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English Daily Vocab 9 Flashcards

1
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Impair

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that it is less effective:
A recurring knee injury may have impaired his chances of winning the tournament.

Güçsüz bırakmak

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Elude

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evade or escape from (a danger, enemy, or pursuer), typically in a skillful or cunning way.
“he managed to elude his pursuers by escaping into an alley”

evade the mice eluded the traps managed to elude capture.

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Entitle

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İsimlendirmek

give (someone) a legal right or a just claim to receive or do something.
“employees are normally entitled to severance pay”

an article entitled “The Harried Society.””

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Apple orange

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Completely different

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Pop into my head

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Aklima gelmek

He popped in for two minutes” come in, enter, get in

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Whats your occasion

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Senin reason ne

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Tame

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Sikici

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Conquest

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Fetih

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Butler

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Servant

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Initiatei

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1.
cause (a process or action) to begin.
“he proposes to initiate discussions on planning procedures”

Hague initiated a series of reforms of the ConservativeRepublican Party.
Some of the orders are initiated directly on the trading floor.
The council initiates its own studies and carries out research at the request of private organizations.
He is credited with initiating several new literary forms.

initiate verb [T] (START)

C2 formal
to cause something to begin:
Who initiated the violence?

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Groin

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Kasik

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Joint

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Ucuz lokanta

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Patty

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Yassi kofte

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Instead

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Alternatif olarak
Instead of going outside disari cikmak yerine

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Bird dropping

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Kus pisligi

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Turd

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Tezek

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Picture

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to imagine something:
Picture the scene - the crowds of people and animals, the noise, the dirt.
[ + -ing verb ] Try to picture yourself lying on a beach in the hot sun.
[ + question word ] Picture to yourself how terrible that day must have been.

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Deprivation

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Mahrumiyet

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Upon

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On formal

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Sure thing

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Of course

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Baggy

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Bol tshirt

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Crust

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Ekmek kabugu

a hard outer covering of something:
pie crust (= the cooked pastry on top)
the earth’s crust

[ C ]
the outside layer of a loaf of bread:
Could you cut the crusts off the sandwiches, please?

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Patriot

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Vatansever

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Experiment

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Deney

Scientists are conducting/carrying out/doing experiments to test the effectiveness of the new drug.

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Meant

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Anlamina gelen

used to add emphasis to what you are saying:
I want you home by midnight. And I mean midnight.
Give it back now! I mean it.

When he said three o’clock, I thought he meant in the afternoon.

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Kill off someone

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to destroy or remove someone or something completely:
Killing off predators such as grizzly bears could throw the ecosystem out of balance.

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Insist on

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to say firmly or demand forcefully, especially when others disagree with or oppose what you say:
[ + (that) ] Greg still insists (that) he did nothing wrong.
Please go first - I insist!
She insisted on seeing her lawyer.

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Hiccup

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Hickirik

I’ve got the hiccups.

a problem that delays or interrupts something for a while, but does not usually cause serious difficulties:
We’ve had one or two slight hiccups, but progress has generally been quite steady

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29
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Define

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Before I answer your question, could you define your terms a little more (= explain what you mean by the words you have used)?
See also
well defined

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How long has this been going on ?

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.

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Reciprocate formal

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to share the same feelings as someone else, or to behave in the same way as someone else:
Sadly, my feelings for him were not reciprocated.
We invited them to dinner and a week later they reciprocated.

32
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Look up

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C1
to become better:
I hope things will start to look up in the new year.

to try to find a particular piece of information by looking in a book or on a list, or by using a computer
I didn’t know what “loquacious” meant and had to look it up in a dictionary.

33
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Come along

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B2
to arrive or appear at a place:
Go now and I’ll come along later.
You wait half an hour for a bus, then three come along at once!

C2
to start to exist:
I gave up climbing when my first child came along.

If something is coming along, it is developing or improving:
Hassan’s English is really coming along.

34
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Start off

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begin to travel or move.
“we started off on our journey”
begin to operate or do something or to happen.
“treatment should start off with attention to diet”
cause someone or something to begin to operate or do something.
“what started you off on this search?”

35
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As a matter of fact that

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in reality (used especially to correct a falsehood or misunderstanding).
“as a matter of fact, I was talking to him this afternoon

36
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Beforehand

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before an action or event; in advance.
“rooms must be booked beforehand”

earlier (than a particular time):
I knew she was coming that afternoon because she had phoned beforehand to say so.

37
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Venture

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C2
a new activity, usually in business, that involves risk or uncertainty:
She advised us to look abroad for more lucrative business ventures.
There are many joint ventures between American and Japanese companies.

38
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Go into

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(START)

C1
to start doing a particular type of work:
My son’s planning to go into journalism.
She’s decided to go into business as a freelance computer programmer.

Repeated death threats have forced them to go into hiding.

DISCUSS)

C2
to discuss, examine, describe, or explain something in a detailed or careful way:
This is the first book to go into her personal life as well as her work.
I’d rather not go into that now. Can we discuss it later?

39
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Snugly snuggly

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in a way that feels warm, comfortable, and protected:
She’s curled up snugly in the armchair, reading a book.
She tucked patients snugly in their beds like a loving grandmother.

Warm and comfy

40
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Back then

A

O zamanlar

at a particular time in the past that you are talking about:
Things were different back then.
Back then, more kids were interested in fishing.

41
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Sew

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to join two pieces of cloth together by putting thread through them with a needle:
My grandmother taught me to sew.
I made this skirt just by sewing two pieces of material together.
He sewed the badge neatly onto his uniform.

42
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Spew

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If something spews liquid or gas, or liquid or gas spews from something, it flows out in large amounts:
The volcano spewed a giant cloud of ash, dust, and gases into the air.
The drains spew (out) millions of gallons of raw sewage into the river.

43
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Must have been sleeping

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The baby must have been sleeping when ai passed by his room 2 hours ago.

Bebek iki saat once uyudugundan cok emindim ama simdi uyandi

44
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Shiver

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When people or animals shiver, they shake slightly because they feel cold, ill, or frightened:
The poor dog - it’s shivering!
He shivered with cold in his thin cotton shirt.
More examples
She shivered, and gathered the blanket around her.

45
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Immerse

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immerse yourself in sth

to become completely involved in something:
She got some books out of the library and immersed herself in Jewish history and culture.

dip or submerge in a liquid.
“immerse the paper in water for twenty minutes”

Daldirmak

46
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Sugar rim

A

Kokteyl suslemesi

47
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Indeterminate

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not measured, counted, or clearly known:
An indeterminate number of workers have already been exposed to the danger.
a man of indeterminate age
Opposite

48
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Determinate

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Determinate means fixed and definite.
[formal]
…a contract for the exclusive possession of land for some determinate period

49
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Merit

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C1 formal
the quality of being good and deserving praise:
an entertaining film with little artistic merit
Her ideas have merit.

Liyakat
Erdem layik

50
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Set out

A

C2
to start an activity with a particular aim:
She set out with the aim of becoming the youngest ever winner of the championship.
[ + to infinitive ] They set out to discover a cure for cancer.

51
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Admit

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admit verb (ACCEPT)

B1 [ T or I ]
to agree that something is true, especially unwillingly:
He admitted his guilt/mistake.
[ + (that) ] She admitted (that) she had made a mistake.

to allow someone to enter a place:
Each ticket admits one member and one guest.
Men will not be admitted to the restaurant without a tie.

Spain was admitted to the European Community in 1986.

52
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Assign

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assign verb [T] (CHOOSE)

C1 [ often passive ]
to give a particular job or piece of work to someone:
[ + two objects ] UN troops were assigned the task of rebuilding the hospital.
The case has been assigned to our most senior officer.

53
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Tilt

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to (cause to) move into a sloping position:
He tilted his chair backwards and put his feet up on his desk.
Anna looked up at him with her head tilted to one side.

54
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Fungible

A

easy to exchange or trade for something else of the same type and value:
fungible goods/commodities
fungible assets/bonds

55
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Precise

A

precise adjective (EXACT)

B2
exact and accurate:
The bunker’s precise location is a closely guarded secret.
He caught me at the precise moment that I fainted.

exact and accurate in form, time, detail, or description:
The precise recipe is a closely guarded secret.

56
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Elaborate

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C2
containing a lot of careful detail or many detailed parts:
You want a plain blouse to go with that skirt - nothing too elaborate.
They’re making the most elaborate preparations for the wedding.

57
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Porch

A

Veranda

58
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Shape up

A

Fit olmak

59
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Clutter

A

Daginiklik

60
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Standpoint

A

C2
a set of beliefs and ideas from which opinions and decisions are formed:
“I have to put aside my emotions,” he says, “and consider it from a professional standpoint.”
Synonyms
point of view

61
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Conventional

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Geleneksel

62
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Prone

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C2 tendency
likely to show a particular characteristic, usually a negative one, or to be affected by something bad, such as damage or an illness :
I’ve always been prone to headaches.
He was prone to depression even as a teenager.

63
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Saturated fat

A

Doymus yag

64
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Explicitly

A

in a way that is clear and exact:
I told you quite explicitly to be home by midnight.

65
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Explicit

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clear and exact:
I gave her very explicit directions how to get here.
She was very explicit about (= said very clearly and exactly) what she thought was wrong with the plans.

66
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Make a scene

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to behave in a loud, angry way in public :
Please don’t make a scene.
So he paid, too embarrassed to make a scene in front of his date.

67
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Ease

A

Make less

to make or become less severe, difficult, unpleasant, painful, etc.:
To ease the problem of overcrowding, new prisons will be built.
These pills should ease the pain.
After the arrival of the United Nations soldiers, tension in the area began to ease.

68
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Harsh

A

Unkind

harsh adjective (UNKIND)

C1
unpleasant, unkind, cruel, or more severe than is necessary:
harsh criticism
The children had had a harsh upbringing.
We thought the punishment was rather harsh for such a minor offence.

69
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Get into

A

to become interested in an activity or subject, or start being involved in an activity:
She’s been getting into yoga recently - she does three classes a week.

70
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Dementia

A

a medical condition that affects especially old people, causing the memory and other mental abilities to gradually become worse, and leading to confused behaviour:
The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease.

71
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Poultry

A

Kumes

birds, such as chickens, that are bred for their eggs and meat:
Some poultry farmers keep turkeys and ducks as well as chickens.

72
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Carcinogenic

A

Kanserojen

73
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Submit

A

C2 [ I or T ]
to allow another person or group to have power or authority over you, or to accept something unwillingly:
We protested about the changes for a long time, but in the end we had to submit.
She decided to resign from the party rather than submit herself to the new rules.

to give or offer something for a decision to be made by others:
You must submit your application before 1 January.
The developers submitted building plans to the council for approval.

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