3500 ACT Vocabulary

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(жаргона) language used by a special group; technical terminology; nonsensical or meaningless talk


Spelling Word: jargon
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(веселый) good-natured; marked by good cheer; cheerful and good-humored


Spelling Word: jovial
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(слезливый) weeping or inclined to weep; tearful; showing sorrow


Spelling Word: lachrymose
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(личинка) newly hatched, wingless, often wormlike form of many insects before metamorphosis


Spelling Word: larva
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(утечки) escape fluid from container through a hole or crack; tell anonymously; reveal


Spelling Word: leak
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(наследия) gift made by a will; something handed down from an ancestor


Spelling Word: legacy
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(удлинить) extend; make or become longer


Spelling Word: lengthen
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(грамотные) educated; schooled; one who can read and write


Spelling Word: literate
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(словоохотливый) talkative; given to continual talking; chattering


Spelling Word: loquacious
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(зверинец) collection of live wild animals on exhibition; enclosure in which wild animals are kept


Spelling Word: menagerie