Deck13 Flashcards
<font><span>Aberration</span></font>
- the act of departing from the right, normal, or usual course.
2.
the act of deviating from the ordinary, usual, or normal type.
3.
deviation from truth or moral rectitude.
- wandering; deviation, divergence. 4. abnormality, eccentricity, illusion, delusion, hallucination.
<font><span>Ail</span></font>
- to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to.
2.
to be unwell; feel pain; be ill: He’s been ailing for some time.
- bother, annoy, distress.
<font><span>Aprobos</span></font>
- fitting; at the right time; to the purpose; opportunely.
- opportune; pertinent: apropos remarks.
<font><span>Augury</span></font>
- the art or practice of an augur; divination.
2.
the rite or ceremony of an augur.
3.
an omen, token, or indication.
-müneccimlik
<font><span>Bawdy</span></font>
1 indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories.
- belden aşağı, açık saçık
1. lascivious, salacious, prurient, earthy, risqué, ribald, coarse, licentious, raunchy.
<font><span>Blithe</span></font>
1 joyous, merry, or gay in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
2.
without thought or regard; carefree; heedless: a blithe indifference to anyone’s feelings.
- neşeli şen, tasasız
1. happy, mirthful, sprightly, light-hearted, buoyant, joyful, blithesome.
—1. joyless.
<font><span>Cadge</span></font>
1 to obtain by imposing on another’s generosity or friendship.
2.
to borrow without intent to repay.
3.
to beg or obtain by begging.
4 to ask, expect, or encourage another person to pay for or provide one’s drinks, meals, etc.
-avuç açmak
<font><span>Cleanse</span></font>
1 to make clean.
2.
to remove by or as if by cleaning: to cleanse sin from the soul.
<font><span>Comprise</span></font>
1 to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
2.
to consist of; be composed of: The advisory board comprises six members.
3.
to form or constitute: Seminars and lectures comprised the day’s activities.
<font><span>Conveyance</span></font>
1 the act of conveying; transmission; communication.
2.
a means of transporting, especially a vehicle, as a bus, airplane, or automobile.
<font><span>Cynical</span></font>
1 like or characteristic of a cynic; distrusting or disparaging the motives of others.
2.
showing contempt for accepted standards of honesty or morality by one’s actions, especially by actions that exploit the scruples of others.
3.
bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic.
-insani iyiliğe inanmayan, alaycı, küçümseyen
pessimistic, sarcastic, satirical
-optimistic
<font><span>Deprave</span></font>
1 to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt., to lead into bad habits, make morally bad, corrupt, pervert
<font><span>Discern</span></font>
1 to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend: They discerned a sail on the horizon.
2.
to distinguish mentally; recognize as distinct or different; discriminate: He is incapable of discerning right from wrong
- to distinguish or discriminate.
- farketmek, ayırdetmek - discover, descry, espy. See notice. 2, 3. differentiate, judge.
<font><span>Doctrinaire</span></font>
1 ta person who tries to apply some doctrine or theory without sufficient regard for practical considerations; an impractical theorist.
2 dogmatic about others’ acceptance of one’s ideas; fanatical: a doctrinaire preacher.
3.
merely theoretical; impractical.
authoritarian, uncompromising, inflexible, unyielding.
—2. reasonable, flexible.
<font><span>Elaborate</span></font>
1 worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness: elaborate preparations; elaborate care.
2.
marked by intricate and often excessive detail; complicated.
- perfected, painstaking. 2. ornate. Elaborate, labored, studied
- simple
<font><span>Enigma</span></font>
1 a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation: His disappearance is an enigma that has given rise to much speculation.
2.
a person of puzzling or contradictory character
- problem.
<font><span>Esoteric</span></font>
1 understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite: poetry full of esoteric allusions.
2.
belonging to the select few.
3.
private; secret; confidential.
- abstruse, arcane, cryptic, enigmatic.
<font><span>Expostulate</span></font>
1 to reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done; remonstrate: His father expostulated with him about the evils of gambling.
dispute, argue, protest; exhort, counsel.
<font><span>Felon</span></font>
1 A person guilty of a major crime; criminal
<font><span>Fleece</span></font>
1 the coat of wool that covers a sheep or a similar animal.
- to deprive of money or belongings by fraud, hoax, or the like; swindle: He fleeced the stranger of several dollars.
<font><span>Fragrant</span></font>
1 having a pleasant scent or aroma; sweet-smelling; sweet-scented: a fragrant rose.
2.
delightful; pleasant: fragrant memories.
perfumed, odorous, redolent, aromatic.
—1. malodorous, noisome.
<font><span>Goad</span></font>
1 a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
2.
anything that pricks or wounds like such a stick.
3.
something that encourages, urges, or drives; a stimulus.
<font><span>Haughty</span></font>
1 disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
lordly, disdainful, contemptuous. See proud.
—1. humble, unpretentious, unassuming.
<font><span>Idolatry</span></font>
1 the religious worship of idols.
2.
excessive or blind adoration, reverence, devotion, etc.
- obsession, madness, mania.
<font><span>Implausible</span></font>
1 not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility: an implausible alibi.
-doğru gibi durmayan
unlikely, improbable, unbelievable.
<font><span>Inept</span></font>
1 without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit: He is inept at mechanical tasks. She is inept at dealing with people.
2.
generally awkward or clumsy; haplessly incompetent.
3.
inappropriate; unsuitable; out of place.
- unskillful, bungling. 4. stupid, pointless, inane.
—1. suited.
<font><span>Intractable</span></font>
1 not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate: an intractable disposition.
2.
(of things) hard to shape or work with: an intractable metal.
3.
hard to treat, relieve, or cure: the intractable pain in his leg.
- hard to manage, unruly, stubborn
- perverse, headstrong, dogged, obdurate, stony, willful, froward. 1, 2. fractious, refractory, unbending, inflexible, adamant, unyielding. See unruly.
—1. amiable. 1, 2. amenable, flexible.
<font><span>Intractable</span></font>
1 of, pertaining to, or resembling a labyrinth.
2.
complicated; tortuous: the labyrinthine byways of modern literature.
<font><span>Lustrous</span></font>
1 having luster; shining; luminous: lustrous eyes.
2.
brilliant; splendid; resplendent; illustrious: a lustrous career.
- gleaming, radiant, glowing, shimmering. 2. refulgent, dazzling, gorgeous.
<font><span>Misanthrope</span></font>
1 a hater of humankind.
<font><span>Nonplussed</span></font>
1 to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.
<font><span>Ostentatious</span></font>
1 characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others: an ostentatious dresser.
2.
(of actions, manner, qualities exhibited, etc.) intended to attract notice: Lady Bountiful’s ostentatious charity.
- See grandiose.
<font><span>Penitent</span></font>
1 feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite.
Truly sorry for having sinned or done wrong and willingly to atone; contrite
remorseful, rueful, sorrowful.
—1. unrepentant, impenitent.
<font><span>Pied</span></font>
1 having patches of two or more colors, as various birds and other animals: a pied horse.
<font><span>Posture</span></font>
1 the relative disposition of the parts of something.
2.
the position of the limbs or the carriage of the body as a whole: poor posture; a sitting posture.
3.
an affected or unnatural attitude: He struck a comic posture.
<font><span>Proliferate</span></font>
1 to grow or produce by multiplication of parts, as in budding or cell division, or by procreation.
2.
to increase in number or spread rapidly and often excessively.
<font><span>Quaff</span></font>
1 to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
- to drink (a beverage) copiously and heartily: We spent the whole evening quaffing ale.
- swallow, gulp, swig, guzzle.
<font><span>Recompense</span></font>
1 to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
2.
to pay or give compensation for; make restitution or requital for (damage, injury, or the like).
- compensation, as for an injury, wrong, etc.: to make recompense for the loss one’s carelessness has caused.
- reimburse, recoup. 4. payment, amends, indemnification, satisfaction. 4–6. See reward.
<font><span>Reprobate</span></font>
1 a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person: a drunken reprobate.
2.
a person rejected by god and beyond hope of salvation
5 to disapprove, condemn, or censure.
- tramp, scoundrel, wastrel, miscreant, wretch, rascal, cad, rogue. 2. outcast, pariah. 3. wicked, sinful, evil, corrupt. 5. reprehend, blame, rebuke, reprove.
<font><span>Sanction</span></font>
1 authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
2.
something that serves to support an action, condition, etc.
3.
something that gives binding force, as to an oath, rule of conduct, etc.
- permit.
—1. disapproval. 6. disapprove.
<font><span>Sheath</span></font>
1 a case or covering for the blade of a sword, dagger, or the like.
2.
any similar close-fitting covering or case.
-kaput, kın
<font><span>Spear</span></font>
1 a long, stabbing weapon for thrusting or throwing, consisting of a wooden shaft to which a sharp-pointed head, as of iron or steel, is attached.
- to pierce with or as with a spear.
<font><span>Stymie</span></font>
1 a situation or problem presenting such difficulties as to discourage or defeat any attempt to deal with or resolve it.
- to hinder, block, or thwart.
- stump, mystify, frustrate, confound.
<font><span>Talon</span></font>
1 a claw, especially of a bird of prey.
2.
the shoulder on the bolt of a lock against which the key presses in sliding the bolt.
-pençe, kilit anahtar yatağı
<font><span>Toy</span></font>
1 to amuse oneself; play.
13.
to act idly; or with indifference; trifle: to toy with one’s food.
14.
to dally amorously; flirt.
-trifle: önemsememek
<font><span>Unscathed</span></font>
1 not scathed; unharmed; uninjured: She survived the accident unscathed.
unhurt, unscratched, untouched, safe, whole.
<font><span>Virago</span></font>
1 a loud-voiced, ill-tempered, scolding woman; shrew.
- eli maşalı kadın
1. scold, nag, termagant, harpy, Xanthippe.
<font><span>Wont</span></font>
1 accustomed; used (usually followed by an infinitive): He was wont to rise at dawn.
2.
custom; habit; practice: It was her wont to walk three miles before breakfast.
- habituated, wonted. 2. use.
—1. unaccustomed.
- the act of departing from the right, normal, or usual course.
2.
the act of deviating from the ordinary, usual, or normal type.
3.
deviation from truth or moral rectitude.
- wandering; deviation, divergence. 4. abnormality, eccentricity, illusion, delusion, hallucination.
<font><span>Aberration</span></font>
- to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to.
2.
to be unwell; feel pain; be ill: He’s been ailing for some time.
- bother, annoy, distress.
<font><span>Ail</span></font>
- fitting; at the right time; to the purpose; opportunely.
- opportune; pertinent: apropos remarks.
<font><span>Aprobos</span></font>
- the art or practice of an augur; divination.
2.
the rite or ceremony of an augur.
3.
an omen, token, or indication.
-müneccimlik
<font><span>Augury</span></font>
1 indecent; lewd; obscene: another of his bawdy stories.
- belden aşağı, açık saçık
1. lascivious, salacious, prurient, earthy, risqué, ribald, coarse, licentious, raunchy.
<font><span>Bawdy</span></font>
1 joyous, merry, or gay in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
2.
without thought or regard; carefree; heedless: a blithe indifference to anyone’s feelings.
- neşeli şen, tasasız
1. happy, mirthful, sprightly, light-hearted, buoyant, joyful, blithesome.
—1. joyless.
<font><span>Blithe</span></font>
1 to obtain by imposing on another’s generosity or friendship.
2.
to borrow without intent to repay.
3.
to beg or obtain by begging.
4 to ask, expect, or encourage another person to pay for or provide one’s drinks, meals, etc.
-avuç açmak
<font><span>Cadge</span></font>
1 to make clean.
2.
to remove by or as if by cleaning: to cleanse sin from the soul.
<font><span>Cleanse</span></font>
1 to include or contain: The Soviet Union comprised several socialist republics.
2.
to consist of; be composed of: The advisory board comprises six members.
3.
to form or constitute: Seminars and lectures comprised the day’s activities.
<font><span>Comprise</span></font>
1 the act of conveying; transmission; communication.
2.
a means of transporting, especially a vehicle, as a bus, airplane, or automobile.
<font><span>Conveyance</span></font>
1 like or characteristic of a cynic; distrusting or disparaging the motives of others.
2.
showing contempt for accepted standards of honesty or morality by one’s actions, especially by actions that exploit the scruples of others.
3.
bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic.
-insani iyiliğe inanmayan, alaycı, küçümseyen
pessimistic, sarcastic, satirical
-optimistic
<font><span>Cynical</span></font>
1 to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt., to lead into bad habits, make morally bad, corrupt, pervert
<font><span>Deprave</span></font>
1 to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect; see, recognize, or apprehend: They discerned a sail on the horizon.
2.
to distinguish mentally; recognize as distinct or different; discriminate: He is incapable of discerning right from wrong
- to distinguish or discriminate.
- farketmek, ayırdetmek - discover, descry, espy. See notice. 2, 3. differentiate, judge.
<font><span>Discern</span></font>
1 ta person who tries to apply some doctrine or theory without sufficient regard for practical considerations; an impractical theorist.
2 dogmatic about others’ acceptance of one’s ideas; fanatical: a doctrinaire preacher.
3.
merely theoretical; impractical.
authoritarian, uncompromising, inflexible, unyielding.
—2. reasonable, flexible.
<font><span>Doctrinaire</span></font>
1 worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness: elaborate preparations; elaborate care.
2.
marked by intricate and often excessive detail; complicated.
- perfected, painstaking. 2. ornate. Elaborate, labored, studied
- simple
<font><span>Elaborate</span></font>
1 a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation: His disappearance is an enigma that has given rise to much speculation.
2.
a person of puzzling or contradictory character
- problem.
<font><span>Enigma</span></font>
1 understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite: poetry full of esoteric allusions.
2.
belonging to the select few.
3.
private; secret; confidential.
- abstruse, arcane, cryptic, enigmatic.
<font><span>Esoteric</span></font>
1 to reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done; remonstrate: His father expostulated with him about the evils of gambling.
dispute, argue, protest; exhort, counsel.
<font><span>Expostulate</span></font>
1 A person guilty of a major crime; criminal
<font><span>Felon</span></font>
1 the coat of wool that covers a sheep or a similar animal.
- to deprive of money or belongings by fraud, hoax, or the like; swindle: He fleeced the stranger of several dollars.
<font><span>Fleece</span></font>
1 having a pleasant scent or aroma; sweet-smelling; sweet-scented: a fragrant rose.
2.
delightful; pleasant: fragrant memories.
perfumed, odorous, redolent, aromatic.
—1. malodorous, noisome.
<font><span>Fragrant</span></font>
1 a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
2.
anything that pricks or wounds like such a stick.
3.
something that encourages, urges, or drives; a stimulus.
<font><span>Goad</span></font>
1 disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.
lordly, disdainful, contemptuous. See proud.
—1. humble, unpretentious, unassuming.
<font><span>Haughty</span></font>
1 the religious worship of idols.
2.
excessive or blind adoration, reverence, devotion, etc.
- obsession, madness, mania.
<font><span>Idolatry</span></font>
1 not plausible; not having the appearance of truth or credibility: an implausible alibi.
-doğru gibi durmayan
unlikely, improbable, unbelievable.
<font><span>Implausible</span></font>
1 without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit: He is inept at mechanical tasks. She is inept at dealing with people.
2.
generally awkward or clumsy; haplessly incompetent.
3.
inappropriate; unsuitable; out of place.
- unskillful, bungling. 4. stupid, pointless, inane.
—1. suited.
<font><span>Inept</span></font>
1 not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate: an intractable disposition.
2.
(of things) hard to shape or work with: an intractable metal.
3.
hard to treat, relieve, or cure: the intractable pain in his leg.
- hard to manage, unruly, stubborn
- perverse, headstrong, dogged, obdurate, stony, willful, froward. 1, 2. fractious, refractory, unbending, inflexible, adamant, unyielding. See unruly.
—1. amiable. 1, 2. amenable, flexible.
<font><span>Intractable</span></font>
1 of, pertaining to, or resembling a labyrinth.
2.
complicated; tortuous: the labyrinthine byways of modern literature.
<font><span>Intractable</span></font>
1 having luster; shining; luminous: lustrous eyes.
2.
brilliant; splendid; resplendent; illustrious: a lustrous career.
- gleaming, radiant, glowing, shimmering. 2. refulgent, dazzling, gorgeous.
<font><span>Lustrous</span></font>
1 a hater of humankind.
<font><span>Misanthrope</span></font>
1 to render utterly perplexed; puzzle completely.
<font><span>Nonplussed</span></font>
1 characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others: an ostentatious dresser.
2.
(of actions, manner, qualities exhibited, etc.) intended to attract notice: Lady Bountiful’s ostentatious charity.
- See grandiose.
<font><span>Ostentatious</span></font>
1 feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite.
Truly sorry for having sinned or done wrong and willingly to atone; contrite
remorseful, rueful, sorrowful.
—1. unrepentant, impenitent.
<font><span>Penitent</span></font>
1 having patches of two or more colors, as various birds and other animals: a pied horse.
<font><span>Pied</span></font>
1 the relative disposition of the parts of something.
2.
the position of the limbs or the carriage of the body as a whole: poor posture; a sitting posture.
3.
an affected or unnatural attitude: He struck a comic posture.
<font><span>Posture</span></font>
1 to grow or produce by multiplication of parts, as in budding or cell division, or by procreation.
2.
to increase in number or spread rapidly and often excessively.
<font><span>Proliferate</span></font>
1 to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
- to drink (a beverage) copiously and heartily: We spent the whole evening quaffing ale.
- swallow, gulp, swig, guzzle.
<font><span>Quaff</span></font>
1 to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
2.
to pay or give compensation for; make restitution or requital for (damage, injury, or the like).
- compensation, as for an injury, wrong, etc.: to make recompense for the loss one’s carelessness has caused.
- reimburse, recoup. 4. payment, amends, indemnification, satisfaction. 4–6. See reward.
<font><span>Recompense</span></font>
1 a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person: a drunken reprobate.
2.
a person rejected by god and beyond hope of salvation
5 to disapprove, condemn, or censure.
- tramp, scoundrel, wastrel, miscreant, wretch, rascal, cad, rogue. 2. outcast, pariah. 3. wicked, sinful, evil, corrupt. 5. reprehend, blame, rebuke, reprove.
<font><span>Reprobate</span></font>
1 authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
2.
something that serves to support an action, condition, etc.
3.
something that gives binding force, as to an oath, rule of conduct, etc.
- permit.
—1. disapproval. 6. disapprove.
<font><span>Sanction</span></font>
1 a case or covering for the blade of a sword, dagger, or the like.
2.
any similar close-fitting covering or case.
-kaput, kın
<font><span>Sheath</span></font>
1 a long, stabbing weapon for thrusting or throwing, consisting of a wooden shaft to which a sharp-pointed head, as of iron or steel, is attached.
- to pierce with or as with a spear.
<font><span>Spear</span></font>
1 a situation or problem presenting such difficulties as to discourage or defeat any attempt to deal with or resolve it.
- to hinder, block, or thwart.
- stump, mystify, frustrate, confound.
<font><span>Stymie</span></font>
1 a claw, especially of a bird of prey.
2.
the shoulder on the bolt of a lock against which the key presses in sliding the bolt.
-pençe, kilit anahtar yatağı
<font><span>Talon</span></font>
1 to amuse oneself; play.
13.
to act idly; or with indifference; trifle: to toy with one’s food.
14.
to dally amorously; flirt.
-trifle: önemsememek
<font><span>Toy</span></font>
1 not scathed; unharmed; uninjured: She survived the accident unscathed.
unhurt, unscratched, untouched, safe, whole.
<font><span>Unscathed</span></font>
1 a loud-voiced, ill-tempered, scolding woman; shrew.
- eli maşalı kadın
1. scold, nag, termagant, harpy, Xanthippe.
<font><span>Virago</span></font>
1 accustomed; used (usually followed by an infinitive): He was wont to rise at dawn.
2.
custom; habit; practice: It was her wont to walk three miles before breakfast.
- habituated, wonted. 2. use.
—1. unaccustomed.
<font><span>Wont</span></font>
