Magoosh - Learned Flashcards

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يسخرمن؛يهزأ put down The nun derided the students for trying to sneak insects and worms into the classroom.

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✓ غريب؛خارقللطبيعة strange, unsettling Reggie has an uncanny ability to connect with animals: feral cats will readily approach him, and sometimes even wild birds will land on his finger.

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تفاوُت؛تبايُن With the advent of machines capable of looking inside the brain, fields as disparate as religion and biology have been brought together by scientists trying to understand what happens in the brain when people have a religious experience.

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exclude ينفي؛ينبذ(منالمجتمع Later in his life, Leo Tolstoy was ostracized from the Russian Orthodox Church for his writings that contradicted church doctrine.

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خَرِب؛مُتهدّم. ✓ run down The main house has been restored but the gazebo is still dilapidated and unuseable.

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عطيّة؛نِعمةَ ✓ helpful thing Modern technology has been a boon to the travel industry.

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✓ shy Nelson was always the first to leave soirees—rather than mill about with “fashionable” folk, he was retiring, and preferred the solitude of his garret.

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sweet-sounding Chelsea’s grandmother thought Franz Schubert’s music to be the most mellifluous ever written; Chelsea demurred, and to her grandmother’s chagrin, would blast Rihanna on the home stereo speakers.

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✓ appearance of truth All bad novels are bad for numerous reasons; all good novels are good for their verisimilitude of reality, placing the readers in a world that resembles the one they know.

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✓ contented to a fault After the water polo team won their sixth championship, they became complacent and didn't even make it to the playoffs the next year.

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✓ retaliatory action The Old Testament doctrine of an eye for an eye is not the kind of retaliation practiced in war; rather, an arm, a leg, and both ears are the reprisal for the smallest scratch.

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✓ troublemaker | Freddie is a firebrand: every time he walks into the office, he winds up at the center of heated argument.

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Extremely delicate رقيق Because she dances with an ethereal style, ballet critics have called her Madame Butterfly.

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✓ noisily defiant صاخب، صعب المراس When the teacher asked the obstreperous student simply to bus his tray, the student threw the entire tray on the floor, shouted an epithet, and walked out.

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overly precise The colonel was so punctilious about enforcing regulations that men feel compelled to polish even the soles of their shoes.

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annoy مسخط مغضب | As a child, I exasperated my mother with strings of never-ending questions.

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✓ luck By pure serendipity, Sarah discovered, at a flea market in Peoria, a matching earring to replace the one that fell down the storm drain back home.

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about to die Whether you like it or not, jazz as a genre is moribund at best, possibly already dead.

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scold Though chastised for eating the snacks for the party, Lawrence shrugged off his mother’s harsh words, and continued to plow through jars of cookies and boxes of donuts.

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✓ disciplinarian The job seemed perfect to Rebecca, until she found out that her boss was a total martinet; after each project the boss would come by to scrutinize—and inevitably criticize—every little detail of the work Rebecca had done.

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offer up formally | The government was loath to tender more money in the fear that it might set off inflation.

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وقور ✓ domineering Though she was only a third grade teacher, Ms. Martinet was magisterial in dealing with her class, lording over them like a queen.

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✓ cheeky behaviorوقاحة The skateboarders acted with effrontery, skating through the church grounds and spray-painting signs warning trespassers.

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فداحة شناعة great wickedness The enormity of Pol Pot's regime is hard to capture in words--within months hundreds of thousands of Cambodians lost their lives.

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advertise strongly At the conference, the CEO touted the extraordinary success of his company's Research & Development division.

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خصب mentally productive The artist had entered a fecund period, producing three masterpieces in the span of two months.

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✓ modest The most admirable teachers and respected leaders are those who are self-effacing, directing attention and praise to their students and workers.

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✓ intensely emotional ملتهب، متحمس While the other employees responded to the bad news in a measured way, Andrew responded in a vehement manner, tipping over his desk and shouting at the top of his lungs.

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✓ wildly impractical For every thousand startups with quixotic plans to be the next big name in e-commerce, only a handful ever become profitable.

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✓ courageous For its raid on the Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Seal Team Six has become, for many Americans, the embodiment of mettle.

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✓ quiet While the CEO enthusiastically shares his plans and agenda with all who will listen, the CFO is far more taciturn, rarely revealing his perspective.

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مكتمل ✓ masterful Tyler was the consummate musician: he was able to play the guitar, harmonica, and the drum at the same time.

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✓ yearn for | Standing forlornly by the window, she pined for her lost love.

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✓ rash متهور The police regularly face dangerous situations, so for a police officer not to wear his bullet-proof vest is foolhardy.

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✓ illness | The town was struck by a malady throughout the winter that left most people sick in bed for two weeks.

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✓ lacking intelligence فارغ ابله To the journalist's pointed question, the senator gave a vacuous response, mixing a few of his overall campaign slogans with platitudes and completely avoiding the controversial subject of the question.

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a rarefied place, organization, or type of activity is only available to or understood by a small group of people – used to show disapproval ✓ refined Jack's vulgar jokes were not so successful in the rarefied environment of college professors.

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يقرأ بإمعان ✓ read closely Instead of perusing important documents, people all too often rush to the bottom of the page and plaster their signatures at the bottom.

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✓ lacking depth Many news shows provide facile explanations to complex politics, so I prefer to read the in-depth reporting of The New York Times.

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behaving as if you are morally better than other people, in a way that is annoying – used to show disapproval ✓ holier-than-thou Even during the quiet sanctity of evening prayer, she held her chin high, a sanctimonious sneer forming on her face as she eyed those who were attending church for the first time.

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✓ indirectly mocking The chairman interpreted Taylor's question about promotions as a snide remark, but in all innocence Taylor was trying to figure out the company's process.

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✓ grow rapidly China's housing market is burgeoning, but some predict that the growth is merely a bubble and will burst much like the U.S. real estate bubble of 2008.

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✓ limit growth To stem the tide of applications, the prestigious Ivy requires that each applicant score at least 330 on the Revised GRE.

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عراك صاخب ✓ wild fight After enduring daily taunts about my name, I became enraged and pummeled the schoolyard bully and his sycophantic friends in a brutal melee.

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✓ limit a statement When asked why he had decided to buy millions of shares at the very moment the tech companies stock soared, the CEO hedged, mentioning something vague about gut instinct.

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✓ arrogant | The haughty manager didn't believe that any of his subordinates could ever have an insight as brilliant his own.

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✓ disguising layer Mark Twain referred to the Victorian Period in America as the Gilded Age, implying the ample moral corruption that lay beneath a mere veneer of respectability

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✓ relating to clothes Monte was astute at navigating the world of finance; sartorially, however, he was found wanting—he typically would attempt to complement his beige tie with a gray suit and white pants.

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✓ struggle | Sylvia has excelled at advanced calculus, but ironically, when she has deal with taxes, she flounders.

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literary a scene that is confused, changing, and strange, like something from a dream ✓ illusive Those suffering from malaria fall into a feverish sleep, their world a whirligig of phantasmagoria; if they recover, they are unsure of what actually took place and what was simply a product of their febrile imaginations.

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يشكك ✓ call into question Though many initially tried to impugn Darwin's theory, in scientific circles today, the idea is taken as truth.

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هجاء ✓ poke fun at Mark Twain understood that lampooning a bad idea with humor was the most effective criticism.

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انيق لطيف ✓ refined A live string quartet would provide a more genteel air to the wedding than would a folk singer.

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✓ make furious | When Herb bought football tickets for a game on the day of their wedding anniversary, Jill was incensed.

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✓ perverted Lolita is a challenging novel for many, not necessarily because of the elevated prose style but because of the depravity of the main character, Humbert Humbert, who, as an old, lascivious man, falls in love with a girl.

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✓ increase gradually | Her enthusiasm for the diva’s new album only waxed with each song; by the end of the album, it was her favorite CD yet.

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✓ very infatuated | Even though her father did not approve, Juliet became besotted with the young Romeo.

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using very few words, in a way that seems rude SYN abrupt ✓ bluntly Not one for social pleasantries, the Chief of Staff would brusquely ask his subordinates anything he wanted, even coffee.

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✓ pause from work | Every afternoon, the small company has a respite in which workers play foosball or board games.

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✓ the best of its kind | Even with the rise of Kobe Bryant, many still believe that Michael Jordan is the paragon for basketball players.

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✓ humongous | Few appreciate the colossal scale of the sun: if hollow, it could contain a million Earths.

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✓ very rapid The early spectacular successes propelled the pitcher to meteoric stardom, but a terrible injury tragically cut short his career.

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مأسور مسحور ✓ captivate She was so enthralled by the movie that she never heard people screaming, Fire! Fire! in the neighboring theater.

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✓ worthy of praise | The efforts of the firefighters running into the burning building were commendable.

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✓ really horrible | Coach Ramsey took his newest player off the field after watching a few painful minutes of her abysmal performance.

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✓ disturb Now that Henry is recovering from a major illnesses, he no longer lets the little trivialities, such as late mail, perturb him.

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✓ unwavering A good captain needs to be steadfast, continuing to hold the wheel and stay the course even during the most violent storm.

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✓ angry dispute The Prime Minister looked very foolish after his row with the foreign dignitary was caught on video and posted on youtube.

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✓ without a doubt | Frank is a veritable life-saver -- last year, on two different occasions, he revived people using CPR.

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✓ clever scheme Dennis arranged an elaborate ploy, involving 14 different people lying for him in different situations, so that it could appear that he was meeting Mary completely by chance at the wedding reception.

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✓ absorb ideas Plato imbibed Socrates’ teachings to such an extent that he was able to write volumes of work that he directly attributed, sometimes word for word, to Socrates.

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✓ celebrate something | Many college superstar athletes are hailed as the next big thing, but then flop at the professional level.

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✓ easily managed | Barnyard animals are considerably more docile than the wild animals.

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✓ wealthy The center of the city had sadly become a pit of penury, while, only five miles away, multi-million dollar homes spoke of affluence.

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✓ very sad No event is more doleful than the passing of my mother; she was a shining star in my life, and it brings me great sadness to think that she is now gone.

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✓ slow to learn | Jackson was the most obtuse member of the team: the manager's subtle ironies were always lost on him.

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✓ not cooperative The teacher demanded to know who broke the window while he was out of the room, but the students understandably were unforthcoming.

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✓ suppress After the dictator consolidated his power, he took steps to squelch all criticism, often arresting any journalist who said anything that could be interpreted as negative about his regime.

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✓ give up control Eventually, all parents must cede control of their growing childrens' educations and allow their offspring some autonomy.

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✓ cure-all While the company credit card has made most large purchases easier, it is no panacea: some smaller basic transactions still must be conducted in cash.

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✓ eager to help Even after all his success, I found him to be accommodating and obliging, sharing with me his secret tips on how to gain wealth and make friends.

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✓ good but not great | Critics agreed the movie was creditable, but few gave it more than three out of five stars.

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✓ not showing respect Although Sam was trying to honor Mark's sense of humor, many found it quite flippant that he wore a comic nose and glasses mask to Mark's funeral.

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✓ reveal | With the gold medal at stake, the gymnast awaited his turn, his quivering lip betraying his intense emotions.

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✓ lament While the CFO carefully explained all the reasons for the cuts in benefits, after the meeting employees bemoaned the cuts as further evidence that management was against them.

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✓ become weak | Stranded in the wilderness for four days, the hiker languished, eating protein bars and nuts.

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