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  Academic Words Level 3 - 4 - Matching Quizzes
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relay  Speak Example sentences
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[контрабандой] import or export without paying customs duties
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[сходство] likeness; similarity in appearance or external or superficial details
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[конкурента] compete; be equal to in quality or ability; match
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[Реле] act of passing something along from one person, group, or station to another
remedy  Speak Example sentences
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[дрожь] shake with or as if with cold; tremble; break into fragments or splinters
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[образца] model; sample; an example regarded as typical of its class
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[зритель] observer; audience; one who looks on
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[средство] a medicine or therapy; cure; fix; repair; provide relief for
renaissance  Speak Example sentences
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[дрожь] shake with or as if with cold; tremble; break into fragments or splinters
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[Ренессанс] revival; renewal; the revival of learning and culture
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[рецидивов] falling back into a former state, especially becoming worse
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[сдерживать] keep under control; hold back; place limits on
restrain  Speak Example sentences
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[почвы] material in the surface of the earth
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[сходство] likeness; similarity in appearance or external or superficial details
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[пустыня] a tract of land or region, uncultivated and uninhabited, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; wild or desert
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[сдерживать] keep under control; hold back; place limits on
sequence  Speak Example sentences
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[образца] model; sample; an example regarded as typical of its class
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[последовательности] serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern
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[надежные] dependable; reliable; able to be trusted
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[через] by the way of
smother  Speak Example sentences
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[сходство] likeness; similarity in appearance or external or superficial details
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[Помощь в учебе] teaching pupils individually; the fee for instruction, especially at a formal institution of learning
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[задушить] conceal or hide; envelope completely; extinguish; deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
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[Плитка] the flat thin rectangular slab used to cover surfaces; a short pipe made of clay, used in sewers and drains
smuggle  Speak Example sentences
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[потрясений] state of extreme confusion or agitation; commotion or tumult
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[контрабандой] import or export without paying customs duties
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[дрожь] shake with or as if with cold; tremble; break into fragments or splinters
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[надежные] dependable; reliable; able to be trusted
snatch  Speak Example sentences
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[существенные] fairly large; in essentials; material; true or real; not imaginary; solidly built
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[вагина] grasp or seize hastily, eagerly, or suddenly
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[образца] model; sample; an example regarded as typical of its class
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[отделка] clip; cut down to the desired size or shape
splash  Speak Example sentences
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[средство] a medicine or therapy; cure; fix; repair; provide relief for
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[дрожь] shake with or as if with cold; tremble; break into fragments or splinters
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[заставки] cause fluid to scatter in flying masses; strike and dash about, as water, mud
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[сходство] likeness; similarity in appearance or external or superficial details
susceptible  Speak Example sentences
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[грани] extreme edge or margin; border; enclosing boundary; space enclosed by such a boundary
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[восприимчивы] easily influenced; having little resistance, as to a disease; receptive to
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[отделка] clip; cut down to the desired size or shape
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[пустыня] a tract of land or region, uncultivated and uninhabited, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; wild or desert