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abacus:
n. счетах manual computing device consisting of a frame holding parallel rods strung with movable counters
abase:
v. унизить humiliate; lower or depress in rank or esteem
abash:
v. смущать embarrass; make ashamed or uneasy; disconcert
abate:
v. борьбе subside; decrease; become less in amount or intensity
abbreviate:
v. сокращения make shorter; reduce to shorter form intended to represent full form, as for word or phrase
abbreviation:
n. аббревиатура shortening something by omitting parts of it
abdicate:
v. отречься give up, renounce, abandon, lay down, or withdraw from, as a right or claim
aberrant:
n. аберрантных abnormal;  markedly different from an accepted norm
abet:
v. подстрекать aid, usually in doing something wrong; encourage
abeyance:
n. отложено suspended action; temporary cessation or suspension
abhor:
v. ненавидеть fill with horror and loathing; horrify; hate
abjure:
v. отречься renounce upon oath; abandon forever
ablaze:
a. пылают burning; radiant; bright; keenly excited; resembling flame in brilliance or color
ablution:
n. омовение washing or cleansing of the body, especially as part of religious rite
abnegate:
v. отказываться give up or surrender; deny something to oneself
abnegation:
n. отказ repudiation; self-sacrifice; renouncing your own interests in favor of interests of others
abode:
n. обитель act of waiting; delay; stay or continuance in a place
abolish:
v. отменить cancel; put an end to; destroy completely
abolitionist:
n. аболиционистов a reformer who favors abolishing slavery
abominable:
a. отвратительные detestable; extremely unpleasant; very bad
aboriginal:
a. аборигенов being the first of its kind in a region; primitive; native
abortive:
a. неудачную unsuccessful; failing to accomplish an intended objective; fruitless
abound:
v. изобилуют be full of; be plentiful
abrade:
v. обработать wear away by friction; scrape; erode
abrasion:
n. истиранию scratch; friction; the process of rubbing away the surface of something
abridge:
v. Краткое condense; shorten; reduce length of written text
abrogate:
a. отменить abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority
abrupt:
a. резкое broken off; very steep; having sudden transitions from one subject to another
abscond:
v. скрыться leave quickly and secretly and hide oneself, often to avoid arrest or prosecution
absorb:
v. поглощают assimilate or incorporate; suck or drink up; occupy full attention
abstain:
v. воздержаться refrain; hold oneself back voluntarily from an action or practice
abstemious:
a. воздержан sparing or moderation in eating and drinking; temperate
abstruse:
a. заумный obscure; profound; difficult to understand
absurdity:
n. абсурда quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment; logical contradiction
abundant:
a. обильные plentiful; possessing riches or resources
abut:
v. примыкают border upon; adjoin; touch or end at one end or side; lie adjacent
abysmal:
a. ужасной bottomless; very profound; limitless; very bad
academician:
n. академик a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation
accede:
v. присоединиться agree; give consent, often at the insistence of another; concede
accentuate:
v. акцентировать emphasize; stress; pronounce with stress or accent; mark with an accent
accessibility:
n. Доступность the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with
accessory:
n. аксессуары additional object; useful but not essential thing; subordinate or supplementary item
acclaim:
v. Награды applaud; announce with great approval
acclimate:
v. акклиматизироваться accustom or become accustomed to a new environment or situation; adapt
acclivity:
n. подъем upward slope, as of hill
accolade:
n. награды award of merit; expression of approval; praise
accompaniment:
n. сопровождение act of accompanying someone or something
accompanying:
a. сопровождающие attendant; appearing or going with someone or something else
accomplishment:
n. достижение achievement; fulfillment; something that is successful
accordion:
n. аккордеон a box-shaped musical instrument consisting of a folded central part with a keyboard
accost:
v. приставать approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with demand or request
accouter:
v. одевать equip; provide with military equipment
accredit:
v. аккредитации authorize; commission; give credit for
accretion:
n. аккреции growth or increase in size by gradual external addition, fusion, or inclusion
accrue:
v. начисляются increase, accumulate, or come about as a result of growth; accumulate over time
accumulate:
v. накапливаются pile up; collect;  mount up; increase
accuse:
v. обвинить blame; say that someone has done something morally wrong, illegal, or unkind
acerbity:
n. жесткость the bitterness of speech and temper; sourness or acidness of taste, character, or tone
acetic:
a. уксусной having properties of vinegar; sour
acidulous:
a. углекислые slightly sour in taste or manner; sharp; caustic
acorn:
n. желудь fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup; a cone-shaped piece of wood
acoustics:
n. акустика science of sound; the quality that makes a room easy or hard to hear in
acquiesce:
v. согласиться assent; agree without protesting
acquisition:
n. приобретение act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something
acrid:
a. едкие unpleasantly sharp or bitter to taste or smell; bitterly pungent
acrimonious:
a. желчный bitter and sharp in language, tone, or manner
acronym:
n. сокращение an abbreviation consisting of the first letters of each word in the name of something
acrophobia:
n. акрофобия fear of heights; abnormal fear of high places
actuarial:
a. актуарных calculating; pertaining to insurance statistics
actuate:
v. приведения put into motion or action; activate
acuity:
n. зрения sharpness; acuteness of vision or perception; keenness
acumen:
n. проницательность mental keenness; quickness of perception
adage:
n. пословица wise saying; brief familiar proverb;  expression of popular wisdom
adaptable:
a. адаптации flexible; becoming or being made suitable to a particular situation or use
addendum:
n. добавление something added or to be added, especially a supplement to a book
addict:
v. наркоман cause someone to become dependent; indulge in; be devoted to
addictive:
a. привыкание something you cannot stop taking once you have started
addle:
v. тухлое muddle; drive crazy; become confused
adept:
a. адепт expert at; very skilled; having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
adherent:
n. сторонником a person who adheres; one who follows or upholds a leader, party, cause
adjacent:
a. смежных adjoining; neighboring; close to; lying near
adjoin:
v. примыкают be next to; be contiguous to; border on
adjudicate:
v. выносить решения hear and settle a case by judicial procedure
adjunct:
n. адъюнкт something added on or attached generally nonessential or inferior
adjure:
v. заклинаю appeal to or entreat earnestly; command or enjoin solemnly, as under oath
adjust:
v. Изменить change something slightly, especially to make it more correct, effective, or suitable
admonish:
v. наставлять warn; counsel someone against something to be avoided
admonition:
n. наставление gentle or friendly reproof; cautionary advice or warning
adobe:
n. Adobe clay; brick; sun-dried brick; structure built with this type of brick
adolescent:
n. подростков a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity;
adopt:
v. принимать accept; take on; raise; take into one's family
adoption:
n. принятия act of accepting with approval
adoration:
n. обожание act of playing honor to a divine being; worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god
adorn:
v. украшают enhance or decorate with or as if with ornaments
adornment:
n. украшения embellishment; decoration; something that beautifies or adorns; ornament
adroit:
a. ловкие skillful and adept under pressing conditions
adulation:
n. лести excessive flattery or admiration; unmerited praise
adulterate:
v. фальсифицировать make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances
adumbrate:
v. предвещать give hint or indication of something; disclose partially or guardedly; overshadow; shade
advent:
n. появлением coming or arrival, especially of something extremely important
adventitious:
a. случайное accidental; casual; not inherent but added extrinsically
advocacy:
n. пропагандистской support; active pleading on behalf of something
aerie:
n. Ари nest of a bird, such as an eagle, built on a cliff or other high place
affable:
a. приветливый easily approachable; warmly friendly
affiliate:
v. филиал associate; cause a group to become part of or form a close relationship with another
affinity:
n. близость natural attraction, liking, or feeling of kinship; relationship by marriage
affirm:
v. утверждаем state something as true; assert; confirm
affirmation:
n. утверждения positive assertion; confirmation; solemn pledge by one who refuses to take an oath
affix:
v. наносить fasten; append; add on; secure to something
affliction:
n. бедствие cause or condition of pain, suffering, or distress
affluence:
n. богатства abundance; a plentiful supply of material goods; wealth
affordable:
a. доступным able to pay for
affront:
n. оскорбление insult; offense; intentional act of disrespect
aftermath:
n. после outcome; consequence, especially of a disaster or misfortune
agglomeration:
n. агломерации collection; heap; act or process of gathering into a mass
aggrandize:
v. возвеличивать increase the scope of; extend; intensify; make greater in power, influence, stature, or reputation
aggravate:
v. усугубить worsen; make worse or more troublesome
aggregate:
v. совокупности gather into a mass, sum, or whole; amount to
aggregation:
n. агрегации several things grouped together or considered as a whole
aghast:
a. ужас struck by shock, terror, or amazement
agility:
n. ловкость mentally quick; moving quickly and lightly
agitate:
v. агитировать cause to move with violence or sudden force; upset; disturb
agitation:
n. агитация anxiety; extreme emotional disturbance
agnostic:
n. агностик one who is skeptical of the existence of a god or any ultimate reality
agrarian:
a. аграрной pertaining to land or its cultivation; relating to agricultural or rural matters
ailment:
n. болезни sickness;a slight but often persistent illness 
air:
v. воздуха be broadcast on television or radio
airborne:
a. бортовых aloft; flying; in the air
alacrity:
n. готовностью cheerful promptness or willingness; eagerness; speed or quickness
alchemy:
n. алхимия medieval chemistry; magical or mysterious power or process of transforming
alcove:
n. нише nook; small, recessed section of a room
algorithm:
n. алгоритм established procedure for solving problem
alignment:
n. выравнивание arrangement; association; alliance
alimentary:
a. пищевой providing nourishment; concerned with food, nutrition, or digestion
alkali:
n. щелочной soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash; one of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, and ammonia
allay:
v. развеять calm; pacify; reduce the intensity of; relieve
allegation:
n. утверждения suggestion without proof that someone has done something wrong
allege:
v. утверждает state without proof; assert to be true
allegory:
n. аллегории symbolic representation of abstract ideas or principles in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form
alliteration:
n. аллитерации repetition of a beginning sound in poetry
allocate:
v. выделить assign; distribute according to plan
alloy:
v. сплав combine; mix; make less pure; lessen or moderate
allude:
v. намекают refer casually or indirectly, or by suggestion
allure:
v. привлекательность attract with something desirable; be highly, often subtly attractive
allurement:
n. соблазн temptation; enticement; any real or apparent good held forth or operating, as a motive to action
allusion:
n. намек indirect reference; symbolical reference or comparison; metaphor
ally:
n. союзником confederate; partner; collaborator
aloft:
ad. наверх in or into a high place; high or higher up
aloof:
a. стороне apart; remote in manner; distant physically or emotionally; reserved and remote
alteration:
n. изменения a passage from one form or state to another; change
altruistic:
a. альтруистических unselfishly generous; concerned for others
amalgamate:
v. объединении combine; unite in one body; mix or alloy metal with mercury
amass:
v. собрать collect; gather for oneself, as for one's pleasure or profit
amaze:
v. удивлять astonish; affect with wonder
amazing:
a. удивительно awesome; astounding; surprising
ambidextrous:
a. Ambidextrous capable of using either hand with equal ease
ambience:
n. атмосферу particular environment or surrounding influence; an atmosphere of the environment
ambiguity:
n. неопределенность state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty
ambiguous:
a. неоднозначное unclear or doubtful in meaning
ambition:
n. амбиции aspiration; a strong wish to achieve something
ambitious:
a. амбициозные aspiring; having a strong desire for success or achievement
ambivalence:
n. амбивалентность state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes, such as love and hate
ambivalent:
a. амбивалентный mixed;  experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings
amble:
n. иноходью moving at an easy pace; walk slowly or leisurely
ambulatory:
a. амбулаторных able to walk; formed or adapted for walking; not stationary
ameliorate:
v. улучшению make or become better; improve; grow better
amenable:
a. поддаются responsive to advise or suggestion; responsible to a higher authority; willing to comply with; agreeable
amend:
v. изменить change for the better; improve; remove faults or errors
amendment:
n. Поправка a change or changes made to the words of a text; revision
amenities:
n. Услуги convenient features; courtesies
amenity:
n. удобства pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions
amiable:
a. любезный good-natured and likable; lovable; warmly friendly
amicable:
a. дружественных exhibiting friendliness or goodwill; not quarrelsome
amity:
n. дружба friendship; peaceful relations, as between nations
amorous:
a. любовный moved by sexual love; loving
amorphous:
a. аморфный formless; lacking shape or definition
amphibian:
a. амфибии able to live both on land and in water
amphitheater:
n. амфитеатр oval building with tiers of seats from central open space or arena
amplification:
n. усиления addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
amplify:
v. усиления broaden or clarify by expanding; intensify; make larger or more powerful; increase
amputate:
v. ампутировать cut off part of the body, especially by surgery; prune
anachronistic:
a. анахронизмом having time error in the story; erroneous in date; in the wrong time
analgesic:
a. анальгетик serving to reduce sensibility to pain without loss of consciousness
analogous:
a. аналогичные comparable; similar or alike
analyze:
v. анализа diagnose; study, or examine something in detail to discover more about it
anarchist:
n. анархисты a person who seeks to overturn established government; advocate of abolishing authority
anathema:
n. анафема solemn curse; someone or something regarded as a curse
anatomy:
n. анатомии detailed analysis;  the scientific study of the body and how its parts are arranged
ancestral:
a. предков inherited or inheritable by established rules
ancestry:
n. происхождения family descent; series or line of ancestors; lineage
ancillary:
a. вспомогательных serving as aid or accessory; auxiliary
anguished:
a. мучительно experiencing extreme discomfort or discontent; feeling, expressing, or caused by anguish
angular:
a. угловой sharp-cornered; consisting of an angle or angles; stiff in manner
animus:
n. анимус the feeling of enmity or ill will; an attitude that informs one's actions; disposition
annals:
n. летописи a chronological record of the events of successive years
annex:
v. Приложение append or attach; take possession of; incorporate into an existing political unit
annihilate:
v. уничтожить destroy completely; reduce to nonexistence
annotate:
v. комментировать comment; make explanatory notes
annoying:
a. раздражает bothersome; troublesome; irritating
annuity:
n. ренты annual payment of allowance or income; periodical payment, amounting to a fixed sum in each year
annul:
v. аннулировать make or declare void or invalid; reduce to nothing
anodyne:
n. болеутоляющее source of relaxation or comfort; medicine that relieves pain
anoint:
v. помазать apply oil or similar substance to; put oil on during religious ceremony as a sign of sanctification or consecration.
anomalous:
a. аномальных deviating from normal or common order, form, or rule
antagonism:
n. антагонизм active resistance; condition of being an opposing principle, force, or factor
antecede:
v. предшествовать precede; go before in time, and sometimes in place, rank, or logical order
antecedents:
n. прошлое preceding events or circumstances that influence what comes later; ancestors or early background
antedate:
v. предшествовали be earlier in time; go back further
antediluvian:
a. допотопных antiquated; extremely old and ancient; belonging to very ancient times
anthology:
n. антология book of literary selections by various authors
anthropocentric:
a. ан��ропоцентрической regarding human beings as the center of the universe
anthropoid:
a. человекообразные manlike; resembling a human, especially in shape or outward appearance
anthropomorphic:
a. антропоморфных having human form or characteristics
antibiotic:
n. антибиотик any substance that can destroy or inhibit the growth of bacteria and similar microorganisms
anticipate:
v. предвидеть act in advance of; deal with ahead of time; predict
anticlimax:
n. разочарование the letdown in thought or emotion; decline viewed in disappointing contrast with the previous rise
antipathy:
n. антипатию strong feeling of aversion; dislike
antique:
n. античный any furniture old and valuable; out of fashion
antithesis:
n. антитеза contrast; direct contrast; opposition
antler:
n. рога entire horn, or any branch of the horn
anvil:
n. наковальней a heavy block of iron or steel with a smooth, flat top on which metals are shaped by hammering
apathetic:
a. апатичным feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent
apathy:
n. апатия lack of interest, or the attitude of not caring resulting from it; the indifference
aperitif:
n. аперитив alcoholic beverage taken before a meal as an appetizer
aperture:
n. диафра��мы opening; diameter of such an opening; hole
apex:
n. вершине highest point; vertex; summit; climax
aphasia:
n. афазии loss of speech due to injury or illness
aphorism:
n. афоризм definition or concise statement of principle; tersely phrased statement of truth or opinion
apiary:
n. пасека a place where bees and beehives are kept, especially where bees are raised for their honey
aplomb:
n. апломбом poise; self-confident assurance
apocryphal:
a. апокрифической untrue; of questionable authorship or authenticity; erroneous; fictitious
apogee:
n. апогея the highest point; point in an orbit most distant from the body being orbited
apolitical:
a. аполитичной having aversion or lack of concern for political affairs
apologetic:
a. апологетических offering or expressing an apology or excuse; serving as or containing a formal justification or defense
apologist:
n. апологет a person who argues in defense or justification of something, such as doctrine, policy, or institution
apologize:
v. извиниться beg pardon; tell someone that you are sorry for having done something
apostate:
n. отступник one who abandons his religious faith or political beliefs
apostrophe:
n. апостроф text character used to mark the possessive or to show the omission of letters or numbers
apotheosis:
n. апофеоз elevation to godhood; fact or action of becoming a god; an ideal example of something
appall:
v. ужасать depress or discourage with fear; grow faint or become weak
apparition:
n. привидение ghostly figure; sudden or unusual sight; appearance; state of being visible
appeal:
n. Обращение attraction; charm; attract; fascinate; challenge
appealing:
a. привлекательным attractive or interesting; charming
appellation:
n. наименование name; title; the act of naming; the act of appealing for aid, sympathy
append:
v. добавить attach; add as supplement or appendix
appendage:
n. придаток something appended to or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it
appetite:
n. аппетит instinctive physical desire, especially one for food or drink
applaud:
v. приветствую acclaim; express approval, especially by clapping the hands
applicable:
a. применимо capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance
applicant:
n. заявителя candidate; a person who formally requests something, especially a job
application:
n. применение close attention; work of applying something; verbal or written request for assistance
appoint:
v. назначить designate; nominate; choose someone officially for a job or responsibility
apposite:
a. уместным strikingly appropriate and relevant; well-suited
appraisal:
n. оценки assessment; evaluation; the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth
appraise:
v. оценки estimate value of; evaluate, especially in an official capacity
appreciable:
a. заметной large enough to be noticed or to affect; perceptible
appreciate:
v. оценить be thankful for; increase in worth; be thoroughly conscious of
apprehension:
n. опасение fearful or uneasy anticipation of the future; the act of seizing or capturing; understanding
apprehensive:
a. опасение capable of knowing; conscious; relating to the faculty of apprehension; sensible or perceptive
apprenticeship:
n. обучение the term during which one learns a trade from a skilled worker; service or legal condition of an apprentice
apprise:
v. информировать inform; give notice to; make aware
approach:
n. подход a way of considering or doing something
approbation:
n. апробации соответствующее expression of warm approval; praise
appropriate:
v. соответствующие acquire; take possession of for one's own use; set apart for specific use
approximate:
v. приближенные come near or nearer to something or someone in space, time, quality, or amount
approximately:
ad. примерно very similarly; roughly
apropos:
a. поводу with reference or regard; in respect
aquatic:
a. водных consisting of, relating to, or being in the water
aquiline:
a. орлиным curved or hooked like an eagle's beak
arable:
a. пахотных fit for growing crops, as by plowing
arbiter:
n. арбитр person with power to decide a dispute; judge
arboreal:
a. древесные tree-dwelling; treelike; living in trees
arboretum:
n. дендрарий a place where different tree varieties are exhibited
arc:
n. дуги the continuous portion of a circle; something curved in shape
arcane:
a. тайными secret; mysterious; known only to the initiated
archaeology:
n. археология study of artifacts and relics of early humankind
archaic:
a. архаичных no longer current or applicable; antiquated
archetype:
n. архетип prototype; original model or type after which other similar things are patterned
archipelago:
n. архипелаг group of closely located islands
ardent:
a. горячим displaying or by strong enthusiasm or devotion; passionate
arduous:
a. трудный demanding great effort or labor; difficult
arid:
a. засушливых dry; lacking moisture, especially having insufficient rainfall to support trees or plants
aristocracy:
n. аристократия hereditary nobility; privileged class
aristocrat:
n. аристократ one of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble
arithmetic:
n. арифметических theory of numerical calculations
armada:
n. армада a fleet of warships; a large group of moving things
armory:
n. Оружейная палата arsenal; a place where arms are manufactured
aromatic:
a. ароматических fragrant or sweet-smelling; caused by fragrant odor
arousal:
n. возбуждение act of awaking from sleep; arousing from what is like sleep
arraign:
v. обвинять officially charge someone in a court of law
arrangement:
n. Композиция composition; a plan for how something will happen
arrears:
n. задолженности being in debt; unpaid, overdue debt or an unfulfilled obligation
arrogate:
v. присвоить claim without justification; claim for oneself without the right
arroyo:
n. Арройо deep gully; a dry gulch; brook or creek; watercourse
artifice:
n. хитрость subtle but base deception; trickery; cleverness or skill; ingenuity
artisan:
n. ремесленника manually skilled worker; craftsman, as opposed to an artist
artless:
a. бесхитростный free of artificiality; natural; open and honest
ascend:
v. подниматься move up or climb something; mount
ascendancy:
n. власть superiority or decisive advantage; domination
ascent:
n. восхождение upward slope or grade; movement upward
ascetic:
a. аскетической leading a life of self-discipline and self-denial; austere
ascribe:
v. приписывают inscribe or dedicate; attribute to a specified cause, source, or origin; assign as a quality
aseptic:
a. асептический preventing infection; having cleansing effect
ashen:
a. пепельно ash-colored; very pale; consisting of ashes
asinine:
a. глупый utterly stupid or silly; inanely foolish
askance:
a. искоса with a sideways or indirect look; Turned to side, especially of eyes
askew:
ad. косо turned or twisted toward one side; at an angle
asperity:
n. неровностей the sharpness of temper; roughness or harshness, as of surface, sound, or climate
asphyxiate:
v. задыхаться deprive of oxygen to the extent of producing death or severe symptoms; suffocate
aspirant:
n. претендентам one who aspires, as to advancement, honors, or a high position
aspiration:
n. стремление ambition; something that you hope to achieve
assail:
v. нападать assault; attack with or as if with violent blows
assault:
n. нападение a violent attack; an onslaught
assay:
v. анализа analyze; evaluate; examine by trial or experiment; put to the test
assemblage:
n. монтаж a group of persons together in one place
assent:
v. согласие express agreement to what is alleged or proposed; accept
assert:
v. утверждать declare or state with confidence; put oneself forward boldly
assertive:
a. напористой positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory
assess:
v. оценки estimate  value; judge worth of something
assessment:
n. оценки act of judging or assessing; amount determined as payable
assiduous:
a. усердным constant in application or attention; diligent; unceasing or persistent
assimilate:
v. ассимилировать incorporate and absorb into mind; make similar; cause to resemble
assistance:
n. помощь help, especially money or resources that are given to people  
assuage:
v. успокоить ease or lessen pain; satisfy or appease
assuredly:
ad. конечно in a way that causes something to be certain; undoubtedly
astigmatism:
n. астигматизм eye defect that prevents proper focus
astonished:
a. поражен amazed; very surprised
astound:
v. поразить affect with wonder; surprise; shock
astringent:
a. вяжущее causing contraction; having the effect of drawing tissue together; stern or austere
astronomer:
n. астроном a physicist who studies astronomy
astronomy:
n. астрономия branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole
asunder:
ad. куски into separate parts or pieces; apart
asymmetric:
a. асимметричной not identical on both sides of a dividing central line
atavism:
n. атавизм resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents; deformity returning after the passage of two or more generations
atavistic:
a. атавистические displaying characteristics of previous cultural era or previous ancestral form
atheistic:
a. атеистической denying existence of God; godless
athletics:
n. легкая атлетика art of training by athletic exercises; games and sports of athletes
atmosphere:
n. атмосфера air; a mixture of gases that surrounds any planet
atom:
n. атома a tiny piece of anything; the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element
atrocity:
n. злодеяние brutal deed; atrocious condition, quality, or behavior; monstrousness
atrophy:
n. атрофия wasting away; decrease in size; reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease
attachment:
n. вложения a bond, as of affection or loyalty; fond regard; supplementary part; accessory
attain:
v. достижения achieve or accomplish; gain
attainment:
n. достижения something, such as an accomplishment or achievement; achievement
attend:
v. участие be present at; go to; take care of; tend
attendance:
n. посещаемости act of being present
attendant:
n. сопутствующих aide; servant; accompanying; a person who participates in a meeting
attention:
n. внимание act or state of attending or heeding; application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought
attenuate:
v. ослабления make slender, fine, or small; weaken; lessen the density of
attire:
n. одежда clothes, especially of a particular or formal type; dress
attraction:
n. привлечения appeal; a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts
attractive:
a. привлекательным appealing; pleasing; inviting; tempting
attribute:
n. атрибута essential quality; reputation; honor
attribute:
v. атрибута relate to particular cause or source; ascribe; explain
attrition:
n. истощение a gradual decrease in numbers; reduction in the workforce without firing employees; wearing away through harassment
atypical:
a. нетипичные not normal; unusual or irregular; not representative of a group, class, or type
audacious:
a. дерзкий fearlessly, often recklessly daring; bold
auditorium:
n. аудитории area of theater or concert hall where the audience sits
auditory:
a. слухового of or relating to hearing, the organs of hearing, or the sense of hearing
auger:
n. шнек hand tool for boring holes; hollow drill used to take core samples of soil, ice
augment:
v. увеличить make greater, as in size, extent, or quantity
augury:
n. гадание sign of something coming; art or practice of foretelling events by signs or omens
aureole:
n. венчиком the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; halo
auroral:
a. авроральной characteristic of dawn; dawning, eastern, like a new beginning; relating to the atmospheric phenomenon auroras
auspicious:
a. благоприятный attended by favorable circumstances; marked by success; prosperous
austere:
a. суровый strict or severe in the discipline; severely simple and unornamented
authenticate:
v. аутентификации prove genuine; establish authenticity of
authoritarian:
a. авторитарного expecting absolute obedience; completely dominating another's will
authoritative:
a. авторитетных weighting authority; peremptory and dictatorial
autobiography:
n. Автобиография biography or story written by yourself
autocrat:
n. самодержца dictator; ruler having unlimited power
autocratic:
a. само��ержавной having absolute, unchecked power; dictatorial
automaton:
n. автомата the mechanism that imitates actions of humans
autonomous:
a. автономного self-governing; not controlled by others or by outside forces; independent
autonomy:
n. автономии independence; self-government or the right of self-government; self-determination
available:
a. обучения convenient for use or disposal; not busy, free; obtainable; accessible
avant-garde:
n. авангард radically new or original; cutting edge
avarice:
n. алчность greediness for wealth; the insatiable desire to gain
aver:
v. среднее declare to be true; affirm
averse:
a. прочь reluctant; disinclined; turned away or backward; unwilling
aviary:
n. вольер large cage, building, or enclosure in which birds are reared or kept
avid:
a. Avid greedy; eager for; marked by keen interest and enthusiasm
avocation:
n. призвание activity taken up in addition to one's regular work or profession, usually for enjoyment
avow:
v. признаться declare openly; acknowledge openly, boldly, and unashamedly
avowal:
n. декларирование open declaration; frank acknowledgment
avuncular:
a. дядин in the manner of an uncle, about uncle; kind, genial, benevolent, or tolerant
awkward:
a. неловко difficult to handle or manage
awning:
n. тент roof-like cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind
awry:
ad. наперекосяк in a position that is turned toward one side; away from the correct course
axiom:
n. аксиома self-evident truth requiring no proof
axle:
n. оси pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel; transverse bar connecting the opposite wheels
azure:
a. Azure sky blue; light purplish-blue