Reader's Digest (Tumblr) Flashcards
Grate
rendelemek
- Peel and grate the potatoes.
- grated cheese
STURDY
adv. -dily
n. -diness
adj. - strong, well-made, and not easily broken;
- s.o. who is sturdy is strong, and healthy looking
- determined and not easily persuaded to change your opinions
SOLID
- Since root vegetables are sturdy, grate them
- That chair doesn’t look very sturdy.
- sturdy comfortable shoes
- a sturdy young man
- sturdy legs
- They kept up a sturdy opposition to the plan.
CRISP
adj. food that is crispy is pleasantly hard on the outside
- If they’re still too crispy for comfort, marinate them
- a piece of crispy fried bread
vinaigrette
<span><span>/vinəɡret/</span></span>
n. a mixture of oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper that you put on a salad
salad dressing
- marinate them for a half hour or longer in a vinaigrette.
to scarf
(to scarf down/up) to eat something very quickly
- n. atkı, plural scarfs or scarves
- It fills you up and elongates the meal, which prevents you from scarfing down your food.
- She scarfed down a bagel on her way to work.
to spritz
to spray small amounts of a liquid on something
spritz n. countable
SPRAY, SPRANKLE,
SQUIRT LIGHTLY
- Mix vodka with water and a few drops of liquid dish soap in a spray bottle, and spritz directly onto your target.
to numb
adv. -bly
n. -bness
to make someone unable to feel pain or feel things they are touching
UYUŞTURMAK
- (Vodka) Not only does it kill bacteria, but it can also help to numb the area.
- The cold had numbed her fingers
- the numbing effect of the drug
- He was numbed by the shock of his wife’s death
n. a part of your body that is numb is unable to feel anything, for example because you are very cold
- My fingers were so numb I could hardly write
- The anaesthetic made his whole face go numb.
- numb with shock/fear/terror etc
- I just sat there, numb with fear
dingy
n. -giness
adj. dark, dirty, and in bad condition
- If your jewels are looking dingy, try soaking them in vodka
- a dingy room
- a dingy side-street
to rinse
to wash clothes, dishes, vegetables etc quickly with water, especially running water, and without soap
- …then rinsing them with water
- Let me just rinse my hands
- Don’t forget to rinse out your swimsuit
(rinse something off/out/away etc)
also. to put colour into your hair [= dye]
also. rinse your mouth: çalkala!
gemstone
/jimsto:n/
n. gem(mücevher) ,jewel, precious stone
KIYMETLİ TAŞ
- It’s safe for diamonds and other gemstones, too
to digest
1) hazmetmek, sindirmek
- This can cause gas and bloating in the estimated one in three people who has difficulty digesting fructose
- Their stomaches can’t digest other foods properly until this age
2) özümsemek: understand and assimilate information
- Evaluating and digesting the information.
- The computer digested your labors into a form understandable by a program.
n. öz: a comilation or summary of material or information
- a digest of their findings
bloat
şişkinlik
v. to fill soft substance with gas, water; to cause to swell
digestive tract
sindirim sistemi
(tract: kanal, boru)
* But physical activity stimulates the muscles of your digestive tract, which helps move through your GI tract the food and air bubbles that make you feel bloated.
circadian
/sörkeydiyın/
adj. (sutki) of relating to (recurring naturally) or showing rhytmic behaivour with a period of 24 hours esp. a biological process.
- the body’s circadian rhythm
- Changes in your circadian rhythm throw off the hormones that help food and waste move through your gut.
festivity
- n. [plural] things such as drinking, eating, or dancing that are done to celebrate a special occasion:
kutlama
- If you’re looking for “America’s biggest birthday party,” then this is the place to be. The festivities start with…
- The festivities started with a procession through the town.
2 . [uncountable] a happy feeling that exists when people celebrate something:
- There was an air of festivity in the village.
to spill into
v. (of a number of people) to move out of somewhere quickly (+out of s.where)
dök(ül)mek
- “About half a million people from the region spill into this community of 13,000 to experience the musically choreographed display.
- The students began to spill out of the building.
spectacle
/spektikıl/ sth exhibited to view; usually sth presented to view as extraordinary, or unusual and worthy of special notice;
a reamarkable or noteworthy sight/show
- The spectacle is visible from anywhere in Addison.
to cradle
to be the place of origin of..
beşikliğini yapmak
- “A city that cradled the American Revolution and once threw wild tea parties hosts a party of a different kind today,”
n. beşik - The northeastern states cradled an American Industrial Revolution
curiosty
n. the desire to know about something
MERAK
- Margaret looked at him with curiosity.
fierce
şiddetli, kızgın
- a fierce witch had taken posession of the tower
merchandise
n. goods that are being sold
ticari mallar
- travellers bringing food and merchandise.
- A range of official Disney merchandise was on sale.
v. to try to sell goods or services using methods such as advertising
to market
- If the product is properly merchandised, it should sell very well.
savage
vahşi, barbar
- she opens the gate wide open to savage tribes from the north.
valiant
(vaillant)
brave, manful
cesur, yürekli
- the sword was th valiant Watanabi’s.
to be a credit to
+ (so/sth)
+(one’s memory)
(also) do somebody/something credit to;
to behave so well or be so successful that your family, team etc are proud of you
layık olmak
- still we have the sword, i can fight, i can be a credit to my father’s memory.
- She’s a credit to her profession.
- Your children really do you credit.
heed
to pay heed to something
to take heed of something:
to pay attention to something, especially something someone says, and seriously consider it
- So the witch paid little heed to Watanabi’s son.
- The government was taking little heed of these threats.
v. to pay attention to someone’s advice or warning.
* If she had only heeded my warnings, none of this would have happened.
splendour
n. glory
ışıltı, tantana, şaşa
- but the splendour of Watanabi’s sword blinded her.
