3/6/13 Flashcards

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Palimpsest

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can refer to anything that has been changed numerous times but which traces of former instantiations can still be seen.
The downtown was a palimpsest of the city’s checkered past – a new Starbucks had opened up next to an abandoned, shuttered building, and a freshly asphalted road was inches away from a pothole large enough to swallow a house pet.

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checkered

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شطرنجی,

دارای تحولات,متغیر

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Serendipity

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Finding something pleasant that you weren’t even looking for.

نعمت غیر مترقبه
something you were never looking for you end up buying. Though if this becomes a habit, it may cease to be serendipitous

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hapless

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بی چاره

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lad

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جوانک

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defenestrate

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comical way of saying to throw someone out of a window

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Invective

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سخن حمله امیز

ناسزا گویی

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coax

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چاپلوسی کردن,نوازش کردن

rishkhand kardan

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inveigh

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با سخن حمله کردن

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inveigle

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سرگرم کردن,گمراه کردن و بردن

fariftan

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Diatribe

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strong verbal attack against someone or something

انتقاد تلخ

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Screed

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an abusive rant that has since become tedious and hackneyed

سخن یا نامه دراز وخسته کننده

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rant

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بیهوده گویی

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tedious

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خسته کننده

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hackneyed

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pishe paa oftade,gheire ghable tavajjoh

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Tirade

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angry speech

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Harangue

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tirade and diatribe

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Vituperation

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violently launch into an invective or tirade

fahhashi, na seza gooyi

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Precipitate

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adj. to be hasty or rash,v.make something happen suddenly
and n:
رسوب شیمیایی

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hasty

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شتاب زده

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Amalgam

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in the chemistry sense, is an alloy made of mercury and some other metal,
Generally speaking, an amalgam is a mixture of two or more things.

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solvent

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حلال

قادر به پرداخت قروض

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dissolve

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حل کردن

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Catalyst

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anything that speeds up (or precipitates) an event is a catalyst

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Slapdash
hastily put together | کاری که سرسری یا از روی بیپروایی انجام دهند
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Heyday
the pinnacle, or top, of a person, time period or career | اوج خوش بختی
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Hodgepodge
confusing mixture or jumble چیز درهم و برهم Long after his heyday as Germany’s pre-eminent visionary philosopher, Nietzsche began to populate his writing with a hodgepodge of aphorisms
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jumble
درهم امیختگی
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aphorisms
کلمات قصار
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eminent
برجسته
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Aboveboard
honest | "bi shile pile"
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Thoroughgoing
absolute | تمام و کمال
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Telltale
revealing
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Cadaverous
emaciated,gaunt جسدوار Some actors take challenging roles in which they have to lose so much weight that they appear cadaverous
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gaunt
نحیف
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emaciated
لاغر
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Macabre
story, film, or, for that matter, any description is filled with gruesome details about death and horror, we say that it is macabre ترسناک
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gruesome
مخوف
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Goosebumps
describe that sensation on our skin when we become frightened.
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BUMP
دست انداز
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pimple
جوش
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lest
مبادا
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Diabolical
adj.be extremely wicked like the devil
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Phantasmagorical
series of images that seem as though they are out of a dream, 63 Suggestions for this eBook? Leave us a comment here: http://magoosh.com/gre/2012/gre-vocabulary-ebook http://gre.magoosh.com/ whether those images are real or in one’s head. "sahne ohaam, "
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Gregarious
be likely to socialize with others,flocking
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garrulous
talkative
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Ingenuous
naïve and innocent صاف و ساده if you are likely to go along with a devious plan, whether or not it is ingenious, you are ingenuous
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naive
ساده
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ingenious
دارای هوش ابتکاری
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devious
منحرف
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Peruse
read very carefully
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Disabuse
persuade somebody that his/her belief is not valid goes together with the word notion
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notion
مفهوم
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Mettlesome
poke your nose in somebody else’s business "gheiratmand," A soldier on the battlefield is mettlesome when he runs into enemy fire to save a comrade
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mettle
courage or valor غیرت jorboze
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valor
delavari
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comrade
رفیق