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Question 1

Grate

Answer 1

rendelemek

• Peel and grate the potatoes.
• grated cheese

Question 2

STURDY

adv. -dily
n. -diness

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

CRISP

Answer 3

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

Question 4

vinaigrette

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Answer 4

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.

Question 5

to scarf

Answer 5

(to scarf down/up) to eat something very quickly

2. 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.

Question 6

to spritz

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

to numb

adv. -bly
n. -bness

Answer 7

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

Question 8

dingy

n. -giness

Answer 8

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

Question 9

to rinse

Answer 9

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!

Question 10

gemstone

/jimsto:n/

Answer 10

n. gem(mücevher) ,jewel, precious stone

KIYMETLİ TAŞ

• It’s safe for diamonds and other gemstones, too

Question 11

to digest

Answer 11

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

Question 12

bloat

Answer 12

şişkinlik

v. to fill soft substance with gas, water; to cause to swell

Question 13

digestive tract

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

circadian

/sörkeydiyın/

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

festivity

Answer 15

1. 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.

Question 16

to spill into

Answer 16

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.

Question 17

spectacle

Answer 17

/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.

Question 18

to cradle

Answer 18

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

Question 19

curiosty

Answer 19

n. the desire to know about something

MERAK

• Margaret looked at him with curiosity.

Question 20

fierce

Answer 20

şiddetli, kızgın

• a fierce witch had taken posession of the tower

Question 21

merchandise

Answer 21

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.

Question 22

savage

Answer 22

vahşi, barbar

• she opens the gate wide open to savage tribes from the north.

Question 23

valiant

(vaillant)

Answer 23

brave, manful

cesur, yürekli

• the sword was th valiant Watanabi’s.

Question 24

to be a credit to

+ (so/sth)

+(one’s memory)

Answer 24

(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.

Question 25

heed

Answer 25

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.

Question 26

splendour

Answer 26

n. glory

ışıltı, tantana, şaşa

• but the splendour of Watanabi’s sword blinded her.