Deck15 Flashcards
(96 cards)
1
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Abhor
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- to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe; abominate.
- hor görmek
despise. See hate.
— love, admire.
2
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Alienate
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- to make indifferent or hostile: He has alienated his entire family.
- to turn away; transfer or divert: to alienate funds from their intended purpose.
- Law . to transfer or convey, as title, property, or other right, to another: to alienate lands.
estrange
3
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Arabesque
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- any ornament or ornamental object, as a rug or mosaic, in which flowers, foliage, fruits, vases, animals, and figures are represented in a fancifully combined pattern.
4
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Auspice
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- Usually, auspices. patronage; support; sponsorship: under the auspices of the Department of education.
2.
Often, auspices. a favorable sign or propitious circumstance.
3.
a divination or prognostication, originally from observing birds
-kehanet (kuşlara bakılarak), himaye
5
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Beatify
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- to make blissfully happy.
2.
Roman Catholic Church . to declare (a deceased person) to be among the blessed and thus entitled to specific religious honor.
6
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Blueprint
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- a detailed outline or plan of action: a blueprint for success.
7
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Calipers
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- Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
2.
any of various calibrated instruments for measuring thicknesses or distances between surfaces, usually having a screwed or sliding adjustable piece. Compare vernier caliper.
3.
thickness or depth, as of paper or a tree.
-kumpas
8
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Cling
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- to adhere closely; stick to: The wet paper clings to the glass.
2.
to hold tight, as by grasping or embracing; cleave: The children clung to each other in the dark.
3.
to be or remain close: The child clung to her mother’s side.
- clutch, grab, hug.
9
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Concave
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- curved like a segment of the interior of a circle or hollow sphere; hollow and curved. Compare convex ( def. 1 ) .
10
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Convoke
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- to call together; summon to meet or assemble.
convene.
11
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Daunt
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- to overcome with fear; intimidate: to daunt one’s adversaries.
2.
to lessen the courage of; dishearten: Don’t be daunted by the amount of work still to be done.
overawe, subdue, dismay, frighten. 2. discourage, dispirit.
—2. encourage.
12
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Depredation
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- the act of preying upon or plundering; robbery; ravage.
- yağmalama
13
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Disconcert
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- to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
2.
to throw into disorder or confusion; disarrange: He changed his mind and disconcerted everybody’s plans.
- frustrate
discompose, perplex, bewilder, abash, discomfit. See confuse.
—1. calm. 2. arrange.
14
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Dogmatic
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- of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas; doctrinal.
2.
asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner; opinionated.
15
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Elation
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- a feeling or state of great joy or pride; exultant gladness; high spirits.
16
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Ennui
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- a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom: The endless lecture produced an unbearable ennui.
- can sıkıntısı, bıkkınlık
17
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Ethereal
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1.light, airy, or tenuous: an ethereal world created through the poetic imagination.
2.
extremely delicate or refined: ethereal beauty.
3.
heavenly or celestial: gone to his ethereal home.
18
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Exscind
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- to cut out or off., extirpate
19
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Ferment
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- agitation; unrest; excitement; commotion; tumult: The new painters worked in a creative ferment. the capital lived in a political ferment.
- fermante olmak
20
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Fleeting
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- passing swiftly; vanishing quickly; transient; transitory: fleeting beauty; a fleeting glance.
- kısacık süren
passing, flitting, flying, brief, fugitive.
21
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Frantic
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- desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- marked by frenzy; resulting from wild emotion
overwrought, agitated, frenzied, distraught.
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Gouge
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- to scoop out or turn with or as if with a gouge: to gouge a channel; to gouge holes.
- to extort from, swindle, or overcharge.
- marangoz kalemi (ile oymak), değerinden daha pahalıya satmak
23
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Hedonist
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- a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
24
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Igneous
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- of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fire.
- volkanik, ateşle alakalı
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**Implicit**
1. implied, rather than expressly stated: implicit agreement.
2.
unquestioning or unreserved; absolute: implicit trust; implicit obedience; implicit confidence.
3.
potentially contained (usually followed by in ): to bring out the drama implicit in the occasion.
2. inherent, complete, total.
26
**Infertile**
1.not fertile; unproductive; sterile; barren: infertile soil.
27
**Intransigence**
1. refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.
2. a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.
- uyuşmaz, uzlaşmaz
28
**Lackluster**
1. lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
2.
lacking liveliness, vitality, spirit, or enthusiasm: a lackluster performance.
3. a lack of brilliance or vitality.
29
**Machination**
1. an act or instance of machinating.
2.
Usually, machinations. crafty schemes; plots; intrigues.
- dolap, entrika, hile
2. stratagem, device.
30
**Misconstrue**
1. to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
misread, misapprehend, misjudge.
31
**Notion**
1. a general understanding; vague or imperfect conception or idea of something: a notion of how something should be done.
2.
an opinion, view, or belief: That's his notion, not mine.
3.
conception or idea: his notion of democracy.
see idea
32
**Ostrich**
1. a person who attempts to ignore unpleasant facts or situations.
- devekuşu
33
**Peregrination**
1. travel from one place to another, especially on foot.
2.
a course of travel; journey
1, 2. trip, excursion, expedition.
34
**Pious**
1. having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for god or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
2.
characterized by a hypocritical concern with virtue or religious devotion; sanctimonious.
3.
practiced or used in the name of real or pretended religious motives, or for some ostensibly good object; falsely earnest or sincere: a pious deception.
- dindarlık, sahte dindarlık
1. devout, godly, reverent
35
**Poverty**
1.the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor; indigence.
2. deficiency of necessary or desirable ingredients, qualities, etc.: poverty of the soil.
3. scantiness; insufficiency: Their efforts to stamp out disease were hampered by a poverty of Medical supplies.
1. penury. Poverty, destitution, need, want
- 1. riches, wealth, plenty.
36
**Promulgate**
1. to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
2.
to set forth or teach publicly (a creed, doctrine, etc.).
1. announce, issue, declare. 2. advocate.
37
**Qualm**
1. an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction: He has no qualms about lying.
2. a sudden feeling of apprehensive uneasiness; misgiving: a sudden qualm about the success of the venture.
3. a sudden sensation or onset of faintness or illness, especially of nausea.
38
**Recondite**
1. dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise.
2. beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding; esoteric: recondite principles.
3. little known; obscure: a recondite fact.
39
**Repudiate**
1. to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
2. to cast off or disown: to repudiate a son.
3. to reject with disapproval or condemnation: to repudiate a new doctrine.
disavow, renounce, discard, disclaim. 3. condemn, disapprove.
—Antonyms
1. accept. 3. approve.
40
**Sanity**
1. the state of being sane; soundness of mind.
2. soundness of judgment.
- akıl sağlığı, mantıklı olma
2. reason, rationality, sensibleness, reasonableness.
41
**Shove**
1. to move along by force from behind; push.
2.
to push roughly or rudely; jostle.
3.
Slang: Often Vulgar . to go to hell with: Voters are telling Congress to shove its new tax plan.
42
**Splenetic**
1. of the spleen; splenic.
2.
irritable; peevish; spiteful.
- huysuz, aksi
2. vexatious, irascible, testy, fretful, touchy, petulant, choleric.
43
**Sublime**
1. 1. elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.: Paradise lost is sublime poetry.
2. impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or power; inspiring awe, veneration, etc.: Switzerland has sublime scenery.
3. supreme or outstanding: a sublime dinner.
4. complete; absolute; utter: sublime stupidity.
5. Noble, exalted, majestic
- muhteşem, görkemli, ulu, asil
1. exalted, noble. 2. magnificent, superb, august, grand, gorgeous, resplendent, imposing, majestic.
44
**Tamper**
1. to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with ): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
2. to make changes in something, especially in order to falsify (usually followed by with ): to tamper with official records.
3. to engage secretly or improperly in something.
- kurcalamak
1. interfere
45
**Traduce**
1. to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame: to traduce someone's character.
vilify, decry, disparage.
— praise.
46
**Upbraid**
1. to find fault with or reproach severely; censure: The military tribunal upbraided the soldier for his cowardice.
2.
(of things) to bring reproach on; serve as a reproach to.
1. reprove, blame. See reprimand.
47
**Viscid**
1.having a glutinous consistency; sticky; adhesive; viscous.
48
**Xenophobia**
1. an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange.
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1. to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe; abominate.
- hor görmek
despise. See hate.
— love, admire.
**Abhor**
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1. to make indifferent or hostile: He has alienated his entire family.
2. to turn away; transfer or divert: to alienate funds from their intended purpose.
3. Law . to transfer or convey, as title, property, or other right, to another: to alienate lands.
estrange
**Alienate**
51
1. any ornament or ornamental object, as a rug or mosaic, in which flowers, foliage, fruits, vases, animals, and figures are represented in a fancifully combined pattern.
**Arabesque**
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1. Usually, auspices. patronage; support; sponsorship: under the auspices of the Department of education.
2.
Often, auspices. a favorable sign or propitious circumstance.
3.
a divination or prognostication, originally from observing birds
-kehanet (kuşlara bakılarak), himaye
**Auspice**
53
1. to make blissfully happy.
2.
Roman Catholic Church . to declare (a deceased person) to be among the blessed and thus entitled to specific religious honor.
**Beatify**
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1. a detailed outline or plan of action: a blueprint for success.
**Blueprint**
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1. Usually, calipers. an instrument for measuring thicknesses and internal or external diameters inaccessible to a scale, consisting usually of a pair of adjustable pivoted legs.
2.
any of various calibrated instruments for measuring thicknesses or distances between surfaces, usually having a screwed or sliding adjustable piece. Compare vernier caliper.
3.
thickness or depth, as of paper or a tree.
-kumpas
**Calipers**
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1. to adhere closely; stick to: The wet paper clings to the glass.
2.
to hold tight, as by grasping or embracing; cleave: The children clung to each other in the dark.
3.
to be or remain close: The child clung to her mother's side.
2. clutch, grab, hug.
**Cling**
57
1. curved like a segment of the interior of a circle or hollow sphere; hollow and curved. Compare convex ( def. 1 ) .
**Concave**
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1. to call together; summon to meet or assemble.
convene.
**Convoke**
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1. to overcome with fear; intimidate: to daunt one's adversaries.
2.
to lessen the courage of; dishearten: Don't be daunted by the amount of work still to be done.
overawe, subdue, dismay, frighten. 2. discourage, dispirit.
—2. encourage.
**Daunt**
60
1. the act of preying upon or plundering; robbery; ravage.
- yağmalama
**Depredation**
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1. to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle: Her angry reply disconcerted me completely.
2.
to throw into disorder or confusion; disarrange: He changed his mind and disconcerted everybody's plans.
3. frustrate
discompose, perplex, bewilder, abash, discomfit. See confuse.
—1. calm. 2. arrange.
**Disconcert**
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1. of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a dogma or dogmas; doctrinal.
2.
asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner; opinionated.
**Dogmatic**
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1. a feeling or state of great joy or pride; exultant gladness; high spirits.
**Elation**
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1. a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom: The endless lecture produced an unbearable ennui.
- can sıkıntısı, bıkkınlık
**Ennui**
65
1.light, airy, or tenuous: an ethereal world created through the poetic imagination.
2.
extremely delicate or refined: ethereal beauty.
3.
heavenly or celestial: gone to his ethereal home.
**Ethereal**
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1. to cut out or off., extirpate
**Exscind**
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1. agitation; unrest; excitement; commotion; tumult: The new painters worked in a creative ferment. the capital lived in a political ferment.
- fermante olmak
**Ferment**
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1. passing swiftly; vanishing quickly; transient; transitory: fleeting beauty; a fleeting glance.
- kısacık süren
passing, flitting, flying, brief, fugitive.
**Fleeting**
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1. desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
2. marked by frenzy; resulting from wild emotion
overwrought, agitated, frenzied, distraught.
**Frantic**
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1. to scoop out or turn with or as if with a gouge: to gouge a channel; to gouge holes.
2. to extort from, swindle, or overcharge.
- marangoz kalemi (ile oymak), değerinden daha pahalıya satmak
**Gouge**
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1. a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification.
**Hedonist**
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1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fire.
- volkanik, ateşle alakalı
**Igneous**
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1. implied, rather than expressly stated: implicit agreement.
2.
unquestioning or unreserved; absolute: implicit trust; implicit obedience; implicit confidence.
3.
potentially contained (usually followed by in ): to bring out the drama implicit in the occasion.
2. inherent, complete, total.
**Implicit**
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1.not fertile; unproductive; sterile; barren: infertile soil.
**Infertile**
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1. refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.
2. a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.
- uyuşmaz, uzlaşmaz
**Intransigence**
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1. lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
2.
lacking liveliness, vitality, spirit, or enthusiasm: a lackluster performance.
3. a lack of brilliance or vitality.
**Lackluster**
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1. an act or instance of machinating.
2.
Usually, machinations. crafty schemes; plots; intrigues.
- dolap, entrika, hile
2. stratagem, device.
**Machination**
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1. to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
misread, misapprehend, misjudge.
**Misconstrue**
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1. a general understanding; vague or imperfect conception or idea of something: a notion of how something should be done.
2.
an opinion, view, or belief: That's his notion, not mine.
3.
conception or idea: his notion of democracy.
see idea
**Notion**
80
1. a person who attempts to ignore unpleasant facts or situations.
- devekuşu
**Ostrich**
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1. travel from one place to another, especially on foot.
2.
a course of travel; journey
1, 2. trip, excursion, expedition.
**Peregrination**
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1. having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for god or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
2.
characterized by a hypocritical concern with virtue or religious devotion; sanctimonious.
3.
practiced or used in the name of real or pretended religious motives, or for some ostensibly good object; falsely earnest or sincere: a pious deception.
- dindarlık, sahte dindarlık
1. devout, godly, reverent
**Pious**
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1.the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor; indigence.
2. deficiency of necessary or desirable ingredients, qualities, etc.: poverty of the soil.
3. scantiness; insufficiency: Their efforts to stamp out disease were hampered by a poverty of Medical supplies.
1. penury. Poverty, destitution, need, want
- 1. riches, wealth, plenty.
**Poverty**
84
1. to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
2.
to set forth or teach publicly (a creed, doctrine, etc.).
1. announce, issue, declare. 2. advocate.
**Promulgate**
85
1. an uneasy feeling or pang of conscience as to conduct; compunction: He has no qualms about lying.
2. a sudden feeling of apprehensive uneasiness; misgiving: a sudden qualm about the success of the venture.
3. a sudden sensation or onset of faintness or illness, especially of nausea.
**Qualm**
86
1. dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise.
2. beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding; esoteric: recondite principles.
3. little known; obscure: a recondite fact.
**Recondite**
87
1. to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
2. to cast off or disown: to repudiate a son.
3. to reject with disapproval or condemnation: to repudiate a new doctrine.
disavow, renounce, discard, disclaim. 3. condemn, disapprove.
—Antonyms
1. accept. 3. approve.
**Repudiate**
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1. the state of being sane; soundness of mind.
2. soundness of judgment.
- akıl sağlığı, mantıklı olma
2. reason, rationality, sensibleness, reasonableness.
**Sanity**
89
1. to move along by force from behind; push.
2.
to push roughly or rudely; jostle.
3.
Slang: Often Vulgar . to go to hell with: Voters are telling Congress to shove its new tax plan.
**Shove**
90
1. of the spleen; splenic.
2.
irritable; peevish; spiteful.
- huysuz, aksi
2. vexatious, irascible, testy, fretful, touchy, petulant, choleric.
**Splenetic**
91
1. 1. elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.: Paradise lost is sublime poetry.
2. impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or power; inspiring awe, veneration, etc.: Switzerland has sublime scenery.
3. supreme or outstanding: a sublime dinner.
4. complete; absolute; utter: sublime stupidity.
5. Noble, exalted, majestic
- muhteşem, görkemli, ulu, asil
1. exalted, noble. 2. magnificent, superb, august, grand, gorgeous, resplendent, imposing, majestic.
**Sublime**
92
1. to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with ): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
2. to make changes in something, especially in order to falsify (usually followed by with ): to tamper with official records.
3. to engage secretly or improperly in something.
- kurcalamak
1. interfere
**Tamper**
93
1. to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame: to traduce someone's character.
vilify, decry, disparage.
— praise.
**Traduce**
94
1. to find fault with or reproach severely; censure: The military tribunal upbraided the soldier for his cowardice.
2.
(of things) to bring reproach on; serve as a reproach to.
1. reprove, blame. See reprimand.
**Upbraid**
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1.having a glutinous consistency; sticky; adhesive; viscous.
**Viscid**
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1. an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange.
**Xenophobia**
