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agenda
Detail    speak
n. جدول الأعمال items of business at a meeting; list or program of things to be done or considered
His agenda is certainly different from the President's and the administration's, but we will seek additional opportunities to work together with him.
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aggravate
Detail    speak
v. تفاقم worsen; make worse or more troublesome
Ridiculous, offensive comments like this do nothing but aggravate the situation.
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aggravating
Detail    speak
a. مشددا irritating; annoying; making worse or more heinous
What's aggravating is they are not in the same format, so it's not like you can cut and paste.
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aggregate
Detail    speak
v. مجموع gather into a mass, sum, or whole; amount to
Before the Wall Street scandals, dealers managed to aggregate great wealth in short periods of time.
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aggregation
Detail    speak
n. تجميع several things grouped together or considered as a whole
It provides an overview of a diverse set of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, organizes them into functional clusters.
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aggressive
Detail    speak
a. جذابة making assaults; unjustly attacking; combative; hostile; tending to spread quickly
During his tenure in Beijing, Huntsman was an aggressive advocate for human rights and pushed to expand U.S. economic ties with China.
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agile
Detail    speak
a. مرونة moving quickly and lightly; mentally quick
He is quick and agile, which is something we relied on.
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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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agony
Detail    speak
n. مقبول the extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; last struggle of life; death struggle
'Oh, PLEASE mind what you are doing!' cried Alice, jumping up and down in an agony of terror.
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agreeable
Detail    speak
a. مقبول ready to consent or submit; acceptable
They will have a great deal of money, and you will have none: it is your place to be humble and to try to make yourself agreeable to them.
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agriculture
Detail    speak
n. الزراعة the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
The developing world is unlikely to change its stand on the issue of agriculture subsidies.
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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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aim
Detail    speak
n. الهدف point or direct towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it
The library aims to educate and inspire children who have seen arts education cut from their school.
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aircraft
Detail    speak
n. طائرات a vehicle that can fly, such as an airplane, helicopter, balloon
This aircraft is also equipped with a spear, which the Geneva War Crimes Handbook forbids.
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airsickness
Detail    speak
n. دوار الجو motion sickness experienced while traveling by air
An airsickness bag is commonly provided to passengers onboard airplanes and boats to collect and contain vomit in the case of motion sickness.
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ajar
Detail    speak
a. مواربا half-open; slightly turned or opened
If you need a door ajar or else without the cat running through it, placing the bottle in the doorway will usually keep it away.
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akin
Detail    speak
a. أقرب of the same kin; related by blood
Spanish is akin to Latin.
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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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alder
Detail    speak
n. ألدر north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and cone-like fruit
The wood of the alder is light, quite brittle when young, and easily worked.
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