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contravene

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: to go or act contrary to : violate (aykırı olmak)

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hinder

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: to hold back : prevent, check (engel olmak)
His financial troubles … him from buying a home.

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acquitted

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: to discharge completely (as from an accusation or obligation) (beraat etmiş)
The court … the prisoner.

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concur

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: to express agreement (hemfikir olmak)
… with an opinion

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redress

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: to set right : remedy (telafi, bazen de tazminat)
looked to charity, not to legislation, to redress social wrongs—
W. R. Inge
(2)
: to make up for : compensate

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tact

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the ability to deal with others in touchy situations without offending them (incelik)
My aunt never hurts anyone’s feelings because she always uses … .

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gallant

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brave; showing respect for women (cesur)
The pilot swore a … oath* to save his buddy.

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dismal

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dark and depressing (kasvetli)
When the weather is so… , I sometimes stay in bed all day.

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frigid

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very cold (soğuk hem hava hem de ilişkiler için)

The jealous* bachelor* was treated in a … manner by his girlfriend

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numb

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without the power of feeling; deadened (hissiz, uyuşuk)
My fingers quickly became … in the frigid* room

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peril

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danger (tehlike)

There is great … in trying to climb the mountain.

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recline

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lie down; stretch out; lean back (yatmak, arkaya yaslanmak)
Richard likes to … in front of the television set

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shriek

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scream (çığlık)
The maid …. when she discovered the corpse

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sinister

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evil; wicked; dishonest; frightening (kötü, sahtekar, uğursuz)
The … plot to cheat the widow was uncovered by the police.

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wager

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bet (iddia)

I lost a small … on the Super Bowl.

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evade

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get away from by trickery or cleverness (savuşturmak, kaçınmak)
Juan tried to ….. the topic* by changing the subject.

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probe

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search into; examine thoroughly; investigate (incelemek, araştırmak)

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deceive

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make someone believe as true something that is false; mislead (kandırmak)

Virginia cried when she learned that her best friend had ….. her.

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defraud

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take money, rights, etc., away by cheating (dolandırmak, hakkını yemek)
My aunt saved thousands of dollars by ….. the government.

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torrent rain

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sağanak yağmur

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resented

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kırılmış, küskün, kızgın

Bertha …. the way her boyfriend treated her

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gloomy

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dark; dim; in low spirits (kasvetli, loş, keyifsiz)
My cousin was … because his best friend had moved away

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janitor

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kapıcı, hademe

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mediocre

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neither good nor bad; average; ordinary (vasat)

Howard was a …. scientist who never made any unique* discoveries

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rage

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violent anger; something that arouses intense but brief enthusiasm (öfke, hiddet)

Joan’s bad manners sent her mother into a ….

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excel

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be better than; do better than (üstün olmak, sivrilmek)

Because he was so small, Larry could not excel in sports

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menace

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threat (tehdit)

lrv’s lack* of respect made him a ….. to his parents

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solitary

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alone; single; only

Sid’s ….. manner kept him from making new friendships

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frank

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free in expressing one’s real thoughts, opinions, or feelings; not hiding what is in one’s mind (açık sözlü, samimi)

Eretha was completely …. when she told her friend about the sale

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protracted conflict

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to make longer
the highway project was … by years of litigation (uzun süren çatışma)

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succinctly

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concisely (kısaca)
found it difficult to explain … to the technician the nature of the problems she was having with her computer

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entrenched

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firmly established over time
(sağlamlaştırılmış, yerleşik)
Certain socioeconomic disparities have become … in that region, with little progress being made to address systemic inequalities.

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engender

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synonym: caused
to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind) (neden olmak/ortaya çıkarmak, vücuda getirmek)
Reading complex philosophical texts can … a sense of intellectual humility

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condoning of discrimination

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ayrımcılığa göz yummak

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counterintuitively

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sezgilere aykırı bir şekilde/zannedilenin aksine

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postulate

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assume (varsaymak) In his famous work, Euclid …. five basic axioms as the foundation for the study of geometry.c

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conflate

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combine, amalgamate, mix, blend, merge (bir araya getirmek, birleşik) Many people tend to … wealth with happiness, when in reality they are separate concepts

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magnanimity

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cömertlik, alicenaplık

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insulated

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izole edilmiş, yalıtılmış

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tantamount to sth

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bir şeye eş değer

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idiosyncrasy

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özel durum, yapısal özellik, kendine has özellik

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sever

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koparmak, ayırmak

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incommensurably

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kıyaslanamaz bir şekilde

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preemptive

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önleyici, baraj ( a …) attack by the army

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overt

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açık bir şekilde (… hostility)

46
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lucid

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berrak (birds dipped their wings in the … flow of air)

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cope with suffering

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acıyla başa çıkmak

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baffling

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şaşırtıcı (syn perplexing)

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strenuously

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şiddetle (he … denied any wrongdoing)

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indulgently

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anlayışlı, hoşgörülü (

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mirage

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serap

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elude

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kaçmak, kurtulmak (he managed to …) his pursuers by escaping into an alley

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construe

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yorumlamak, çözümlemek (his words could hardly be … as an apology)

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eloquence

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belagat, güzel konuşma (a preacher of great power and …)

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astray

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yoldan çıkmış, kötü yola düşmüş (we went … but a man redirected us)

56
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converge

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birleşmek (“a pair of lines of longitude are parallel at the equator but …. toward the poles”)

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inadvertently

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istemsizce (his name had been … omitted from the list)

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vestige

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relic, remnant, kalıntı, (a few strange words carved on a tree were the only …. of the lost colony of Roanoke)

59
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cry out

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exclaim, haykırmak (“I can’t stand it!” he …)

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awe

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huşu

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uplifting experience

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elevate, raise, hareketlendirici, canlandırıcı tecrübe

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rejoice

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sevinmek, keyiflenmek (…. over our unexpected victory on the soccer field)

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predicament

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çıkmaz durum, dilemma (if you had told the truth in the first place, we wouldn’t be in this ….)

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trump

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ağır basmak, önünde olmak, outweigh, overcome (Work, including after-hours gatherings and retreats, was expected to …. personal commitments and obligations)

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convergence

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yakınsama, birleşme gibi, confluence, combining, (the …. of the city’s major arteries on a single rotary)

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watershed

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milestone, climax (dönüm noktası)

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inculcate with

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bir şeyi (fikir gibi) aşılamak, imbue, infuse (dedicated teachers … young minds with a love of learning)

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ineluctably

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kaçınılmaz bir şekilde

69
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enmeshment

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(iç içe geçme, birbirine bağlanma)

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entanglement

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bir şeye dolanma, trap (many dolphins die from entanglement in fishing nets)

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oscillate

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salınmak, sallanmak bir ileri bir geri, fluctuate,

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relish

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zevk almak, keyif almak (the kind we …. in the work of our graduate students as “teachable moments”)

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coterminous

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aynı yerde olan, bitişik (coinciding, coexisting)

74
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neologize

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yeni sözcük yaratmak

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