Deck9 Flashcards
- soaked with liquid or moisture; saturated.
2.
heavy, lumpy, or soggy, as food that is poorly cooked.
3.
having a soaked appearance.
-sırlsıklam, dut gibi sarhoş
Sodden
- watchful; being on one’s guard against danger.
2.
arising from or characterized by caution: to give someone a wary look.
- ihtiyatlı, tedbirli
1. alert, vigilant, guarded, circumspect, prudent. See careful.
Wary
- to neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
2.
abruptly concise; curt; brusque.
- kısa öz veciz
1. succinct, compact, neat, concentrated. 1, 2. See concise.
Terse
Forerunner
- predecessor; ancestor; forebear; precursor.
2.
an omen, sign, or indication of something to follow; portent: The warm evenings were a forerunner of summer.
3.
a person who goes or is sent in advance to announce the coming of someone or something that follows; herald; harbinger.
- to close, shut, or stop up (a passage, opening, etc.).
2.
to shut in, out, or off.
obstruct, clog, block, plug.
Occlude
Facilitate
- a to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
2.
to assist the progress of (a person).
- to given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
2.
inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate: a rapacious disposition.
3.
(of animals) subsisting by the capture of living prey; predacious.
-zorbalıkla almak, açgözlü gözüdoymaz
Rapacious
Paranthesis
- to Grammar . a qualifying, explanatory, or appositive word, phrase, clause, or sentence that interrupts a syntactic construction without otherwise affecting it, having often a characteristic intonation and indicated in writing by commas, parentheses, or dashes, as in William Smith—you must know him—is coming tonight.
Insensible
- incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.
2.
without or not subject to a particular feeling or sensation: insensible to shame; insensible to the cold.
3.
unaware; unconscious; inappreciative: We are not insensible of your kindness.
-hissizlik, duyarsızlık
apathetic, unfeeling, indifferent, cool; dull, passionless, emotionless, torpid.
- incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.
2.
without or not subject to a particular feeling or sensation: insensible to shame; insensible to the cold.
3.
unaware; unconscious; inappreciative: We are not insensible of your kindness.
-hissizlik, duyarsızlık
apathetic, unfeeling, indifferent, cool; dull, passionless, emotionless, torpid.
Insensible
- to of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
2.
having an agreeable or pleasing personality; affable; amiable; sociable.
-yakışıklıi güzel , canayakın
Personable
Antidote
- a medicine or other remedy for counteracting the effects of poison, disease, etc.
2.
something that prevents or counteracts injurious or unwanted effects: Good Jobs are the best antidote to teenage crime.
–verb (used with object)
3.
to counteract with an antidote: Medication was given to antidote the poison the child had swallowed.
- a a damaging or derogatory remark or criticism; slander: casting aspersions on a campaign rival.
2.
the act of slandering; vilification; defamation; calumniation; derogation: Such vehement aspersions cannot be ignored.
3.
the act of sprinkling, as in baptism.
-iftira çamur karalama
censure, reproach.
Aspersion
- to to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
2.
to give a pull at; grasp: to pluck someone’s sleeve.
3.
to pull with sudden force or with a jerk.
the heart, liver, and lungs, especially of an animal used for food.
12.
courage or resolution in the face of difficulties.
- meyve vs toplamak, yolmak, çekmek
2. tug. 3. yank, tear, rip. 12. bravery, boldness, determination, mettle, nerve.
Pluck
- to walk telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
2.
false or untrue: a mendacious report.
-veracious.
Mendacious
- a to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
2.
to assist the progress of (a person).
Facilitate
Colloquial
- characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal.
2.
involving or using conversation.
-argolu, halk dilinde
1, 2. Colloquial, conversational, informal
-formal
Hortatory
- urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging: a hortatory speech.
- öğüt veren, teşvik edici
- to to cut or lop off (twigs, branches, or roots).
2.
to cut or lop superfluous or undesired twigs, branches, or roots from; trim.
3.
to rid or clear of (anything superfluous or undesirable).
-budamak
Prune
Earthenware
- pottery of baked or hardened clay, especially any of the coarse, opaque varieties.
2.
clay for making such pottery.
-toprak işi, toprak
Dissent
- to differ in sentiment or opinion, especially from the majority; withhold assent; disagree (often followed by from ): Two of the justices dissented from the majority decision.
2.
to disagree with the methods, goals, etc., of a political party or government; take an opposing view.
3.
to disagree with or reject the doctrines or authority of an established church.
disagreement, dissatisfaction, opposition
Aspersion
- a a damaging or derogatory remark or criticism; slander: casting aspersions on a campaign rival.
2.
the act of slandering; vilification; defamation; calumniation; derogation: Such vehement aspersions cannot be ignored.
3.
the act of sprinkling, as in baptism.
-iftira çamur karalama
censure, reproach.
Census
- an official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation, etc.
2.
(in ancient Rome) the registration of citizens and their property, for purposes of taxation.
3.
to take a census of (a country, city, etc.): The entire nation is censused every 10 years.
- a to provide or supply with something ornamental; adorn; decorate.
2. to provide (a food) with something that adds flavor, decorative color, etc.: to garnish boiled potatoes with chopped parsley.
4.something placed around or on a food or in a beverage to add flavor, decorative color, etc.
5.
adornment or decoration.
- embellish, ornament, beautify, trim, bedeck, bedizen, set off, enhance. 5. ornament; garniture.
Garnish
Stint
- to to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance: Don’t stint on the food. They stinted for years in order to save money.
2 to limit to a certain amount, number, share, or allowance, often unduly; set limits to; restrict.
5.a period of time spent doing something: a two-year stint in the army.
6.
an allotted amount or piece of work: to do one’s daily stint.
- confine, restrain. 7. restraint, constraint. 8. allotment, portion
- the lowest point; point of greatest adversity or despair.
bottom, floor, foot, depths.
(nazır, opposite)
Nadir
- to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
- tevil ile yanıltmak, kaçamak cevap verip yanıtmak
- evade, shift.
Prevaricate
- to soil; tarnish; discolor.
2.
to detract from the honor or luster of: to besmirch someone’s good name.
- kirletmek, karalamak, alnına leke sürmek
2. stain, tarnish, soil, blacken, dishonor, discredit, sully, besmear.
Besmirch
Irksome
- annoying; irritating; exasperating; tiresome: irksome restrictions.
2.
Obsolete . causing weariness or disgust.
Gush
- to flow out or issue suddenly, copiously, or forcibly, as a fluid from confinement: Water gushed from the broken pipe.
2.
to express oneself extravagantly or emotionally; talk effusively: She gushed with pride over her new grandchild.
3.
to have a sudden, copious flow, as of blood or tears.
–verb (used with object)
4.
to emit suddenly, forcibly, or copiously.
–noun
5.
a sudden, copious outflow of a fluid.
6.
the fluid emitted.
7.
effusive and often insincere language or behavior.
- taşkınlık, fışkırma, coşku
1. pour, stream, flood. See flow. 4. spurt.
- a ridge or groove produced in anything by folding, heat, pressure, etc.; fold; furrow.
2.
a wrinkle, especially one on the face.
3.
the straight, vertical edge or line produced in the front and back of trousers, especially men’s trousers, by pressing, as with a steam presser or iron.
6.
to make a crease or creases in or on; wrinkle.
7.
to wound or stun by a furrowing or superficial shot: The bullet merely creased his shoulder.
- buruşuk, kırışık
6. crimp, pucker, furrow, fold.
Crease
- to to fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc.: to relapse into silence.
2.
to fall back into illness after convalescence or apparent recovery.
3.
to fall back into vice, wrongdoing, or error; backslide: to relapse into heresy.
- regress, revert, lapse.
Relapse
Dexterity
- skill or adroitness in using the hands or body; agility.
2.
mental adroitness or skill; cleverness.
Personable
- to of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
2.
having an agreeable or pleasing personality; affable; amiable; sociable.
-yakışıklıi güzel , canayakın
- a medicine or other remedy for counteracting the effects of poison, disease, etc.
2.
something that prevents or counteracts injurious or unwanted effects: Good Jobs are the best antidote to teenage crime.
–verb (used with object)
3.
to counteract with an antidote: Medication was given to antidote the poison the child had swallowed.
Antidote
- to alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment of; give solace or comfort: Only his children could console him when his wife died.
- teselli etmek
comfort
Console
Prevaricate
- to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
- tevil ile yanıltmak, kaçamak cevap verip yanıtmak
- evade, shift.
- to walk with a labored, jerky movement, as when lame.
2.
to proceed in a lame, faltering, or labored manner: His writing limps from one cliché to another. the old car limped along.
3.
to progress slowly and with great difficulty; make little or no advance: an economy that limps along at a level just above total bankruptcy.
a lame movement or gait: The accident left him with a slight limp.
-aksaya aksaya gitmek, topallamak
Limp
Degrade
- to lower in dignity or estimation; bring into contempt: He felt they were degrading him by making him report to the supervisor.
2.
to lower in character or quality; debase.
3.
to reduce (someone) to a lower rank, degree, etc.; deprive of office, rank, status, or title, especially as a punishment: degraded from director to assistant director.
- disgrace, dishonor, discredit. See humble. 2. abase, vitiate. 3. demote, depose, downgrade, lower, cashier, break.
- 1, 2. exalt. 3. promote
Console
- to alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment of; give solace or comfort: Only his children could console him when his wife died.
- teselli etmek
comfort
- skill or adroitness in using the hands or body; agility.
2.
mental adroitness or skill; cleverness.
Dexterity
Prune
- to to cut or lop off (twigs, branches, or roots).
2.
to cut or lop superfluous or undesired twigs, branches, or roots from; trim.
3.
to rid or clear of (anything superfluous or undesirable).
-budamak
- annoying; irritating; exasperating; tiresome: irksome restrictions.
2.
Obsolete . causing weariness or disgust.
Irksome
- to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent: to acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan.
- boyun eğmek, katlanmek
accede, concur; capitulate.
-contest, protest.
Acquiesce
Sedulous
- to diligent in application or attention; persevering; assiduous.
2.
persistently or carefully maintained: sedulous flattery.
- Çalışkan, sebatlı
1. constant, untiring, tireless.
Encumbrance
- something that encumbers; something burdensome, useless, or superfluous; burden; hindrance: Poverty was a lifelong encumbrance.
2.
a dependent person, especially a child.
3.
Law . a burden or claim on property, as a mortgage.
-yük, yükümlülük
Limp
- to walk with a labored, jerky movement, as when lame.
2.
to proceed in a lame, faltering, or labored manner: His writing limps from one cliché to another. the old car limped along.
3.
to progress slowly and with great difficulty; make little or no advance: an economy that limps along at a level just above total bankruptcy.
a lame movement or gait: The accident left him with a slight limp.
-aksaya aksaya gitmek, topallamak
- habitual observance of truth in speech or statement; truthfulness: He was not noted for his veracity.
2.
conformity to truth or fact; accuracy: to question the veracity of his account.
3.
correctness or accuracy, as of the senses or of a scientific instrument.
- honesty, integrity, credibility.
Veracity
Rapacious
- to given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
2.
inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate: a rapacious disposition.
3.
(of animals) subsisting by the capture of living prey; predacious.
-zorbalıkla almak, açgözlü gözüdoymaz
Terse
- to neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
2.
abruptly concise; curt; brusque.
- kısa öz veciz
1. succinct, compact, neat, concentrated. 1, 2. See concise.
Exertion
- a vigorous action or effort: physical and mental exertion.
2.
an effort: a great exertion to help others.
3.
exercise, as of power or faculties.
-zahmet, efor
endeavor, struggle, attempt, activity, strain. See effort.
Impediment
- obstruction; hindrance; obstacle.
2.
any physical defect that impedes normal or easy speech; a speech disorder.
3.
Chiefly Ecclesiastical Law . a bar, usually of blood or affinity, to marriage: a diriment impediment.
- engel, aksaklık, konuşma bozukluğu
1. bar, encumbrance, check. See obstacle. - help, encouragement.
Brisket
- the breast of an animal, or the part of the breast lying next to the ribs.
2.
a cut of meat, especially beef, from this part.
- to replace in power, authority, effectiveness, acceptance, use, etc., as by another person or thing.
2.
to set aside or cause to be set aside as void, useless, or obsolete, usually in favor of something mentioned; make obsolete: They superseded the old statute with a new one.
3.
to succeed to the position, function, office, etc., of; supplant.
-yerini almak, ayağını kaydırmak
Supersede
- to to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance: Don’t stint on the food. They stinted for years in order to save money.
2 to limit to a certain amount, number, share, or allowance, often unduly; set limits to; restrict.
5.a period of time spent doing something: a two-year stint in the army.
6.
an allotted amount or piece of work: to do one’s daily stint.
- confine, restrain. 7. restraint, constraint. 8. allotment, portion
Stint
- to diligent in application or attention; persevering; assiduous.
2.
persistently or carefully maintained: sedulous flattery.
- Çalışkan, sebatlı
1. constant, untiring, tireless.
Sedulous
- a to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at ): He balked at making the speech.
2.
(of a horse, mule, etc.) to stop short and stubbornly refuse to go on.
–verb (used with object)
4.
to place an obstacle in the way of; hinder; thwart: a sudden reversal that balked her hopes.
5.
Archaic . to let slip; fail to use: to balk an opportunity.
- kaçınmak, engel, ayak diremek
4. check, retard, obstruct, impede, prevent.
Balk
- to Grammar . a qualifying, explanatory, or appositive word, phrase, clause, or sentence that interrupts a syntactic construction without otherwise affecting it, having often a characteristic intonation and indicated in writing by commas, parentheses, or dashes, as in William Smith—you must know him—is coming tonight.
Paranthesis
- vile, shameful, or base character; depravity.
2.
a vile or depraved act.
- aşağılık, iğenç
1. wickedness, vice, vileness, wrongdoing
Turpitude
Mendacious
- to walk telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
2.
false or untrue: a mendacious report.
-veracious.
- a state of rest or balance due to the equal action of opposing forces.
2.
equal balance between any powers, influences, etc.; equality of effect.
3.
mental or emotional balance; equanimity: The pressures of the situation caused her to lose her equilibrium.
equipoise, steadiness, stability.
Equilibrium
Equilibrium
- a state of rest or balance due to the equal action of opposing forces.
2.
equal balance between any powers, influences, etc.; equality of effect.
3.
mental or emotional balance; equanimity: The pressures of the situation caused her to lose her equilibrium.
equipoise, steadiness, stability.
Relapse
- to to fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc.: to relapse into silence.
2.
to fall back into illness after convalescence or apparent recovery.
3.
to fall back into vice, wrongdoing, or error; backslide: to relapse into heresy.
- regress, revert, lapse.
- pottery of baked or hardened clay, especially any of the coarse, opaque varieties.
2.
clay for making such pottery.
-toprak işi, toprak
Earthenware
Garnish
- a to provide or supply with something ornamental; adorn; decorate.
2. to provide (a food) with something that adds flavor, decorative color, etc.: to garnish boiled potatoes with chopped parsley.
4.something placed around or on a food or in a beverage to add flavor, decorative color, etc.
5.
adornment or decoration.
- embellish, ornament, beautify, trim, bedeck, bedizen, set off, enhance. 5. ornament; garniture.
- something that encumbers; something burdensome, useless, or superfluous; burden; hindrance: Poverty was a lifelong encumbrance.
2.
a dependent person, especially a child.
3.
Law . a burden or claim on property, as a mortgage.
-yük, yükümlülük
Encumbrance
Pluck
- to to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
2.
to give a pull at; grasp: to pluck someone’s sleeve.
3.
to pull with sudden force or with a jerk.
the heart, liver, and lungs, especially of an animal used for food.
12.
courage or resolution in the face of difficulties.
- meyve vs toplamak, yolmak, çekmek
2. tug. 3. yank, tear, rip. 12. bravery, boldness, determination, mettle, nerve.
Wary
- watchful; being on one’s guard against danger.
2.
arising from or characterized by caution: to give someone a wary look.
- ihtiyatlı, tedbirli
1. alert, vigilant, guarded, circumspect, prudent. See careful.
Occlude
- to close, shut, or stop up (a passage, opening, etc.).
2.
to shut in, out, or off.
obstruct, clog, block, plug.
Nadir
- the lowest point; point of greatest adversity or despair.
bottom, floor, foot, depths.
(nazır, opposite)
Indelicate
- offensive to a sense of generally accepted propriety, modesty, or decency; improper, unrefined, or coarse: indelicate language.
2.
not delicate; lacking delicacy; rough.
- nezaketsiz, kaba
1. indecorous, untactful, gauche, rude.
Turpitude
- vile, shameful, or base character; depravity.
2.
a vile or depraved act.
- aşağılık, iğenç
1. wickedness, vice, vileness, wrongdoing
- a vigorous action or effort: physical and mental exertion.
2.
an effort: a great exertion to help others.
3.
exercise, as of power or faculties.
-zahmet, efor
endeavor, struggle, attempt, activity, strain. See effort.
Exertion
- an official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation, etc.
2.
(in ancient Rome) the registration of citizens and their property, for purposes of taxation.
3.
to take a census of (a country, city, etc.): The entire nation is censused every 10 years.
Census
Supersede
- to replace in power, authority, effectiveness, acceptance, use, etc., as by another person or thing.
2.
to set aside or cause to be set aside as void, useless, or obsolete, usually in favor of something mentioned; make obsolete: They superseded the old statute with a new one.
3.
to succeed to the position, function, office, etc., of; supplant.
-yerini almak, ayağını kaydırmak
- characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal.
2.
involving or using conversation.
-argolu, halk dilinde
1, 2. Colloquial, conversational, informal
-formal
Colloquial
Balk
- a to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at ): He balked at making the speech.
2.
(of a horse, mule, etc.) to stop short and stubbornly refuse to go on.
–verb (used with object)
4.
to place an obstacle in the way of; hinder; thwart: a sudden reversal that balked her hopes.
5.
Archaic . to let slip; fail to use: to balk an opportunity.
- kaçınmak, engel, ayak diremek
4. check, retard, obstruct, impede, prevent.
- offensive to a sense of generally accepted propriety, modesty, or decency; improper, unrefined, or coarse: indelicate language.
2.
not delicate; lacking delicacy; rough.
- nezaketsiz, kaba
1. indecorous, untactful, gauche, rude.
Indelicate
- to flow out or issue suddenly, copiously, or forcibly, as a fluid from confinement: Water gushed from the broken pipe.
2.
to express oneself extravagantly or emotionally; talk effusively: She gushed with pride over her new grandchild.
3.
to have a sudden, copious flow, as of blood or tears.
–verb (used with object)
4.
to emit suddenly, forcibly, or copiously.
–noun
5.
a sudden, copious outflow of a fluid.
6.
the fluid emitted.
7.
effusive and often insincere language or behavior.
- taşkınlık, fışkırma, coşku
1. pour, stream, flood. See flow. 4. spurt.
Gush
Roll Call
- to the calling of a list of names, as of soldiers or students, for checking attendance.
2.
a military signal for this, as one given by a drum.
3.
a voting process, especially in the U.S. Congress, in which legislators are called on by name and allowed either to cast their vote or to abstain.
- predecessor; ancestor; forebear; precursor.
2.
an omen, sign, or indication of something to follow; portent: The warm evenings were a forerunner of summer.
3.
a person who goes or is sent in advance to announce the coming of someone or something that follows; herald; harbinger.
Forerunner
- to lower in dignity or estimation; bring into contempt: He felt they were degrading him by making him report to the supervisor.
2.
to lower in character or quality; debase.
3.
to reduce (someone) to a lower rank, degree, etc.; deprive of office, rank, status, or title, especially as a punishment: degraded from director to assistant director.
- disgrace, dishonor, discredit. See humble. 2. abase, vitiate. 3. demote, depose, downgrade, lower, cashier, break.
- 1, 2. exalt. 3. promote
Degrade
Sodden
- soaked with liquid or moisture; saturated.
2.
heavy, lumpy, or soggy, as food that is poorly cooked.
3.
having a soaked appearance.
-sırlsıklam, dut gibi sarhoş
- a excessively particular or fastidious; difficult to please; fussy.
- zor beğenen, titiz
exacting, demanding, meticulous; choosy, picky.
Finicky
- to the calling of a list of names, as of soldiers or students, for checking attendance.
2.
a military signal for this, as one given by a drum.
3.
a voting process, especially in the U.S. Congress, in which legislators are called on by name and allowed either to cast their vote or to abstain.
Roll Call
- urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging: a hortatory speech.
- öğüt veren, teşvik edici
Hortatory
- the breast of an animal, or the part of the breast lying next to the ribs.
2.
a cut of meat, especially beef, from this part.
Brisket
- obstruction; hindrance; obstacle.
2.
any physical defect that impedes normal or easy speech; a speech disorder.
3.
Chiefly Ecclesiastical Law . a bar, usually of blood or affinity, to marriage: a diriment impediment.
- engel, aksaklık, konuşma bozukluğu
1. bar, encumbrance, check. See obstacle. - help, encouragement.
Impediment
Veracity
- habitual observance of truth in speech or statement; truthfulness: He was not noted for his veracity.
2.
conformity to truth or fact; accuracy: to question the veracity of his account.
3.
correctness or accuracy, as of the senses or of a scientific instrument.
- honesty, integrity, credibility.
- to differ in sentiment or opinion, especially from the majority; withhold assent; disagree (often followed by from ): Two of the justices dissented from the majority decision.
2.
to disagree with the methods, goals, etc., of a political party or government; take an opposing view.
3.
to disagree with or reject the doctrines or authority of an established church.
disagreement, dissatisfaction, opposition
Dissent
Acquiesce
- to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent: to acquiesce halfheartedly in a business plan.
- boyun eğmek, katlanmek
accede, concur; capitulate.
-contest, protest.
Crease
- a ridge or groove produced in anything by folding, heat, pressure, etc.; fold; furrow.
2.
a wrinkle, especially one on the face.
3.
the straight, vertical edge or line produced in the front and back of trousers, especially men’s trousers, by pressing, as with a steam presser or iron.
6.
to make a crease or creases in or on; wrinkle.
7.
to wound or stun by a furrowing or superficial shot: The bullet merely creased his shoulder.
- buruşuk, kırışık
6. crimp, pucker, furrow, fold.
Besmirch
- to soil; tarnish; discolor.
2.
to detract from the honor or luster of: to besmirch someone’s good name.
- kirletmek, karalamak, alnına leke sürmek
2. stain, tarnish, soil, blacken, dishonor, discredit, sully, besmear.
Finicky
- a excessively particular or fastidious; difficult to please; fussy.
- zor beğenen, titiz
exacting, demanding, meticulous; choosy, picky.
