Deck3 Flashcards
Accolade
- any award, honor, or laudatory notice: The play received accolades from the press.
- a light touch on the shoulder with the flat side of the sword or formerly by an embrace, done in the ceremony of conferring knighthood.
- the ceremony itself.
- words of praise
Annul
- (especially of laws or other established rules, usages, etc.) to make void or null; abolish; cancel; invalidate: to annul a marriage.
2.
to reduce to nothing; obliterate.
3.
to cancel (a regularly scheduled train, plane, social event, etc.) for one day or one time only.
- nullify; rescind, repeal.
Ascribe
- to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute; impute: The alphabet is usually ascribed to the Phoenicians.
2.
to attribute or think of as belonging, as a quality or characteristic: They ascribed courage to me for something I did out of sheer panic.
attribute
Bacchanalia
- a festival in honor of Bacchus. Compare Dionysia.
2.
( lowercase ) a drunken feast; orgy.
Berate
- to scold; rebuke: He berated them in public.
abuse, vilify, vituperate, objurgate.
Brindled
- gray or tawny with darker streaks or spots.
Cede
- to yield or formally surrender to another: to cede territory. - . to give up one’s rights;
- to transfer the title or ownership of something
relinquish, abandon; grant, transfer, convey.
Colander
- a metal or plastic container with a perforated bottom, for draining and straining foods.
Consequential
- following as an effect, result, or outcome; resultant; consequent.
- following as a logical conclusion or inference; logically consistent.
- of consequence or importance: a consequential man in his field.
- self-important; pompous.
Cower
- to crouch or hurdle up, as from fear, cold or shame
- to shrink and tremble, as from someone’s anger, threats or blows, cringe
cringe, recoil, flinch, quail.
Defunct
- no longer in effect or use; not operating or functioning: a defunct law; a defunct organization.
2.
no longer in existence; dead; extinct: a defunct person; a defunct tribe of Indians.
Detumescence
- reduction or subsidence of swelling, a gradual shrinking of a swelling (an erection)
Dissemble
1.to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one’s incompetence in business.
2.
to put on the appearance of; feign: to dissemble innocence.
- mask, hide, camouflage, dissimulate.
Dwarf
1 a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
- to cause to appear or seem small in size, extent, character, etc., as by being much larger or better: He dwarfed all his rivals in athletic ability.
- to become stunted or smaller.
- büyümesini önlemek - Dwarf, midget, pygmy
- giant
Encomium
1 a formal expression of high praise; eulogy: An encomium by the President greeted the returning hero.
Equable
1 free from many changes or variations; uniform: an equable climate; an equable temperament.
2.
uniform in operation or effect, as laws.
- steady, even, temperate.
— 1. variable.
Exegesis
1 critical explanation or interpretation of a text or portion of a text, especially of the Bible.
Facetious
1 not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
- amusing; humorous.
- lacking serious intent; concerned with something nonessential, amusing, or frivolous: a facetious person.
- joking or trying to be jocular, esp. at an inappropriate time
Finesse
1 extreme delicacy or subtlety in action, performance, skill, discrimination, taste, etc.
2.
skill in handling a difficult or highly sensitive situation; adroit and artful management: exceptional diplomatic finesse.
3.
a trick, artifice, or stratagem.
1, 2. tact, diplomacy, savoir faire, circumspection, sensitivity, sensibility.
Forbearance
- the act of forbearing; a refraining from something.
- forbearing conduct or quality; patient endurance; self-control.
- an abstaining from the enforcement of a right.
- Self control, patient restraint
- kaçınma, hoşgörü, sabır, sakınma - abstinence. 2. tolerance, toleration, sufferance; indulgence.
Garment
1.any article of clothing: dresses, suits, and other garments.
2.
an outer covering or outward appearance.
- to clothe, dress, or cover.
- konfeksiyon - attire, apparel, garb, dress, costume.
Gull
- to deceive, trick, or cheat.
- a person who is easily deceived or cheated; dupe.
- cozen, dupe, fool, bamboozle, hoodwink.
Hone
- a whetstone of fine, compact texture for sharpening razors and other cutting tools.
- to sharpen on a hone: to hone a carving knife.
- to enlarge or finish (a hole) with a hone.
- to make more acute or effective; improve; perfect: to hone one’s skills.
Impecunious
- having little or no money; penniless; poor.
destitute, poverty-stricken. See poor.
Indefatigable
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