Advanced Set 50

Target Vocabulary:

Bu bölümde öğrenmenizi hedeflediğimiz ‘’hedef kelimeler’’.

destiny: a predetermined state; fate.

 kader
 Max considered it his destiny to die poor and alone.
 Nancy wondered whether it was her destiny to live in England and marry Melvyn.
 To Governments Democracy is the right of people to participate in running and determining
their own destiny.

diminish: to make smaller or less or to cause to appear so.

 azaltmak, eksiltmek, önemini azaltmak

 Max laughed at Mary's award and tried to diminish the award's importance.
 What he did has seriously diminished him in many people's eyes.
 The inaccuracy of the missiles greatly diminishes their effectiveness.

query: to ask, inquire.

 sorguya çekmek, sorgulamak

 The police officer queried the drivers involved in the accident.
 She queried whether three months was long enough.

debacle: a complete failure, especially because of bad planning and organization

 fiyasko, bozgun, çöküş

 By most accounts, the war in Iraq has been a tremendous debacle.
 The collapse of the company was described as the greatest financial debacle in US history.

lucid: clearly expressed and easy to understand, or (of a person) thinking or speaking clearly

 anlaşılır, net, şefffaf, bilinci yerinde

 His style of writing was very clear and lucid.
 She gave a clear and lucid account of her plans for the company's future.
 The drugs she's taking make her drowsy and confused, but there are times when she's quite
lucid.

patron: a customer

 müşteri
 Some of the patrons complained to the waiter about the quality of the food.

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  This car park is for patrons only.
 I have a regular patron who eats meatloaf at the same time every day.

savor: to enjoy or appreciate the taste or smell of something.

 tadını çıkarmak
 Homer savored every bite of the chocolate donut.
 She sipped her wine, savoring every drop.

vocation: a type of work that you feel you are suited to doing and to which you should give all your
time and energy, or the feeling that a type of work suits you in this way

 iş, hizmet, eğilim (bir işe), çaba-emek isteyen veya kişiye uyan iş
 It is important to choose a vocation that you enjoy.
 Most teachers regard their profession as a vocation, not just a job.
 Jan has a vocation for teaching.

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

vocation diminish query

debacle lucid patron
savor destiny

1. Launched with so much promise, hope, and cash, the pulp mill venture turned into a
____________________ and nobody wants take the responsibility of it.
2. He wasn't very _____________________, he didn't quite know where he was.
3. Investors can diversify their holdings in order to ___________________ risk.
4. To work in medicine, you should have a ______________________ for it. If you don’t have it,
you can’t handle the stress, blood, deaths, injuries etc.
5. He wanted to _____________________ his time with Henrietta and their grown children.
6. Because Laura is an avid reader, she is a frequent ____________________ at my bookstore.
7. Charles Keating, once a successful Phoenix property developer, has become the bankrupt
symbol of the multi-billion dollar savings-and-loan _____________________.
8. Both of them had the ability to present complex matters in a clear and
___________________ way.

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 9. I don't want to _____________________ her achievements, but she had a lot of help from
other people.
10. _____________________ determines who comes into our lives but it's the heart that decides
who stays inside.
11. He was eating Baklava for the first time; he enjoyed it so much that he wanted to
___________________ every bit of it.
12. Lawyers ______________________ Ann about where she was and what she wore that day.
13. The choices we make, and the chances we take, define our __________________.
14. The bar owner has the right to refuse to sell alcohol to a drunk ___________________.

B) Match the Words! Pekiştir!

vocation diminish query

debacle lucid patron

savor destiny

1) _________________:to enjoy or appreciate the taste or smell of something.

2) _________________:to ask, inquire.
3) _________________:clearly expressed and easy to understand, or (of a person) thinking or
speaking clearly
4) _________________:a type of work that you feel you are suited to doing and to which you
should give all your time and energy, or the feeling that a type of work suits you in this way
5) _________________:a customer
6) _________________:to make smaller or less or to cause to appear so.
7) _________________:a complete failure, especially because of bad planning and organization
8) _________________:a predetermined state; fate.

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

- 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)

debacle: __________________________________________________________________________.

savor: ____________________________________________________________________________.

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patron: ___________________________________________________________________________.

diminish: __________________________________________________________________________.

lucid: _____________________________________________________________________________.

vocation: __________________________________________________________________________.

query: ____________________________________________________________________________.

destiny: ___________________________________________________________________________.

CEVAP ANAHTARI:

A: debacle, lucid, diminish, vocation, savor, patron, debacle, lucid, diminish, destiny, savor, queried,
destiny, patron

B: savor, query, lucid, vocation, patron, diminish, debacle, destiny

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

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