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agility
Detail    speak
n. رشاقة mentally quick; moving quickly and lightly
The agility of the acrobat amazed and thrilled the audience.
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agitate
Detail    speak
v. تحريض cause to move with violence or sudden force; upset; disturb
Since President has now announced that Emergency, the only demand that the lawyers can now agitate is to restore the old Supreme Court.
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agitation
Detail    speak
n. التحريض anxiety; extreme emotional disturbance
The result of all this agitation is an unsettlement that paralyzes business.
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agnostic
Detail    speak
n. الزراعي one who is skeptical of the existence of a god or any ultimate reality
William's presence by so much as a purr or a claw, and I have noticed that the agnostic is the only creature living who can treat a preacher with so much contempt.
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agrarian
Detail    speak
a. تمسكا الزراعي pertaining to land or its cultivation; relating to agricultural or rural matters
The economic relationship between the two nations has expanded during the past decade amid China's economic boom and Argentina's rise in agrarian production.
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ailment
Detail    speak
n. مرض sickness;a slight but often persistent illness 
And the number closely matches a finding of an earlier international study that estimated some 10.1 percent of people globally suffer from the ailment.
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air
Detail    speak
v. عذاب الهواء be broadcast on television or radio
The tidbits that will air on tonight's 6 o'clock news.
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airborne
Detail    speak
a. الجو aloft; flying; in the air
It provides air-data and GPS-inertial solutions for airborne measurement.
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alacrity
Detail    speak
n. الملحد الهمة cheerful promptness or willingness; eagerness; speed or quickness
Phil and Dave were raring to get off to the mountains; they packed up their ski gear and climbed into the van with alacrity.
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alchemy
Detail    speak
n. الكيمياء medieval chemistry; magical or mysterious power or process of transforming
The changing of baser metals into gold was the goal of the students of alchemy in medieval.
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alcove
Detail    speak
n. الكوة nook; small, recessed section of a room
In front of the centre window in the alcove is a small table on a parlour lamp and some newspapers, including the 'New York Sun.'
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algorithm
Detail    speak
n. خوارزمية established procedure for solving problem
The accountant uses an algorithm to determine the appropriate tax bracket.
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alignment
Detail    speak
n. المحاذاة arrangement; association; alliance
When you want an alignment that covers the whole length of both sequences, use a needle.
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alimentary
Detail    speak
a. الغذائية providing nourishment; concerned with food, nutrition, or digestion
The alimentary canal in our bodies is so named because digestion of foods occurs there.
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alkali
Detail    speak
n. الحساسية soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash; one of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, and ammonia
This kind of soil contains the special stuff with alkali.
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allay
Detail    speak
v. تهدئة calm; pacify; reduce the intensity of; relieve
The crew tried to allay the fears of the passengers by announcing that the fire had been controlled.
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allegation
Detail    speak
n. ادعاء suggestion without proof that someone has done something wrong
The allegation has angered the Brazilian authorities and has been strongly denied.
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allege
Detail    speak
v. يزعم state without proof; assert to be true
If what Justice Department prosecutors allege is true, the five guards should have to answer for what happened on Sept. 16, 2007.
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allegory
Detail    speak
n. الرمز symbolic representation of abstract ideas or principles in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form
Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of the temptations and victories of man's soul.
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alliteration
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n. الجناس repetition of a beginning sound in poetry
'The furrow followed free' is an example of alliteration.
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