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 5000 Words Level 3 - 3 - Matching Quizzes
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inscrutable  Speak Example sentences
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[непостижимой] impenetrable; not readily understood; mysterious
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[прогорклый] having disagreeable odor or taste of decomposing oils or fats
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[зубчатые] unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut; having a rough quality
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[ликвидировать] settle accounts to pay them off; clear up
limerick  Speak Example sentences
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[приставать] trouble; disturb; annoy; harass with petty vexations
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[Лимерик] humorous short verse; nonsense song or verse
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[набережная] walk for pleasure, display, or exercise
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[лепет] speak about unimportant matters  rapidly and incessantly; talk artlessly and childishly
monsoon  Speak Example sentences
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[взаимные] concerning each of two or more persons or things; exchangeable; interacting
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[муссона] the season of the heavy rain that falls during the summer in hot Asian countries
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[парировать] avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing
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[утолить] put out a fire; extinguish;  put an end to; destroy
oar  Speak Example sentences
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[весло] long, thin, usually wooden pole with a blade at one end, used to row or steer a boat
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[представительный] pleasing in personality or appearance; attractive
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[молоток] hammer; a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head; a light drumstick with a rounded head
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[знакомиться] read or examine, typically with great care
otherworldly  Speak Example sentences
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[утолить] put out a fire; extinguish;  put an end to; destroy
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[ликвидировать] settle accounts to pay them off; clear up
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[потусторонних] not belonging to the real world; unnatural; odd and unfamiliar
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[представительный] pleasing in personality or appearance; attractive
overlap  Speak Example sentences
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[плато] highland; upland; relatively flat highland
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[парадигма] a model of something, or a very clear and typical example of something
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[шум] make low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water
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[перекрытия] representation of common ground between two things; extend over and cover a part of
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[плодовитый] producing offspring or fruit in great abundance; fertile
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[саранчи] any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory insects of the family Acrididae
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[псевдонимом] pen name; fictitious name used when someone performs a particular social role
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[паразитарных] having the nature or habits of a parasite that takes advantage of others without useful return
pathos  Speak Example sentences
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[Pinnacle] peak; tall pointed formation, such as mountain peak
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[потусторонних] not belonging to the real world; unnatural; odd and unfamiliar
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[периферической] located in outer boundary; unimportant; auxiliary
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[пафос] tender sorrow; pity; quality in art or literature that produces these feelings
perpetuate  Speak Example sentences
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[веселье] gladness and gaiety, especially when expressed by laughter
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[пергамента] the skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animals, prepared for writing on
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[увековечить] make something last; preserve from extinction
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[мания] craze; madness; an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
platitude  Speak Example sentences
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[пергамента] the skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animals, prepared for writing on
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[веселье] gladness and gaiety, especially when expressed by laughter
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[слабительное] having a tendency to loosen or relax.
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[пошлости] dullness; insipidity of thought; commonplace statement; lack of originality