obdurate: (السمنة) hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; not giving in to persuasion | obfuscate: (العنيد تعتم) confuse; muddle; cause confusion; make needlessly complex |
oblique: (المائل) having slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined | obsequious: (اذعانا) slavishly attentive; attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery |
obstreperous: (العنيد) noisily aggressive; making great noise or outcry | obtuse: (بليد) lacking in insight or discernment; stupid |
odious: (البغيضة) hateful; arousing strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure | officious: (فضولي) marked by excessive eagerness in offering unwanted services or advice to others |
ostensible: (الظاهر) put forth or held out as real, actual, or intended; proper or intended to be shown | palliate: (تلطيف) lessen violence of disease; moderate intensity; gloss over with excuses |
pallid: (شاحب) abnormally pale; lacking intensity of color or luminousness | panacea: (الدواء الشافي) remedy for all diseases, evils, or difficulties; a cure-all |
paragon: (المثل) model of excellence or perfection; peerless example | pariah: (منبوذة) social outcast; person who is rejected from society or home |
parsimony: (البخل) extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily | pathos: (رثاء) tender sorrow; pity; quality in art or literature that produces these feelings |
paucity: (ندرة) scarcity; smallness of number; fewness | pejorative: (تحقير) tending to make or become worse; disparaging or belittling |
pellucid: (شفاف) transparent; limpid; easy to understand | perfidious: (الغادر) tending to betray; disloyal; faithless |
perfunctory: (روتينية) done routinely and with little interest or care; acting with indifference; showing little interest or care | pernicious: (الخبيث) very destructive; tending to cause death or serious injury; deadly |
pertinacious: (ملح) stubbornly or perversely persistent; unyielding; obstinate | pithy: (بليغ) precisely meaningful; forceful and brief |
platitude: (ابتذال) dullness; insipidity of thought; commonplace statement; lack of originality | plethora: (كثرة) excess; over-fullness in any respect; superabundance |
portent: (آية) omen; forewarning; something that portends an event about to occur, especially unfortunate or evil event | precocious: (المبكر) advanced in development; appearing or developing early |
primeval: (البدائية) ancient; primitive; belonging to the first or earliest age; original or ancient | proclivity: (الميل) inclination; natural tendency; readiness; facility of learning |
promulgate: (نشر) proclaim doctrine or law; make known by official publication | propensity: (النزوع) natural inclination; tendency or preference; predilection |
propitious: (مؤات) presenting favorable circumstances; fortunate; advantageous | prosaic: (ركيك) dull and unimaginative; matter-of-fact; factual |
proscribe: (حظر) command against; banish; outlaw | protean: (متلون) versatile; able to take on many shapes; readily taking on varied shapes |
prurient: (شهواني) having or causing lustful thoughts and desires; having eager desire for something | puerile: (صبياني) childish; belonging to childhood; immature |
pulchritude: (pulchritude) great physical beauty and appeal; attractive moral excellence; moral beauty | punctilious: (بدقة) marked by precise accordance with details |
quagmire: (مستنقع) soft wet boggy land; complex or dangerous situation from which it is difficult to free oneself | querulous: (استعلام) habitually complaining; expressing complaint or grievance |
quixotic: (متسائل) idealistic without regard to practicality | rancor: (الحقد) bitter, long-lasting resentment; deep-seated ill will; hatred |
rebuke: (توبيخ) scold harshly; criticize severely | recalcitrant: (المتمردة) obstinately stubborn; determined to resist authority |
rectitude: (الاستقامة) uprightness; moral virtue; correctness of judgment | replete: (تزخر) filled to brim or to point of being stuffed; abundantly supplied |
reprobate: (الفاسق) person hardened in sin; person without moral scruples | reprove: (وب��) voice or convey disapproval of; rebuke; find fault with |
repudiate: (تنصل) disown; refuse to acknowledge; reject validity or authority of | rescind: (إلغاء) cancel; make void; repeal or annul |
restive: (المضطربة) impatient under restraint or opposition; resisting control; difficult to control | ribald: (سفيه) coarse or indecent; humorously vulgar or offensive |
rife: (منتشرة) excessively abundant or numerous; in widespread existence, practice, or use | ruse: (خدعة) trick; use of artifice or trickery; deceptive maneuver, especially to avoid capture |
sacrosanct: (المقدس) regarded as sacred and inviolable | sagacity: (حكمة) quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment; shrewdness |
salient: (البارزة) prominent or protruding; projecting outwardly; moving by leaps or springs | sanctimonious: (ورع) excessively or hypocritically pious; possessing sanctity; sacred; holy; saintly; religious |
sanguine: (تفاؤلا) cheerfully confident; optimistic; of healthy reddish color; ruddy | scurrilous: (البذيئة) obscene; indecent; expressing offensive reproach |
serendipity: (الصدفة) gift for finding valuable or desirable things by accident; accidental good fortune or luck | servile: (ذليل) slavish; suitable to slave or servant; relating to servitude or forced labor |
solicitous: (مهموم) worried or concerned; full of desire; expressing care or concern | somnolent: (نيموم) half asleep; inclined to drowsiness; tending to induce sleep |
spurious: (زائفة) false; counterfeit; forged; illogical | staid: (رزين) sober; serious, organized, and professional; characterized by dignity and propriety |
stolid: (متبلد الحس) dull; impassive; having or revealing little emotion or sensibility | stupefy: (السيادية خدر) make senseless or dizzy; be mystery or bewildering to |
surfeit: (تخمة) eat until excessively full; be more than full; feed someone to excess | surmise: (التخمين) guess; infer something without sufficiently conclusive evidence |
surreptitious: (خلسة) secret; done or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently | sycophant: (تصفه) one who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people; bootlicker; yes man |
tacit: (ضمني) indicated or understood without expressed directly; not speaking; silent | taciturn: (قليل الكلام) silent or reserved in speech; saying little; not inclined to speak or converse |
tantamount: (بمثابة) equivalent in effect or value | temerity: (تهور) boldness; rashness; foolhardy disregard of danger |
tenuous: (الشد اهية) long and thin; slender; having little substance | timorous: (مرعوب) fearful; demonstrating fear; weakly hesitant |
torpid: (خدران) having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed | tractable: (لين العريكة) easily managed or controlled; governable; easily handled or worked; docile |
transient: (عابر) momentary; temporary; staying for short time | transmute: (عابرة نحول) change from one form, nature, substance, or state into another; transform |
trenchant: (مرتجف) forceful, effective, and vigorous; sharp or keen | truculent: (القسوة) disposed to fight; belligerent; aggressively hostile |
turgid: (متورم) swollen; distended; excessively ornate or complex in style or language | turpitude: (الانحطاط) depravity; corrupt, depraved, or degenerate act |
ubiquitous: (في كل مكان) being or existing everywhere; omnipresent | unctuous: (مداهن) oily; composed of oil or fat; characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness |
upbraid: (لوم) severely criticize; reprimand; reprove sharply | usurp: (اغتصاب) seize and hold power or rights of another by force or without legal authority |
vacillate: (يتأرجح) sway unsteadily from one side to the other; oscillate | vacuous: (فارغ) empty; showing lack of thought or intelligence; vacant |
vapid: (بايخ) dull and unimaginative; lacking taste or flavor | variegated: (التلون) streaked, spotted, or marked with a variety of color; very colorful |
venerate: (تعظيمه) treat with great respect and deference; consider hallowed or be in awe of | veracity: (صحة) truthfulness; unwillingness to tell lies |
verdant: (الخضراء) green; full of juice in vegetation | vex: (نكد) annoy; disturb, especially by minor irritations; be a mystery or bewildering to |
vicarious: (المضيع) acting as substitute; done by deputy; experienced at secondhand | vicissitude: (قابلة للحياة التقلب) change, especially in one's life or fortunes; regular change or succession of one thing to another; alternation |
vilify: (ذم) debase; degrade; spread negative information about | viscous: (لزج) sticky; gluey; having high resistance to flow |
vitriolic: (لاذعة) harsh or corrosive in tone; sarcastic; bitterly scathing | wanton: (الوحشي) unrestrained; willfully malicious; immoral or unchaste |
winsome: (فاتن) agreeable; gracious; charming, often in childlike or naive way | wistful: (حزين) full of wishful yearning or longing; sadly thoughtful |
zenith: (ذروة) point directly overhead in sky; summit | zephyr: (النسيم العليل) gentle breeze; west wind; any of various soft light fabrics, yarns, or garments |
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