Vocabulary Knowledge - GRE Vocabulary Test 10 Flashcards
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When in a writing you are about to refer the source of something
نسبت دادن، اسناد دادن، دانستن، حمل کردن (بر)، کاتب، رونویس‌بردار
- It is wrong to ascribe all our problems to the war.
- اشتباه است که همه‌ی مشکلات خود را به جنگ وابسته کنیم.
- headaches which may be ascribed to stress
- سردردهایی که ممکن است ناشی از فشار روانی باشد
- The virtues ascribed to Fatima.
- فضیلت‌هایی که به فاطمه نسبت داده می‌شوند.
- the poetry ascribed to Daghighi
- اشعار منتسب به دقیقی
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verb assign to source
Synonyms: accredit, attribute, charge, credit, hang on, impute, lay, pin on, refer, reference, set down
Furtive
Surreptitious
Secretive
دزدکی، زیر جلی، پنهان، نهانی، مخفی، رمزی
- the furtive glances of the two lovers
- نگاه‌های دزدانه‌ی دو عاشق
- He entered the room furtively.
- او یواشکی وارد اتاق شد.
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adjective sneaky, secretive
Synonyms: artful, calculating, cautious, circumspect, clandestine, cloaked, conspiratorial, covert, crafty, creepy, cunning, disguised, elusive, evasive, foxy, guileful, hidden, hush-hush, insidious, masked, scheming, shifty, skulking, slinking, sly, stealthy, sub-rosa, surreptitious, tricky, undercover, underhand, underhanded, under-the-table, under wraps, wily
Antonyms: aboveboard, forthright, honest, open, truthful
Portend
Give a warning about the future event
Foreshadow
از پیش خبر دادن، پیشگویی کردن، حاکی بودن
- These strange events portend evil.
- این رویدادهای پیشنمایی عجیب و غریب شگون بدی دارند.
- Does a black cat portend trouble?
- آیا گربه‌ی سیاه نحس است؟
- His resignation portends the Democrats’ defeat in the coming elections.
- استعفای او نشانه‌ی شکست دموکرات‌ها در انتخابات آینده است.
- When will this war end no one can portend.
- هیچ‌کس نمی‌تواند پیش‌بینی کند که این جنگ کی تمام خواهد شد.
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verb foreshadow, indicate
Synonyms:
adumbrate, augur, be in the cards, bespeak, betoken, bode, call, crystal-ball, forebode, forecast, foreshow, foretell, foretoken, forewarn, harbinger, have a hunch, herald, hint, omen, point to, predict, premonish, presage, prognosticate, promise, prophesy, read, see coming, threaten, warn of
Evasive
Someone who speaks evasively are trying to avoid truth or trying to conceal some kind of information
گریزان، فرار، طفره زن
- the evasive answers of a dishonest servant
- پاسخ‌های گریزجویانه‌ی نوکر نادرست
- an evasive prey
- شکار گریزپای
- When he saw the superior enemy force, he resorted to evasive action.
- وقتی نیروی برتر دشمن را دید کوشید به عملیات گریزگرانه متوسل شود.
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adjective
deceitful, tricky
Synonyms:
ambiguous, cagey, casuistic, casuistical, cunning, deceptive, devious, dissembling, elusive, elusory, equivocating, false, fugitive, greasy, indirect, intangible, lying, misleading, oblique, prevaricating, shifty, shuffling, slippery, sly, sophistical, stonewalling, unclear, vague
Antonyms: direct, forthright, honest, ready, straight, straightforward
Hamper
از کار بازداشتن، مانع شدن، مختل کردن، قید
- Backache hampered his movements.
- کمردرد حرکت کردن را برایش سخت کرده بود.
- She is not hampered by criticism.
- انتقاد برایش مهم نیست، انتقاد مانعش نیست.
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noun basket for storage
Synonyms: bassinet, carton, crate, creel, laundry basket, pannier
Antonyms:
verb impede, restrict
Synonyms: baffle, balk, bar, bind, block, check, clog, cramp, cramp one’s style, cumber, curb, drag one’s feet, embarrass, encumber, entangle, fetter, foil, frustrate, get in the way, hamstring, handicap, hang up, hinder, hobble, hog-tie, hold up, inconvenience, inhibit, interfere with, leash, obstruct, prevent, restrain, retard, shackle, slow down, stymie, thwart, tie, tie one’s hands, tie up, trammel
Antonyms: aid, allow, assist, encourage, expedite, help, permit, promote
Eschew
( avoid, shun ) پرهیز کردن، دوری کردن
- Vegetarians eschew meat.
- گیاه‌خواران از گوشت پرهیز می‌کنند.
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verb have nothing to do with
Synonyms:
abandon, abjure, abstain, avoid, double, duck, elude, evade, forgo, forswear, give up, have no truck with, let well enough alone, not touch, refrain, renounce, sacrifice, shun, shy, shy away from, steer clear of, swear off
Antonyms: embrace, like, love
Expedite
Hasten
تسریع کردن در، پیش بردن، شتابان
- in order to expedite the dam building project
- با هدف پیش‌برد برنامه‌ی سدسازی
- We want to expedite the enemy’s withdrawal.
- می‌خواهیم عقب‌نشینی دشمن را تسریع بکنیم.
- This road will expedite traffic.
- این راه رفت‌وآمد را تسهیل می‌کند.
- He expedited a letter under the cover of night to Amir Arsalan.
- او شبانه نامه‌ای برای امیر ارسلان فرستاد.
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verb make happen faster
Synonyms: accelerate, advance, assist, cut the red tape, dispatch, facilitate, fast track, forward, grease wheels, hand-carry, handle personally, hand-walk, hasten, hurry, precipitate, press, promote, quicken, railroad, run interference, run with the ball, rush, shoot through, speed, speed up, urge, walk it through
Antonyms: block, cease, check, delay, halt, hinder, slow, stop
Rudimentary
ناقص، اولیه، بدوی، ابتدایی
- the rudimentary principles of physics
- اصول بنیادی علم فیزیک
- a rudimentary knowledge of German
- سواد کم در زبان آلمانی
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adjective
basic, fundamental
Synonyms: abecedarian, basal, beginning, early, elemental, elementary, embryonic, immature, initial, introductory, larval, nuts-and-bolts, primary, primitive, simple, simplest, uncompleted, undeveloped, vestigial
Antonyms: additional, advanced, derivative, developed, extra, nonessential
Rudimentary
ناقص، اولیه، بدوی، ابتدایی
- the rudimentary principles of physics
- اصول بنیادی علم فیزیک
- a rudimentary knowledge of German
- سواد کم در زبان آلمانی
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adjective
basic, fundamental
Synonyms: abecedarian, basal, beginning, early, elemental, elementary, embryonic, immature, initial, introductory, larval, nuts-and-bolts, primary, primitive, simple, simplest, uncompleted, undeveloped, vestigial
Antonyms: additional, advanced, derivative, developed, extra, nonessential
indispensable
Break down the word:
In+ dispense( throw away or do away with) +able
You can not throw it away
(آنچه که بدون آن نتوان کاری را انجام داد) بایسته، ضروری، بایا، لازم، واجب، حتمی، چاره‌ناپذیر، ناگزیر، صرف‌نظر نکردنی، لازم‌الاجرا
- Their assistance is indispensable.
- کمک آن‌ها ضروری است.
- freedom of expression is one of the indispensable conditions of democracy.
- آزادی بیان یکی از شرایط واجب دموکراسی است.
Noun
کنارنگذاشتنی، قصور نکردنی، اجتناب ناپذیر، پرهیز ناپذیر
- it was his indispensable duty to help them.
- وظیفه‌ی اجتناب‌ناپذیر او بود که به آن‌ها کمک کند.
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adjective necessary
Synonyms: basal, basic, cardinal, crucial, essential, fundamental, imperative, key, necessitous, needed, needful, prerequisite, primary, required, requisite, vital
Antonyms: dispensable, needless, nonessential, redundant, superfluous, unnecessary
Lament
Mourn
تأسف خوردن، زاریدن، سوگواری کردن، سوگواری، ضجه‌وزاری کردن
- They lamented the death of their leader.
- آنان برای مرگ رهبر خود را سوگواری کردند.
- The women lamented loudly.
- زن‌ها با صدای بلند گریه و زاری می‌کردند.
- They lamented the bad conditions in the schools.
- آنان به وضع بد مدارس افسوس می‌خوردند.
- He is always lamenting the lack of freedom.
- او همیشه از فقدان آزادی می‌نالد.
- the nightingale’s lament upon the arrival of winter
- مویه‌ی بلبل به‌دلیل فرا رسیدن زمستان
- a funeral lament
- نوحه‌ی مجلس ختم
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verb
to mourn or grieve deeply
Synonyms: bawl, beat one’s breast, bemoan, bewail, bleed, cry, deplore, eat one’s heart out, howl, hurt, kick self, moan, rain, regret, repine, rue, sing, sob, sorrow, take it hard, wail, weep
Antonyms: celebrate, compliment, laud, praise
noun grief, complaint
Synonyms: complaining, dirge, elegy, grieving, jeremiad, keen, keening, lament, moan, moaning, mourning, plaint, requiem, sob, sobbing, sorrow, tears, threnody, ululation, wail, wailing, weeping
Antonyms: celebration, enjoyment, praise
Antithesis
l ) پادگذاره، ضد و نقیض، تضاد، تناقض
- Joy is the antithesis of sorrow.
- شادی نقطه‌ی مقابل غم است.
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noun exact opposite
Synonyms:
antipode, antipole, contra, contradictory, contrary, contrast, converse, counter, flip side, inverse, other side, reverse
Antonyms: same
noun contrast, opposition
Synonyms: antagonism, contradiction, contradistinction, contraposition, contrariety, inversion, opposure, reversal
Antonyms: same
Exculpatory
Verb - transitive
بی‌گناه شمردن، پاک‌کردن، روسفیدکردن، بخشوده داشتن
- Subsequent events thoroughly exculpated him.
- رویدادهای بعدی بی‌گناهی او را کاملاً نشان داد.
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verb forgive
Synonyms: absolve, acquit, amnesty, clear, condone, discharge, disculpate, dismiss, excuse, exonerate, explain, free, justify, let off, pardon, rationalize, release, remit, vindicate, wipe slate clean
Antonyms: blame, condemn, sentence
Slighted by others
Rejected by others
Ignored
Spurred
ناچیز، بی‌اهمیت، لاغر، نحیف، باریک اندام، پست، حقیر، فروتن، کودن، قلیل، اندک، کم
- a slight difference of opinion
- اختلاف نظر ناچیز
- a slight criticism
- انتقاد خفیف
- a man of slight build
- مردی لاغر اندام
- a slight girl
- دختری ریزه اندام
- a slight temporary construction
- یک ساختمان سست و موقت
- a slight fever
- تب خفیف
- a slight change
- تغییر اندک
- a slight mistake
- اشتباه کم‌اهمیت
Countable Noun
ناچیز شماری، بی‌اعتنایی، تحقیر
- He took your remark as a slight to his book.
- او فکر کرد که منظور شما خوار شمردن کتابش بود.
Verb - transitive
ناچیز شمردن، کم دانستن
- They slighted our offer.
- پیشنهاد ما را ناچیز شمردند.
- I felt slighted, so I got up and left early.
- چون احساس کم‌محلی می‌کردم زود بلند شدم و رفتم.
- to slight one’s guests
- به مهمانان خود کم‌محلی کردن
- those who slighted God’s commands …
- آنان که به فرامین خداوند وقعی ننهادند …
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adjective insignificant, small
Synonyms: fat, feeble, inconsiderable, insubstantial, meager, minor, modest, negligible, off, outside, paltry, petty, piddling, remote, scanty, slender, slim, sparse, superficial, trifling, trivial, unessential, unimportant, weak
Antonyms: big, great, important, large, significant
adjective thin, small in build
Synonyms: attenuate, broomstick, dainty, delicate, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, light, reedy, shadow, skeleton, skinny, slender, slim, spare, stick, twiggy
Antonyms: chubby, fat, large, tall, thick
noun insult, disrespect
Synonyms: affront, brush-off, call-down, cold shoulder, contempt, cut, discourtesy, disdain, disregard, inattention, indifference, kick, neglect, put-down, rebuff, rejection, slap in the face, snub
Antonyms: compliment, praise, respect
verb offend, insult
Synonyms: affront, blink at, brush off, chill, contemn, cool, cut, despise, discount, disdain, disparage, disregard, fail, flout, forget, give the brush, give the cold shoulder to, ignore, make light of, neglect, not give time of day, omit, overlook, pooh-pooh, reject, scoff, scorn, show disrespect, shrug off, skip, slur, sneeze at, snub, treat with contempt, turn deaf ear to, upstage
Antonyms: compliment, flatter, praise
Wane
Decline
رو به کاهش گذاشتن، نقصان یافتن، کم شدن، افول، کم‌وکاستی، وارفتن، به آخر رسیدن
- The moon waxes and wane’s.
- ماه بزرگ و کوچک می‌شود.
- the waning of colors of a sunset
- زایل شدن رنگهای یک غروب آفتاب
- a waning political party
- یک حزب سیاسی درحال افول
- Her popularity began to wane.
- شهرت او رو به نقصان نهاد.
- The day wanes and darkness spreads.
- روز نزدیک به پایان است و تاریکی گسترده می‌شود.
- Rome’s power and prestige were on the wane.
- قدرت و اعتبار روم رو به افول گذاشته بود.
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verb diminish, lessen
Synonyms: abate, atrophy, decline, decrease, die away, die down, die out, dim, draw to a close, drop, dwindle, ease off, ebb, fade, fade away, fail, fall, fall short, let up, moderate, peter out, relent, shrink, sink, slacken, slack off, subside, taper off, waste away, weaken, wind down, wither
Antonyms: grow, increase, raise, rise
Collocations
on the wane
درحال افول، در محاق، روبه فروگرایی
Sever
nsitive
جدا کردن، بریدن، منفصل کردن
- severed from his family by war
- جداافتاده از خانواده‌ی خود به واسطه‌ی جنگ
- Two of his fingers were severed.
- دو تا از انگشتانش قطع شدند.
- to sever a telephone wire
- سیم تلفن را بریدن
- He severed all relationship with his brother.
- با برادرش به کلی قطع رابطه کرد.
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verb cut apart
Synonyms: bisect, carve, cleave, cut, cut in two, detach, disconnect, disjoin, dissect, dissever, dissociate, disunite, divide, part, rend, rive, separate, slice, split, sunder
Antonyms: combine, join, unite
verb dissociate
Synonyms: abandon, break off, disjoint, dissolve, divide, divorce, put an end to, separate, terminate
Antonyms: associate, unite
Provincial
If you’re from a province it’s kind of like you’re grown up on a farm
Narrow
استانی، ایالت‌نشین، کوته‌فکر، ایالتی
- provincial prime ministers of Canada
- نخست‌وزیری استان‌های کانادا
- provincial elections
- انتخابات ایالتی
- a provincial accent
- لهجه‌ی شهرستانی
- provincial interests
- علایق کوته‌بینانه
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adjective countrified; limited
Synonyms: bigoted, bucolic, country, hidebound, homegrown, homespun, insular, inward-looking, local, narrow, narrow-minded, parochial, pastoral, petty, rude, rural, rustic, sectarian, small-minded, small-town, uninformed, unpolished, unsophisticated
Antonyms: citified, liberal, metropolitan, modern
Nonchalant
Composed
Cool calm
بی‌علاقه، نامشتاق، ناخواستار، بی‌‌تفاوت، بی اعتنا، خونسرد، سهل‌انگار، اهمال‌کار، مسامحه‌کار
- he is still pretty nonchalant about the trip.
- او هنوز هم درباره‌ی آن سفر بی‌علاقگی نشان می‌دهد.
- he was nonchalant even in the battlefield.
- او حتی در میدان رزم هم عین خیالش نبود.
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adjective easygoing, laid back
Synonyms: airy, aloof, apathetic, blasé, calm, careless, casual, cold, collected, composed, cool, detached, disimpassioned, disinterested, dispassionate, easy, effortless, happy, impassive, imperturbable, incurious, indifferent, insouciant, lackadaisical, light, listless, loose, lukewarm, mellow, neglectful, negligent, neutral, offhand, placid, serene, smooth, trifling, uncaring, unconcerned, unemotional, unexcited, unfeeling, unflappable, unimpressible, unperturbed, unruffled, untroubled
Antonyms: intense, jumpy, nervous, unnerved
Fastidious
Paying to much attention to the details
Perfectionist
سخت‌گیر، باریک‌بین، مشکل‌پسند، بیزار
- Our teacher was fastidious about cleanliness.
- معلم ما درمورد نظافت سخت‌گیر بود.
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adjective very careful, meticulous
Synonyms: captious, choosy, critical, dainty, demanding, difficult, discriminating, easily disgusted, exacting, finical, finicky, fussbudgety, fussy, hard to please, hypercritical, nice, nit-picky, overdelicate, overnice, particular, persnickety, picky, punctilious, queasy, squeamish, stickling
Antonyms: indifferent, indiscriminating, uncareful, uncouth, uncritical, undemanding
Stoic
رواقی، پیرو فلسفه رواقیون
Adjective
صبور، بردبار
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Unemotional
adjective philosophic
Synonyms: aloof, apathetic, calm, cool, detached, dispassionate, dry, enduring, impassive, imperturbable, indifferent, indomitable, long-suffering, matter-of-fact, patient, phlegmatic, resigned, self-controlled, sober, stoical, stolid, unconcerned, unemotional, unflappable, unmoved
Antonyms:
adjective philosophic, calm
Synonyms: aloof, apathetic, cool, cool as cucumber, detached, dispassionate, dry, enduring, impassive, imperturbable, indifferent, indomitable, long-suffering, matter-of-fact, patient, phlegmatic, resigned, rolling with punches, self-controlled, sober, stolid, unconcerned, unemotional, unflappable, unmoved
Antonyms: anxious, depressed, stressed, upset
a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno
a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny
someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions
syn: stoic, unemotional person
seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
stoic courage
stoic patience
a stoical sufferer
syn: stoic, stoical
pertaining to Stoicism or its followers
syn: stoic, stoical
Feign
Fake
Simulate
وانمود کردن، به‌خود بستن، جعل کردن
- She feigned herself to be sick.
- او خود را به مریضی زد.
- to feign a limp
- خود را به شلی زدن
- She feigned to be asleep.
- وانمود کرد که خواب است.
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verb pretend
Synonyms: act, affect, assume, bluff, counterfeit, devise, dissemble, dissimulate, do a bit, fabricate, fake, forge, four-flush, give appearance of, imagine, imitate, invent, make show of, phony up, play, play possum, put on, put on act, put up a front, sham, simulate, stonewall
Antonyms: be true
Pensive
Contemplative
Dreamily thoughtful
اندیشناک، متفکر، افسرده، پکر، گرفتار غم، محزون
- She was in a pensive mood.
- او حالت افسرده‌ای داشت.
- She became pensive.
- سر به جیب تفکر فرو برد.
- the pensive look in his eyes
- نگاه فکورانه‌ی چشمان او
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adjective meditative, solemn
Synonyms: absorbed, abstracted, attentive, cogitative, contemplative, dreamy, grave, musing, pondering, preoccupied, reflecting, reflective, ruminating, ruminative, serious, sober, speculative, thinking, thoughtful, wistful, withdrawn
Antonyms: ignorant, shallow
Acumen
تیزهوشی، تیزفهمی، فراست
- political acumen
- شم سیاسی
- business acumen
- هوش تجاری
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noun ability to understand and reason
Synonyms: acuity, acuteness, astuteness, awareness, brains, brilliance, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, good taste, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, percipience, perspicacity, perspicuity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, sharpness, shrewdness, smartness, smarts, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit
Antonyms: denseness, ignorance, inability, ineptness, obtuseness, stupidity
Esoteric
Obscure
محرمانه، سری، رمزی، درونی، داخلی، مبهم، مشکوک
- Some of his predictions are so esoteric that only a few of his followers understand their meaning.
- برخی از پیش‌گویی‌های او آن‌قدر پیچیده است که فقط تعداد کمی از پیروانش معنی آن را می‌فهمند.
- an esoteric plan
- نقشه‌ی محرمانه
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adjective mysterious, obscure
Synonyms: abstruse, acroamatic, arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, deep, Delphic, heavy, hermetic, hidden, inner, inscrutable, mystic, mystical, occult, Orphic, private, profound, recondite, secret, Sibylline
Antonyms: common, familiar, known, obvious, public, unmysterious
