Deck8

Question 1

Imprecation

Answer 1

1.

the act of imprecating; cursing.
2.
a curse; malediction.

-lanet, beddua

Question 2

1.

capable of being extended or shaped by hammering or by pressure from rollers.
2.
adaptable or tractable: the malleable mind of a child.

2. impressionable, moldable, flexible, pliable.

—2. refractory, intractable.

Answer 2

Malleable

Question 3

1.

any song of praise, joy, or triumph.
2.
a hymn of invocation or thanksgiving to Apollo or some other ancient Greek deity.

Answer 3

Paean

Question 4

Abscond

Answer 4

1. to depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoid capture and legal prosecution:
3. The cashier absconded with the money

decamp, bolt.

Question 5

1.

to have recourse for use, help, or accomplishing something, often as a final available option or resource: to resort to war.
2.
to go, especially frequently or customarily: a beach to which many people resort.
–noun
3.
a place to which people frequently or generally go for relaxation or pleasure, especially one providing rest and recreation facilities for vacationers: a popular winter resort.
4.
habitual or general going, as to a place or person.
5.
use of or appeal to some person or thing for aid, satisfaction, service, etc.; resource: to have resort to force; a court of last resort.

-(son çare olarak) -e başvurmak

Answer 5

Resort

Question 6

Aver

Answer 6

1 to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.

2.Law . to allege as a fact

Question 7

Fluster

Answer 7

1.to put into a state of agitated confusion: His constant criticism flustered me.
2.
to excite and confuse with drink.

–verb (used without object)
3.
to become agitatedly confused.

–noun
4.
nervous excitement or confusion.

1. upset, bewilder, disconcert, disturb. 4. turmoil, agitation, upset, bewilderment, distraction.

Question 8

Correlate

Answer 8

1

to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income.

–verb (used without object)
2.
to have a mutual or reciprocal relation; stand in correlation: The results of the two tests correlate to a high degree.
–adjective
3.
mutually or reciprocally related.
–noun
4.
either of two related things, especially when one implies the other.

Question 9

Redemptive

Answer 9

1.

serving to redeem.
2.
of, pertaining to, or centering on redemption or salvation: redemptive religions.

-kurtarıcı

Question 10

1.

containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker’s laudatory remarks.

adulatory, complimentary, commendatory.

Answer 10

Laudatory

Question 11

Savant

Answer 11

1.

a person of profound or extensive learning; learned scholar.

-hakim, bilgin

Question 12

1.

an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns.
2.
an ecclesiastical benefice without cure of souls.

-arpalık, ense işi

Answer 12

Sinecure

Question 13

1

dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc.
2.
the quality or state of being decorous; orderliness; regularity.
3.
Usually, decorums. an observance or requirement of polite society.

politeness, manners, dignity.

Answer 13

Decorum

Question 14

Suffice

Answer 14

1.

to be enough or adequate, as for needs, purposes, etc.

Question 15

1

to make more dense or compact; reduce the volume or extent of; concentrate.
2.
to reduce to a shorter form; abridge: Condense your answer into a few words.
3.

to reduce to another and denser form, as a gas or vapor to a liquid or solid state..

compress, consolidate. 2. digest, epitomize, abstract, abbreviate.

-expand.

Answer 15

Condense

Question 16

Emanate

Answer 16

1

to flow out, issue, or proceed, as from a source or origin; come forth; originate.
2.
to send forth; emit.

1. arise, spring, flow

Question 17

1.

the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.
2.
style; vogue: the new trend in women’s apparel.
3.
the general direction followed by a road, river, coastline, or the like.

–verb (used without object)
4.
to have a general tendency, as events, conditions, etc.
5.
to tend to take a particular direction; extend in some direction indicated.
6.
to veer or turn off in a specified direction, as a river, mountain range, etc.: The river trends toward the southeast.

1. See tendency. 5. stretch, run, incline

Answer 17

Trend

Question 18

1

desiccating or drying, as a medicine.

2.

a desiccant substance or agent.

Answer 18

Desiccant

Question 19

1.
to remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate.
2.
to pull up by or as if by the roots; root up: to extirpate an unwanted hair.

Answer 19

Extirpate

Question 20

1.

serving to redeem.
2.
of, pertaining to, or centering on redemption or salvation: redemptive religions.

-kurtarıcı

Answer 20

Redemptive

Question 21

Tautology

Answer 21

1.

needless repetition of an idea, especially in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness, as in “widow woman.”
2.
an instance of such repetition.
3.
Logic .
a.
a compound propositional form all of whose instances are true, as “A or not A.”
b.
an instance of such a form, as “This candidate will win or will not win.”

Question 22

1.

a gentle, mild breeze.
2.
( initial capital letter ) Literary . the west wind.
3.
any of various things of fine, light quality, as fabric, yarn, etc.

wind

Answer 22

Zephyr

Question 23

Desiccant

Answer 23

1

desiccating or drying, as a medicine.

2.

a desiccant substance or agent.

Question 24

Belligerent

Answer 24

1

warlike; given to waging war.

2.
of warlike character; aggressively hostile; bellicose: a belligerent tone.
3.
waging war; engaged in war: a peace treaty between belligerent powers.

pugnacious, truculent, combative, quarrelsome, antagonistic, contentious.

Question 25

1. a specialized idiomatic vocabulary peculiar to a particular class or group of people, especially that of an underworld group, devised for private communication and identification: a Restoration play rich in thieves' argot. 2. the special vocabulary and idiom of a particular profession or social group: sociologists' argot.

Answer 25

**Argot**

Question 26

1. a person of profound or extensive learning; learned scholar. -hakim, bilgin

Answer 26

**Savant**

Question 27

1 to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner. 2.Law . to allege as a fact

Answer 27

**Aver**

Question 28

1. boldly courageous; brave; stout-hearted: a valiant soldier. 2. marked by or showing bravery or valor; heroic: to make a valiant effort. 3. worthy; excellent. 1. valorous, dauntless.

Answer 28

**Valiant**

Question 29

**Drowsy**

Answer 29

1 half-asleep; sleepy. 2. marked by or resulting from sleepiness. 3. dull; sluggish. 1. somnolent, dozy. 3. lethargic, listless.

Question 30

1. free from spot or stain; spotlessly clean: immaculate linen. 2. free from moral blemish or impurity; pure; undefiled. 3. free from fault or flaw; free from errors: an immaculate text. 2. irreproachable, blameless, unimpeachable, unexceptionable.

Answer 30

**Immaculate**

Question 31

**Malleable**

Answer 31

1. capable of being extended or shaped by hammering or by pressure from rollers. 2. adaptable or tractable: the malleable mind of a child. 2. impressionable, moldable, flexible, pliable. —2. refractory, intractable.

Question 32

**Moderation**

Answer 32

1. the quality of being moderate; restraint; avoidance of extremes or excesses; temperance. 2. the act of moderating. 3. moderations, British . the first public examinations at Oxford University for the B.A. degree in mathematics or in classics.

Question 33

**Laudatory**

Answer 33

1. containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks. adulatory, complimentary, commendatory.

Question 34

**Evaporate**

Answer 34

–verb (used without object) 1. to change from a liquid or solid state into vapor; pass off in vapor. 2. to give off moisture. 3. to disappear; vanish; fade: His hopes evaporated. –verb (used with object) 4. to convert into a gaseous state or vapor; drive off or extract in the form of vapor: The warm sun evaporated the dew. 5. to extract moisture or liquid from, as by heat, so as to make dry or to reduce to a denser state: to evaporate fruit. 6. to cause to disappear or fade; dissipate: His involvement in the scandal evaporated any hope he had for a political career. 1. vaporize. 3. evanesce. 5. Evaporate, dehydrate, dry

Question 35

1 hanging loosely or in disorder; unkempt: disheveled hair. 2. untidy; disarranged: a disheveled appearance. rumpled, messy, slovenly, sloppy.

Answer 35

**Disheveled**

Question 36

**Decorum**

Answer 36

1 dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc. 2. the quality or state of being decorous; orderliness; regularity. 3. Usually, decorums. an observance or requirement of polite society. politeness, manners, dignity.

Question 37

**Argot**

Answer 37

1. a specialized idiomatic vocabulary peculiar to a particular class or group of people, especially that of an underworld group, devised for private communication and identification: a Restoration play rich in thieves' argot. 2. the special vocabulary and idiom of a particular profession or social group: sociologists' argot.

Question 38

1. needless repetition of an idea, especially in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness, as in “widow woman.” 2. an instance of such repetition. 3. Logic . a. a compound propositional form all of whose instances are true, as “A or not A.” b. an instance of such a form, as “This candidate will win or will not win.”

Answer 38

**Tautology**

Question 39

1 (of speech, writing, etc.) high-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious. pompous, grandiloquent, turgid, florid, grandiose. Bombastic, flowery, pretentious, verbose

Answer 39

**Bombastic**

Question 40

–verb (used without object) 1. to change from a liquid or solid state into vapor; pass off in vapor. 2. to give off moisture. 3. to disappear; vanish; fade: His hopes evaporated. –verb (used with object) 4. to convert into a gaseous state or vapor; drive off or extract in the form of vapor: The warm sun evaporated the dew. 5. to extract moisture or liquid from, as by heat, so as to make dry or to reduce to a denser state: to evaporate fruit. 6. to cause to disappear or fade; dissipate: His involvement in the scandal evaporated any hope he had for a political career. 1. vaporize. 3. evanesce. 5. Evaporate, dehydrate, dry

Answer 40

**Evaporate**

Question 41

1. presenting favorable conditions; favorable: propitious weather. 2. indicative of favor; auspicious: propitious omens. 3. favorably inclined; disposed to bestow favors or forgive: propitious gods.

Answer 41

**Propitious**

Question 42

1. the act of imprecating; cursing. 2. a curse; malediction. -lanet, beddua

Answer 42

**Imprecation**

Question 43

**Perilous**

Answer 43

1. involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat. risky -safe

Question 44

1 to surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms. 2. to give up resistance: He finally capitulated and agreed to do the job my way. yield, acquiesce, accede, give in.

Answer 44

**Capitulate**

Question 45

**Inured**

Answer 45

1. to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to ): inured to cold. –verb (used without object) 2. to come into use; take or have effect. 3. to become beneficial or advantageous.

Question 46

**Grievous**

Answer 46

1. causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news. 2. flagrant; outrageous; atrocious: a grievous offense against morality. 3. full of or expressing grief; sorrowful: a grievous cry. 1. distressing, sad, sorrowful, painful. 2. deplorable, lamentable, calamitous, heinous, flagitious, dreadful, shameful, iniquitous. - delightful.

Question 47

1. to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to ): inured to cold. –verb (used without object) 2. to come into use; take or have effect. 3. to become beneficial or advantageous.

Answer 47

**Inured**

Question 48

**Placate**

Answer 48

1. to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry. -yatıştırmak conciliate, satisfy.

Question 49

**Coddle**

Answer 49

1 to treat tenderly; nurse or tend indulgently; pamper: to coddle children when they're sick. 2. to cook (eggs, fruit, etc.) in water that is just below the boiling point; cook gently. indulge, baby, humor, spoil.

Question 50

1. causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news. 2. flagrant; outrageous; atrocious: a grievous offense against morality. 3. full of or expressing grief; sorrowful: a grievous cry. 1. distressing, sad, sorrowful, painful. 2. deplorable, lamentable, calamitous, heinous, flagitious, dreadful, shameful, iniquitous. - delightful.

Answer 50

**Grievous**

Question 51

1. to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away ). 2. to scatter. –noun 3. extravagant or wasteful expenditure. 1. waste, dissipate, lavish. See spend. - save

Answer 51

**Squander**

Question 52

**Propitious**

Answer 52

1. presenting favorable conditions; favorable: propitious weather. 2. indicative of favor; auspicious: propitious omens. 3. favorably inclined; disposed to bestow favors or forgive: propitious gods.

Question 53

1. great warmth and earnestness of feeling: to speak with great fervor. 2. intense heat. ardor, passion, zeal.

Answer 53

**Fervor**

Question 54

**Trend**

Answer 54

1. the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events. 2. style; vogue: the new trend in women's apparel. 3. the general direction followed by a road, river, coastline, or the like. –verb (used without object) 4. to have a general tendency, as events, conditions, etc. 5. to tend to take a particular direction; extend in some direction indicated. 6. to veer or turn off in a specified direction, as a river, mountain range, etc.: The river trends toward the southeast. 1. See tendency. 5. stretch, run, incline

Question 55

**Bombastic**

Answer 55

1 (of speech, writing, etc.) high-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious. pompous, grandiloquent, turgid, florid, grandiose. Bombastic, flowery, pretentious, verbose

Question 56

1 half-asleep; sleepy. 2. marked by or resulting from sleepiness. 3. dull; sluggish. 1. somnolent, dozy. 3. lethargic, listless.

Answer 56

**Drowsy**

Question 57

**Quixotic**

Answer 57

1. ( sometimes initial capital letter ) resembling or befitting Don Quixote. 2. extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable. 3. impulsive and often rashly unpredictable. 2. fanciful, fantastic, imaginary. - 2. realistic, practical

Question 58

**Sinecure**

Answer 58

1. an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns. 2. an ecclesiastical benefice without cure of souls. -arpalık, ense işi

Question 59

1 to treat tenderly; nurse or tend indulgently; pamper: to coddle children when they're sick. 2. to cook (eggs, fruit, etc.) in water that is just below the boiling point; cook gently. indulge, baby, humor, spoil.

Answer 59

**Coddle**

Question 60

**Immaculate**

Answer 60

1. free from spot or stain; spotlessly clean: immaculate linen. 2. free from moral blemish or impurity; pure; undefiled. 3. free from fault or flaw; free from errors: an immaculate text. 2. irreproachable, blameless, unimpeachable, unexceptionable.

Question 61

1 to flow out, issue, or proceed, as from a source or origin; come forth; originate. 2. to send forth; emit. 1. arise, spring, flow

Answer 61

**Emanate**

Question 62

**Disheveled**

Answer 62

1 hanging loosely or in disorder; unkempt: disheveled hair. 2. untidy; disarranged: a disheveled appearance. rumpled, messy, slovenly, sloppy.

Question 63

1.to put into a state of agitated confusion: His constant criticism flustered me. 2. to excite and confuse with drink. –verb (used without object) 3. to become agitatedly confused. –noun 4. nervous excitement or confusion. 1. upset, bewilder, disconcert, disturb. 4. turmoil, agitation, upset, bewilderment, distraction.

Answer 63

**Fluster**

Question 64

**Extirpate**

Answer 64

1. to remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate. 2. to pull up by or as if by the roots; root up: to extirpate an unwanted hair.

Question 65

1 to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection: to correlate expenses and income. –verb (used without object) 2. to have a mutual or reciprocal relation; stand in correlation: The results of the two tests correlate to a high degree. –adjective 3. mutually or reciprocally related. –noun 4. either of two related things, especially when one implies the other.

Answer 65

**Correlate**

Question 66

1. to depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoid capture and legal prosecution: 2. 3. The cashier absconded with the money decamp, bolt.

Answer 66

**Abscond**

Question 67

1. involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat. risky -safe

Answer 67

**Perilous**

Question 68

**Ambiguous**

Answer 68

1. open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal: an ambiguous answer. 2. Linguistics . (of an expression) exhibiting constructional homonymity; having two or more structural descriptions, as the sequence Flying planes can be dangerous. 3. of doubtful or uncertain nature; difficult to comprehend, distinguish, or classify: a rock of ambiguous character equivocal, cryptic, enigmatic

Question 69

**Paean**

Answer 69

1. any song of praise, joy, or triumph. 2. a hymn of invocation or thanksgiving to Apollo or some other ancient Greek deity.

Question 70

1. to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry. -yatıştırmak conciliate, satisfy.

Answer 70

**Placate**

Question 71

**Obfuscate**

Answer 71

1. to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy. 2. to make obscure or unclear: to obfuscate a problem with extraneous information. 3. to darken. 1. muddle, perplex. 2. cloud. —1. clarify.

Question 72

1 warlike; given to waging war. 2. of warlike character; aggressively hostile; bellicose: a belligerent tone. 3. waging war; engaged in war: a peace treaty between belligerent powers. pugnacious, truculent, combative, quarrelsome, antagonistic, contentious.

Answer 72

**Belligerent**

Question 73

1. open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal: an ambiguous answer. 2. Linguistics . (of an expression) exhibiting constructional homonymity; having two or more structural descriptions, as the sequence Flying planes can be dangerous. 3. of doubtful or uncertain nature; difficult to comprehend, distinguish, or classify: a rock of ambiguous character equivocal, cryptic, enigmatic

Answer 73

**Ambiguous**

Question 74

**Resort**

Answer 74

1. to have recourse for use, help, or accomplishing something, often as a final available option or resource: to resort to war. 2. to go, especially frequently or customarily: a beach to which many people resort. –noun 3. a place to which people frequently or generally go for relaxation or pleasure, especially one providing rest and recreation facilities for vacationers: a popular winter resort. 4. habitual or general going, as to a place or person. 5. use of or appeal to some person or thing for aid, satisfaction, service, etc.; resource: to have resort to force; a court of last resort. -(son çare olarak) -e başvurmak

Question 75

1. of the nature of a precursor; preliminary; introductory: precursory remarks. 2. indicative of something to follow: precursory indications of disease.

Answer 75

**Precursory**

Question 76

**Condense**

Answer 76

1 to make more dense or compact; reduce the volume or extent of; concentrate. 2. to reduce to a shorter form; abridge: Condense your answer into a few words. 3. to reduce to another and denser form, as a gas or vapor to a liquid or solid state.. compress, consolidate. 2. digest, epitomize, abstract, abbreviate. -expand.

Question 77

1. ( sometimes initial capital letter ) resembling or befitting Don Quixote. 2. extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable. 3. impulsive and often rashly unpredictable. 2. fanciful, fantastic, imaginary. - 2. realistic, practical

Answer 77

**Quixotic**

Question 78

**Valiant**

Answer 78

1. boldly courageous; brave; stout-hearted: a valiant soldier. 2. marked by or showing bravery or valor; heroic: to make a valiant effort. 3. worthy; excellent. 1. valorous, dauntless.

Question 79

1. to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy. 2. to make obscure or unclear: to obfuscate a problem with extraneous information. 3. to darken. 1. muddle, perplex. 2. cloud. —1. clarify.

Answer 79

**Obfuscate**

Question 80

**Squander**

Answer 80

1. to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away ). 2. to scatter. –noun 3. extravagant or wasteful expenditure. 1. waste, dissipate, lavish. See spend. - save

Question 81

1. to be enough or adequate, as for needs, purposes, etc.

Answer 81

**Suffice**

Question 82

1. willfully contrary; not easily managed: to be worried about one's froward, intractable child. obstinate, willful, disobedient, fractious, wayward, unmanageable, difficult. -docile, tractable.

Answer 82

**Froward**

Question 83

**Froward**

Answer 83

1. willfully contrary; not easily managed: to be worried about one's froward, intractable child. obstinate, willful, disobedient, fractious, wayward, unmanageable, difficult. -docile, tractable.

Question 84

**Fervor**

Answer 84

1. great warmth and earnestness of feeling: to speak with great fervor. 2. intense heat. ardor, passion, zeal.

Question 85

1. the quality of being moderate; restraint; avoidance of extremes or excesses; temperance. 2. the act of moderating. 3. moderations, British . the first public examinations at Oxford University for the B.A. degree in mathematics or in classics.

Answer 85

**Moderation**

Question 86

**Capitulate**

Answer 86

1 to surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms. 2. to give up resistance: He finally capitulated and agreed to do the job my way. yield, acquiesce, accede, give in.

Question 87

**Zephyr**

Answer 87

1. a gentle, mild breeze. 2. ( initial capital letter ) Literary . the west wind. 3. any of various things of fine, light quality, as fabric, yarn, etc. wind

Question 88

**Precursory**

Answer 88

1. of the nature of a precursor; preliminary; introductory: precursory remarks. 2. indicative of something to follow: precursory indications of disease.