Deck17 Flashcards
Abeyance
- temporary inactivity, cessation, or suspension: Let’s hold that problem in abeyance for a while.
2.
Law . a state or condition of real property in which title is not as yet vested in a known titleholder: an estate in abeyance.
- remission, deferral.
Alacrity
- cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
2.
liveliness; briskness.
- can atma, atiklik
1. eagerness, keenness; fervor, zeal. 2. sprightliness, agility.
Apt
- inclined; disposed; given; prone: too apt to slander others.
- likely: Am I apt to find him at home?
- unusually intelligent; able to learn quickly and easily: an apt pupil.
- suited to the purpose or occasion; appropriate: an apt metaphor; a few apt remarks on world peace.
- liable. 2. See likely. 3. clever, bright; adaptable; handy, adroit, dexterous, skillful. 4. fitting, meet, germane, felicitous.
August
- inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic: an august performance of a religious drama.
2.
venerable; eminent: an august personage.
Bazaar
- a marketplace or shopping quarter, especially one in the Middle East.
2.
a sale of miscellaneous contributed articles to benefit some charity, cause, organization, etc.
3.
a store in which many kinds of goods are offered for sale; department store.
- market, mart, exchange.
Bludgeon
- a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
2.
to strike or knock down with a bludgeon.
3.
to force into something; coerce; bully: The boss finally bludgeoned him into accepting responsibility.
-cop, zorlamak
Calligraphy
- fancy penmanship, especially highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the calligraphy of the 18th century.
2.
handwriting; penmanship.
3.
the art of writing beautifully: He studied calligraphy when he was a young man.
Cleave
- to adhere closely; stick; cling (usually followed by to ).
2.
to remain faithful (usually followed by to ): to cleave to one’s principles in spite of persecution.
- to split or divide by or as if by a cutting blow, especially along a natural line of division, as the grain of wood.
- ayırmak, yarmak, bağlı olmak
Compunction
- a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused by regret for doing wrong or causing pain; contrition; remorse.
2.
any uneasiness or hesitation about the rightness of an action.
Conviction
- a fixed or firm belief.
2.
the act of convicting.
3.
the state of being convicted.
- See belief.
— doubt, uncertainty.
Dart
- to move swiftly; spring or start suddenly and run swiftly: A mouse darted out of the closet and ran across the room.
. dash, bolt, shoot.
Deprecate
- to express earnest disapproval of.
2.
to urge reasons against; protest against (a scheme, purpose, etc.).
3.
to depreciate; belittle.
- karşı çıkmak, küçümsemek
1. condemn, denounce, disparage. See decry.
Discomfit
- to confuse and deject; disconcert, to make uneasy: to be discomfited by a question.
2.
to frustrate the plans of; thwart; foil.
- defeat
- discompose, embarrass, disturb.
Doggerel
- comic or burlesque, and usually loose or irregular in measure.
b. rude; crude; poor. - Trivial, awkard, often comic verse
- any trivial or bad poetry
Elate
- to make very happy or proud: news to elate the hearer.
Enmity
- a feeling or condition of hostility; hatred; ill will; animosity; antagonism.
malice, acrimony, rancor
Espouse
- to make one’s own; adopt or embrace, as a cause.
2.
to marry.
3.
to give (a woman) in marriage.
- benimsemek, kabullenmek
1. support, champion, advocate.
Expurgate
- to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms’ fairy tales.
2.
to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness.
- sakıncalı bölümleri çıkarmak
1. delete, excise, censor, purge, bowdlerize.
Feral
- existing in a natural state, as animals or plants; not domesticated or cultivated; wild.
2.
having reverted to the wild state, as from domestication: a pack of feral dogs roaming the woods.
3.
of or characteristic of wild animals; ferocious; brutal.
- causing death; fatal.
- funereal; gloomy.
Fleet
- the largest organized unit of naval ships grouped for tactical or other purposes.
- swift; rapid: to be fleet of foot; a fleet horse
- to cause (time) to pass lightly or swiftly.
- speed, hasten; beguile.
Franchise
- a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
2.
the right or license granted by a company to an individual or group to market its products or services in a specific territory.
3.
a store, restaurant, or other business operating under such a license.
Gossamer
- a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather, especially in autumn.
2.
a thread or a web of this substance.
3.
an extremely delicate variety of gauze, used especially for veils.
-ince hafif incecik
Haven
- a harbor or port.
2.
any place of shelter and safety; refuge; asylum.
Idyll
- a poem or prose composition, usually describing pastoral scenes or events or any charmingly simple episode, appealing incident, or the like.
2.
a simple descriptive or narrative piece in verse or prose.
3.
material suitable for such a work.
Implicate
- to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.
2.
to imply as a necessary circumstance, or as something to be inferred or understood.
3.
to connect or relate to intimately; affect as a consequence: The malfunctioning of one part of the nervous system implicates another part.
involve
Inexorable
- unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
2.
not to be persuaded, moved, or affected by prayers or entreaties: an inexorable creditor.
- unbending; severe, relentless, unrelenting, implacable, merciless, cruel, pitiless. See inflexible.
— 2. flexible; merciful.
Intransigent
- refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.
- a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.
Lachrymose
- suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
2.
given to shedding tears readily; tearful.
Macabre
- gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible.
2.
of, pertaining to, dealing with, or representing death, especially its grimmer or uglier aspect.
3.
of or suggestive of the allegorical dance of death.
Mischievous
- maliciously or playfully annoying.
2.
causing annoyance, harm, or trouble.
3.
roguishly or slyly teasing, as a glance.
Nostrum
- a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
2.
a scheme, theory, device, etc., especially one to remedy social or political ills; panacea.
3.
a medicine made by the person who recommends it
Ostracize
- to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father’s arrest.
2.
to banish (a person) from his or her native country; expatriate.
3.
(in ancient Greece) to banish (a citizen) temporarily by popular vote.
- sürgün etmek, toplum dışına itmek
1. shun, snub, blacklist.
— 1. accept.
Penury
- textreme poverty; destitution.
2.
scarcity; dearth; inadequacy; insufficiency.
- indigence, need, want.
— 1. wealth.
Pinch
- t o squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
- to affect with sharp discomfort or distress, as cold, hunger, or need does.
7.
to straiten in means or circumstances: The depression pinched them.
8.
to stint (a person, family, etc.) in allowance of money, food, or the like: They were severely pinched by the drought.
Potent
- powerful; mighty: a potent fighting force.
2.
cogent; persuasive: Several potent arguments were in his favor.
3.
producing powerful physical or chemical effects: a potent drug.
- strong, puissant. See powerful. 4. influential.
— 1. weak. 4. ineffectual.
Prolix
- extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy.
2.
(of a person) given to speaking or writing at great or tedious length.
- prolonged, protracted. See wordy. 1, 2. verbose.
Quail
- to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.
recoil, flinch, blench, cower. See wince.
Reconcile
- to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.
- to win over to friendliness; cause to become amicable: to reconcile hostile persons.
- to compose or settle (a quarrel, dispute, etc.).
4 to bring into agreement or harmony; make compatible or consistent: to reconcile differing statements; to reconcile accounts.
- pacify, propitiate, placate. 4. harmonize.
— 3. anger.
Reprove
- to criticize or correct, especially gently: to reprove a pupil for making a mistake.
2.
to disapprove of strongly; censure: to reprove a bad decision.
scold, reprimand, upbraid, chide, reprehend, admonish. See reproach.
— 1. praise.
Sanguine
- cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
2.
reddish; ruddy: a sanguine complexion.
- enthusiastic, buoyant, animated, lively, spirited.
— 1. morose.
Shoot
- the action of growing or sprouting
Specious
- apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
2.
pleasing to the eye but deceptive.
- See plausible. 2. false, misleading.
— 1, 2. genuine.
Subdue
- to conquer and bring into subjection: Rome subdued Gaul.
- to overpower by superior force; overcome.
- to bring under mental or emotional control, as by persuasion or intimidation; render submissive.
- to repress (feelings, impulses, etc.).
- to bring (land) under cultivation: to subdue the wilderness.
- to reduce the intensity, force, or vividness of (sound, light, color, etc.); tone down; soften.
- to allay (inflammation, infection, etc.).
- subjugate, vanquish. See defeat. 3. tame, break, discipline. 3, 4. suppress.
— 4. awaken, arouse. 6. intensify.
Tamp
1.to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes: He tamped the tobacco in his pipe.
2.
(in blasting) to fill (a drilled hole) with earth or the like after the charge has been inserted.
-bastırıp sıkıştırmak, çamurla tıkamak
Tractable
- easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding: a tractable child; a tractable disposition.
2.
easily worked, shaped, or otherwise handled; malleable.
manageable, willing, governable.
— 1. stubborn.
Untoward
1.unfavorable or unfortunate: Untoward circumstances forced him into bankruptcy.
2.
improper: untoward social behavior.
Visceral
- intuitive, instinctive, emotional rather than intellectual
Woo
- to seek the favor, affection, or love of, especially with a view to marriage.
- to seek to win, try to get: to woo fame.
- to invite (consequences, whether good or bad) by one’s own action; court: to woo one’s own destruction.
- to seek to persuade (a person, group, etc.), as to do something; solicit; importune.
- to make love to a woman; court: He went wooing.
- to solicit favor or approval; entreat: Further attempts to woo proved useless.
- petition, sue, address, entreat.
- temporary inactivity, cessation, or suspension: Let’s hold that problem in abeyance for a while.
2.
Law . a state or condition of real property in which title is not as yet vested in a known titleholder: an estate in abeyance.
- remission, deferral.
Abeyance
- cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
2.
liveliness; briskness.
- can atma, atiklik
1. eagerness, keenness; fervor, zeal. 2. sprightliness, agility.
Alacrity
- inclined; disposed; given; prone: too apt to slander others.
- likely: Am I apt to find him at home?
- unusually intelligent; able to learn quickly and easily: an apt pupil.
- suited to the purpose or occasion; appropriate: an apt metaphor; a few apt remarks on world peace.
- liable. 2. See likely. 3. clever, bright; adaptable; handy, adroit, dexterous, skillful. 4. fitting, meet, germane, felicitous.
Apt
- inspiring reverence or admiration; of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic: an august performance of a religious drama.
2.
venerable; eminent: an august personage.
August
- a marketplace or shopping quarter, especially one in the Middle East.
2.
a sale of miscellaneous contributed articles to benefit some charity, cause, organization, etc.
3.
a store in which many kinds of goods are offered for sale; department store.
- market, mart, exchange.
Bazaar
- a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
2.
to strike or knock down with a bludgeon.
3.
to force into something; coerce; bully: The boss finally bludgeoned him into accepting responsibility.
-cop, zorlamak
Bludgeon
- fancy penmanship, especially highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the calligraphy of the 18th century.
2.
handwriting; penmanship.
3.
the art of writing beautifully: He studied calligraphy when he was a young man.
Calligraphy
- to adhere closely; stick; cling (usually followed by to ).
2.
to remain faithful (usually followed by to ): to cleave to one’s principles in spite of persecution.
- to split or divide by or as if by a cutting blow, especially along a natural line of division, as the grain of wood.
- ayırmak, yarmak, bağlı olmak
Cleave
- a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused by regret for doing wrong or causing pain; contrition; remorse.
2.
any uneasiness or hesitation about the rightness of an action.
Compunction
- a fixed or firm belief.
2.
the act of convicting.
3.
the state of being convicted.
- See belief.
— doubt, uncertainty.
Conviction
- to move swiftly; spring or start suddenly and run swiftly: A mouse darted out of the closet and ran across the room.
. dash, bolt, shoot.
Dart
- to express earnest disapproval of.
2.
to urge reasons against; protest against (a scheme, purpose, etc.).
3.
to depreciate; belittle.
- karşı çıkmak, küçümsemek
1. condemn, denounce, disparage. See decry.
Deprecate
- to confuse and deject; disconcert, to make uneasy: to be discomfited by a question.
2.
to frustrate the plans of; thwart; foil.
- defeat
- discompose, embarrass, disturb.
Discomfit
- comic or burlesque, and usually loose or irregular in measure.
b. rude; crude; poor. - Trivial, awkard, often comic verse
- any trivial or bad poetry
Doggerel
- to make very happy or proud: news to elate the hearer.
Elate
- a feeling or condition of hostility; hatred; ill will; animosity; antagonism.
malice, acrimony, rancor
Enmity
- to make one’s own; adopt or embrace, as a cause.
2.
to marry.
3.
to give (a woman) in marriage.
- benimsemek, kabullenmek
1. support, champion, advocate.
Espouse
- to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms’ fairy tales.
2.
to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness.
- sakıncalı bölümleri çıkarmak
1. delete, excise, censor, purge, bowdlerize.
Expurgate
- existing in a natural state, as animals or plants; not domesticated or cultivated; wild.
2.
having reverted to the wild state, as from domestication: a pack of feral dogs roaming the woods.
3.
of or characteristic of wild animals; ferocious; brutal.
- causing death; fatal.
- funereal; gloomy.
Feral
- the largest organized unit of naval ships grouped for tactical or other purposes.
- swift; rapid: to be fleet of foot; a fleet horse
- to cause (time) to pass lightly or swiftly.
- speed, hasten; beguile.
Fleet
- a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
2.
the right or license granted by a company to an individual or group to market its products or services in a specific territory.
3.
a store, restaurant, or other business operating under such a license.
Franchise
- a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather, especially in autumn.
2.
a thread or a web of this substance.
3.
an extremely delicate variety of gauze, used especially for veils.
-ince hafif incecik
Gossamer
- a harbor or port.
2.
any place of shelter and safety; refuge; asylum.
Haven
- a poem or prose composition, usually describing pastoral scenes or events or any charmingly simple episode, appealing incident, or the like.
2.
a simple descriptive or narrative piece in verse or prose.
3.
material suitable for such a work.
Idyll
- to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.
2.
to imply as a necessary circumstance, or as something to be inferred or understood.
3.
to connect or relate to intimately; affect as a consequence: The malfunctioning of one part of the nervous system implicates another part.
involve
Implicate
- unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
2.
not to be persuaded, moved, or affected by prayers or entreaties: an inexorable creditor.
- unbending; severe, relentless, unrelenting, implacable, merciless, cruel, pitiless. See inflexible.
— 2. flexible; merciful.
Inexorable
- refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.
- a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.
Intransigent
- suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful.
2.
given to shedding tears readily; tearful.
Lachrymose
- gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible.
2.
of, pertaining to, dealing with, or representing death, especially its grimmer or uglier aspect.
3.
of or suggestive of the allegorical dance of death.
Macabre
- maliciously or playfully annoying.
2.
causing annoyance, harm, or trouble.
3.
roguishly or slyly teasing, as a glance.
Mischievous
- a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
2.
a scheme, theory, device, etc., especially one to remedy social or political ills; panacea.
3.
a medicine made by the person who recommends it
Nostrum
- to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father’s arrest.
2.
to banish (a person) from his or her native country; expatriate.
3.
(in ancient Greece) to banish (a citizen) temporarily by popular vote.
- sürgün etmek, toplum dışına itmek
1. shun, snub, blacklist.
— 1. accept.
Ostracize
- textreme poverty; destitution.
2.
scarcity; dearth; inadequacy; insufficiency.
- indigence, need, want.
— 1. wealth.
Penury
- t o squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
- to affect with sharp discomfort or distress, as cold, hunger, or need does.
7.
to straiten in means or circumstances: The depression pinched them.
8.
to stint (a person, family, etc.) in allowance of money, food, or the like: They were severely pinched by the drought.
Pinch
- powerful; mighty: a potent fighting force.
2.
cogent; persuasive: Several potent arguments were in his favor.
3.
producing powerful physical or chemical effects: a potent drug.
- strong, puissant. See powerful. 4. influential.
— 1. weak. 4. ineffectual.
Potent
- extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy.
2.
(of a person) given to speaking or writing at great or tedious length.
- prolonged, protracted. See wordy. 1, 2. verbose.
Prolix
- to lose heart or courage in difficulty or danger; shrink with fear.
recoil, flinch, blench, cower. See wince.
Quail
- to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.
- to win over to friendliness; cause to become amicable: to reconcile hostile persons.
- to compose or settle (a quarrel, dispute, etc.).
4 to bring into agreement or harmony; make compatible or consistent: to reconcile differing statements; to reconcile accounts.
- pacify, propitiate, placate. 4. harmonize.
— 3. anger.
Reconcile
- to criticize or correct, especially gently: to reprove a pupil for making a mistake.
2.
to disapprove of strongly; censure: to reprove a bad decision.
scold, reprimand, upbraid, chide, reprehend, admonish. See reproach.
— 1. praise.
Reprove
- cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
2.
reddish; ruddy: a sanguine complexion.
- enthusiastic, buoyant, animated, lively, spirited.
— 1. morose.
Sanguine
- the action of growing or sprouting
Shoot
- apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
2.
pleasing to the eye but deceptive.
- See plausible. 2. false, misleading.
— 1, 2. genuine.
Specious
- to conquer and bring into subjection: Rome subdued Gaul.
- to overpower by superior force; overcome.
- to bring under mental or emotional control, as by persuasion or intimidation; render submissive.
- to repress (feelings, impulses, etc.).
- to bring (land) under cultivation: to subdue the wilderness.
- to reduce the intensity, force, or vividness of (sound, light, color, etc.); tone down; soften.
- to allay (inflammation, infection, etc.).
- subjugate, vanquish. See defeat. 3. tame, break, discipline. 3, 4. suppress.
— 4. awaken, arouse. 6. intensify.
Subdue
1.to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes: He tamped the tobacco in his pipe.
2.
(in blasting) to fill (a drilled hole) with earth or the like after the charge has been inserted.
-bastırıp sıkıştırmak, çamurla tıkamak
Tamp
- easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding: a tractable child; a tractable disposition.
2.
easily worked, shaped, or otherwise handled; malleable.
manageable, willing, governable.
— 1. stubborn.
Tractable
1.unfavorable or unfortunate: Untoward circumstances forced him into bankruptcy.
2.
improper: untoward social behavior.
Untoward
- intuitive, instinctive, emotional rather than intellectual
Visceral
- to seek the favor, affection, or love of, especially with a view to marriage.
- to seek to win, try to get: to woo fame.
- to invite (consequences, whether good or bad) by one’s own action; court: to woo one’s own destruction.
- to seek to persuade (a person, group, etc.), as to do something; solicit; importune.
- to make love to a woman; court: He went wooing.
- to solicit favor or approval; entreat: Further attempts to woo proved useless.
- petition, sue, address, entreat.
Woo
