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  Academic Words Level 4 - 2 - Matching Quizzes
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drawback  Speak Example sentences
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[экспорт] sell or transfer abroad
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[недостаток] disadvantage or inconvenience; shortcoming; refund or remittance, such as a discount on duties or taxes
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[наведении] hang about; wait nearby; remain floating
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[наклона] cause to lean, slant, or slope; deviate from the horizontal or vertical
dubious  Speak Example sentences
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[инерции] property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue
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[укрепления] make strong or stronger; prepare oneself for a military confrontation
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[сомнительных] questionable; filled with doubt
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[лица] real being; something that exists as a particular and discrete unit; fact of existence
emit  Speak Example sentences
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[упрямый] stubbornly and often recklessly willful; unyielding
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[семье] students visiting a foreign country to study, board with a local family at an affordable price
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[излучают] give off; send out; give out as a sound
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[изолировать] make an island of; place in a detached situation or a state having no communication with surrounding objects
erect  Speak Example sentences
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[внутренние] within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or open water; interior
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[наведении] hang about; wait nearby; remain floating
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[несут] bring upon oneself; become liable to; acquire or come into
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[возвести] construct; stand; set up
exclude  Speak Example sentences
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[исключить] leave out of; keep out of; reject
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[прирост] process of increasing in number, size, quantity, or extent
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[порыв] blast; outburst; a sudden strong wind
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[изолировать] make an island of; place in a detached situation or a state having no communication with surrounding objects
ghastly  Speak Example sentences
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[железы] an organ of the body or of a plant that produces liquid chemicals that have various purposes
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[ужасный] horrible; inspiring shock; extremely unpleasant or bad
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[хедж] thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes
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[ледника] a large body of ice that flows under its mass, usually downhill
gland  Speak Example sentences
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[укрепления] make strong or stronger; prepare oneself for a military confrontation
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[железы] an organ of the body or of a plant that produces liquid chemicals that have various purposes
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[экспорт] sell or transfer abroad
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[грань] small, smooth, flat surface, as on a bone or tooth; side; a smooth surface
gleam  Speak Example sentences
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[блеск] cause to emit a flash of light
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[запрос] search for knowledge; systematic investigation
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[наведении] hang about; wait nearby; remain floating
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[включать] combine something into a larger whole; unite
headstrong  Speak Example sentences
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[добродушный] friendly; cordial; having a pleasant or friendly disposition or manner
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[упрямый] stubbornly and often recklessly willful; unyielding
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[учение] principles presented for belief, as by religious; the principle of law; an act of teaching; instruction
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[лица] real being; something that exists as a particular and discrete unit; fact of existence
hitchhike  Speak Example sentences
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[автостопом] travel by getting free rides from passing vehicles; be carried along with something else
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[исключить] leave out of; keep out of; reject
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[дренаж] emptying accomplished by draining; gradual flowing off, as of a liquid
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[эрозии] corrosion; a gradual decline of something