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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