Deck16 Flashcards
(94 cards)
1
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Adamant
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- utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals, urgings, etc.
2.
too hard to cut, break, or pierce.
- son derece kararlı, kırılmaz
1. inflexible, rigid, uncompromising.
—Antonyms
1. flexible, easygoing, yielding.
2
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Apartheid
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- (in the Republic of South Africa) a rigid policy of segregation of the nonwhite population.
2.
any system or practice that separates people according to race, caste, etc.
3
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Asset
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- a useful and desirable thing or quality: Organizational ability is an asset.
- a single item of ownership having exchange value.
- assets,
a.
items of ownership convertible into cash; total resources of a person or business, as cash, notes and accounts receivable, securities, inventories, goodwill, fixtures, machinery, or real estate ( opposed to liabilities).
b.
Accounting . the items detailed on a balance sheet, especially in relation to liabilities and capital.
c.
all property available for the payment of debts, especially of a bankrupt or insolvent firm or person.
d.
Law . property in the hands of an heir, executor, or administrator, that is sufficient to pay the debts or legacies of a deceased person.
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Balloon
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- to swell or puff out like a balloon.
2.
to multiply or increase at a rapid rate: Membership has ballooned beyond all expectations.
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Biased
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- having or showing bias or prejudice: They gave us a biased report on immigration trends.
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Broach
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- to enlarge and finish with a broach.
2.
to mention or suggest for the first time: to broach a subject.
- delgi, bir konuyu açmak
1. introduce, propose, bring up, submit, advance.
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Chagrin
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- a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation.
- to vex by disappointment or humiliation: The rejection of his proposal chagrined him deeply.
- A feeling of embarrassment and annoyance because one has failed or been dissapointed; mortification
See shame
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Combustion
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- the act or process of burning.
- violent excitement; tumult.
- yanma, arbede
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Consternation
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- a sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion; dismay.
- Great fear or shock that makes one feel helpless or bewildered
- dehşet, hayret
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Credulity
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- willingness to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullibility.
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Deluge
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1.a great flood of water; inundation; flood.
2.
a drenching rain; downpour.
3.
anything that overwhelms like a flood: a deluge of mail.
- See flood. 3. cataclysm, catastrophe.
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Diatribe
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- a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism: repeated diatribes against the senator.
tirade, harangue.
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Dissolution
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- the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.
2.
the resulting state.
3.
the undoing or breaking of a bond, tie, union, partnership, etc.
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Ebullient
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1.overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited; exuberant: The award winner was in an ebullient mood at the dinner in her honor.
2.
bubbling up like a boiling liquid
-taşkın, içi içine sığmayan
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Endearment
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- An endearing or being endeared; affection
- A word or act expressing affection
- affection: sevgi, etkileme, şefkat
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Equipoise
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- an equal distribution of weight; even balance; equilibrium.
2.
a counterpoise., a weight or force that balances another
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Exhort
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- to urge, advise, or caution earnestly; admonish urgently.
1, 2. encourage, spur, press, goad.
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Fallacy
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- a deceptive, misleading, delusive or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.
2.
a misleading or unsound argument.
3.
deceptive, misleading, or false nature; erroneousness.
- misconception, delusion, misapprehension.
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Firebrand
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- a piece of burning wood or other material.
2.
a person who kindles strife or encourages unrest; an agitator; troublemaker.
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Forfeit
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- a fine; penalty.
2.
an act of forfeiting; forfeiture.
3.
something to which the right is lost, as for commission of a crime or misdeed, neglect of duty, or violation of a contract.
- to lose or become liable to lose, as in consequence of crime, fault, or breach of engagement.
- surrender, yield, relinquish, forgo, waive.
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Garrulous
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- excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, especially about trivial matters.
2.
wordy or diffuse: a garrulous and boring speech.
- prating, babbling. See talkative. 2. verbose, prolix.
—1. reticent, uncommunicative, taciturn, close-mouthed.
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Hack
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- to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down ): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
- to annoy or irritate
—Synonyms
1. mangle, haggle. See cut.
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Hubris
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- excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
wanton insolence or arrogance resulting from excessive pride or passion
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Impenitent
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1.not feeling regret, remorse about one’s sin or sins; obdurate.
unrepentant, uncontrite, hardened.
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**Indigent**
1. lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished.
1. necessitous, penurious, distressed.
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**Insipid**
1. without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality.
2.
without sufficient taste to be pleasing, as food or drink; bland: a rather insipid soup.
-yavan
1, 2. flat, dull, uninteresting. 2. tasteless, bland.
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**Irresolute**
1. not resolute; doubtful; infirm of purpose; vacillating.
wavering in decision, indecisive, vacillating
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**Loll**
1. to recline or lean in a relaxed, lazy, or indolent manner; lounge: to loll on a sofa.
2.
to hang loosely; droop; dangle: The dog stood in the heat with his tongue lolling out of his mouth.
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**Mendicant**
1. begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
2.
pertaining to or characteristic of a beggar.
30
**Nebulous**
1. hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused: a nebulous recollection of the meeting; a nebulous distinction between pride and conceit.
2.
cloudy or cloudlike.
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**Odious**
1. deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.
2.
highly offensive; repugnant; disgusting.
1. abominable, objectionable, despicable, execrable. See hateful. 2. loathsome, repellent, repulsive.
—1. attractive, lovable.
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**Parsimonious**
1. characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
tight, close, niggardly, miserly, illiberal, mean, penurious; avaricious, covetous. See stingy.
— generous.
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**Pertain**
1. to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
2.
to belong or be connected as a part, adjunct, possession, or attribute.
3.
to belong properly or fittingly; be appropriate.
34
**Plummet**
1 something that weighs down or depresses.
.
3. to plunge.
3. fall, dive, drop, swoop.
.
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**Pristine**
1 having its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.
2.
of or pertaining to the earliest period or state; primitive.
1. undefiled, unpolluted, untouched.
.
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**Pugnacious**
1 inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
argumentative, contentious, bellicose.
— agreeable.
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**Raucous**
1 harsh; strident; grating: raucous voices; raucous laughter.
2.
rowdy; disorderly: a raucous party.
.- yüksek ve nahoş (ses)
1. rough, jarring, raspy.
— 1. soft, mellow, dulcet.
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**Reluctant**
1 unwilling; disinclined: a reluctant candidate.
2.
struggling in opposition.
1. Reluctant, loath, averse
- willing
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**Rotund**
1 round in shape; rounded: ripe, rotund fruit.
2.
plump; fat.
3.
full-toned or sonorous: rotund speeches.
- sonorous: gür, dolgun ses
2. obese, fleshy, corpulent, stout, portly.
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**Sententious**
1 abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims: a sententious book.
2.
given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous.
3.
given to or using pithy sayings or maxims: a sententious poet.
4. expressing much in a few words
- veciz, kısa ve özlü, tumturaklı
2. preachy, didactic, sanctimonious, moralistic.
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**Solicitous**
1 anxious or concerned (usually followed by about, for, etc., or a clause): solicitous about a person's health.
2. anxiously desirous: solicitous of the esteem of others.
3. eager (usually followed by an infinitive): He was always solicitous to please.
4. careful or particular: a solicitous housekeeper.
1. mindful, regardful, attentive.
— 1. unconcerned, careless.
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**Stipulate**
1 to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for ).
.
2. to arrange expressly or specify in terms of agreement: to stipulate a price.
3. to require as an essential condition in making an agreement: Total disarmament was stipulated in the peace treaty.
4. to promise, in making an agreement.
2, 3. specify, designate, indicate, cite.
43
**Suppliant**
1 Asking humbly, supplicating, entreating
2. Expressing supplication
- yalvaran, rica eden
44
**Thrift**
1 economical management; economy; frugality.
2.
Also called thrift institution. Banking . a savings and loan association, savings bank, or credit union.
45
**Ulterior**
1 being beyond what is seen or avowed; intentionally kept concealed: ulterior motives.
2.
coming at a subsequent time or stage; future; further: ulterior action.
3.
lying beyond or outside of some specified or understood boundary; more remote: a suggestion ulterior to the purposes of the present discussion.
1. hidden, covert, undisclosed, undivulged.
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**Verisimilitude**
1 the appearance or semblance of truth; likelihood; probability: The play lacked verisimilitude.
2.
something, as an assertion, having merely the appearance of truth.
.-gerçeğe benzeme, ihtimal
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**Wax**
1 to increase in extent, quantity, intensity, power, etc.: Discord waxed at an alarming rate.
2.
(of the moon) to increase in the extent of its illuminated portion before the full moon. Compare wane ( def. 4 ) .
3.
to grow or become: He waxed angry at the insinuation.
1. extend, grow, lengthen, enlarge, dilate.
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1. utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals, urgings, etc.
2.
too hard to cut, break, or pierce.
- son derece kararlı, kırılmaz
1. inflexible, rigid, uncompromising.
—Antonyms
1. flexible, easygoing, yielding.
**Adamant**
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1. (in the Republic of South Africa) a rigid policy of segregation of the nonwhite population.
2.
any system or practice that separates people according to race, caste, etc.
**Apartheid**
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1. a useful and desirable thing or quality: Organizational ability is an asset.
2. a single item of ownership having exchange value.
3. assets,
a.
items of ownership convertible into cash; total resources of a person or business, as cash, notes and accounts receivable, securities, inventories, goodwill, fixtures, machinery, or real estate ( opposed to liabilities).
b.
Accounting . the items detailed on a balance sheet, especially in relation to liabilities and capital.
c.
all property available for the payment of debts, especially of a bankrupt or insolvent firm or person.
d.
Law . property in the hands of an heir, executor, or administrator, that is sufficient to pay the debts or legacies of a deceased person.
**Asset**
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1. to swell or puff out like a balloon.
2.
to multiply or increase at a rapid rate: Membership has ballooned beyond all expectations.
**Balloon**
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1. having or showing bias or prejudice: They gave us a biased report on immigration trends.
**Biased**
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1. to enlarge and finish with a broach.
2.
to mention or suggest for the first time: to broach a subject.
- delgi, bir konuyu açmak
1. introduce, propose, bring up, submit, advance.
**Broach**
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1. a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation.
2. to vex by disappointment or humiliation: The rejection of his proposal chagrined him deeply.
3. A feeling of embarrassment and annoyance because one has failed or been dissapointed; mortification
See shame
**Chagrin**
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1. the act or process of burning.
2. violent excitement; tumult.
- yanma, arbede
**Combustion**
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1. a sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion; dismay.
2. Great fear or shock that makes one feel helpless or bewildered
- dehşet, hayret
**Consternation**
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1. willingness to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullibility.
**Credulity**
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1.a great flood of water; inundation; flood.
2.
a drenching rain; downpour.
3.
anything that overwhelms like a flood: a deluge of mail.
1. See flood. 3. cataclysm, catastrophe.
**Deluge**
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1. a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism: repeated diatribes against the senator.
tirade, harangue.
**Diatribe**
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1. the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.
2.
the resulting state.
3.
the undoing or breaking of a bond, tie, union, partnership, etc.
**Dissolution**
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1.overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited; exuberant: The award winner was in an ebullient mood at the dinner in her honor.
2.
bubbling up like a boiling liquid
-taşkın, içi içine sığmayan
**Ebullient**
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1. An endearing or being endeared; affection
2. A word or act expressing affection
- affection: sevgi, etkileme, şefkat
**Endearment**
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1. an equal distribution of weight; even balance; equilibrium.
2.
a counterpoise., a weight or force that balances another
**Equipoise**
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1. to urge, advise, or caution earnestly; admonish urgently.
1, 2. encourage, spur, press, goad.
**Exhort**
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1. a deceptive, misleading, delusive or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.
2.
a misleading or unsound argument.
3.
deceptive, misleading, or false nature; erroneousness.
1. misconception, delusion, misapprehension.
**Fallacy**
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1. a piece of burning wood or other material.
2.
a person who kindles strife or encourages unrest; an agitator; troublemaker.
**Firebrand**
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1. a fine; penalty.
2.
an act of forfeiting; forfeiture.
3.
something to which the right is lost, as for commission of a crime or misdeed, neglect of duty, or violation of a contract.
7. to lose or become liable to lose, as in consequence of crime, fault, or breach of engagement.
7. surrender, yield, relinquish, forgo, waive.
**Forfeit**
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1. excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, especially about trivial matters.
2.
wordy or diffuse: a garrulous and boring speech.
1. prating, babbling. See talkative. 2. verbose, prolix.
—1. reticent, uncommunicative, taciturn, close-mouthed.
**Garrulous**
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1. to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down ): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
2. to annoy or irritate
—Synonyms
1. mangle, haggle. See cut.
**Hack**
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1. excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
wanton insolence or arrogance resulting from excessive pride or passion
**Hubris**
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1.not feeling regret, remorse about one's sin or sins; obdurate.
unrepentant, uncontrite, hardened.
**Impenitent**
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1. lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished.
1. necessitous, penurious, distressed.
**Indigent**
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1. without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality.
2.
without sufficient taste to be pleasing, as food or drink; bland: a rather insipid soup.
-yavan
1, 2. flat, dull, uninteresting. 2. tasteless, bland.
**Insipid**
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1. not resolute; doubtful; infirm of purpose; vacillating.
wavering in decision, indecisive, vacillating
**Irresolute**
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1. to recline or lean in a relaxed, lazy, or indolent manner; lounge: to loll on a sofa.
2.
to hang loosely; droop; dangle: The dog stood in the heat with his tongue lolling out of his mouth.
**Loll**
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1. begging; practicing begging; living on alms.
2.
pertaining to or characteristic of a beggar.
**Mendicant**
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1. hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused: a nebulous recollection of the meeting; a nebulous distinction between pride and conceit.
2.
cloudy or cloudlike.
**Nebulous**
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1. deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.
2.
highly offensive; repugnant; disgusting.
1. abominable, objectionable, despicable, execrable. See hateful. 2. loathsome, repellent, repulsive.
—1. attractive, lovable.
**Odious**
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1. characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
tight, close, niggardly, miserly, illiberal, mean, penurious; avaricious, covetous. See stingy.
— generous.
**Parsimonious**
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1. to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
2.
to belong or be connected as a part, adjunct, possession, or attribute.
3.
to belong properly or fittingly; be appropriate.
**Pertain**
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1 something that weighs down or depresses.
.
3. to plunge.
3. fall, dive, drop, swoop.
.
**Plummet**
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1 having its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.
2.
of or pertaining to the earliest period or state; primitive.
1. undefiled, unpolluted, untouched.
.
**Pristine**
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1 inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
argumentative, contentious, bellicose.
— agreeable.
**Pugnacious**
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1 harsh; strident; grating: raucous voices; raucous laughter.
2.
rowdy; disorderly: a raucous party.
.- yüksek ve nahoş (ses)
1. rough, jarring, raspy.
— 1. soft, mellow, dulcet.
**Raucous**
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1 unwilling; disinclined: a reluctant candidate.
2.
struggling in opposition.
1. Reluctant, loath, averse
- willing
**Reluctant**
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1 round in shape; rounded: ripe, rotund fruit.
2.
plump; fat.
3.
full-toned or sonorous: rotund speeches.
- sonorous: gür, dolgun ses
2. obese, fleshy, corpulent, stout, portly.
**Rotund**
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1 abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims: a sententious book.
2.
given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous.
3.
given to or using pithy sayings or maxims: a sententious poet.
4. expressing much in a few words
- veciz, kısa ve özlü, tumturaklı
2. preachy, didactic, sanctimonious, moralistic.
**Sententious**
88
1 anxious or concerned (usually followed by about, for, etc., or a clause): solicitous about a person's health.
2. anxiously desirous: solicitous of the esteem of others.
3. eager (usually followed by an infinitive): He was always solicitous to please.
4. careful or particular: a solicitous housekeeper.
1. mindful, regardful, attentive.
— 1. unconcerned, careless.
**Solicitous**
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1 to make an express demand or arrangement as a condition of agreement (often followed by for ).
.
2. to arrange expressly or specify in terms of agreement: to stipulate a price.
3. to require as an essential condition in making an agreement: Total disarmament was stipulated in the peace treaty.
4. to promise, in making an agreement.
2, 3. specify, designate, indicate, cite.
**Stipulate**
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1 Asking humbly, supplicating, entreating
2. Expressing supplication
- yalvaran, rica eden
**Suppliant**
91
1 economical management; economy; frugality.
2.
Also called thrift institution. Banking . a savings and loan association, savings bank, or credit union.
**Thrift**
92
1 being beyond what is seen or avowed; intentionally kept concealed: ulterior motives.
2.
coming at a subsequent time or stage; future; further: ulterior action.
3.
lying beyond or outside of some specified or understood boundary; more remote: a suggestion ulterior to the purposes of the present discussion.
1. hidden, covert, undisclosed, undivulged.
**Ulterior**
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1 the appearance or semblance of truth; likelihood; probability: The play lacked verisimilitude.
2.
something, as an assertion, having merely the appearance of truth.
.-gerçeğe benzeme, ihtimal
**Verisimilitude**
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1 to increase in extent, quantity, intensity, power, etc.: Discord waxed at an alarming rate.
2.
(of the moon) to increase in the extent of its illuminated portion before the full moon. Compare wane ( def. 4 ) .
3.
to grow or become: He waxed angry at the insinuation.
1. extend, grow, lengthen, enlarge, dilate.
**Wax**
