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shade  Speak Example sentences
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бедствия the whip used to inflict punishment; severe punishment
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тень a slight amount or degree of difference; shadow; protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight
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замочить cause or suffer to lie in a fluid; absorb; drain; drink intemperately or gluttonously
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соблазнительный tending to lead astray; apt to mislead by flattering appearances; tempting; alluring
siege  Speak Example sentences
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стимулирования encourage; motivate; arouse; spur;  excite or invigorate with a stimulant
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осады seat, especially a royal seat; throne or rank; sitting before a fortified place; surrounding of a place by an army
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издеваться mock; ridicule; show or express scorn; eat quickly and greedily
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крутой having a sharp inclination; of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve
slag  Speak Example sentences
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стимулирования encourage; motivate; arouse; spur;  excite or invigorate with a stimulant
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шлака residue by smelting metal ore; waste material from a coal mine; scum that forms on the surface of molten metal
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осады seat, especially a royal seat; throne or rank; sitting before a fortified place; surrounding of a place by an army
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спринклерные one who sprinkles; a device with perforations through which water issues from a hose to sprinkle a lawn
soak  Speak Example sentences
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замочить cause or suffer to lie in a fluid; absorb; drain; drink intemperately or gluttonously
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лоскуток a small amount; a long, narrow piece cut or torn off; long, irregular strip that is cut or torn off
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пристальное firmly or constant loyal; fixed or unchanging
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издеваться mock; ridicule; show or express scorn; eat quickly and greedily
soil  Speak Example sentences
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руководить oversee with the power of direction; take care of with authority; supervise
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замочить cause or suffer to lie in a fluid; absorb; drain; drink intemperately or gluttonously
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спринклерные one who sprinkles; a device with perforations through which water issues from a hose to sprinkle a lawn
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почвы material in the surface of the earth
solitary  Speak Example sentences
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одиночного isolated; existing, living, or going without others; alone; unaccompanied
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поверхность the exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; outside; outward or external appearance
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приземистый stocky; short and thick; low and broad
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сланца any rock or stone that is thin and flat for roofing or covering houses
sow  Speak Example sentences
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сланца any rock or stone that is thin and flat for roofing or covering houses
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одиночного isolated; existing, living, or going without others; alone; unaccompanied
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руководить oversee with the power of direction; take care of with authority; supervise
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свинья plant; place seeds in or on
spoil  Speak Example sentences
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задушить conceal or hide; envelope completely; extinguish; deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
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спекулировать assume to be true without conclusive evidence; engage in buying or selling of a commodity for  profit
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издеваться mock; ridicule; show or express scorn; eat quickly and greedily
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портить go bad; rot; decay; become unfit for consumption or use
sporadically  Speak Example sentences
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замочить cause or suffer to lie in a fluid; absorb; drain; drink intemperately or gluttonously
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спорадически in irregular or unpredictable manner
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голодать hunger; deprive of food
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утешение comfort or relieve in sorrow, misfortune, or distress
starve  Speak Example sentences
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поверхность the exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; outside; outward or external appearance
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приземистый stocky; short and thick; low and broad
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излишки remainder; more than is needed; quantity much larger than is needed; remaining
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голодать hunger; deprive of food