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1: Yen:
the standard unit of money used in Japan:

She earns 400,000 yen a month as an English teacher in Tokyo.

the yen
the value of the yen, used in comparing the values of different types of money from around the world:

The yen fell/rose against (= was worth less/more compared to) the dollar today.

a strong feeling of wanting or wishing for something:

I have a yen for travelling.

a strong but often sudden and temporary desire:

That day she had a yen for pizza.

If you have a yen to do something, you have a strong desire to do it.

Mike had a yen to try cycling. [NOUN to-infinitive]
He's a natural with any kind of engine but he has an unfortunate yen for speed.

2: Yeoman:
in the past, a man who was not a servant and who owned and cultivated (= grew crops on) an area of land

In former times, a yeoman was a man who was free and not a servant, and who owned and worked on his own land.

3: Yield:
to supply or produce something positive such as a profit, an amount of food or information:

an attempt to yield increased profits
The investigation yielded some unexpected results.
Favourable weather yielded a good crop.

to give up the control of or responsibility for something, often because you have been forced to:

They were forced to yield (up) their land to the occupying forces.

Despite renewed pressure to give up the occupied territory, they will not yield.

to stop in order to allow other vehicles to go past, especially before you drive onto a bigger road:

If you're going downhill, you need to yield to bikers going uphill.

an amount of something positive, such as food or profit, that is produced or supplied:

Crop yields have risen steadily.
Yields on gas and electricity shares are consistently high.

to supply or produce something positive such as a profit, an amount of food, or information:

Some mutual funds are currently yielding 15% on new money invested.

If something yields information, it provides it:

A letter found by the FBI last week may yield new clues.

to give up the control of or responsibility for something, often because you have been forced to:

to yield power

If you yield to something, you accept that you have been defeated by it:

It’s easy to yield to the temptation to borrow a lot of money.

To yield to trafic coming from another direction is to wait and allow it to go first.

4: Yoke:
a wooden bar that is fastened over the necks of two animals, especially cattle, and connected to the vehicle or load that
they are pulling

something that connects two things or people, usually in a way that unfairly limits freedom:

the yoke of marriage

Both countries had thrown off the communist yoke.

a thing whose name you do not know or cannot remember:

What's that yoke there?

Ah, it's a great yoke.

to put a yoke on animals, especially cattle, so that they are fastened together and to a connected vehicle or load:

Two oxen yoked to a plough walked wearily up and down the field.

to combine or connect two things:

All these different political elements have somehow been yoked together to form a new alliance.

fig. Yoke can also refer to something that unfairly limits freedom:

the yoke of slavery

If you say that people are under the yoke of a bad thing or person, you mean they are forced to live in

a difficult or unhappy state because of that thing or person. [literary]

People are still suffering under the yoke of slavery. [+ of]
...a domineering comedian whose son flees to Blackpool to escape the parental yoke

If two or more people or things are yoked together, they are forced to be closely linked with each other.
The introduction attempts to yoke the pieces together. [V n together]
They want their own currency instead of being yoked into someone else's monetary system. [V  n +  to/into]
Farmers and politicians are yoked by money and votes .[be VERB-ed]

 a people able at last to throw off the yoke and to embrace freedom

5: Yokel:
a stupid or awkward person who lives in the countryside rather than a town, especially one whose appearance is in some
way strange or humorous:
He plays the country yokel in the butter ad.

a person who lives in an area far from cities, is not familiar with city ways, and is therefore considered slightly stupid

Note: This word is offensive

If you refer to someone as a yokel, you think they are uneducated and stupid because they come from the countryside.

[disapproval]

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