Deck9 Flashcards
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- soaked with liquid or moisture; saturated.
2.
heavy, lumpy, or soggy, as food that is poorly cooked.
3.
having a soaked appearance.
-sırlsıklam, dut gibi sarhoş
Sodden
- watchful; being on one’s guard against danger.
2.
arising from or characterized by caution: to give someone a wary look.
- ihtiyatlı, tedbirli
1. alert, vigilant, guarded, circumspect, prudent. See careful.
Wary
- to neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
2.
abruptly concise; curt; brusque.
- kısa öz veciz
1. succinct, compact, neat, concentrated. 1, 2. See concise.
Terse
Forerunner
- predecessor; ancestor; forebear; precursor.
2.
an omen, sign, or indication of something to follow; portent: The warm evenings were a forerunner of summer.
3.
a person who goes or is sent in advance to announce the coming of someone or something that follows; herald; harbinger.
- to close, shut, or stop up (a passage, opening, etc.).
2.
to shut in, out, or off.
obstruct, clog, block, plug.
Occlude
Facilitate
- a to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
2.
to assist the progress of (a person).
- to given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
2.
inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate: a rapacious disposition.
3.
(of animals) subsisting by the capture of living prey; predacious.
-zorbalıkla almak, açgözlü gözüdoymaz
Rapacious
Paranthesis
- to Grammar . a qualifying, explanatory, or appositive word, phrase, clause, or sentence that interrupts a syntactic construction without otherwise affecting it, having often a characteristic intonation and indicated in writing by commas, parentheses, or dashes, as in William Smith—you must know him—is coming tonight.
Insensible
- incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.
2.
without or not subject to a particular feeling or sensation: insensible to shame; insensible to the cold.
3.
unaware; unconscious; inappreciative: We are not insensible of your kindness.
-hissizlik, duyarsızlık
apathetic, unfeeling, indifferent, cool; dull, passionless, emotionless, torpid.
- incapable of feeling or perceiving; deprived of sensation; unconscious, as a person after a violent blow.
2.
without or not subject to a particular feeling or sensation: insensible to shame; insensible to the cold.
3.
unaware; unconscious; inappreciative: We are not insensible of your kindness.
-hissizlik, duyarsızlık
apathetic, unfeeling, indifferent, cool; dull, passionless, emotionless, torpid.
Insensible
- to of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
2.
having an agreeable or pleasing personality; affable; amiable; sociable.
-yakışıklıi güzel , canayakın
Personable
Antidote
- a medicine or other remedy for counteracting the effects of poison, disease, etc.
2.
something that prevents or counteracts injurious or unwanted effects: Good Jobs are the best antidote to teenage crime.
–verb (used with object)
3.
to counteract with an antidote: Medication was given to antidote the poison the child had swallowed.
- a a damaging or derogatory remark or criticism; slander: casting aspersions on a campaign rival.
2.
the act of slandering; vilification; defamation; calumniation; derogation: Such vehement aspersions cannot be ignored.
3.
the act of sprinkling, as in baptism.
-iftira çamur karalama
censure, reproach.
Aspersion
- to to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
2.
to give a pull at; grasp: to pluck someone’s sleeve.
3.
to pull with sudden force or with a jerk.
the heart, liver, and lungs, especially of an animal used for food.
12.
courage or resolution in the face of difficulties.
- meyve vs toplamak, yolmak, çekmek
2. tug. 3. yank, tear, rip. 12. bravery, boldness, determination, mettle, nerve.
Pluck
- to walk telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
2.
false or untrue: a mendacious report.
-veracious.
Mendacious
- a to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
2.
to assist the progress of (a person).
Facilitate
Colloquial
- characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal.
2.
involving or using conversation.
-argolu, halk dilinde
1, 2. Colloquial, conversational, informal
-formal
Hortatory
- urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging: a hortatory speech.
- öğüt veren, teşvik edici
- to to cut or lop off (twigs, branches, or roots).
2.
to cut or lop superfluous or undesired twigs, branches, or roots from; trim.
3.
to rid or clear of (anything superfluous or undesirable).
-budamak
Prune
Earthenware
- pottery of baked or hardened clay, especially any of the coarse, opaque varieties.
2.
clay for making such pottery.
-toprak işi, toprak
Dissent
- to differ in sentiment or opinion, especially from the majority; withhold assent; disagree (often followed by from ): Two of the justices dissented from the majority decision.
2.
to disagree with the methods, goals, etc., of a political party or government; take an opposing view.
3.
to disagree with or reject the doctrines or authority of an established church.
disagreement, dissatisfaction, opposition
Aspersion
- a a damaging or derogatory remark or criticism; slander: casting aspersions on a campaign rival.
2.
the act of slandering; vilification; defamation; calumniation; derogation: Such vehement aspersions cannot be ignored.
3.
the act of sprinkling, as in baptism.
-iftira çamur karalama
censure, reproach.
Census
- an official enumeration of the population, with details as to age, sex, occupation, etc.
2.
(in ancient Rome) the registration of citizens and their property, for purposes of taxation.
3.
to take a census of (a country, city, etc.): The entire nation is censused every 10 years.
- a to provide or supply with something ornamental; adorn; decorate.
2. to provide (a food) with something that adds flavor, decorative color, etc.: to garnish boiled potatoes with chopped parsley.
4.something placed around or on a food or in a beverage to add flavor, decorative color, etc.
5.
adornment or decoration.
- embellish, ornament, beautify, trim, bedeck, bedizen, set off, enhance. 5. ornament; garniture.
Garnish