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Abhor

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  1. to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe; abominate.
    - hor görmek
    despise. See hate.

— love, admire.

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Alienate

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  1. to make indifferent or hostile: He has alienated his entire family.
  2. to turn away; transfer or divert: to alienate funds from their intended purpose.
  3. Law . to transfer or convey, as title, property, or other right, to another: to alienate lands.

estrange

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Arabesque

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  1. any ornament or ornamental object, as a rug or mosaic, in which flowers, foliage, fruits, vases, animals, and figures are represented in a fancifully combined pattern.
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Auspice

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  1. Usually, auspices. patronage; support; sponsorship: under the auspices of the Department of education.

2.
Often, auspices. a favorable sign or propitious circumstance.
3.
a divination or prognostication, originally from observing birds

-kehanet (kuşlara bakılarak), himaye

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Beatify

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  1. to make blissfully happy.

2.
Roman Catholic Church . to declare (a deceased person) to be among the blessed and thus entitled to specific religious honor.

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Blueprint

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  1. a detailed outline or plan of action: a blueprint for success.
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Calipers

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  1. Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.

2.
any of various calibrated instruments for measuring thicknesses or distances between surfaces, usually having a screwed or sliding adjustable piece. Compare vernier caliper.
3.
thickness or depth, as of paper or a tree.

-kumpas

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Cling

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  1. to adhere closely; stick to: The wet paper clings to the glass.

2.
to hold tight, as by grasping or embracing; cleave: The children clung to each other in the dark.
3.
to be or remain close: The child clung to her mother’s side.

  1. clutch, grab, hug.
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Concave

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  1. curved like a segment of the interior of a circle or hollow sphere; hollow and curved. Compare convex ( def. 1 ) .
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Convoke

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  1. to call together; summon to meet or assemble.

convene.

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Daunt

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  1. to overcome with fear; intimidate: to daunt one’s adversaries.

2.
to lessen the courage of; dishearten: Don’t be daunted by the amount of work still to be done.

overawe, subdue, dismay, frighten. 2. discourage, dispirit.

—2. encourage.

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Depredation

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  1. the act of preying upon or plundering; robbery; ravage.
    - yağmalama
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Disconcert

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  1. to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.

2.
to throw into disorder or confusion; disarrange: He changed his mind and disconcerted everybody’s plans.

  1. frustrate

discompose, perplex, bewilder, abash, discomfit. See confuse.

—1. calm. 2. arrange.

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Dogmatic

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  1. of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas; doctrinal.

2.
asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner; opinionated.

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Elation

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  1. a feeling or state of great joy or pride; exultant gladness; high spirits.
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Ennui

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  1. a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom: The endless lecture produced an unbearable ennui.
    - can sıkıntısı, bıkkınlık
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Ethereal

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1.light, airy, or tenuous: an ethereal world created through the poetic imagination.

2.
extremely delicate or refined: ethereal beauty.
3.
heavenly or celestial: gone to his ethereal home.

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Exscind

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  1. to cut out or off., extirpate
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Ferment

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  1. agitation; unrest; excitement; commotion; tumult: The new painters worked in a creative ferment. the capital lived in a political ferment.
    - fermante olmak
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Fleeting

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  1. passing swiftly; vanishing quickly; transient; transitory: fleeting beauty; a fleeting glance.
    - kısacık süren

passing, flitting, flying, brief, fugitive.

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Frantic

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  1. desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
  2. marked by frenzy; resulting from wild emotion

overwrought, agitated, frenzied, distraught.

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Gouge

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  1. to scoop out or turn with or as if with a gouge: to gouge a channel; to gouge holes.
  2. to extort from, swindle, or overcharge.
    - marangoz kalemi (ile oymak), değerinden daha pahalıya satmak
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Hedonist

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  1. a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
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Igneous

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  1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fire.
    - volkanik, ateşle alakalı
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Implicit

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  1. implied, rather than expressly stated: implicit agreement.

2.
unquestioning or unreserved; absolute: implicit trust; implicit obedience; implicit confidence.
3.
potentially contained (usually followed by in ): to bring out the drama implicit in the occasion.

  1. inherent, complete, total.
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Infertile

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1.not fertile; unproductive; sterile; barren: infertile soil.

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Intransigence

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  1. refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.
  2. a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.
    - uyuşmaz, uzlaşmaz
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Lackluster

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  1. lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.

2.
lacking liveliness, vitality, spirit, or enthusiasm: a lackluster performance.

  1. a lack of brilliance or vitality.
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Machination

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  1. an act or instance of machinating.

2.
Usually, machinations. crafty schemes; plots; intrigues.

  • dolap, entrika, hile
    2. stratagem, device.
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Misconstrue

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  1. to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.

misread, misapprehend, misjudge.

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Notion

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  1. a general understanding; vague or imperfect conception or idea of something: a notion of how something should be done.

2.
an opinion, view, or belief: That’s his notion, not mine.
3.
conception or idea: his notion of democracy.

see idea

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Ostrich

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  1. a person who attempts to ignore unpleasant facts or situations.
    - devekuşu
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Peregrination

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  1. travel from one place to another, especially on foot.

2.
a course of travel; journey

1, 2. trip, excursion, expedition.

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Pious

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  1. having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for god or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.

2.
characterized by a hypocritical concern with virtue or religious devotion; sanctimonious.
3.
practiced or used in the name of real or pretended religious motives, or for some ostensibly good object; falsely earnest or sincere: a pious deception.

  • dindarlık, sahte dindarlık
    1. devout, godly, reverent
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Poverty

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1.the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor; indigence.

  1. deficiency of necessary or desirable ingredients, qualities, etc.: poverty of the soil.
  2. scantiness; insufficiency: Their efforts to stamp out disease were hampered by a poverty of Medical supplies.
  3. penury. Poverty, destitution, need, want
    - 1. riches, wealth, plenty.
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Promulgate

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  1. to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).

2.
to set forth or teach publicly (a creed, doctrine, etc.).

  1. announce, issue, declare. 2. advocate.
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Qualm

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  1. an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction: He has no qualms about lying.
  2. a sudden feeling of apprehensive uneasiness; misgiving: a sudden qualm about the success of the venture.
  3. a sudden sensation or onset of faintness or illness, especially of nausea.
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Recondite

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  1. dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise.
  2. beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding; esoteric: recondite principles.
  3. little known; obscure: a recondite fact.
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Repudiate

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  1. to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  2. to cast off or disown: to repudiate a son.
  3. to reject with disapproval or condemnation: to repudiate a new doctrine.

disavow, renounce, discard, disclaim. 3. condemn, disapprove.

—Antonyms
1. accept. 3. approve.

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Sanity

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  1. the state of being sane; soundness of mind.
  2. soundness of judgment.
    - akıl sağlığı, mantıklı olma
  3. reason, rationality, sensibleness, reasonableness.
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Shove

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  1. to move along by force from behind; push.

2.
to push roughly or rudely; jostle.
3.
Slang: Often Vulgar . to go to hell with: Voters are telling Congress to shove its new tax plan.

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Splenetic

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  1. of the spleen; splenic.

2.
irritable; peevish; spiteful.

  • huysuz, aksi
    2. vexatious, irascible, testy, fretful, touchy, petulant, choleric.
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Sublime

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    1. elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.: Paradise lost is sublime poetry.
  2. impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or power; inspiring awe, veneration, etc.: Switzerland has sublime scenery.
  3. supreme or outstanding: a sublime dinner.
  4. complete; absolute; utter: sublime stupidity.
  5. Noble, exalted, majestic
    - muhteşem, görkemli, ulu, asil
  6. exalted, noble. 2. magnificent, superb, august, grand, gorgeous, resplendent, imposing, majestic.
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Tamper

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  1. to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with ): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
  2. to make changes in something, especially in order to falsify (usually followed by with ): to tamper with official records.
  3. to engage secretly or improperly in something.
  • kurcalamak
    1. interfere
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Traduce

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  1. to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame: to traduce someone’s character.

vilify, decry, disparage.

— praise.

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Upbraid

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  1. to find fault with or reproach severely; censure: The military tribunal upbraided the soldier for his cowardice.

2.
(of things) to bring reproach on; serve as a reproach to.

  1. reprove, blame. See reprimand.
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Viscid

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1.having a glutinous consistency; sticky; adhesive; viscous.

48
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Xenophobia

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  1. an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange.
49
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  1. to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe; abominate.
    - hor görmek
    despise. See hate.

— love, admire.

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  1. to make indifferent or hostile: He has alienated his entire family.
  2. to turn away; transfer or divert: to alienate funds from their intended purpose.
  3. Law . to transfer or convey, as title, property, or other right, to another: to alienate lands.

estrange

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  1. any ornament or ornamental object, as a rug or mosaic, in which flowers, foliage, fruits, vases, animals, and figures are represented in a fancifully combined pattern.
52
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  1. Usually, auspices. patronage; support; sponsorship: under the auspices of the Department of education.

2.
Often, auspices. a favorable sign or propitious circumstance.
3.
a divination or prognostication, originally from observing birds

-kehanet (kuşlara bakılarak), himaye

53
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  1. to make blissfully happy.

2.
Roman Catholic Church . to declare (a deceased person) to be among the blessed and thus entitled to specific religious honor.

54
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  1. a detailed outline or plan of action: a blueprint for success.
55
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  1. Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.

2.
any of various calibrated instruments for measuring thicknesses or distances between surfaces, usually having a screwed or sliding adjustable piece. Compare vernier caliper.
3.
thickness or depth, as of paper or a tree.

-kumpas

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  1. to adhere closely; stick to: The wet paper clings to the glass.

2.
to hold tight, as by grasping or embracing; cleave: The children clung to each other in the dark.
3.
to be or remain close: The child clung to her mother’s side.

  1. clutch, grab, hug.
57
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  1. curved like a segment of the interior of a circle or hollow sphere; hollow and curved. Compare convex ( def. 1 ) .
58
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  1. to call together; summon to meet or assemble.

convene.

59
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  1. to overcome with fear; intimidate: to daunt one’s adversaries.

2.
to lessen the courage of; dishearten: Don’t be daunted by the amount of work still to be done.

overawe, subdue, dismay, frighten. 2. discourage, dispirit.

—2. encourage.

60
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  1. the act of preying upon or plundering; robbery; ravage.
    - yağmalama
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Depredation

61
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  1. to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.

2.
to throw into disorder or confusion; disarrange: He changed his mind and disconcerted everybody’s plans.

  1. frustrate

discompose, perplex, bewilder, abash, discomfit. See confuse.

—1. calm. 2. arrange.

A

Disconcert

62
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  1. of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas; doctrinal.

2.
asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner; opinionated.

63
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  1. a feeling or state of great joy or pride; exultant gladness; high spirits.
64
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  1. a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom: The endless lecture produced an unbearable ennui.
    - can sıkıntısı, bıkkınlık
65
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1.light, airy, or tenuous: an ethereal world created through the poetic imagination.

2.
extremely delicate or refined: ethereal beauty.
3.
heavenly or celestial: gone to his ethereal home.

66
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  1. to cut out or off., extirpate
67
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  1. agitation; unrest; excitement; commotion; tumult: The new painters worked in a creative ferment. the capital lived in a political ferment.
    - fermante olmak
68
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  1. passing swiftly; vanishing quickly; transient; transitory: fleeting beauty; a fleeting glance.
    - kısacık süren

passing, flitting, flying, brief, fugitive.

69
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  1. desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
  2. marked by frenzy; resulting from wild emotion

overwrought, agitated, frenzied, distraught.

70
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  1. to scoop out or turn with or as if with a gouge: to gouge a channel; to gouge holes.
  2. to extort from, swindle, or overcharge.
    - marangoz kalemi (ile oymak), değerinden daha pahalıya satmak
71
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  1. a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
72
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  1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fire.
    - volkanik, ateşle alakalı
73
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  1. implied, rather than expressly stated: implicit agreement.

2.
unquestioning or unreserved; absolute: implicit trust; implicit obedience; implicit confidence.
3.
potentially contained (usually followed by in ): to bring out the drama implicit in the occasion.

  1. inherent, complete, total.
74
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1.not fertile; unproductive; sterile; barren: infertile soil.

75
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  1. refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.
  2. a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.
    - uyuşmaz, uzlaşmaz
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Intransigence

76
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  1. lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.

2.
lacking liveliness, vitality, spirit, or enthusiasm: a lackluster performance.

  1. a lack of brilliance or vitality.
A

Lackluster

77
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  1. an act or instance of machinating.

2.
Usually, machinations. crafty schemes; plots; intrigues.

  • dolap, entrika, hile
    2. stratagem, device.
A

Machination

78
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  1. to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.

misread, misapprehend, misjudge.

A

Misconstrue

79
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  1. a general understanding; vague or imperfect conception or idea of something: a notion of how something should be done.

2.
an opinion, view, or belief: That’s his notion, not mine.
3.
conception or idea: his notion of democracy.

see idea

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  1. a person who attempts to ignore unpleasant facts or situations.
    - devekuşu
81
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  1. travel from one place to another, especially on foot.

2.
a course of travel; journey

1, 2. trip, excursion, expedition.

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Peregrination

82
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  1. having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for god or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.

2.
characterized by a hypocritical concern with virtue or religious devotion; sanctimonious.
3.
practiced or used in the name of real or pretended religious motives, or for some ostensibly good object; falsely earnest or sincere: a pious deception.

  • dindarlık, sahte dindarlık
    1. devout, godly, reverent
83
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1.the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor; indigence.

  1. deficiency of necessary or desirable ingredients, qualities, etc.: poverty of the soil.
  2. scantiness; insufficiency: Their efforts to stamp out disease were hampered by a poverty of Medical supplies.
  3. penury. Poverty, destitution, need, want
    - 1. riches, wealth, plenty.
84
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  1. to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).

2.
to set forth or teach publicly (a creed, doctrine, etc.).

  1. announce, issue, declare. 2. advocate.
A

Promulgate

85
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  1. an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction: He has no qualms about lying.
  2. a sudden feeling of apprehensive uneasiness; misgiving: a sudden qualm about the success of the venture.
  3. a sudden sensation or onset of faintness or illness, especially of nausea.
86
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  1. dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise.
  2. beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding; esoteric: recondite principles.
  3. little known; obscure: a recondite fact.
87
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  1. to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  2. to cast off or disown: to repudiate a son.
  3. to reject with disapproval or condemnation: to repudiate a new doctrine.

disavow, renounce, discard, disclaim. 3. condemn, disapprove.

—Antonyms
1. accept. 3. approve.

88
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  1. the state of being sane; soundness of mind.
  2. soundness of judgment.
    - akıl sağlığı, mantıklı olma
  3. reason, rationality, sensibleness, reasonableness.
89
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  1. to move along by force from behind; push.

2.
to push roughly or rudely; jostle.
3.
Slang: Often Vulgar . to go to hell with: Voters are telling Congress to shove its new tax plan.

90
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  1. of the spleen; splenic.

2.
irritable; peevish; spiteful.

  • huysuz, aksi
    2. vexatious, irascible, testy, fretful, touchy, petulant, choleric.
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    1. elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.: Paradise lost is sublime poetry.
  2. impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or power; inspiring awe, veneration, etc.: Switzerland has sublime scenery.
  3. supreme or outstanding: a sublime dinner.
  4. complete; absolute; utter: sublime stupidity.
  5. Noble, exalted, majestic
    - muhteşem, görkemli, ulu, asil
  6. exalted, noble. 2. magnificent, superb, august, grand, gorgeous, resplendent, imposing, majestic.
92
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  1. to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with ): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
  2. to make changes in something, especially in order to falsify (usually followed by with ): to tamper with official records.
  3. to engage secretly or improperly in something.
  • kurcalamak
    1. interfere
93
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  1. to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame: to traduce someone’s character.

vilify, decry, disparage.

— praise.

94
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  1. to find fault with or reproach severely; censure: The military tribunal upbraided the soldier for his cowardice.

2.
(of things) to bring reproach on; serve as a reproach to.

  1. reprove, blame. See reprimand.
95
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1.having a glutinous consistency; sticky; adhesive; viscous.

96
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  1. an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange.
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Xenophobia

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