Deck18 Flashcards
(94 cards)
1
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Abysmal
A
- of or like an abyss; immeasurably deep or great.
2.
extremely or hopelessly bad or severe: abysmal ignorance; abysmal poverty.
-abyss: boşluk cehennem uçurum
2
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Amicable
A
- characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly; peaceable: an amicable settlement.
agreeable.
3
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Ascend
A
1.to move, climb, or go upward; mount; rise: The airplane ascended into the clouds.
2.
to slant upward.
3.
to rise to a higher point, rank, or degree; proceed from an inferior to a superior degree or level: to ascend to the presidency.
- soar. 6. See climb.
— 1, 6. descend.
4
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Avow
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1 to declare frankly or openly; own; acknowledge; confess; admit: He avowed himself an opponent of all alliances.
5
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Benefactor
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1 a person who confers a benefit; kindly helper.
2.
a person who makes a bequest or endowment, as to an institution.
- patron, supporter, sponsor, backer, protector.
6
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Brash
A
1 impertinent; impudent; tactless: a brash young man.
- hasty; rash; impetuous.
- energetic or highly spirited, especially in an irreverent way; zesty: a brash new musical.
-
- reckless, overhasty, imprudent, foolhardy, precipitate.
— 2. cautious, wary, prudent, careful.
7
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Carnal
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1 pertaining to or characterized by the flesh or the body, its passions and appetites; sensual: carnal pleasures.
2.
not spiritual; merely human; temporal; worldly: a man of secular, rather carnal, leanings.
- bodily, lustful, lecherous, lascivious, libidinous, concupiscent. Carnal, sensual, fleshly, animal
8
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Cogitate
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1 to think hard; ponder; meditate: to cogitate about a problem.
- to think about; devise: to cogitate a scheme.
- deliberate, reflect. 2. weigh.
9
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Conjoin
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1 to join together; unite; combine; associate.
10
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Countermand
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1 to revoke or cancel (a command, order, etc.).
2.
to recall or stop by a contrary order.
- a command, order, etc., revoking a previous one.
- rescind, abrogate, overrule, recall.
11
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Deference
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1 respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another.
2.
respectful or courteous regard: in deference to his wishes.
-hürmet, itaat
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Detach
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1 to unfasten and separate; disengage; disunite.
2.
Military . to send away (a regiment, ship, etc.) on a special mission.
13
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Dismal
A
1 causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.
2.
characterized by ineptness or lack of skill, competence, effectiveness, imagination, or interest; pitiful: Our team played a dismal game
- kasvetli, üzücü, iç karartıcı
2. hopeless, abysmal, dreadful.
— 1. cheerful; gay.
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Dulcet
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1 pleasant to the ear; melodious: the dulcet tones of the cello.
2.
pleasant or agreeable to the eye or the feelings; soothing.
- musical, tuneful, mellifluous, sweet-sounding.
15
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Emergence
A
1 the act or process of emerging.
2.
an outgrowth, as a prickle, on the surface of a plant.
16
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Epistle
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1 a letter, especially a formal or didactic one; written communication.
17
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Excise
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1 an internal tax or duty on certain commodities, as liquor or tobacco, levied on their manufacture, sale, or consumption within the country.
- a tax levied for a license to carry on certain employments, pursue certain sports, etc.
- to expunge, as a passage or sentence, from a text.
- to cut out or off, as a tumor.
18
Q
Extrapolate
A
1 to infer (an unknown) from something that is known; conjecture.
2.
Statistics . to estimate (the value of a variable) outside the tabulated or observed range.
19
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Fidelity
A
1 strict observance of promises, duties, etc.: a servant’s fidelity.
- faithful devotion to duty or to one’s obligations or vows, loyalty: fidelity to one’s country.
- conjugal faithfulness.
- Accuracy of a description, translation
- See loyalty. 5. precision, faithfulness, rigor, meticulousness.
— 2. disloyalty.
20
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Foment
A
1 to instigate or foster (discord, rebellion, etc.); promote the growth or development of: to foment trouble; to foment discontent.
2.
to apply warm water or medicated liquid, ointments, etc., to (the surface of the body).
- teşvik etmek, fesat çıkarmak
- incite, provoke, arouse, inflame, excite, stir up; encourage, stimulate.
- teşvik etmek, fesat çıkarmak
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Fulsome
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1 offensive to good taste, especially as being excessive; overdone or gross: fulsome praise that embarrassed her deeply; fulsome décor.
2.
disgusting; sickening; repulsive: a table heaped with fulsome mounds of greasy foods.
3.
excessively or insincerely lavish: fulsome admiration.
-aşırı, iğrenç, bıktırıcı
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Grouse
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1 to grumble; complain: I’ve never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
- gripe, fret, fuss.
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Hoax
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1 something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
- A trick or fraud esp. one meant as a practical joke
- muziplik, işletme - deception, fraud, fake, imposture, humbug.
24
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Immutable
A
1 not mutable; unchangeable; changeless.
25
**Increment**
1 something added or gained; addition; increase.
2.
profit; gain.
26
**Inimical**
1 adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful: a climate inimical to health.
2.
unfriendly; hostile: a cold, inimical gaze.
1. noxious. 2. antagonistic. See hostile.
— 2. friendly.
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**Inveterate**
1 settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like: an inveterate gambler.
2.
firmly established by long continuance, as a disease, habit, practice, feeling, etc.; chronic.
1. hardened, constant, habitual. 2. set, fixed, rooted.
28
**Legerdemain**
1 sleight of hand.
2.
trickery; deception.
3.
any artful trick.
29
**Matriculation**
1 to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
2. to admit or be admitted into a group, especially a college or university
3. entry, registering, enlisting
30
**Morose**
1 gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
2.
characterized by or expressing gloom.
-asık suratlı, huysuz
31
**Obsequious**
1 characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
2.
servilely compliant or deferential: obsequious servants.
3.
obedient; dutiful.
- dalkavuk, yağcı
1. sycophantic, flattering. 2. cringing, submissive. See servile.
32
**Pallid**
1 pale; faint or deficient in color; wan: a pallid countenance.
2.
lacking in vitality or interest: a pallid musical performance.
-solgun, benzi atmış
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**Permeate**
1 to pass into or through every part of: Bright sunshine permeated the room.
2.
to penetrate through the pores, interstices, etc., of.
3.
to be diffused through; pervade; saturate: Cynicism permeated his report.
4.
to become diffused; penetrate.
-nüfuz etmek, içine işlemek
34
**Platitude**
1 a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.
2.
the quality or state of being flat, dull, or trite: the platitude of most political oratory.
- basmakalıp, yavanlık
1. cliché, truism.
35
**Prehensile**
1 adapted for seizing, grasping, or taking hold of something: a prehensile tail.
2.
able to perceive quickly; having keen mental grasp.
3.
greedy; grasping; avaricious.
36
**Provenance**
1 place or source of origin: The provenance of the ancient manuscript has never been determined.
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**Radiant**
1 emitting rays of light; shining; bright: the radiant sun; radiant colors.
2.
bright with joy, hope, etc.: radiant smiles; a radiant future.
1. beaming, refulgent, resplendent. See bright.
— 1. dim.
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**Refulgent**
1 shining brightly; radiant; gleaming: Crystal chandeliers and gilded walls made the opera house a refulgent setting for the ball.
39
**Resuscitate**
1 to revive, especially from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
40
**Scent**
1 a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable: the scent of roses.
2.
an odor left in passing, by means of which an animal or person may be traced.
3. a trail, clue, or guide
4. an instinctive ability for finding out or detecting
5. to get a hint or liking of
41
**Slack**
1 not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
2.
negligent; careless; remiss: slack proofreading.
3.
slow, sluggish, or indolent: He is slack in answering letters.
4.
not active or busy; dull; not brisk: the slack season in an industry.
1. relaxed. 2. lazy, weak. 3. dilatory, tardy, late. 4. idle, quiet.
42
**Stentorian**
1 very loud or powerful in sound: a stentorian voice.
43
**Sumptuous**
1 entailing great expense, as from choice materials, fine work, etc.; costly: a sumptuous residence.
2.
luxuriously fine or large; lavish; splendid: a sumptuous feast.
2. magnificent, luxurious, munificent.
44
**Teetotal**
1 of or pertaining to, advocating, or pledged to total abstinence from intoxicating drink.
2.
Informal . absolute; complete.
-ağzına içki almayan
45
**Truculence**
1 fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
2.
brutally harsh; vitriolic; scathing: his truculent criticism of her work.
3.
aggressively hostile; belligerent.
1. See fierce.
— 1. amiable, gentle.
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**Vapor**
1 a visible exhalation, as fog, mist, steam, smoke, or noxious gas, diffused through or suspended in the air: the vapors rising from the bogs.
2. to cause to rise or pass off in, or as if in, vapor; vaporize.
3. to talk or act grandiloquently, pompously, or boastfully; bluster.
47
**Wag**
1 to move from side to side, forward and backward, or up and down, especially rapidly and repeatedly: a dog wagging its tail.
2.
to move (the tongue), as in idle or indiscreet chatter.
3.
to shake (a finger) at someone, as in reproach.
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1. of or like an abyss; immeasurably deep or great.
2.
extremely or hopelessly bad or severe: abysmal ignorance; abysmal poverty.
-abyss: boşluk cehennem uçurum
**Abysmal**
49
1. characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly; peaceable: an amicable settlement.
agreeable.
**Amicable**
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1.to move, climb, or go upward; mount; rise: The airplane ascended into the clouds.
2.
to slant upward.
3.
to rise to a higher point, rank, or degree; proceed from an inferior to a superior degree or level: to ascend to the presidency.
1. soar. 6. See climb.
— 1, 6. descend.
**Ascend**
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1 to declare frankly or openly; own; acknowledge; confess; admit: He avowed himself an opponent of all alliances.
**Avow**
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1 a person who confers a benefit; kindly helper.
2.
a person who makes a bequest or endowment, as to an institution.
2. patron, supporter, sponsor, backer, protector.
**Benefactor**
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1 impertinent; impudent; tactless: a brash young man.
2. hasty; rash; impetuous.
3. energetic or highly spirited, especially in an irreverent way; zesty: a brash new musical.
-
2. reckless, overhasty, imprudent, foolhardy, precipitate.
— 2. cautious, wary, prudent, careful.
**Brash**
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1 pertaining to or characterized by the flesh or the body, its passions and appetites; sensual: carnal pleasures.
2.
not spiritual; merely human; temporal; worldly: a man of secular, rather carnal, leanings.
1. bodily, lustful, lecherous, lascivious, libidinous, concupiscent. Carnal, sensual, fleshly, animal
**Carnal**
55
1 to think hard; ponder; meditate: to cogitate about a problem.
2. to think about; devise: to cogitate a scheme.
1. deliberate, reflect. 2. weigh.
**Cogitate**
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1 to join together; unite; combine; associate.
**Conjoin**
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1 to revoke or cancel (a command, order, etc.).
2.
to recall or stop by a contrary order.
3. a command, order, etc., revoking a previous one.
1. rescind, abrogate, overrule, recall.
**Countermand**
58
1 respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another.
2.
respectful or courteous regard: in deference to his wishes.
-hürmet, itaat
**Deference**
59
1 to unfasten and separate; disengage; disunite.
2.
Military . to send away (a regiment, ship, etc.) on a special mission.
**Detach**
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1 causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.
2.
characterized by ineptness or lack of skill, competence, effectiveness, imagination, or interest; pitiful: Our team played a dismal game
- kasvetli, üzücü, iç karartıcı
2. hopeless, abysmal, dreadful.
— 1. cheerful; gay.
**Dismal**
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1 pleasant to the ear; melodious: the dulcet tones of the cello.
2.
pleasant or agreeable to the eye or the feelings; soothing.
1. musical, tuneful, mellifluous, sweet-sounding.
**Dulcet**
62
1 the act or process of emerging.
2.
an outgrowth, as a prickle, on the surface of a plant.
**Emergence**
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1 a letter, especially a formal or didactic one; written communication.
**Epistle**
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1 an internal tax or duty on certain commodities, as liquor or tobacco, levied on their manufacture, sale, or consumption within the country.
2. a tax levied for a license to carry on certain employments, pursue certain sports, etc.
3. to expunge, as a passage or sentence, from a text.
4. to cut out or off, as a tumor.
**Excise**
65
1 to infer (an unknown) from something that is known; conjecture.
2.
Statistics . to estimate (the value of a variable) outside the tabulated or observed range.
**Extrapolate**
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1 strict observance of promises, duties, etc.: a servant's fidelity.
2. faithful devotion to duty or to one's obligations or vows, loyalty: fidelity to one's country.
3. conjugal faithfulness.
4. Accuracy of a description, translation
2. See loyalty. 5. precision, faithfulness, rigor, meticulousness.
— 2. disloyalty.
**Fidelity**
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1 to instigate or foster (discord, rebellion, etc.); promote the growth or development of: to foment trouble; to foment discontent.
2.
to apply warm water or medicated liquid, ointments, etc., to (the surface of the body).
- 1. teşvik etmek, fesat çıkarmak
1. incite, provoke, arouse, inflame, excite, stir up; encourage, stimulate.
**Foment**
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1 offensive to good taste, especially as being excessive; overdone or gross: fulsome praise that embarrassed her deeply; fulsome décor.
2.
disgusting; sickening; repulsive: a table heaped with fulsome mounds of greasy foods.
3.
excessively or insincerely lavish: fulsome admiration.
-aşırı, iğrenç, bıktırıcı
**Fulsome**
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1 to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
1. gripe, fret, fuss.
**Grouse**
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1 something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
2. A trick or fraud esp. one meant as a practical joke
- muziplik, işletme
1. deception, fraud, fake, imposture, humbug.
**Hoax**
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1 not mutable; unchangeable; changeless.
**Immutable**
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1 something added or gained; addition; increase.
2.
profit; gain.
**Increment**
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1 adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful: a climate inimical to health.
2.
unfriendly; hostile: a cold, inimical gaze.
1. noxious. 2. antagonistic. See hostile.
— 2. friendly.
**Inimical**
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1 settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like: an inveterate gambler.
2.
firmly established by long continuance, as a disease, habit, practice, feeling, etc.; chronic.
1. hardened, constant, habitual. 2. set, fixed, rooted.
**Inveterate**
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1 sleight of hand.
2.
trickery; deception.
3.
any artful trick.
**Legerdemain**
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1 to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
2. to admit or be admitted into a group, especially a college or university
3. entry, registering, enlisting
**Matriculation**
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1 gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
2.
characterized by or expressing gloom.
-asık suratlı, huysuz
**Morose**
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1 characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
2.
servilely compliant or deferential: obsequious servants.
3.
obedient; dutiful.
- dalkavuk, yağcı
1. sycophantic, flattering. 2. cringing, submissive. See servile.
**Obsequious**
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1 pale; faint or deficient in color; wan: a pallid countenance.
2.
lacking in vitality or interest: a pallid musical performance.
-solgun, benzi atmış
**Pallid**
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1 to pass into or through every part of: Bright sunshine permeated the room.
2.
to penetrate through the pores, interstices, etc., of.
3.
to be diffused through; pervade; saturate: Cynicism permeated his report.
4.
to become diffused; penetrate.
-nüfuz etmek, içine işlemek
**Permeate**
81
1 a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.
2.
the quality or state of being flat, dull, or trite: the platitude of most political oratory.
- basmakalıp, yavanlık
1. cliché, truism.
**Platitude**
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1 adapted for seizing, grasping, or taking hold of something: a prehensile tail.
2.
able to perceive quickly; having keen mental grasp.
3.
greedy; grasping; avaricious.
**Prehensile**
83
1 place or source of origin: The provenance of the ancient manuscript has never been determined.
**Provenance**
84
1 emitting rays of light; shining; bright: the radiant sun; radiant colors.
2.
bright with joy, hope, etc.: radiant smiles; a radiant future.
1. beaming, refulgent, resplendent. See bright.
— 1. dim.
**Radiant**
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1 shining brightly; radiant; gleaming: Crystal chandeliers and gilded walls made the opera house a refulgent setting for the ball.
**Refulgent**
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1 to revive, especially from apparent death or from unconsciousness.
**Resuscitate**
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1 a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable: the scent of roses.
2.
an odor left in passing, by means of which an animal or person may be traced.
3. a trail, clue, or guide
4. an instinctive ability for finding out or detecting
5. to get a hint or liking of
**Scent**
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1 not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
2.
negligent; careless; remiss: slack proofreading.
3.
slow, sluggish, or indolent: He is slack in answering letters.
4.
not active or busy; dull; not brisk: the slack season in an industry.
1. relaxed. 2. lazy, weak. 3. dilatory, tardy, late. 4. idle, quiet.
**Slack**
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1 very loud or powerful in sound: a stentorian voice.
**Stentorian**
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1 entailing great expense, as from choice materials, fine work, etc.; costly: a sumptuous residence.
2.
luxuriously fine or large; lavish; splendid: a sumptuous feast.
2. magnificent, luxurious, munificent.
**Sumptuous**
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1 of or pertaining to, advocating, or pledged to total abstinence from intoxicating drink.
2.
Informal . absolute; complete.
-ağzına içki almayan
**Teetotal**
92
1 fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
2.
brutally harsh; vitriolic; scathing: his truculent criticism of her work.
3.
aggressively hostile; belligerent.
1. See fierce.
— 1. amiable, gentle.
**Truculence**
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1 a visible exhalation, as fog, mist, steam, smoke, or noxious gas, diffused through or suspended in the air: the vapors rising from the bogs.
2. to cause to rise or pass off in, or as if in, vapor; vaporize.
3. to talk or act grandiloquently, pompously, or boastfully; bluster.
**Vapor**
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1 to move from side to side, forward and backward, or up and down, especially rapidly and repeatedly: a dog wagging its tail.
2.
to move (the tongue), as in idle or indiscreet chatter.
3.
to shake (a finger) at someone, as in reproach.
**Wag**
