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Blueprint

A plan for achieving sth, a plan for a building

Caprice

A sudden change of mind or behavior or tendency for it

Insinuation

Sth that s.o. Says which seems unpleasant but does not say this openly

Penchant


Penchant for sth

When you like sth very much and try to do or have it

Aegis


Under the aegis of sb/sth

With the protection or support of a person or organization

Duress (n)


Under duress

Illegal or unfair treats

Ethos (n)

The set of ideas and moral attitudes that are typical of a particular gp

Impassive (adj)


Impassivity (n)

Not showing any emotions

Query (v)


Query whether

1. To express doubt if sth is true


2. To ask a Q

Enforce

1. To make people obey


2. To make sth happen

Usurp (v)

To take s.o.'s power, position, job when U do not have the right to

Portend (v)

To be a sign that sth is going to happen

Providence

1. a force which is believed by some people to control what happens in our lives and to protect us


2. آینده نگری

Prodigality

ولخرجی

Prodigal (adj)

Sb who leave his family without their approval but is sorry later and returns

Altruism

When U care about or help other people even though this brings no advantage to yourself

Inadvertently

Accidentally, deliberately

Extemporaneous (adj)

Spoken or done without any preparation

Incendiary

1. Designed to cause fire


2. A speech or piece of writing intended to make people angry

Flamboyant

تجملاتی و زرقی برقی

Forfeit (v)

To lose a right, position, possession or have it taken away from you bcz you have broken a law

Inflict (v)

Inflict sth on sb



To make so suffer sth unpleasant

Appraise (v)

To officially judge how successful, effective, or valuable sth is


Evaluate


To look carefully at s.o. or sth to make an opinion about them

Indemnify (v)

Against/for: to promise to pay s.o. If sth they own is damaged or lost



For: to pay s.o. money bcz of loss, injury, damage

Sustain (v)

Maintain, suffer, give strength, to support an idea

Dissimulate (v)

To hide your true feelings or intentions esp by lying

Unveil (v)

To show a new product


To remove cover as part of a ceremony

Explicate (v)

To explain an idea in detail

Precipitate (v)

To make sth happen more quickly

Partisan (adj)

Strongly supporting a political party, plan, leader


Relating to the fighting of an enemy that has taken control of its country.

Mellifluous (adj)

A voice or piece of music sounds pleasantly smooth.

Encomium (n)

The expression of a lot of praise

Bravura (n)

Great skill shown in the way U perform, write, paint etc, esp when U do sth very difficult

Complacent (adj)

To stop trying to improve or change things bcz you are pleased with what you have achieved

Liturgy

A way of praying in a religious service using a fixed oreder of words or prayers

Melee

A situation in which a lot of people rush around a confused way

Perdition

Punishment after death


A complete destruction or failure

Nous

Intelligence and the ability to make practical decisions


Common sense

Expendable (adj)

Not needed enough to be kept or saved

Apocryphal (adj)

A story that is well known but probably not true

Snide (adj)

Snide remarks/comments


If you say sth snide, U say sth unkind often in a clever indirect way