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  Academic Words Level 1 - 2 - Matching Quizzes
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define  Speak Example sentences
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[кулак] hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; closed hand
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[полный] filled to satisfaction with food or drink; containing as much or as many as is possible or normal
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[определить] determine the nature of; give a definition; describe the nature or basic qualities of; explain
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[поручение] a short trip that taken to perform a specified task; mission; embassy
desert  Speak Example sentences
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[пустыня] an area with little or no vegetation; forsake; abandon
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[хрупкой] easy to destroy, delicate, not strong
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[отключения] deprive of capability or effectiveness; unable; impair; diminish
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[валового] of huge size; excessively large; coarse; rough; not fine or delicate
disable  Speak Example sentences
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[Gamble] play or game for money or other stakes; lose or squander by gaming
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[участия] act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into the contest; state of being in gear
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[хрупкой] easy to destroy, delicate, not strong
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[отключения] deprive of capability or effectiveness; unable; impair; diminish
discipline  Speak Example sentences
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[передач] toothed machine part, such as a wheel or cylinder, to transmit motion or to change speed or direction
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[дисциплины] a trait of being well behaved; an act of punishing; a system of rules of conduct or method of practice
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[скидки] give a reduction in price on
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[ликвидации] eradicate; abolish; rule out
dizzy  Speak Example sentences
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[текущее] stream; flow; up-to-date; present
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[слияния] union; an act of melting together by heat
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[головокружение] having or causing a whirling sensation
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[поколения] all offspring at the same stage from an ancestor; interval between the birth of parents and their offspring
fabric  Speak Example sentences
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[кулак] hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; closed hand
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[связи] owed and payable immediately or on-demand; proper and appropriate; fitting
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[ткани] cloth; stuff; artifact made by weaving or synthetic fibers; structure; framework
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[отвлечения] extreme mental or emotional disturbance; obsession; confusion of affairs; being drawn apart
fragile  Speak Example sentences
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[наследник] a person who inherits some title or office
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[пользу] act of gracious kindness; inclination to approve
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[хрупкой] easy to destroy, delicate, not strong
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[крайние] outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit
gamble  Speak Example sentences
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[Gamble] play or game for money or other stakes; lose or squander by gaming
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[любезный] beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor
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[обхода] move slowly, as people or animals with the body near the ground
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[экзотические] from another part of the world; foreign; strikingly strange or unusual
gracious  Speak Example sentences
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[эго] self, especially as distinct from the world and other selves; exaggerated sense of self-importance
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[целостность] quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness
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[любезный] beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor
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[града] call for; salute; greet; praise vociferously
grief  Speak Example sentences
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[головокружение] having or causing a whirling sensation
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[горе] the pain of mind; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends; sorrow; sadness
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[отчаянные] having lost all hope; dangerous; extremely intense
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[класса] step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing