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martient

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noun s.o who is very strict The woman in charge was a martinet who treated us like children.

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noun poise and calmness ی ارامش و اعتماد بنفس درونی که باعث میشه حتی تو شرایط سخت هم کنترل خودتو احساساتتو داشته باشی. (az sangi vali froidi)

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adj When something is tendentious, it shows a bias towards a particular point of view, especially one that people disagree about. controversial like contentious

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نیروی عظیم منهدم کننده If you're trying to market a new Cola product, you're up against corporate giant Coca-Cola, a beverage juggernaut. نمیشه با ی جاگرنات در بیفتی

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adj a venial sin / mistake easily forgiven - pardonable - negligible

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before you excoriate your little sister for borrowing your favorite jacket without permission, consider whether she truly deserves such harsh treatment. like vituperate

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adj pleasing to the ear گوش نواز

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adj clear and bright and serene limpid stream or a limpid lake. like lucid

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naive گرفتار تاریکی جهل Some of the early explorers thought of the local people as benighted savages who could be exploited.

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If you speak in sententious phrases, your listeners are probably falling asleep, as your speech is pompous and pretentious, and full of moralistic babble. “Do you mind if I’m sententious for a second?” he says to an interviewer.

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related to fashion or clothes a man of great sartorial elegance

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terribly evil like lord voldemort in harry potter

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noun - verb defraud - swindle fine اخازی کردن

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thinking that people or things are bad, especially because you have had bad experiences in the past. He has a very jaundiced view of the world. like paranoid or misanthrope

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indigent - penurious I first knew him as an impecunious student living in a tiny apartment.

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noun s.th that has been changed numerous times but on which traces of former iterations can still be seen. the downtown is a palimpsest. ی ورقه ک توش قبلا چیزی نوشتی..بعد پاک کردی و دوباره روش نوشتی

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parvenu - social climber تازه ب دوران رسیده

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surreal - unrealistic - quixotic - chimera phantasmagorical paintings are equally full of odd A phantasmagorical film is surreal and strange If you have a phantasmagorical nightmare, it might be hard to describe to another person, it's so weird and fantastic.

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adj versatile Protean means able to change shape. Picasso changed the way he worked many times. مث بازیگری ک هر نقشی بش بدن میتونه بازی کنه protean actor

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censor edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate if you hear some words bleeped out, those words have been expurgated.

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nounوقتی دوتا کلمه رو باهم اشتباه میگیری confusion of a word with another word that sounds similar. A malapropism occurs when you say one word but you mean another

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1-mischievous 2-characteristic of those who treat others with condescension (supercilious)

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extremely optimistic

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excoriate to criticize harshly ب توپره بستن Republicans routinely curse the Constitution, profane America’s ideals and vituperate its values. They vituperate even though what she and Sanders have said is, well, true.

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peremptory behaviour, speech etc is not polite or friendly and shows that the person speaking expects to be obeyed immediately a peremptory demand for silence “a peremptory decree” “spoke in peremptory tones” بی چون و چرا

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