What Do You Do

Question 1

verb : SAY : B1 to say firmly that something is true, especially when other people do not believe you

ısrar/inat etmek, direnmek, diretmek

Mia ——ed that she and Carlo were just friends.

Answer 1

• insist

Question 2

adjective : If something is ——, it is real, true, or what people say it is.

hakiki, orijinal, gerçek

——— Italian food

——–ally adverb : orijinal, gerçek bir şekilde

——–ity noun : gerçek, orjinal

for the first time I was recognizing in—-ity myself.

Answer 2

• authentic

Question 3

noun : a polite word or phrase that is used to avoid saying something embarrassing or offensive

örtmece, ayıp/çirkin şeylerin daha uygun/usturuplu şekilde söylenmesi

‘Passed away’ is a ——- for ‘died’.

——-istic adjective : üstü kapalı (söz)

——–tically adverb : üstü kapalı bir şekilde

Answer 3

• euphemism

Question 4

noun : WORKPLACE : someone who works on different projects with different companies instead of being a company employee:

serbest çalışan

He started off his career working as a —— at a design firm.

Other people like —–s just have too complicated of an answer.

Answer 4

• freelancer

Question 5

noun : (SOMETHING ADDED) : formal something added or connected to a larger or more important thing:

yardımcı, tamamlayıcı, ilave, ek

I hoped I would find the computer course a useful —— to my other studies.

Answer 5

• adjunct

Question 6

adjective : heavy and solid in an ugly way:

The —– handsets looked old-fashioned as soon as they were launched.

Now I do bits of several of those things, so my —– answer to what do you do is, ‘Uh, a bunch of stuff?’“

Answer 6

clunky

Question 7

adjective : making you think a lot about a subject

düşünmeye sevkeden; düşündüren

a ——-__——- book/film

If you want to kill a conversation, try asking, “What do you do?” So says Elizabeth Spiers in a ——-__—— blog post for Medium.

Answer 7

• thought-provoking

Question 8

sosyal farkındalık

Answer 8

• social-mindedness