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YÖKDİL Social Vocabulary List: 341 Words with Definitions

YÖKDİL is Türkiye's higher-education English exam, sat by academics and postgraduate applicants, and it is split into three fields. This is the Sosyal Bilimler (Social Sciences) field: history, society, economics, education, law and culture. Words were taken from recent YÖKDİL social-science papers, so it is a curated practice pool rather than an official ÖSYM list.

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Academic Related to schools, universities, or study. Play ▶
Access The ability or right to enter, use, or obtain something. Play ▶
Achieve To succeed in doing something after effort. Play ▶
Acquire To get or buy something. Play ▶
Administer To manage or organize the work of a company or system.To give medicine or treatment to someone. Play ▶
Adopt Legally take another person into a family as a child. Play ▶
Aesthetic Related to beauty and the way things look. Play ▶
Affair An event or situation that people are concerned about. Play ▶
Affect To cause a change in someone or something. Play ▶
Agency A business that arranges services for others. Play ▶
Agenda A list of subjects to discuss at a meeting. Play ▶
Ambiguous Having more than one possible meaning. Play ▶
Analysis The careful study of something to understand how it works. Play ▶
Ancestor A family member who lived before your grandparents. Play ▶
Ancient Belonging to the very distant past. Play ▶
Answer A thing said, written, or done to deal with a question.To respond to a question. Play ▶
Approach A particular way of dealing with a problem or task.To move closer to someone or something. Play ▶
Arbitrary Chosen without a clear reason or fair rule. Play ▶
Archive A collection of old records kept for future use. Play ▶
Area A part of a town, a country, or the world.A subject or field of study or work. Play ▶
Article A piece of writing in a newspaper, magazine, or website. Play ▶
Artist A person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination. Play ▶
Aspect One part of a situation or subject. Play ▶
Assess To judge how serious, big, or important something is. Play ▶
Assist To help someone do something. Play ▶
Assume To believe something is true without being certain. Play ▶
Authentic Real and from the source it claims to come from. Play ▶
Author A person who writes a book or other text. Play ▶
Authority The power to give orders and make others obey.An official group that controls a public service. Play ▶
Available Able to be used, bought, or found.Free to talk or meet because you are not busy. Play ▶
Ballot A system of voting, usually in secret. Play ▶
Battle A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war.An energetic attempt to achieve something. Play ▶
Behave To act in a particular way. Play ▶
Belief A feeling that something is true or real.Something that you believe. Play ▶
Believe To accept that something is true. Play ▶
Benefit An advantage or profit gained from something.Receive an advantage. Play ▶
Bias An unfair preference for one person or side. Play ▶
Budget An estimate of income and expenditure.Provided at a low price. Play ▶
Bureau An office or department that provides a service. Play ▶
Burial The act of putting a dead body in the ground. Play ▶
Capital The city where a country's government is based. Play ▶
Category A group of things with shared features. Play ▶
Century A period of one hundred years. Play ▶
Chance A possibility of something happening.An opportunity to do something. Play ▶
Change Make or become different.Coins as opposed to paper currency. Play ▶
Chapter One of the main parts that a book is divided into. Play ▶
Charity An organization that helps people in need. Play ▶
Child A young person of either sex.A human offspring (son or daughter) of any age. Play ▶
Church A building where Christians go to pray.A group of people with the same religious beliefs. Play ▶
Cinema A medium that disseminates moving pictures.A theater where films are shown. Play ▶
Circle A round plane figure.To move all the way around something. Play ▶
Citizen A person who legally belongs to a country. Play ▶
Civil Relating to ordinary people, not the army.Polite and friendly to other people. Play ▶
Clarify To explain something so it is easier to understand. Play ▶
Class A group of things that are similar.A group of students taught together. Play ▶
Coherent Clear and easy to understand because the parts fit together. Play ▶
Colony A country or area controlled by another country.A group of animals or insects living together. Play ▶
Comedy A film, play, or show that makes people laugh. Play ▶
Commission An official group of people given a particular job to do.Money paid to a seller for each item they sell. Play ▶
Common Occurring, found, or done often.Shared by, coming from, or done by more than one. Play ▶
Community All the people who live in a particular area or town. Play ▶
Company A business that sells goods or services. Play ▶
Complex Having many connected parts that are hard to understand. Play ▶
Compute To calculate an amount or number. Play ▶
Concept A general idea about what something is or how it works. Play ▶
Conclude To decide something is true after thinking about the facts.To end something, such as a speech or meeting. Play ▶
Conduct To organize and carry out an activity, such as a survey.To direct a group of musicians as they play. Play ▶
Conflict A serious disagreement or struggle. Play ▶
Conform To behave according to a group's rules or expectations. Play ▶
Consist To be made up of certain parts or things. Play ▶
Constitute To make up a whole, together with other parts.To be seen as or count as something, such as a crime. Play ▶
Construct To build something such as a house, road, or bridge.To create an argument, theory, or sentence carefully. Play ▶
Consume To use up fuel, energy, time, or other supplies.To eat or drink something. Play ▶
Context The situation that helps explain an event or idea. Play ▶
Contract A written legal agreement between two or more people. Play ▶
County An area of a state or nation that has its own local government.The largest administrative district in many places. Play ▶
Couple Two individuals of the same sort considered together.Two people who are married or in a relationship. Play ▶
Create Make or cause to be or to become.Bring into existence. Play ▶
Credit An arrangement to buy things now and pay later.Praise for something you have done well. Play ▶
Crime An action that is against the law.Something very bad or wrong. Play ▶
Crisis A time of serious trouble or danger. Play ▶
Crowd A large group of people together in one place.To stand very close together. Play ▶
Culture The beliefs, customs, and way of life of a group. Play ▶
Custom Something people in a place usually do. Play ▶
Data Facts and numbers collected to be studied or used. Play ▶
Debate A formal discussion where people argue different opinions.To think carefully about different choices. Play ▶
Decade A period of ten years.A group, set, or series of ten. Play ▶
Deficit The amount by which spending is greater than income. Play ▶
Define To explain exactly what a word means.To show what something is. Play ▶
Delegate To give part of your work or authority to someone else. Play ▶
Depict To show someone or something in a picture. Play ▶
Derive To get something from a particular source. Play ▶
Design A plan showing how something will look or work. Play ▶
Dilemma A difficult choice between options that each have problems. Play ▶
Distinct Clearly different from something else. Play ▶
Distribute To give things out to a number of people. Play ▶
Diverse Including many different types. Play ▶
Dollar A unit of money used in the United States and some other countries. Play ▶
Dominant More powerful or important than others. Play ▶
Drama A play for the theater, radio, or television. Play ▶
Economy The system of trade, industry, and money in a country.The cheapest class of seats on a plane. Play ▶
Elders People who are older than you. Play ▶
Elect To choose someone by voting. Play ▶
Element One part of something larger. Play ▶
Eligible Allowed to do or receive something under the rules. Play ▶
Emblem A design or object that represents a group or idea. Play ▶
Embody To be a clear example of a quality or idea. Play ▶
Emphasis Special importance given to one part of something. Play ▶
Empire A large group of countries ruled by one person or country.A kingdom with an emperor. Play ▶
Employ To pay someone to work for you.To use something. Play ▶
Equation A mathematical statement showing that two amounts are equal. Play ▶
Essay A short piece of writing on a particular subject.An attempt to do something. Play ▶
Establish To start a company, organization, or system that will last.To find out or prove the facts about something. Play ▶
Estate All the money and property owned by a person.A large area of land in the country. Play ▶
Estimate A rough calculation of an amount or cost. Play ▶
Ethical Related to ideas about right and wrong. Play ▶
Ethics Ideas about what is right and wrong behavior.The study of right and wrong. Play ▶
Ethnic Related to a group with a shared culture, language, or history. Play ▶
Evaluate To study something carefully and decide how useful it is. Play ▶
Event Something important that happens.A planned public or social occasion. Play ▶
Evident Easy to see or understand. Play ▶
Exile The state of being forced to live outside your country. Play ▶
Explicit Stated clearly and directly. Play ▶
Export To send goods to another country to sell them.A product sold to a different country. Play ▶
Faction A smaller group within a larger one that has different aims. Play ▶
Factor One of the things that causes something to happen.A number that divides into another number smoothly. Play ▶
Faith Strong belief in a religion or God.Complete trust in someone or something. Play ▶
Fallacy An idea that seems true but is based on faulty thinking. Play ▶
Family People who are related to each other. Play ▶
Farmer A person who grows crops or raises animals for a living.A person who works in agriculture. Play ▶
Father A man in relation to his natural child or children.To bring a basic idea into being. Play ▶
Feature An important or noticeable part of something. Play ▶
Federal Relating to the central government of a group of states. Play ▶
Female Belonging to the sex that can have babies.A woman or girl. Play ▶
Fiction Stories about people and events that are imagined. Play ▶
Final Coming at the end; last.The last game in a competition, which decides the winner. Play ▶
Finance The management of large amounts of money.To provide the money needed for something. Play ▶
Focus To give all your attention to one thing.The main point of interest. Play ▶
Formula A rule in math or science written with letters and symbols.A fixed method for reaching a certain result. Play ▶
Freedom The ability to act or choose without unfair control. Play ▶
Friend Someone you know well and like. Play ▶
Function The purpose or job that something has.To work or operate in the correct way. Play ▶
Gender Being a man, a woman, or another identity. Play ▶
Govern To rule or control a country. Play ▶
Grades Scores or marks given in school. Play ▶
Grievance A complaint about unfair treatment. Play ▶
Harmony A peaceful state in which people agree and get along. Play ▶
Heritage Traditions, buildings, and beliefs passed down from the past. Play ▶
Hierarchy A system that ranks people or things from highest to lowest. Play ▶
History Events that happened in the past. Play ▶
Honor Respect given to someone who is admired. Play ▶
Humans People, including adults and children. Play ▶
Identify To recognize and name who or what someone or something is. Play ▶
Ideology A set of beliefs about how society should work. Play ▶
Impact The strong effect that something has. Play ▶
Implicit Understood even though it is not stated directly. Play ▶
Imply To suggest something without saying it directly. Play ▶
Incentive Something that encourages a person to act. Play ▶
Income Money that you earn from your job. Play ▶
Indicate To show that something is true or likely.To point to something with your finger or hand. Play ▶
Individual One person, considered apart from a group.Relating to one person or thing, not to a group. Play ▶
Inherent Existing as a natural part of something. Play ▶
Injury Harm or damage to your body. Play ▶
Inquiry A request for information. Play ▶
Insight A clear and deep understanding of something. Play ▶
Institute An organization set up for study, research, or teaching. Play ▶
Integrate To combine separate parts into one working whole. Play ▶
Interpret To explain the meaning of something. Play ▶
Invest To put money into something, hoping to earn more. Play ▶
Involve To include something as a necessary part.To make someone take part in something. Play ▶
Issue An important topic that people discuss or argue about.To officially give or supply something, such as a passport. Play ▶
Item A single thing in a collection or list. Play ▶
Jargon Special words used by people in a particular job or subject. Play ▶
Journal A personal written record of experiences and thoughts. Play ▶
Judicial Related to courts and judges. Play ▶
Junior Younger or having a lower position. Play ▶
Justice Fair treatment according to what is right. Play ▶
Labor Work that requires physical or mental effort. Play ▶
Lawyer A person trained to give advice about the law. Play ▶
Leader The person who guides or commands a group.The principal player in a music group. Play ▶
Learn Gain knowledge or skills.Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally. Play ▶
Legal Allowed by the laws of a country.Relating to the law or to lawyers. Play ▶
Legend A traditional story passed down through generations. Play ▶
Legislate To make or pass laws. Play ▶
Legitimate Allowed by law or accepted rules. Play ▶
Lesson An amount of teaching given at one time.An experience that serves as a warning. Play ▶
Letter A character representing sounds in speech.A written or printed communication. Play ▶
Liberal Willing to accept different opinions and ways of living. Play ▶
Liberty The freedom to live and act without unfair control. Play ▶
Literal Using the exact, ordinary meaning of a word. Play ▶
Local Belonging to the area near where you are. Play ▶
Maintain To keep something in good condition. Play ▶
Major Very important or large in size or effect. Play ▶
Market A place where people buy and sell things. Play ▶
Medieval Related to the period in Europe between ancient and modern times. Play ▶
Member An individual belonging to a group.A part of the body, especially a limb. Play ▶
Metaphor A way of describing one thing as another to show a shared quality. Play ▶
Method A particular way of doing something. Play ▶
Militant Ready to fight strongly for a cause. Play ▶
Money What you use to pay for things. Play ▶
Monopoly Complete control of a market by one seller. Play ▶
Moral Related to ideas of right and wrong. Play ▶
Mother A woman in relation to her child or children.Give birth to. Play ▶
Museum A building where you can look at old, interesting, or beautiful things. Play ▶
Music Pleasant sounds made by singing or playing instruments.The written notes that show players what to sing or play. Play ▶
Mutual Shared by two or more people. Play ▶
Narrative A spoken or written account of events. Play ▶
Nation A large group of people living in the same country.The people who live in a country. Play ▶
Native Born in a particular place or country. Play ▶
Normal Usual or expected in a particular situation. Play ▶
Nostalgia A warm, sometimes sad feeling about the past. Play ▶
Notion An idea or belief about something. Play ▶
Novel A long written story about imagined people and events. Play ▶
Obtain To get something you want or need. Play ▶
Occupation The work a person does for a living. Play ▶
Occur Happen or take place as an event. Play ▶
Office A room or building where people work at desks.An important job in a government. Play ▶
Origin The place or time where something begins. Play ▶
Owner A person who something belongs to. Play ▶
Paradox A statement that seems to contradict itself but may be true. Play ▶
Parent A mother or a father.To take care of a child as they grow up. Play ▶
Party An organization to gain political power.A group of people gathered together for pleasure. Play ▶
Patron A customer of a shop, restaurant, or other business. Play ▶
Payment Money given to pay for something. Play ▶
Peace A time when there is no war or fighting. Play ▶
Perceive To notice something through your senses. Play ▶
Percent One part in every hundred, shown by the sign %. Play ▶
Period A length of time. Play ▶
Person A human being. Play ▶
Pervasive Present or spreading throughout an area or group. Play ▶
Phenomenon Something that happens and can be observed or studied. Play ▶
Poetry Writing that uses rhythm and carefully chosen words to express feelings. Play ▶
Police The people whose job is to stop crime and keep people safe. Play ▶
Policy A plan or set of rules used to guide decisions. Play ▶
Politic Showing good judgement in a difficult situation. Play ▶
Positive Hopeful and confident about the future.Showing that a disease or substance is present in a test. Play ▶
Potential The possibility of developing or succeeding in the future. Play ▶
Pragmatic Focused on what works in practice. Play ▶
Prejudice An unfair opinion formed without enough knowledge. Play ▶
Prevalent Common in a particular place or group. Play ▶
Previous Happening or existing before the one now. Play ▶
Primary Main or most important.Relating to education for children aged about 5 to 11. Play ▶
Primitive Belonging to an early stage of development. Play ▶
Principle A basic idea or rule that explains how something works.A belief about what is right that guides your behavior. Play ▶
Priority Something that should be dealt with before other things. Play ▶
Prison A place where people are kept as punishment for a crime. Play ▶
Proceed To continue after a pause. Play ▶
Process A series of steps taken to reach a result.To deal with information, documents, or requests. Play ▶
Profit Money left after a business has paid its costs. Play ▶
Prove To show that something is true using facts. Play ▶
Psychology The scientific study of the mind and behaviour. Play ▶
Public All the ordinary people in a country or town.Open to everyone. Play ▶
Punish To make someone face an unpleasant result for breaking a rule. Play ▶
Pupil A child who is taught at school. Play ▶
Purchase To buy something, especially something expensive.Something that you have bought. Play ▶
Racial Related to groups that society divides by ancestry or physical features. Play ▶
Radical Involving very large or complete changes. Play ▶
Range The limits between which an amount can change, like ages 5 to 10.A group of different things of the same general type. Play ▶
Ratify To give formal approval to an agreement. Play ▶
Rebellion An organized fight against a government or authority. Play ▶
Recession A period when the economy shrinks and business activity falls. Play ▶
Reconcile To restore a friendly relationship after a disagreement. Play ▶
Record An official document, file, or account kept for evidence or future reference.The best performance or score ever achieved in a particular sport or activity. Play ▶
Reform A change made to improve a law, system, or organization. Play ▶
Region A particular part of a country or the world. Play ▶
Regulation An official rule made by a government or organization. Play ▶
Relevant Directly connected with the subject being discussed. Play ▶
Require To need something for a particular purpose.To make someone do something because of a rule or law. Play ▶
Research Careful study of a subject to discover new facts.To collect information about a topic by reading and studying. Play ▶
Reside To live in a particular place. Play ▶
Resource A supply of something useful, such as money, oil, or workers. Play ▶
Respond To say or write something as an answer.To act or change because of something that happens. Play ▶
Restraint The ability to control your feelings or actions. Play ▶
Restrict To limit the amount, size, or number of something. Play ▶
Retail The sale of goods directly to the people who use them. Play ▶
Reveal To make something known that was hidden or secret. Play ▶
Review To examine something carefully and decide whether it needs changes. Play ▶
Rigorous Very careful and thorough. Play ▶
Ritual A ceremony performed through an established set of actions. Play ▶
Role The part someone plays in an activity or organization.The character that an actor plays in a film or play. Play ▶
Royal Related to a king, queen, or their family. Play ▶
Ruling An official decision, especially one made by a court. Play ▶
Rural Related to the countryside. Play ▶
Sacred Considered holy or connected with a god. Play ▶
Salary Money you are paid regularly for your job. Play ▶
Sample A small part chosen to represent a larger whole. Play ▶
Sanction Official permission or approval. Play ▶
Scarcity A situation in which there is not enough of something. Play ▶
School An institution for educating children.A large group of fish. Play ▶
Scrutiny Very careful and detailed examination. Play ▶
Section One of the parts that something is divided into. Play ▶
Sector One part of a country's economy, such as farming or banking. Play ▶
Secure Safe from danger, damage, or loss. Play ▶
Seek To try to find or get something. Play ▶
Select To choose someone or something from a group. Play ▶
Semantic Related to the meaning of words or signs. Play ▶
Settlement An agreement that ends a dispute. Play ▶
Shift To move or change position. Play ▶
Similar Almost the same as something else, but not exactly. Play ▶
Site A place where something is, was, or will be built.A place on the internet with pages about a subject. Play ▶
Social Related to meeting and spending time with people. Play ▶
Solitude The state of being alone. Play ▶
Source A place, person, or thing from which something comes or can be obtained.Obtain from a particular place. Play ▶
Specific Exact and clearly identified. Play ▶
Speech The ability or act of communicating with spoken words. Play ▶
Statistics Numbers collected to give information about something. Play ▶
Status A person's position or importance in society or a group. Play ▶
Strategy A careful plan for reaching a goal over time. Play ▶
Structure The way the parts of something are arranged. Play ▶
Study To spend time learning about a subject. Play ▶
Subsidy Money given by a government to support an activity or service. Play ▶
Subtle Not obvious and easy to miss. Play ▶
Surplus An amount left after needs have been met. Play ▶
Survey A set of questions used to find out people's opinions or habits. Play ▶
Symbol A sign or picture that represents something. Play ▶
Symbolic Representing an idea through an object or action. Play ▶
Tariff A tax on goods entering or leaving a country. Play ▶
Text The written words in a book, article, or document.A written message sent from one mobile phone to another. Play ▶
Theory An explanation based on ideas and evidence. Play ▶
Thesis A long piece of research writing for a university degree. Play ▶
Tolerance Willingness to accept beliefs or behavior different from your own. Play ▶
Tradition A custom or belief passed from one generation to the next. Play ▶
Transfer To move someone or something to another place. Play ▶
Transition The process of changing from one state or situation to another. Play ▶
Treaty An official agreement between countries. Play ▶
Tribal Related to a group with a shared history, culture, and identity. Play ▶
Tyrant A ruler who uses power in a cruel and unfair way. Play ▶
Underlie To be the basic cause or reason for something. Play ▶
Vary To be different in different situations or cases. Play ▶
Verbal Related to words or language. Play ▶
Victim A person harmed by a crime, accident, or event. Play ▶
Village A small group of houses in the country.The people who live in a small community. Play ▶
Virtue A good moral quality, such as honesty. Play ▶
Voluntary Done by choice rather than because someone forces you. Play ▶
Wealth A large amount of money or valuable possessions. Play ▶
Welfare A person's health, happiness, and living conditions. Play ▶
Wisdom The ability to make good decisions using knowledge and experience. Play ▶
Worker A person who does a job to earn money.Someone who puts a lot of effort into their job. Play ▶
Writer A person who produces books, stories, or articles.Someone who creates novels, poems, or articles as a job. Play ▶
Young Having lived for only a short time.Children or babies of an animal. Play ▶
Youth The period of life between childhood and adulthood. Play ▶