Vocabulary Set 63

Target Vocabulary:
Bu bölümde öğrenmenizi hedeflediğimiz ‘’hedef kelimeler’’.

utterly: completely – used especially to emphasize that something is very bad, or that a feeling is
very strong

 tamamen, tümüyle
 You look utterly miserable.
 Without their help it would have been utterly impossible to arrange the conference.

expectation: the feeling that good things are going to happen in the future

 beklenti
 I have high expectations from you.
 We did so well - beyond all (= better than) our expectations.

junction: a place where one road, track etc joins another

 kavşak
 I live in a block of flats at the junction of Cambridge Road and Kilburn High Street.

regarding: a word used especially in letters or speeches to introduce the subject you are writing or
talking about

 ile ilgili olarak, -e gelecek olursak, konusunda, ilişkin

 He wrote to me last week regarding a business proposition he thought might interest me.
 Regarding your proposal, sorry but we won’t take it.

patch: 1. to repair a hole in something by putting a piece of something else over it

 yama yapmak
 I'll have to patch your jeans - they're ripped at the knee.

2. a small computer program that can be added to an existing program in order to make the
existing program work as it should

 yama (pc programları için)

 I downloaded a patch from their website.

faint: to suddenly become unconscious for a short time, usually falling down

 bayılmak
 He faints at the sight of blood.

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even so: used to introduce something that is true although it is different from something that you
have just said

 öyle olsa bile, yine de

 I know he’s only a child, but even so he should have known that what he was doing was
wrong.
 She knew that he had cheated on her, but even so she married with him.

lecture: a long talk on a particular subject that someone gives to a group of people, especially to
students in a university

 ders
 Have you been to any of Professor Kaya’s lectures?
 Professor Blair is giving a series of lectures on Einstein's theories.

2. to talk angrily or seriously to someone in order to criticize or warn them, in a way that they think
is unfair or unnecessary

 öğüt vermek, nutuk çekmek (gereksiz bir şekilde)

 I wish you’d stop lecturing me!
 I asked for a lighter and the old man started to lecture me about harms of smoking. He was
smoking one himself!

A) Exercise: Öğren!
Fill in the blanks with the target words!

utterly x2 expectation x2 junction

regarding patch faint
even so lecture x2 introduce

1. Her comments about men are _________________ ridiculous. She is just trying to comfort
herself because her boyfriend left her.
2. I had a terrible headache, but ________________ I went to the concer
3. I have a question _________________ your last statement.
4. My parents try to __________________ me on how to behave when people come over to
our house. It’s so annoying because I am 25 years old!
5. If you want to use MS Office in Turkish, you need download a _________________ from their
website. It comes in English as default.
6. Be careful when you drive through uncontrolled _________________, there might be a car
coming from every side.

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 7. Most students spend about a quarter of their time listening to __________________.
8. Contrary to all our ___________________, he's found a well-paid job and a nice girlfriend.
9. It was so crowded and hot there, I was going to ________________, so I went outside to get
some fresh air.
10. She was ___________________ devastated when her husband died.
11. Considering his grades, there is little ____________________ of his getting into medical
school.

B) Match the Words! Pekiştir!

utterly expectation junction

regarding patch faint

even so lecture

1) _________________: to talk angrily or seriously to someone in order to criticize or warn

them, in a way that they think is unfair or unnecessary
2) _________________: to suddenly become unconscious for a short time, usually falling down
3) _________________: a word used especially in letters or speeches to introduce the subject
you are writing or talking about
4) _________________: the feeling that good things are going to happen in the future
5) _________________: to repair a hole in something by putting a piece of something else over
it
6) _________________: used to introduce something that is true although it is different from
something that you have just said
7) _________________: a small computer program that can be added to an existing program in
order to make the existing program work as it should
8) _________________: a place where one road, track etc. joins another
9) _________________: a long talk on a particular subject that someone gives to a group of
people, especially to students in a university
10) _________________: completely – used especially to emphasize that something is very bad,
or that a feeling is very strong

C) Write a sentence of your own for each of the words you’ve just learned! ++ Write
Turkish meanings of the words. – Uzmanlaş!

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- Öğrendiğiniz kelimelerin Türkçe karşılıklarını hiçbir yere bakmadan yazın, daha sonra bu
kelimelerle en az 1 tane örnek cümle yazın. (Verilen her anlam için bir örnek)

expectation: _______________________________________________________________________.

regarding: _________________________________________________________________________.

even so: ___________________________________________________________________________.

faint: _____________________________________________________________________________.

lecture: ___________________________________________________________________________.

junction: __________________________________________________________________________.

patch: ____________________________________________________________________________.

utterly: ___________________________________________________________________________.

CEVAP ANAHTARI:

A: utterly, even so, regarding, lecture, patch, junctions, lectures, expectations, faint, utterly,
expectation

B: lecture, faint, regarding, expectation, patch, even so, patch, junction, lecture, utterly

C: Kendi cümleleriniz + kelimelerin anlamlarını en üstten kontrol edebilirsiniz.

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