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GRE 11
GRE
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| loathe | to dislike somebody/something very much ; hate ; detest ; I loathe modern art. They loathe each other. |
| visceral | resulting from strong feelings rather than careful thought ; visceral fear She had a visceral dislike of all things foreign. |
| trivia | unimportant matters, details or information ; We spent the whole evening discussing domestic trivia. |
| concretize | make (an idea or concept) real; give specific or definite form to. "the theme park is an attempt to concretize our fantasies" |
| judicious | careful and sensible; showing good judgement ; قضاوت درست ; It is curable with judicious use of antibiotics. |
| concede | to admit that something is true, logical, etc ; اذعان کردن ; ‘Not bad,’ she conceded grudgingly. |
| grudging(ly) | given or done unwillingly ; reluctant; He could not help feeling a grudging admiration for the old lady |
| intertwine | if two or more things intertwine or are intertwined, they are twisted together so that they are very difficult to separate ; به هم گره خورده ؛ به هم پیچیده ; intertwining branches |
| foreshadow | to be a sign of something that will happen in the future ; از پیش خبر دادن ؛حاکی بودن از ; His sudden death had been foreshadowed by earlier health scares. |
| replenish | fill (something) up again ; دوباره پر کردن ; "he replenished Justin's glass with mineral water" |
| scatterbrain | a person who is always losing or forgetting things and cannot think in an organized way; |
| excerpt | a short piece of writing, music, film, etc. taken from a longer whole; Read the following excerpt from one of Milton's poems. They only played a short excerpt. The document was excerpted from an unidentified FBI file. |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement between people ; controversial ; بحث بر انگیز ; a contentious issue/topic/subject Both views are highly contentious. Try to avoid any contentious wording. |
| pragmatic | practical ; |
| digress | leave the main subject temporarily in speech or writing ; deviate ; "I have digressed a little from my original plan" منحرف شدن از بحث |
| intrude | put oneself deliberately into a place or situation where one is unwelcome or uninvited ; مزاحم شدن ; "he had no right to intrude into their lives" |
| aesthetic | concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty. زیبایی ; "the pictures give great aesthetic pleasure" |
| inferior | lower in rank, status, or quality ; پایین رتبه تر ; "schooling in inner-city areas was inferior to that in the rest of the country" of inferior quality ; Modern music is often considered inferior to that of the past. |
| infuriate | make (someone) extremely angry and impatient ; خشمگین کردن ; "her silences infuriated him" |
| locomotion | movement or the ability to move |
| in concert with sb/sth | in concert with somebody/something (formal) ; working together with somebody/something |
| affinity | a strong feeling that you understand somebody/something and like them or it synonym rapport ; وابستگی ; Sam was born in the country and had a deep affinity with nature. |
| susceptible | very likely to be influenced, harmed or affected by somebody/something ; حساس ; He's highly susceptible to flattery. |
| gratify | to please or satisfy somebody ; It gratified him to think that it was all his work ; I was gratified by their invitation. |
| relic | an object, a tradition, a system, etc. that has survived from the past The building stands as the last remaining relic of the town's cotton industry. |
| obsess | to completely fill your mind so that you cannot think of anything else, in a way that is not normal ; He's obsessed by computers. |
| foster | to encourage something to develop ; پرورش دادن ; synonym encourage, promote ; The club's aim is to foster better relations within the community. |
| far-reaching | likely to have a lot of influence or many effects ; far-reaching consequences/implications ; far-reaching changes/reforms |
| consensus | توافق ؛ ; She is skilled at achieving consensus on sensitive issues. There is a growing consensus of opinion on this issue. an attempt to reach a consensus |
| digress /daɪˈɡres/ | leave the main subject temporarily in speech or writing. "I have digressed a little from my original plan" After several digressions, he finally got to the point. |
| altruism | the fact of caring about the needs and happiness of other people more than your own ; نوع دوستی ; Politicians are not necessarily motivated by pure altruism. "some may choose to work with vulnerable elderly people out of altruism" |
| inhibit | to prevent something from happening; A lack of oxygen may inhibit brain development in the unborn child. Financial considerations are inhibiting access to higher education. |
| in the same breath | immediately |
| incline | an inclined surface or plane; a slope, especially on a road or railway. "the road climbs a long incline through a forest" |
| dispute | an argument or a disagreement between two people, groups or countries; discussion about a subject where there is disagreement; a dispute between the two countries about the border |
| undisputed | irrefutable ; undoubted ; accepted |
| accustomed to | get used to ; عادت کردن به |
| rudimentary | basic |
| meticulous | paying careful attention to every detail; their room had been prepared with meticulous care; She planned her trip in meticulous detail. |
| virtually | almost or very nearly, so that any slight difference is not important; to be virtually impossible; Virtually all students will be exempt from the tax ; He virtually admitted he was guilty. |
| plausible | reasonable and likely to be true; Her story sounded perfectly plausible; The only plausible explanation is that he forgot. |
| intersperse with/in | to put something in something else or among or between other things; Lectures will be interspersed with practical demonstrations. |
| encroach | intrude on (a person's territory or a thing considered to be a right) ; "rather than encroach on his privacy, she might have kept to her room" He never allows work to encroach upon his family life. |
| by virtue of | by means of ; because of |
| incline | a slope ; to tend to think or behave in a particular way; to make somebody do this incline to/towards something ; I incline to the view that we should take no action at this stage. |
| spontaneous | performed or occurring as a result of a sudden inner impulse or inclination and without premeditation or external stimulus. "the audience broke into spontaneous applause" |
| rival | opponent |
| promptly | without delay ; immediately ; She deals with all the correspondence promptly and efficiently. |
| seemingly | in a way that appears to be true but may in fact not be; a seemingly stupid question; a seemingly endless journey; It was a seemingly impossible task. |
| cognitive | connected with mental processes of understanding; شناختی ; a child's cognitive development ; cognitive psychology |
| perceive | to notice or become aware of something ; درک کردن ; I perceived a change in his behaviour ; perceive that… ; She perceived that all was not well. |
| cede | give up (power or territory) ; صرف نظر کردن ؛ واگذار کردن ; "they have had to cede control of the schools to the government" |
| obviate | to remove a problem or the need for something ; preclude ; This new evidence obviates the need for any further enquiries ; Disaster was obviated by the opening of the reserve parachute. |
| crux | the decisive or most important point at issue ; "the crux of the matter is that attitudes have changed" |
| alleviate | to make something less severe ; ease ; تسکین دادن ; to alleviate suffering; A number of measures were taken to alleviate the problem. |
| grind | to break or crush something into very small pieces between two hard surfaces or using a special machine ; to grind coffee/corn ; The animal has teeth that grind its food into a pulp. |
| skim | to move quickly and lightly over a surface ; to read something quickly in order to find a particular point or the main points; He skimmed through the article trying to find his name. |
| mumble | to speak or say something in a quiet voice in a way that is not clear; I could hear him mumbling to himself; She mumbled an apology and left. |
| crumple | to crush something into folds; to become crushed into folds; She crumpled the letter up into a ball and threw it on the fire; This material crumples very easily. |
| abbreviate | shorten (a word, phrase, or text) ; "the business of artists and repertory, commonly abbreviated to A&R" |
| chunk | a thick solid piece that has been cut or broken off something; a chunk of cheese/masonry(stonework) |
| burrow | to make a hole or a tunnel in the ground by digging ; Earthworms burrow deep into the soil. |
| emblem | a design or picture that represents a country or an organization; علامت ; America's national emblem, the bald eagle; the club emblem |
| menace | a person or thing that causes, or may cause, serious damage, harm or danger; تهدید ; a new initiative aimed at beating the menace of illegal drugs; The communists remain a potential menace to the stability of the government. |
| poach | to illegally hunt birds, animals or fish on somebody else's property or without permission ; The elephants are poached for their tusks. |
| seizure | the use of legal authority to take something from somebody; an amount of something that is taken in this way ; تصرف ; The court ordered the seizure of his assets ; the largest ever seizure of cocaine at a British port |
| amnesia | a medical condition in which somebody partly or completely loses their memory ; amnesiac This new discovery helps amnesiacs keep their memory. |
| refute | to prove that something is wrong ; to refute an argument/a theory, etc. |
| ironically | showing that you really mean the opposite of what you are saying; expressing irony ; an ironic comment ; It's ironic that she became a teacher—she used to hate school; Ironically, the book she felt was her worst sold more copies than any of her others. |
| permeate | spread throughout (something); pervade ; "the aroma of soup permeated the air" |
| ether | the upper part of the sky ; Her words disappeared into the ether; the ether the air, when it is thought of as the place in which radio or electronic communication takes place ; |
| surmount | to deal successfully with a difficulty ; overcome ; She was well aware of the difficulties that had to be surmounted. |
| anecdotal | based on anecdotes and possibly not true or accurate anecdotal evidence ; گفتاری ; Anecdotal evidence suggests there were irregularities at the polling station on the day of the election. |
| relic | an object, a tradition, a system, etc. that has survived from the past ; The pictures on the walls were relics from the days before her marriage; Our transportation system is a relic of the past. |
| retrieve | to bring or get something back, especially from a place where it should not be ;recover; بازیابی ; She bent to retrieve her comb from the floor; The dog retrieved the ball from the water; The police have managed to retrieve some of the stolen money. |
| multi-pronged | each of the separate parts of an attack, argument, etc, that move towards a place, subject, etc. from different positions; چند جانبه ; a multi-pronged attack. |
| resent /rɪˈzent/ | to feel bitter or angry about something, especially because you feel it is unfair; خشمگین شدن از ; I deeply resented her criticism. The children resented the new woman in their father's life. |
| explicable | that can be explained or understood ; His behaviour is only explicable in terms of (= because of) his recent illness. |
| maternal | having feelings that are typical of a caring mother towards a child; maternal love ; مادری ; I'm not very maternal; She didn't have any maternal instincts. |
| exert | to use power or influence to affect somebody/something ; اعمال کردن ،به کار بردن; He exerted all his authority to make them accept the plan; The moon exerts a force on the earth that causes the tides. |
| overshadow | to make somebody/something seem less important, or successful ; He had always been overshadowed by his elder sister ; Domestic policy was soon overshadowed by political unrest abroad. |
| tilt | o move, or make something move, into a position with one side or end higher than the other ; Suddenly the boat tilted to one side ; The seat tilts forward, when you press this lever. |
| polygamy | the custom of having more than one wife at the same time |
| partake | to take part in an activity ; They preferred not to partake in the social life of the town. |
| coerce | persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats ; به زور وا داشتن ; "they were coerced into silence" |
| jerk | a quick, sharp, sudden movement ; "he gave a sudden jerk of his head" |
| jolt | to move or to make somebody/something move suddenly and roughly ; "a surge in the crowd behind him jolted him forward" |
| jar | an unpleasant shock, especially from two things being suddenly shaken or hit ; The fall gave him a nasty jar. |
| mushroom (v.) | increase, spread, or develop rapidly ; proliferate ; به سرعت زیاد شدن ; "environmental concern mushroomed in the 1960s" |
| misnomer | a name or a word that is not appropriate or accurate ; ‘Villa’ was something of a misnomer—the place was no more than an old farmhouse. |
| premise | a statement or an idea that forms the basis for a reasonable line of argument; فرض منطقی ; the basic premise of her argument; a false premise |
| compelling | that makes you pay attention to it because it is so interesting and exciting ; Her latest book makes compelling reading. |
| compel | force or oblige (someone) to do something ; وادار کردن ; "a sense of duty compelled Harry to answer her questions" |
| tacit | that is suggested indirectly or understood, rather than said in words ; tacit approval/support/knowledge ; By tacit agreement, the subject was never mentioned again. |
| tacitly | تلویحاَ ; It was tacitly assumed that he would be promoted at the end of the year. |
| ironclad | so strong that it cannot be challenged or changed ; an ironclad alibi/contract/excuse/guarantee ; His memo is ironclad proof he was involved. |
| ineradicable | unable to be destroyed or removed ; "ineradicable hostility" |
| congested | crowded; full of traffic ; congested city streets ; Many of Europe's airports are heavily congested. |
| precipitate | cause (an event or situation, typically one that is bad or undesirable) to happen suddenly, unexpectedly, or prematurely ; lead to ; تسریع کردن ; "the incident precipitated a political crisis" |
| precipitation | rain, snow, etc. that falls; the amount of this that falls ; There is heavy precipitation in some parts of the country. |
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