future, sinister, baleful, menacing نحس شوم Other publicly available information, including Trump's own admissions, also suggests more ominously his complicity with Russian President Vladimir Putin's plan to help Trump win the 2016 election.

provident

thrifty, frugal, planning prudently for the future: prospicient As a result, hunter-gatherers considered their environments to be eternally provident, and only ever worked to meet their immediate needs.

frisson

thrilling shiver/excitement, pleasurable sensation of fright a frisson of surprise shot through him/I felt very very far from home and alive with the frisson of being in a place so unknown to me.

hermetical

tightly sealed, austere, ascetic, anchoritic

scintilla

tiny, DREATH, scarce, small amount, iota, shred, smidge OPP: Surfeit, CLUT (excessive amount) It comes sandwiched between the words a and of in phrases like "a scintilla of doubt" or "not a single scintilla of evidence." If there is a scintilla of decency left in you,"

unflagging

tireless, steady

indefatigable

tireless, unflagging, energetic Such high-profile rejection would discourage many CEOs, but not the indefatigable Roberts./he thanks belongs to the indefatigable parents

pick up the gauntlet

to accept a challenge, dare to do s.th

make common cause with sb

to act as an ally.

vanquish

to beat and win a competition, to overcome

adumbrated

to briefly outline or describe, reported

luminate

to brighten with light, deep thinking, cogitate, lucubration, contemplation

incinerate

to burn to ashes

wrought

to cause damage: destruction wrought by a storm shaping, altering, molding, and manufacture of various metals: a finely wrought essay designed to elicit a tear/ Granton running across a vacant lot and darting onto a wrought iron fence with one leg raised.

flummox

to confuse; to perplex

emend

to correct or revise a written text

enumerate

to count, list, or itemizeبرشمردن The letter also enumerated the country's core values/ Sakharov went on to enumerate the threats to humanity. Innumeracy بی سوادی ادبی Plagiarized سرقت ادبی

Lambaste

to criticize harshly

weep

to cry, wail

notorious

to describe people, places, or things that are famous for a bad reason, bad reputation

undermine

to describe sabotage or the act of weakening destroy property or hinder normal operations:sabotage, subvert, counteract: view of history seen as undermining national pride and identity. dig a hole/tunnel he girl who wears a tuxedo to the prom might subvert traditional ideas about beauty.

hold forth on

to discuss

gerrymander

to divide an area into voting districts in a way that favors a political party, cheat, divide She pointed to "Russia's ongoing interference and Trump's complete unwillingness to stop it or protect us," as well as voter suppression and gerrymandering efforts.

limn

to draw, describe, explore, interrogate

bedizen

to dress in a vulgar, showy manner

oust (s.b from doing s.th)

to drive out; expel; depriveبرکنار کردن

scrutinize/ sift through

to examine carefully/in details, canvass, analyse But her financial situation is difficult to scrutinize, in large part because her company, Sandra Lee Incorporated, is privately held.

pillory

to expose to public scorn or contempt,attack or ridicule publicly

dogg

to follow closely like dog, persistent dogging him/ dogging preservance

ingratiate

to gain another's favor by flattery or false friendliness to ingratiate himself to the state Republican Party

abase

to humiliate, degrade, belittle, disparage, derogate, denigrate

aggrandize

to increase in power, influence, and reputation

incense

to infuriate; to enrage, make angry

warrant

to justify, justification, license

exterminate

to kill or destroy completely, genocide,

innuendos

to make indirect indication/point, implicate to make innuendo

promulgate

to make known officially, spread out, announce, trumpet The secretary continues to believe the rule promulgated by the previous administration is bad policy,

bemoan

to moan and groan; to express great regret; to lament, mourn گریه زاری- افسوس

defer

to postpone,procrastination, to comply with another person's opinion or wishes

forestall

to prevent;mitigate

debunk

to prove wrong, disprove, explode

jeopardize

to put in danger/risk

Ratiocinate

to reason logically, think

repudiate: rebuff

to reject, refuse repudiate offers/racism

Supersede

to replace, supplant the younger running back will supersede the veteran player as he gets older

deride

to ridicule, to scorn, treat with contempt,insulting Criticizing something with words is a common way to deride, and politicians often deride each other in their speeches during election campaigns.

whet

to sharpen, to stimulate: excite or make more acute," and the word is often used in the phrase "whet [your] appetite," professor found himself unable to whet the interest of his students

decry

to speak disparagingly, to curse

patronizing

to speak down to others,condescending

overrun

to spread over, infest, occupy in large numbers, defeat, overcome vermin: pest, animal...

cohere/adhere

to stick with it or agree to abide by rules, cohere example: subjects reappear and cohere into a unified vision./ They adhered to their plan

groan under the strain

to suffer under a burden

smother

to suffocate, destroy, squelch

take umbrage at

to take offense at, angry at

appropriated

to take possession of/ allocated, assigned

lionized

to treat as a celebrity,given public attention and approval

Brooked

tolerated

histrionic

too dramatic like actor his histrionic rantings make a trip to the grocery store seem like a matter of life and death./ histrionic and garrulous onscreen persona

tortuous AND torturous

tortUous: with twist and turns, tricky, intricate, complex: convoluted tortuRous: S.TH PAINFLU one of the most tortuous and controversial elements of the process.

labyrinthine

tortuous, confusing, complex, or maze-like: avgue government's labyrinthine bureaucracy.

torturous

torturous: terrible pain, excruciating tortuous: twist and turn, intricate Painstaking: with care

gridlock

traffic congestion, stuck, prevent development To avoid gridlock, Fairfax County commuters are urged to consider the use of alternative travel options / voters are limited in a choice of candidates and confronted with government gridlock caused by political polarization.

Gallivant

traipse sprint: run fast

equable

tranquil; steady; uniform, equanimity

quash

transitive v. To set aside or annul, especially by judicial action -To put down or suppress forcibly and completely: quash a rebellion/protest = crack down on protest SYN: subdue-oppress-suppress-annul example:If GOP leaders don't "quash" anti-immigrant talk, they risk losing Latino support.

lucid

translucent, transparent, understandable, sane/coherent/ rational, limpid, luculent, pellucid example: A wonderfully lucid explanation on his own website

veneration

treating with respect/awe/admiration, devotion, religious zeal objects of contemplation and even veneration./ In evoking a bucolic New England past and expressing a deep veneration of nature, he used simple and direct language, though often to surreal effect./ He signed the legislation anyway, but not before observing that the growing veneration of King was "based on image not reality."

legerdemain

tricky, dexterous, magical I didn't spend hours palming cards and rolling coins across my knuckles, practicing the skills necessary to master legerdemain.: magician performs act of legerdemain.

nugatory

trifling; worthless However, the chance of any of these programs being enacted is nugatory./It includes "insuperable," meaning impossible to overcome, and "nugatory," of no value or importance.

Minutiae

trivial/tiny details he had memorized the many minutiae of the legal code

belligerence********

truculence, enmity, aggressively hostile attitude, violation, infringement کج خلقی- ستیزگرایی- تجاوز But given that Europe felt the U.S. was being too aggressive before, it's hard to see how Trump's belligerence will change the outcome now.

pugnacious

truculent, belligerent,aggressive, arrogant And as he got older, ever more pugnacious, he harbored an increasing disdain.

candor

truth

furor

tumult, sudden reaction, often negative and shared by many people, such as the furor that erupted when Coca-Cola replaced its beloved soft drink with "New Coke" in the 1980s.

entwine

twist together, weave, joined Farming is entwined in this country's identity,/ we remain emotionally entwined.

contortion

twisting or bending out of something's normal shape

despotic

tyrannic, Dictators and tyrants, tyrannical ruler, autocratic, monarch his administration was arrogant and despotic

tenuousness

uncertainty,fragile

dyed-in-the-wool

unchanging in a particular belief or opinion; inveterate., unwilling to change OPP: protean

intransigent

uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled, stubborn

hemorrhage

uncontrollable loss of other things: profuse bleeding: cerebral hemorrhage: brain bleeding the unforeseen hemorrhaging of the appropriated funds

subterranean

underground, cellar, basement

enervate

undermine, weaken, vigor, disturb,enervate someone is to sap their energy example: And nothing enervates me more than raw tortilla./

tacit

understood or implied without being stated, silent, taciturn

stifle/ suffocate

unease, admonish, castigate, chide

crotchet

unfounded belief, whimsical, complaining, older people, like the crotchety old man who sits on his porch and yells at you to slow down when you drive by.

unwholesome

unhealthy

Unbeknownst to

unknown by He hid his shame from almost everyone, though his situation was ultimately discovered because one of his coaches - unbeknownst to Al-Shaair - worked at the motel.

inveterate: unwavering

unlikely to change, well established, habitual, chronic, refractory, obdurate inveterate gambler, drinker or smoker/liar Pathological liar بیمارگونه دروغگو I snagged a spot next to Beau Bailey, a retired hydrologist and inveterate global traveler.

improbable

unlikely to happen, unbelievable, marvellous You know the existence of the Loch Ness Monster is improbable/ We missed one of the most improbable early round comebacks that sparked one of the best runs in U.S.

superfluous

unnecessary

massacred

unnecessary killing of a large number of people, decimation, genocide an army massacres an entire village of innocent people

hack

unoriginal, banal

odious

unpleasant, harsh

mercurial

unpredictable, changeable, erratic, fickle I did a reader poll recently to test my theory that nothing our mercurial president might do or say — however absurd or outrageous — would be truly surprising.

mulishness

unreasonable stubbornness

folk tale

urban legend, incorrect Street entertainers enacted folk tales, impersonated fantastical creatures, paraded exotic animals.

metropolitan

urban, related to city/metropolis OPP: Rustic, bucolic, pastoral Akers grew up in a big metropolitan ranch and dreamed of living on a farm with horses.

wheedling

urging by means of teasing or flattery, enticement گول زدن- چاپلوسی

disposal

use

euphemistic

use of a favorable word in order not to offend s.b/substituting a mild term for a harsher or distasteful one And "whitewashing" is a euphemistic way of describing what was going on: the goal was to eradicate the Aboriginal Australian culture.

salutary

useful,lucrative, healthful, tending to promote سالم مغذی physical well-being; beneficial to health,good the salutary influence of pure air"/ In doing so, he caught the essence of the arms industry's case/ regarding the salutary effects of defense spending on the economy:

futile

useless; pointless futile attempt

obscure

vague, not clear/ OPP: REVEAL But as the debate about social media's responsibility and the First Amendment rages, Mr. Zuckerberg's comment obscures as much as it reveals, experts said./ This forest obscures our view of the river

iridescent

varying in color when seen in different lights, changeable, brilliant, /lustrous: glossy/shiny/ پرزرق و برق OPP: plain, drab A large ring of black, iridescent stone glimmered

graft

verb: to unite/glean/amalgam noun: "acquisition of money (or other valuable)

affidavit

verification, written declaration under oath (شهادت به درست)

sumptuous

very costly, luxurious, or lavish,Extortionate OPP: nugatory

fecund

very creative

percipitous

very steep

habiliment

vesture, clothes associated with a particular profession/occasion

pious

vice, bad habit, religious

utterance

vocalization, So when you're saying something, you're making utterances

enlist

voluntarily join the military, recruiting or hiring people for some purpose He died at 57 in January little more than a month after enlisting the son of novelist John Updike to carve a unique grave marker./enlist in the army

Traipse

walk or tramp about, walk casually or needlessly Reconnoiter: make a military observation of a place Circumambulate: walk all the way around bop (move or travel energetically) sidle (walk timidy) errand: short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission

meander

wander aimlessly on a winding roundabout course Divergent thinking requires meandering mental forays and mental flexibility

stray (from)

wander away from a direct course or at random Your attention may stray / home for stray animals.

itinerant

wandering from place to place; unsettled They are not itinerant voters like a lot of the Democratic base — they're rooted and they always vote."

hawkish

warlike, martial, favoring conflict over compromise

prodigal

wasteful

dissipation

wasteful spending, squandering

pilgrim

wayfarer, haji, When you make a reverent journey to a place you consider sacred, you're a pilgrim Officials hope it will transport 60 million passengers annually and ease traffic congestion for Muslim pilgrims.

ropy

weak, old, poor quality ropy/ropey electrical wiring system

feebleness

weakness

sedulous (person-adj)

works hard and doesn't give up, assiduous, painstaking, and diligent. And that, following an assessment of his sedulous performance over the years, the distributor was promoting Mr. Dalai to manage the College Street branch.

ecumenical

worldwide in scope, ubiquitous, cosmopolitan, universal She belongs to a close-knit, ecumenical group called People of Praise that, like other Christian groups, believes in the sanctity of life and opposes abortion, members say.

effete

worn out; barren, degenerate, shabby, disapproving term meaning decadent and self-indulgent, even useless. کهنه- از کار افتاده pretentious or refined, verging on wimpy and ineffectual Star athletes run the risk of losing their edge and becoming effete posterboys for their sports./a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"

fretful (S.B might be Fretful about S.TH)

worried wrong: fretful scandal.... s,th wrong

garland

wreath or circle of flowers

withered

wrinkled or dried up or shriveled from loss of moisture, shrunken with age example: your skin is looking a little withered from being out in the sun all the time/ It may be too soon to squawk about withered lawns or shriveled shrubs

puckish

wry, funny, playful, mirthful, vivacious, blithe OPP: somber , gloomy, dark sobriety: serious

Hankering, proclivity

yen, propensity, strong desire, urge impulse: to crave s.the OPP: disinclination, unwillingness I have hankering for pizza/ So if your little ones are already hankering to dress up for Halloween, here's their chance. they all place the court's eminence above their own proclivities./Trump's proclivity for sending impulsive messages on his favorite platform, Twitter.

avid

zealous, enthusiastic

Made demand on

انتظار داشتن از کسی برای انجام کاری

fabrication

ساختگی- جعلی This whole narrative is a fabrication driven by hackers who want to undermine me/ with Trump calling the claims "a complete fabrication

nepotism

پارتی بازی favoritism, discrimination

hackneyed

پیش پا افتاده و کهنه trite, unoriginal, banal, commonplace, cliche example: Yet Lauter brings fresh energy to what might otherwise be hackneyed territory./ hackneyed joke: less funny

collateral

auxiliary, secondary, off to the side

retaliatory

avenging, punitive, retributive, vindicatory, pay back in kind

shun

avoid, refrain, eschew When you eat with others, it would be rude — and sad — to shun conversation.

dodged

avoided

cantankerous

bad-tempered; belligerent, truculent, disagreeable or difficult to deal with

proscribe

ban OPP: Prescribe

poultice

bandage, plaster

expulsion

banishment, kick out, expel, being kicked out of something, like a club, a school, or an airplane.

augmentation

become larger in size

flabbergasted

bedazzled, surprised, amazed

beguiled (by)

being captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled I was beguiled by her beauty

seemliness

being proper and appropriate

credulous

believing on slight evidence, gullible credulity

cynical

believing that people act only out of selfish motives, misanthropical, thinks others are soilpsistic, distrustful Instead, we got a cynical and one-sided document/But today they're mere bywords for cynical commercialism and deliberate consumer misdirection.

supplicate

beseech, beg, plead, implore

malign

besmirch, badmouth It becomes notorious

treachery

betrayal, perfidy

tendentious

biased OPP: disinterested, objective, impartial, not partisan "Half the country" may oppose the moon mission, but here Chazelle offers a peculiar, tendentious, and self-revealing cinematic interpretation of that phrase in the form of a montage.

global boom

big good thing

philippic

bitter denunciation; tirade

surreal

bizarre, irrational and imaginary and incongruous juxtapositions films, writing, painting, and other art forms with irrational images the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature

impeachable

blame , to be blame or criticize, without any doubt innocent, blameless, inculpable : unimpeachable: unquestionable

chide

blame and castigate in a gentle way, to ride them or get on their case, without really getting in their face.

Imputing

blaming

confabulation/blather/ puffery

blather is empty talk, and confabulation is invented talk, only puffery means "exaggerated or false praise,"

gore/ carnage

blood carnage: slaughter

kinship

blood relationship, close family-like relationship Only a glance at rose of Sharon's blossoms reveals its kinship with other members of the family.

pedigree

bloodline, greed

buttress / protract

bolster, reinforce, brace, shore up Protract: promote, prolong

ennui

boredom, tedium (tedious) A terrible TV show could create ennui

jejune

boring, banal, immature: adolescent, juvenile, puerile/ superficial

Rabble and host

both mean "crowd," which is something you might not be able to hear over

daunted

bothered

reneged

break a promise/contract

refulgence, effulgence

brightness, radiance

eclectic

broad, multifarious, not limited

Contusions

bruises lesions: injuries, wounds

erect

build But Little was also speaking to the group responsible for erecting this memorial

onerous

burdensome, difficult

caustic

burning, harsh or corrosive, acerbic, harsh

faux-naif

naive, simple

provincial

narrow minded, myopic, parochial

artless

natural, sincere without cunning or deceit, ingenious:frank/ (of persons) lacking art or knowledge example: Instead, "Ocean's 8," directed by Gary Ross, is hypercompetent and artless./ You want something?" said Gloria, eyes wide in an apparently artless complexity that fooled her huge "nursemaid" not at all/ label this novel "authentic," and therefore "artless."

propinquity

nearness, kinship, proximity

tyro

neophyte, fledgling

skittish

nervous; easily frightened, rstive

consensual

neutral agreement/ bilateral Mr. Brafman said in an interview that the emails support Mr. Weinstein's claim that his relationship with the woman was consensual.

sobriquets

nickname, appellation

irrevocability

no return, cannot be undone or taken back., permanent, fixed irrevokable In May 1998, irrevocable conversion rates for the currencies that would be merged into the euro were implemented.

titular

nominal

undue

not appropriate; excessive, not payable (due) undue influence/ undue elegance/ undue loan the law imposed an "undue burden" on the right to end pregnancy before the fetus is viable./Our police department is the greatest police department in the United States. /They are all family men, decent men, and they do not respond with any undue violence," Daley said.

Periphery

not central, fringe It leaves her where she will probably remain in art history, closer to the periphery than the center./ The latter group shares bunk beds in "ant tribes," overstuffed apartments on the periphery of the big city.

de jure

by law,legitimate or legal de facto: by practicede facto practices at companies are sometimes discriminatory despite de jure regulations against those practices.

elicit

call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses), provoke, revoke great speech will elicit cheers / Teachers try to elicit responses from students.

placate

calm, assuage,conciliate, soothe, appease, lenify, pacify, gruntle example: But there is now a recognition that such a decision will not help to placate Iraqi citizens who are calling for radical change/

halcyon

calm, peaceful, or tranquil

equanimity

calmness, composure, halcyon his equanimity under pressure, and his relentless march to greatness he's been playing with a ripened equanimity, settled in the saddle and in no kind of hurry.

inconsolable

can't be comforted/consoled because they're extremely sad and despairing.: desolate

incendiary

capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily, dynamite, combustible, inflammatoryآتش افروز- نفاق آمیز

enchanting

captivating

tutelage (under the tutelage of...)

care, protection, teaching he's under the tutelage of a sociopathic teacher

prudent

careful,a wise and well-thought-through decision or action a prudent manager/If you're getting in trouble, it is probably prudent to keep your mouth closed and just listen.

exorcise

cast out/expell a devil or evil spirit, using prayer Of course Spacey "weighs on the room," Groban said, "but it's something we want to try to exorcise through the course of the night."

nonchalance

casual lack of concern, a relaxed state without anxiety or enthusiasm بی تفاوت- سهل انگار acted with "studied nonchalance," which means to sort of fake it.

eremitic

not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations: austere, ascetic the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony"

sporadically

not regular, periodically or occasionally Working sporadically is hard because you lack a steady income

unconscionable

not right or reasonable

infamy

notoriety, extreme ill repute

work by rote/numbers/guesswork

work by experience, instructions, guessing layperson: non-professional:without experience

abhorrent / aberrant

Abhorrent describes something truly horrible like finding a dead rat in your soup, but something aberrant is just abnormal, like a cat in a pink fedora./ abhorrent:detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive, and offensive to the mind He referred to the Myanmar military's actions as "abhorrent ethnic cleansing."

prolific

Abundantly productiveپرکار- پربار a prolific writer/ tree According to Worldwatch, such nets are woefully inadequate in combating malaria - which is a far more prolific killer than Aids in Africa.

sycophantic

attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery, apple polisher In the news pages, Trump's coverage was so favorable that the New Yorker magazine said the Enquirer embraced him "with sycophantic fervor."/By isolating themselves in a bubble of sycophantic loyalists, they set themselves up for disastrous errors.

concede

admit,give away or grant something: abdicate,surrender or relinquish, yield you admit that it is true, proper, or certain--usually in an unwilling way and often in the context of a competition At midnight, the candidate finally conceded defeat/ leaders are not ready to concede power

repartee

adroitness and cleverness in reply, banterحاضرجوابی her repartee made her enemies

sparingly

adverb- limited, economical,moderately, modestly OPP: prodigal- dissolute (immoral-wasteful)

quack

an unqualified or fake doctor, charlatan, shyster

forebear

ancestor, refrain from doing: hold back/resist, tolerate "We will no longer be forbearing, and instead become more determined" in seeking international partnerships

raconteur

anecdotist, storyteller, someone who tells amusing stories A raconteur with a sharp memory who tells unlikely narratives that prove to be true/ a natural raconteur whose sharp writing defines the piece.

anemic/myopic

anemic: weak myopic: nearsighted, parochial, lacking foresight or scope

irate

angry you might get an irate phone call from her./ irate crowd/ Trump's practice testimony was full of lies and contradictions, and he eventually became so irate that he launched into a 30-minute rant.

disgruntled

angry or dissatisfied disgruntled customers

vexing

annoying, irksome; irritating

obnoxious

annoying, unpleasant, offensive Bernard is the most obnoxious, filthy rich, throwing his money around guy, just the worst type of person. Which is just so fun to play."

obviated

anticipated, made unnecessarily obviate: prevent s.th from happening/ avert/ resolve/ eliminate/ rid off برطرف کردن Using a mobile map app, for example, obviates the need to rely on other people

antiquity/ antiquities

antiquity: archaic time antiquities: objects from antiquity/ archaism

seismic

anything related to the study of the pressures in the Earth's crust/ ancient Greeks, "seismos" meant an earthquake. Later on, when the study of earthquakes became a science NOW far more likely to be applied to political or psychological turmoil than anything to do with the earth: unstable Creating an inventory of possibly vulnerable buildings "is an essential first step in developing longer-term solutions to mitigate the seismic vulnerability that we live with every day," Garcetti wrote in a letter to lawmakers.

torpor

apathy, lethargy, dormancy, latency

deification

apotheosis, exaltation,treat someone like a deity (a god) He hoped to retreat into gold medal deification and learned that being an athletic hero is now a lot more complicated, especially as an alleged harasser in this #MeToo era.

meretricious

apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity, specious, spurious

mier

appearance

propitiate

appease, conciliate, pacify, mollify, placate, mitigate She was famously jealous and violent, and Hawaiians tried to propitiate her with offerings of pork

apposed/ opposed

apposed: place side by side and close: juxtaposition opposed: against an opponent or opposing side

trepidatious/ Insipidity/ temerity

apprehensive or nervous, "in a state of fear that something may happen/ ties well with hypochondria Insipidity: boringness; dullness temerity: excessive confidence; audacity

annexation

appropriation, acquisition, political or military takeover of territory, it can also refer to less major acts of acquisition. If you manage to steal your colleague's much-coveted corner office at work, that too is an annexation. a protectorate has frequently been a first step to annexation

condign

apt, adequate; (of punishment) severe and well deserved

passé

archaic, outdated

chronology

arrangement of events in time, timeline

imperious

arrogant, overbearing, and domineering.

glib

artfully persuasive, persuasive," glib can be applied to the kind of thoughtless comment that could get you into big trouble. /superficial:lack of intellectual depth fluent and talkative, but insincere and shallow

ersatz

artificial; not genuine; fake, factious

posit

assume as a postulate or axiom, assert posit an opinion

storied : no holds barred

well-known, the adjective storied in a literary context, describing someone or something with a celebrated history. Baseball is an old and familiar sport with a storied past, for example.

damp

wet, hold back/temper/restrain Use your hand to damp the sound

vendication

when you get vindication, you've been proven right or justified in doing something. Everyone accused of a crime craves vindication., clear justification, exoneration

whimsical

whim, tending toward odd or unpredictable behavior: unheralded .هوس باز- بی ثبات His album is an opportunity for music, yes, but also for merchandise that is whimsical and maximal, just like his shows./whimsical market fluctuations a whimsical millionaire میلیونر هوس باز

faddish

whimsical; following a fashion

sap, dupe

who have been deceived

contentious

who likes to argue or fight., controversial Contentious issues get people angry and in a fighting mood McCain allies said they did not expect an outpouring of praise from Trump after their contentious past.

prudence

wisdom, caution, to avoid risks or to prepare for the unexpected

sagacity

wisdom, foresight

sage

wise person: Thanks to the sage advice of your friend

perspicacious

wise; insightful; acutely intelligent

Presciently

with foresight/ seeing into the future

absurd

without logic or common sense,ridiculous, or total nonsense, outrageous,cockeyed, derisory, idiotic example: wearing flip flops and a bikini to the North Pole is an absurd idea/ The Colombian government called the accusations absurd and baseless.

impromptu

without preparation, capricious, unplanned,Extemporaneous OPP: premeditated

unheralded

without warning or announcement, unexpected, unpredictable

detention

A period of temporary custody or confinement while awaiting trial.

gist

The gist of any legal action is the factor on which the action depends — that is, an alleged assault might be the gist of an indictment. The meaning of gist has evolved, though, and now it can be used to describe the core component of any matter,

confront

To come face to face with, especially with defiance or hostility: I wish to confront my accuser in a court of law.

urge

To provoke; A strong desire, to exasperate, To force or drive forward or onward; impel, strongly suggest example: Police urged them to turn around. insist: In well managed private business which must pay dividends, the urge is always to keep personnel at a minimum.

aridity

a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall), dryness, waterlessness, xerotes example: regions were populated by extreme heat and aridity. barrenness, fruitlessness, unproductiveness, without quality example: Hot, dry conditions and aridity of vegetation are translating to increased wildfire risk worldwide

reprobate

a person without moral scruples: miscreant, corrupt, reject as invalid: church reprobated playing music.

sanctuary

anywhere a person feels especially safe and serene: holey place/ shelter/ haven Last month, a judge knocked down Trump's order restricting federal funds to so-called sanctuary cities/ the thief was granted sanctuary in mosque

SAP

blood, vitality, exhausted your energy is sapped. sap عصاره شیرهInsects secrete the resin after they consume and digest plant sap.

gainsay

challenge, object,contradict, speak out against, denial انکار-مخالفت-نقض example: He spoke with an earnestness that it was hard to gainsay/Whether one agrees with her opinions or not, there's no gainsaying her prominent place in the history of American political thought," he said./ this fact can not be gainsaid منکر شدن/ I disagreed and I will gainsay.

spring up

come into existence, arise, develop, grow, originate example: Over the course of the mission, the Nasa probe will gather observations as the star ramps up its activity and sunspots spring up all over./ problems continue to spring up

imbibition

consumption liquids,drinking, absorption of a liquid: soak up example: A division is sometimes made into Mandibulate and Haustellate groups, the oral apparatus of the former being adapted for mastication, the latter for imbibition of liquid food.

bipartisan

support of two opposite sides involved a lot of effort, compromise, and cooperation bipartisan compromise/ agreement/support/decision The law won bipartisan support in the Massachusetts House and Senate

bolster

support or strengthen, reinforce example: investors will be looking at whether the giant retailer's investments in e-commerce services, like online grocery, continue to bolster revenue.

corroborate

support with evidence,substantiate and confirm , prove, underpin تایید کردن- اثبات کردن example: She also said there are three sources in her book that corroborate her accusation/claims, a witness in court corroborates the testimony of others

moratorium (Put, impose on/ Call for)

suspension, abeyance, moratoriums go into effect when something becomes seen as being not okay for now, but might go back to being okay later example: principal put a moratorium on drinking any water at school until the fountains were fixed and the water tested. The legislation calls for a one-year moratorium while the city studies the booming industry and also establishes pay rules for drivers.

coalition

the union/alliance of diverse things into one body or form or group, an organization of people involved in a treaty, fusion/ integration/ concretion/ conglutination example: The United States does assist the coalition in seeking to avoid strikes on protected locations The ANC was a broad coalition encompassing many different tribes

hurl

throw forcefully: you hurl your trash in the direction of a garbage can/ The Israeli military said rioters hurled stones utter (express) vehemently: They were surrounded by a vast, rolling plume of counterprotesters, who hurled insults.

flock

to mean a congregation of people/animals, like a flock of children at the zoo, or a group of people belonging to a church. As a verb, flock means to gather together as a flock or to move together in a group. You and your friends might flock to the mall when you learn that your favorite singer will be there signing autographs example: For decades, job seekers flocked to the city, drawn by high wages, company-subsidized housing and generous benefits.

subdue

transitive v. To conquer and subjugate; vanquish, overcome, bring under control by physical force or persuasion, correct by punishment or discipline, To make less intense or prominent : subdued my excitement about the upcoming holiday To bring (land) under cultivation: Farmers subdued the arid lands of Australia.

eulogy

tribute, praising speech to a dead person/ encomium, paean, panegyric example:I was with Chris' family, and I felt giving the eulogy was the thing I was supposed to do./As eulogies flooded in, FCA shares fell up to 10 percent

syphone

tube used to move liquid, convey So money is usually siphoned off by politicians and business allies through contracts for services or construction

monolithic

undiversified (1): acrete/seamless, massive, monumental example:The products are monolithic — they emerge smoothly from a vat of liquid , similar to the reassembled robot in the Terminator movies. /monolithic state / "a monolithic worldwide movement"/ The GOP coalition is big and fractious, and it needs a robust debate unless it wants to become small and monolithic.: one thing

equivocation

vagueness or ambiguity,statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth: evasion He lamented Trump's "equivocation" about Russia's role in the election: