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GRE 13
GRE
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| shore up | to support part of a building or other large structure by placing large pieces of wood or metal against or under it so that it does not fall down ; Timbers were used to shore up the tunnel. |
| aloof | not friendly or interested in other people ; distant, remote ; کناره گیر ; He was a cold man, aloof and distant. |
| placid | (of a person or animal) not easily upset or excited ; ارام ؛ متین ; "this horse has a placid nature" |
| restive | rebellious ; سرکش |
| skittish | چموش ; |
| vociferous | expressing your opinions or feelings in a loud and confident way ; vociferous protests ; پر سروصدا ; a vociferous critic of the president's stance |
| electorate | the people in a country or an area who have the right to vote, thought of as a group ; دارای حق رای ; Only 60% of the electorate voted in the last election. |
| retrospective | looking back on or dealing with past events or situations ; back-dated ; "our survey was retrospective" |
| pleading | an act of asking for something that you want very much, in an emotional way ; He refused to give in to her pleadings. |
| unseemly | not polite or suitable for a particular situation ; improper ; |
| indecorous | embarrassing or not socially acceptable ; improper ; unseemly |
| perforate | to make a hole or holes through something ; penetrate ;pierce ; The explosion perforated his eardrum. |
| stiffen | to make yourself or part of your body firm, straight and still, especially because you are angry or frightened ; She stiffened with fear. |
| amenable | easy to control; willing to be influenced by somebody/something ; تابع ; They had three very amenable children. |
| dairy | a place on a farm where milk is kept and where butter and cheese are made ; 2 a company that sells milk, eggs, cheese and other milk products ; 3 (New Zealand English) a small local shop ; I went to buy a paper at the corner dairy. |
| abolish | to officially end a law, a system or an institution, از میان بر داشتن ; This tax should be abolished. |
| utopian | having a strong belief that everything can be perfect, often in a way that does not seem to be realistic or practical ; تخیلی ; utopian ideals ; a utopian society |
| emancipate | to free somebody, especially from legal, political or social restrictions ; set free ; رها کردن ; Slaves were not emancipated until 1863 in the United States. |
| rebut /rɪˈbʌt/ | to say or prove that a statement or criticism is false ; refute ; an attempt to publicly rebut rumours of a divorce |
| helix /ˈhiːlɪks/ | a shape like a spiral or a line curved around a cylinder or cone ; مارپیچ ; |
| woo | to try to get the support of somebody ; try to get the lot of ; Voters are being wooed with promises of lower taxes ; Selected items are being sold at half price to woo customers into the store. |
| defy | openly resist or refuse to obey ; "a woman who defies convention" |
| rugged /ˈrʌɡɪd/ | تنومند ؛ قوی |
| sinister | seeming evil or dangerous; making you think something bad will happen ; شیطانی ; There was something cold and sinister about him ; There is another, more sinister, possibility. |
| contemptuous | showing contempt; scornful ; تحقیر امیز ; |
| irksome | annoying or irritating ; ازار دهنده ; |
| pivotal | of great importance because other things depend on it ; محوری ؛ اساسی ; a pivotal role in European affairs |
| recondite | not known about or understood by many people ; obscure ; پیچیده و مبهم ; a recondite subject |
| morbid | having or expressing a strong interest in sad or unpleasant things, especially disease or death ; ناسالم ؛ مریض ; He had a morbid fascination with blood. ‘He might even die.’ ‘Don't be so morbid. My mind was filled with morbid thoughts of death. |
| predilection | if you have a predilection for something, you like it very much ; علاقه شدید به چیزی داشتن ; an artist with a predilection for bright colours |
| daunt | to make somebody feel nervous and less confident about doing something ; intimidate ; ترساندن ; She was a brave woman but she felt daunted by the task ahead. |
| impediment to | something that delays or stops the progress of something ; obstacle ; The level of inflation is a serious impediment to economic recovery. |
| counterfeit | made to look exactly like something in order to trick people into thinking that they are getting the real thing ; جعلی ; fake ; counterfeit watches |
| manipulate | to control or influence somebody/something, often in a dishonest way so that they do not realize it ; دست کاری کردن ; She uses her charm to manipulate people ; As a politician, he knows how to manipulate public opinion. |
| canonize | to state officially that somebody is now a saint ; شرعی کردن ; |
| pathetic | making you feel pity or sadness ; pitiful ; تاثر اور ; a pathetic and lonely old man ; The starving children were a pathetic sight. |
| scintillating | very clever, amusing and interesting ; a scintillating performance ; Statistics on unemployment levels hardly make for scintillating reading. |
| intimate | having a close and friendly relationship ; intimate friends ; We're not on intimate terms with our neighbours. |
| take a heavy toll (on somebody/something)| take its toll (on somebody/something) | to have a bad effect on somebody/something; to cause a lot of damage, deaths, suffering, etc ; Illness had taken a heavy toll on her. |
| excise | cut off ; قطع کردن "the precision with which surgeons can excise brain tumors" |
| conceal | keep from sight; hide ; "a line of sand dunes concealed the distant sea" |
| rejuvenate | to make somebody/something look or feel younger or more lively ; His new job seemed to rejuvenate him ; special creams to rejuvenate the skin |
| consolidate | to make a position of power or success stronger so that it is more likely to continue ; With this new movie he has consolidated his position as the country's leading director ; Italy consolidated their lead with a second goal. |
| indictment /ɪnˈdaɪtmənt/ | the act of officially accusing somebody of a crime ; اتهام ; This led to his indictment on allegations of conspiracy. |
| restrain | to stop somebody/something from doing something, especially by using physical force ; مهار کاردن ؛ نگه داشتن ; restrain somebody/something The prisoner had to be restrained by the police. He placed a restraining hand on her arm. |
| impecunious /ˌɪmpɪˈkjuːniəs/ | having little or no money ; poor ; penniless ; an impecunious student |
| precocious | having developed particular abilities and ways of behaving at a much younger age than usual ; زود رس ; a precocious child who started her acting career at the age of 5 ; sexually precocious; From an early age she displayed a precocious talent for music |
| feign | to pretend that you have a particular feeling or that you are ill/sick, tired, etc; He survived the massacre by feigning death ; ‘Who cares?’ said Alex, feigning indifference ; ‘A present for me?’ she asked with feigned surprise. |
| massacre /ˈmæsəkə(r) / | the killing of a large number of people especially in a cruel way ; the bloody massacre of innocent civilians ; |
| dissemble | to hide your real feelings or intentions, often by pretending to have different ones ; وانمود کردن ؛ پنهان کردن ; She was a very honest person who was incapable of dissembling. |
| untapped | بکر و دست نخورده |
| fleeting | lasting only a short time ; brief ; a fleeting glimpse/smile ; a fleeting moment of happiness ; We paid a fleeting visit to Paris. |
| abstruse /æbˈstruːs/ | difficult to understand ; an abstruse argument |
| hortatory | tending or aiming to exhort(admonish) ; "the central bank relied on hortatory messages and voluntary compliance" |
| transgress | to go beyond the limit of what is morally or legally acceptable ; از حد گذشتن ; They had transgressed the bounds of decency(نجابت) ; |
| credible | that can be believed or trusted ; convincing ; باور کردنی ; معتبر ; a credible explanation/witness ; It is just not credible that she would cheat. |
| extant /ekˈstænt/ | still in existence ; extant remains of the ancient wall ; A limited number of documents from the period are still extant. |
| counterproductive | having the opposite effect to the one which was intended ; Increases in taxation would be counterproductive. |
| underappreciated | fail to value (someone or something) highly enough. "one of the jazz world's most underappreciated artists" |
| overstated | exaggerated |
| disseminate | to spread information, knowledge, etc. so that it reaches many people ; منتشر کردن ; Their findings have been widely disseminated. |
| confounded | used when describing something to show that you are annoyed ; |
| relish | to get great pleasure from something; to want very much to do or have something ; enjoy ; relish something ; to relish a fight/challenge/debate ; I don't relish the prospect of getting up early tomorrow. |
| make out | 1) have sex with sb or kissing sb ; 2) understand , recognize |
| long-winded | continuing for too long and therefore boring ; a long-winded speaker ; a long-winded process |
| prescient | knowing or appearing to know about things before they happen ; از قبل اگاه ; prescient warnings |
| foresight | the ability to predict what is likely to happen and to use this to prepare for the future ; She had had the foresight to prepare herself financially in case of an accident ; The government's policies show a remarkable lack of foresight. |
| serendipity | the fact of something interesting or pleasant happening by chance ; a happy chance ; Meeting her like that, and there of all places, was true serendipity! |
| shun | to avoid somebody/something ; She was shunned by her family when she remarried ; an actor who shuns publicity |
| revive | to become, or to make somebody/something become, conscious or healthy and strong again ; The flowers soon revived in water ; The economy is beginning to revive. |
| blemish | a mark on the skin or on an object that spoils it and makes it look less beautiful or perfect ; لکه دار کردن ؛ عیب و نقص ; make-up to cover blemishes (figurative) His reputation is without a blemish. |
| affiliated | closely connected to or controlled by a group or an organization ; وابسته ; All affiliated members can vote ; a government-affiliated institute |
| kindred | your family and relatives (plural) ; وابستگان ; |
| imperative | very important and needing immediate attention or action ; vital ; It is absolutely imperative that we finish by next week. |
| commensurate /kəˈmenʃərət/ | matching something in size, importance, quality, etc ; proportionate ; متناسب ; Salary will be commensurate with experience. |
| coalesce | to come together to form one larger group, substance, etc ; amalgamate ; The puddles had coalesced into a small stream. |
| mortify | to make somebody feel very ashamed or embarrassed ; تحقیر کردن ؛ ازردن ; synonym humiliate ; She was mortified to realize he had heard every word she said. |
| rallying | the action or process of coming together to support a person or cause or take concerted action. |
| incensed | very angry ; They were incensed at the decision. |
| iconoclastic | criticizing popular beliefs or established customs and ideas ; |
| heterodox | not following the usual or accepted beliefs and opinions ; |
| doctrinaire | strictly following a theory in all circumstances, even if there are practical problems or disagreement |
| integrative | serving or intending to unify separate things ; "an integrative approach to learning" |
| synthesizing | to combine separate ideas, beliefs, styles, etc. |
| pervasive | existing in all parts of a place or thing; spreading gradually to affect all parts of a place or thing ; فراگیر ; a pervasive smell of damp ; Her influence is all-pervasive (= it affects everyone and everything). |
| sporadic | happening only occasionally or at intervals that are not regular ; پراکنده ؛ تک و توک ; |
| omnipresent | present everywhere |
| scanty | too little in amount for what is needed ; کم ؛ ناکافی ; Details of his life are scanty |
| meager | inadequate ; scanty ; ناچیز |
| acute | very serious or severe ; There is an acute shortage of water ; acute pain ; the world's acute environmental problems |
| disparate /ˈdɪspərət / | made up of parts or people that are very different from each other ; مختلف ; a disparate group of individuals |
| diverge | 1) to separate and go in different directions ; 2) to be different ; |
| quotidian /kwɒˈtɪdiən/ | of or occurring every day; daily ; "the car sped noisily off through the quotidian traffic" |
| staple | forming a basic, large or important part of something ; جز اصلی ; The staple crop is rice. Jeans are a staple part of everyone's wardrobe. |
| herald | to be a sign that something is going to happen ; harbinger ; These talks could herald a new era of peace ; She felt a dull ache in her right temple, heralding a migraine. |
| panacea /ˌpænəˈsiːə/ | something that will solve all the problems of a particular situation ; نوش دارو؛ اکسیر ; There is no single panacea for the problem of unemployment. |
| cursory | done quickly and without giving enough attention to details ; brief, perfunctory ; سرسری ; a cursory glance/examination/inspection |
| prevalent | that exists or is very common at a particular time or in a particular place ; common ; شایع ; a prevalent view ; These prejudices are particularly prevalent among people living in the North ; The disease is even more prevalent in Latin America. |
| shrewd | clever at understanding and making judgements about a situation ; زرنگ ؛ زیرک ; a shrewd businessman She is a shrewd judge of character. |
| canny | intelligent, careful and showing good judgement, especially in business or politics ; a canny politician ; a canny move ; |
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