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Abide

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  1. to remain; continue; stay: Abide with me.
  2. to have one’s abode; dwell; reside: to abide in a small Scottish village.
  3. to continue in a particular condition, attitude, relationship, etc.; last.
  4. to put up with; tolerate; stand: I can’t abide dishonesty!
  5. to accept without opposition or question: to abide the verdict of the judges.
    tarry. 2. live. 3. persevere, endure. 4. bear, endure, brook; support.
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Allegiance

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  1. the loyalty of a citizen to his or her government or of a subject to his or her sovereign.

2.
loyalty or devotion to some person, group, cause, or the like.

treason. 2. treachery.

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Arbitrate

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1.to decide as arbitrator or arbiter; determine.

2.
to submit to arbitration; settle by arbitration: to arbitrate a dispute.

-hakemlik, arabuluculuk yapmak (-a başvurmak)

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Auspicious

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  1. promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: an auspicious occasion.

2.
favored by fortune; prosperous; fortunate.

-uğurlu, hayırlı

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Bedizen

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  1. to dress or adorn in a showy, gaudy, or tasteless manner.
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Blunt

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  1. having an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point; rounded; not sharp: a blunt pencil.
  2. abrupt in address or manner: a blunt, ill-timed question.
  3. slow in perception or understanding; obtuse: His isolation has made him blunt about the feelings of others.

5 to weaken or impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility of: Wine first excites, then blunts the imagination.

  1. to make less effective
    - kör, keskin olmayan, pervasız
  2. See dull. 2. short, gruff, rough, rude, uncivil, impolite. Blunt, bluff, brusque, curt 3. dimwitted, thick, stolid. 4. dull.
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Calumniate

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  1. to make, spread false and malicious statements about; slander.
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Clot

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  1. a mass or lump.

2.
a semisolid mass, as of coagulated blood.

-pıhtı

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Conceal

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  1. to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.

2.
to keep secret; to prevent or avoid disclosing or divulging: to conceal one’s identity by using a false name.

hide

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Convoluted

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  1. twisted; coiled.

2.
complicated; intricately involved: a convoluted way of describing a simple device.

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Dawdle

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  1. to waste time; idle; trifle; loiter: Stop dawdling and help me with these packages!

2.
to move slowly, languidly, or dilatorily; saunter.

  1. to waste (time) by or as if by trifling (usually followed by away ): He dawdled away the whole morning.

1, 2. See loiter. 3. fritter, putter, idle, trifle.

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Dereliction

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1.deliberate or conscious neglect; negligence; delinquency: dereliction of duty.

2.
the act of abandoning something.

  1. See neglect. 2. desertion.
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Discountenance

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  1. to disconcert, embarrass, or abash: With his composure, he survived every attempt to discountenance him.

2.
to show disapproval of: The teachers discountenanced smoking by the students.

3 disapproval; disapprobation.

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Dogmatism

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  1. dogmatic character; unfounded positiveness in matters of opinion; arrogant assertion of opinions as truths.
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Electorate

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  1. the body of persons entitled to vote in an election.

2.
the dignity or territory of an Elector of the Holy Roman Empire.

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Enormity

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1.outrageous or heinous character; atrociousness: the enormity of war crimes.

  1. something outrageous or heinous, as an offense: The bombing of the defenseless population was an enormity beyond belief.
  2. greatness of size, scope, extent, or influence; immensity: The enormity of such an act of generosity is staggering.

-alçaklık, habislik, büyük kötülük, çok büyük olma

1 monstrousness, heinousness. 3. hugeness, vastness.

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Eulogy

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  1. a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, especially a set oration in honor of a deceased person.

2.
high praise or commendation.

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Exsert

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  1. to thrust out, protrude, project
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Ferocity

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  1. a ferocious quality or state; savage fierceness.
    - vahşilik
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Flexibility

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  1. capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
  2. susceptible of modification or adaptation; adaptable: a flexible schedule.
  3. willing or disposed to yield; pliable: a flexible personality.

pliable, elastic, supple. Flexible, limber, pliant

-stiff, rigid

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Frenetic

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  1. frantic; frenzied, hectic, hyper
    - telaşlı, çok heyecanlı
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Grace

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  1. elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action.
  2. a pleasing or attractive quality or endowment.
  3. favor or good will.

14 to lend or add grace to; adorn: Many fine paintings graced the rooms of the house.

  1. attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease. 4. kindness, kindliness, love, benignity; condescension. 5. lenity, leniency. 14. embellish, beautify, deck, decorate, ornament; enhance, honor.

Antonyms
1. ugliness. 4. animosity. 5. harshness. 14. disfigure.

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Heed

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  1. to give careful attention to: He did not heed the warning.

2.
to give attention; have regard.

  1. note, observe, consider, mark. 3. consideration, care; caution, vigilance, watchfulness.
    - 1. disregard, ignore.
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Ignoble

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1.of low character, aims, etc.; mean; base: his ignoble purposes.

2.
of low grade or quality; inferior.
3.
not noble; of humble descent or rank.

1 degraded, dishonorable, ignominious, contemptible. 3. lowly, obscure, plebeian, peasant.

    1. honorable. 2. superior.
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Implode

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  1. to burst inward ( opposed to explode).
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Inflammatory

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  1. tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
    - tahrik edici, alevlendirici

fiery, incendiary, provocative.

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Intrepid

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  1. resolutely fearless; dauntless: an intrepid explorer.

brave, courageous, bold.

-timid.

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Laconic

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  1. using few words; expressing much in few words; concise: a laconic reply.

brief, pithy, terse; succinct.

  • voluble.
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Maladroit

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  1. lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.

clumsy, inept; gauche

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Miscreant

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  1. depraved, villainous, or base., an evil person
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Noxious

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  1. harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being: noxious fumes.

2.
morally harmful; corrupting; pernicious: a noxious plan to spread dissension.

hurtful, unwholesome, unhealthy, nocuous, detrimental, deleterious. 2. corruptive.

  • 1, 2. harmless.
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Outset

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  1. the beginning or start: I wanted to explain the situation at the outset.
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Peremptory

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  1. leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative: a peremptory command.

2.
imperious or dictatorial.
3.
positive or assertive in speech, tone, manner, etc.

  1. arbitrary, dogmatic, domineering.
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Piquant

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  1. agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart: a piquant aspic.

2.
agreeably stimulating, interesting, or attractive: a piquant glance.
3.
of an interestingly provocative or lively character: a piquant wit.

  1. spicy. 2. intriguing. 3. sharp, clever.
    - 1. insipid.
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Pragmatic

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  1. of or pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
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Prone

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  1. having a natural inclination or tendency to something; disposed; liable: to be prone to anger.
  2. having the front or ventral part downward; lying face downward.
  3. lying flat; prostrate.
  4. Groveling, abject, inclined, predisposed
  5. apt, subject, tending. 3. recumbent.
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Quell

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  1. to suppress; put an end to; extinguish: The troops quelled the rebellion quickly.
  2. to vanquish; subdue.
  3. to quiet or allay (emotions, anxieties, etc.): The child’s mother quelled his fears of the thunder.

1, 2. crush, quash, overpower, overcome, defeat, conquer, quench. 3. calm, pacify, compose, hush.

  • 1, 2. foster. 3. agitate.
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Reconnaissance

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  1. Military . a search made for useful military information in the field, especially by examining the ground.

3.
Surveying, Civil Engineering . a general examination or survey of a region, usually followed by a detailed survey.

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Repulsive

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  1. causing repugnance or aversion: a repulsive mask.
  2. capable of causing repulsion; serving to repulse: to present enough repulsive force to keep the enemy from daring to attack.
  3. tending to drive away or keep at a distance; cold; forbidding: arrogant, repulsive airs to frighten the timid.
  4. loathsome, disgusting, offensive, distasteful.
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Sap

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  1. to undermine; weaken or destroy insidiously.
    - altını oymak
  2. impair, enfeeble, deplete, exhaust, enervate.
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Shrewd

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  1. astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.

2.
keen; piercing.

  1. quick, discerning, perceptive, perspicacious, sagacious, keen; discriminating, intelligent. See acute.
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Splice

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  1. to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
  2. to unite (timbers, spars, or the like) by overlapping and binding their ends.
  3. graft, mesh (aşılamak, birbirine geçmek)
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Submerge

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  1. to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.

2.
to cover or overflow with water; immerse.
3.
to cover; bury; subordinate; suppress: His aspirations were submerged by the necessity of making a living.

  1. submerse. 2. flood, inundate, engulf.
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Tangential

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  1. pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent; being or moving in the direction of a tangent.

2.
merely touching; slightly connected: tangential information.
3.
divergent or digressive, as from a subject under consideration: tangential remarks.

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Transgress

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  1. to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin.
  2. to pass over or go beyond (a limit, boundary, etc.): to transgress bounds of prudence.

3.
to go beyond the limits imposed by (a law, command, etc.); violate; infringe: to transgress the will of God.

err, trespass. 3. contravene, disobey.

Antonyms
3. obey.

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Urbane

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1 having the polish and suavity regarded as characteristic of sophisticated social life in major cities: an urbane manner.

2.
reflecting elegance, sophistication, etc., especially in expression: He maintained an urbane tone in his letters.

  • nazik, medeni
    1. suave, cosmopolitan.
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Vitiate

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1 to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.

2.
to impair or weaken the effectiveness of.
3.
to debase; corrupt; pervert.
4.
to make legally defective or invalid; invalidate: to vitiate a claim.

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Yarn

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1 thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.

  1. a continuous strand or thread made from glass, metal, plastic, etc.
  2. the thread, in the form of a loosely twisted aggregate of fibers, as of hemp, of which rope is made (rope yarn).
  3. a tale, especially a long story of adventure or incredible happenings: He spun a yarn that outdid any I had ever heard.
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  1. to remain; continue; stay: Abide with me.
  2. to have one’s abode; dwell; reside: to abide in a small Scottish village.
  3. to continue in a particular condition, attitude, relationship, etc.; last.
  4. to put up with; tolerate; stand: I can’t abide dishonesty!
  5. to accept without opposition or question: to abide the verdict of the judges.
    tarry. 2. live. 3. persevere, endure. 4. bear, endure, brook; support.
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  1. the loyalty of a citizen to his or her government or of a subject to his or her sovereign.

2.
loyalty or devotion to some person, group, cause, or the like.

treason. 2. treachery.

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Allegiance

51
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1.to decide as arbitrator or arbiter; determine.

2.
to submit to arbitration; settle by arbitration: to arbitrate a dispute.

-hakemlik, arabuluculuk yapmak (-a başvurmak)

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  1. promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: an auspicious occasion.

2.
favored by fortune; prosperous; fortunate.

-uğurlu, hayırlı

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Auspicious

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  1. to dress or adorn in a showy, gaudy, or tasteless manner.
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  1. having an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point; rounded; not sharp: a blunt pencil.
  2. abrupt in address or manner: a blunt, ill-timed question.
  3. slow in perception or understanding; obtuse: His isolation has made him blunt about the feelings of others.

5 to weaken or impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility of: Wine first excites, then blunts the imagination.

  1. to make less effective
    - kör, keskin olmayan, pervasız
  2. See dull. 2. short, gruff, rough, rude, uncivil, impolite. Blunt, bluff, brusque, curt 3. dimwitted, thick, stolid. 4. dull.
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  1. to make, spread false and malicious statements about; slander.
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Calumniate

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  1. a mass or lump.

2.
a semisolid mass, as of coagulated blood.

-pıhtı

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  1. to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.

2.
to keep secret; to prevent or avoid disclosing or divulging: to conceal one’s identity by using a false name.

hide

58
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  1. twisted; coiled.

2.
complicated; intricately involved: a convoluted way of describing a simple device.

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Convoluted

59
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  1. to waste time; idle; trifle; loiter: Stop dawdling and help me with these packages!

2.
to move slowly, languidly, or dilatorily; saunter.

  1. to waste (time) by or as if by trifling (usually followed by away ): He dawdled away the whole morning.

1, 2. See loiter. 3. fritter, putter, idle, trifle.

60
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1.deliberate or conscious neglect; negligence; delinquency: dereliction of duty.

2.
the act of abandoning something.

  1. See neglect. 2. desertion.
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Dereliction

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  1. to disconcert, embarrass, or abash: With his composure, he survived every attempt to discountenance him.

2.
to show disapproval of: The teachers discountenanced smoking by the students.

3 disapproval; disapprobation.

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Discountenance

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  1. dogmatic character; unfounded positiveness in matters of opinion; arrogant assertion of opinions as truths.
63
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  1. the body of persons entitled to vote in an election.

2.
the dignity or territory of an Elector of the Holy Roman Empire.

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Electorate

64
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1.outrageous or heinous character; atrociousness: the enormity of war crimes.

  1. something outrageous or heinous, as an offense: The bombing of the defenseless population was an enormity beyond belief.
  2. greatness of size, scope, extent, or influence; immensity: The enormity of such an act of generosity is staggering.

-alçaklık, habislik, büyük kötülük, çok büyük olma

1 monstrousness, heinousness. 3. hugeness, vastness.

65
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  1. a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, especially a set oration in honor of a deceased person.

2.
high praise or commendation.

66
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  1. to thrust out, protrude, project
67
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  1. a ferocious quality or state; savage fierceness.
    - vahşilik
68
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  1. capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
  2. susceptible of modification or adaptation; adaptable: a flexible schedule.
  3. willing or disposed to yield; pliable: a flexible personality.

pliable, elastic, supple. Flexible, limber, pliant

-stiff, rigid

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Flexibility

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  1. frantic; frenzied, hectic, hyper
    - telaşlı, çok heyecanlı
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  1. elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action.
  2. a pleasing or attractive quality or endowment.
  3. favor or good will.

14 to lend or add grace to; adorn: Many fine paintings graced the rooms of the house.

  1. attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease. 4. kindness, kindliness, love, benignity; condescension. 5. lenity, leniency. 14. embellish, beautify, deck, decorate, ornament; enhance, honor.

Antonyms
1. ugliness. 4. animosity. 5. harshness. 14. disfigure.

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  1. to give careful attention to: He did not heed the warning.

2.
to give attention; have regard.

  1. note, observe, consider, mark. 3. consideration, care; caution, vigilance, watchfulness.
    - 1. disregard, ignore.
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1.of low character, aims, etc.; mean; base: his ignoble purposes.

2.
of low grade or quality; inferior.
3.
not noble; of humble descent or rank.

1 degraded, dishonorable, ignominious, contemptible. 3. lowly, obscure, plebeian, peasant.

    1. honorable. 2. superior.
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  1. to burst inward ( opposed to explode).
74
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  1. tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
    - tahrik edici, alevlendirici

fiery, incendiary, provocative.

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Inflammatory

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  1. resolutely fearless; dauntless: an intrepid explorer.

brave, courageous, bold.

-timid.

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  1. using few words; expressing much in few words; concise: a laconic reply.

brief, pithy, terse; succinct.

  • voluble.
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  1. lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless: to handle a diplomatic crisis in a very maladroit way.

clumsy, inept; gauche

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  1. depraved, villainous, or base., an evil person
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  1. harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being: noxious fumes.

2.
morally harmful; corrupting; pernicious: a noxious plan to spread dissension.

hurtful, unwholesome, unhealthy, nocuous, detrimental, deleterious. 2. corruptive.

  • 1, 2. harmless.
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  1. the beginning or start: I wanted to explain the situation at the outset.
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  1. leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative: a peremptory command.

2.
imperious or dictatorial.
3.
positive or assertive in speech, tone, manner, etc.

  1. arbitrary, dogmatic, domineering.
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Peremptory

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  1. agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart: a piquant aspic.

2.
agreeably stimulating, interesting, or attractive: a piquant glance.
3.
of an interestingly provocative or lively character: a piquant wit.

  1. spicy. 2. intriguing. 3. sharp, clever.
    - 1. insipid.
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  1. of or pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
84
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  1. having a natural inclination or tendency to something; disposed; liable: to be prone to anger.
  2. having the front or ventral part downward; lying face downward.
  3. lying flat; prostrate.
  4. Groveling, abject, inclined, predisposed
  5. apt, subject, tending. 3. recumbent.
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  1. to suppress; put an end to; extinguish: The troops quelled the rebellion quickly.
  2. to vanquish; subdue.
  3. to quiet or allay (emotions, anxieties, etc.): The child’s mother quelled his fears of the thunder.

1, 2. crush, quash, overpower, overcome, defeat, conquer, quench. 3. calm, pacify, compose, hush.

  • 1, 2. foster. 3. agitate.
86
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  1. Military . a search made for useful military information in the field, especially by examining the ground.

3.
Surveying, Civil Engineering . a general examination or survey of a region, usually followed by a detailed survey.

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Reconnaissance

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  1. causing repugnance or aversion: a repulsive mask.
  2. capable of causing repulsion; serving to repulse: to present enough repulsive force to keep the enemy from daring to attack.
  3. tending to drive away or keep at a distance; cold; forbidding: arrogant, repulsive airs to frighten the timid.
  4. loathsome, disgusting, offensive, distasteful.
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  1. to undermine; weaken or destroy insidiously.
    - altını oymak
  2. impair, enfeeble, deplete, exhaust, enervate.
89
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  1. astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.

2.
keen; piercing.

  1. quick, discerning, perceptive, perspicacious, sagacious, keen; discriminating, intelligent. See acute.
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  1. to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
  2. to unite (timbers, spars, or the like) by overlapping and binding their ends.
  3. graft, mesh (aşılamak, birbirine geçmek)
91
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  1. to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.

2.
to cover or overflow with water; immerse.
3.
to cover; bury; subordinate; suppress: His aspirations were submerged by the necessity of making a living.

  1. submerse. 2. flood, inundate, engulf.
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  1. pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent; being or moving in the direction of a tangent.

2.
merely touching; slightly connected: tangential information.
3.
divergent or digressive, as from a subject under consideration: tangential remarks.

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Tangential

93
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  1. to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin.
  2. to pass over or go beyond (a limit, boundary, etc.): to transgress bounds of prudence.

3.
to go beyond the limits imposed by (a law, command, etc.); violate; infringe: to transgress the will of God.

err, trespass. 3. contravene, disobey.

Antonyms
3. obey.

A

Transgress

94
Q

1 having the polish and suavity regarded as characteristic of sophisticated social life in major cities: an urbane manner.

2.
reflecting elegance, sophistication, etc., especially in expression: He maintained an urbane tone in his letters.

  • nazik, medeni
    1. suave, cosmopolitan.
95
Q

1 to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.

2.
to impair or weaken the effectiveness of.
3.
to debase; corrupt; pervert.
4.
to make legally defective or invalid; invalidate: to vitiate a claim.

96
Q

1 thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.

  1. a continuous strand or thread made from glass, metal, plastic, etc.
  2. the thread, in the form of a loosely twisted aggregate of fibers, as of hemp, of which rope is made (rope yarn).
  3. a tale, especially a long story of adventure or incredible happenings: He spun a yarn that outdid any I had ever heard.

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