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  Academic Words Level 5 - 3 - Matching Quizzes
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lustrous  Speak Example sentences
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[блестящие] giving out or shedding light, as sun or fire; reflecting light; having a brilliant surface
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[миниатюрных] painting or drawing included in a book; copy or model that represents in a greatly reduced size
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[приемной] secretary whose primary duty is to answer the telephone and receive visitors
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[пресса] machines or devices that apply pressure or print; collecting and publishing of news; journalism in general
maple  Speak Example sentences
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[трапезы] food eaten or provided at a meal; feast; banquet
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[клен] tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species
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[ниши] small concavity; a position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it
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[кладка] the craft of a construction worker;  structure built of stone or brick
mariner  Speak Example sentences
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[страстной] zealous; enthusiastic; filled with or motivated by zeal
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[запретительные] tending to discourage; prohibiting; forbidding
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[моряк] one whose occupation is to assist in navigating ships; seaman or sailor
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[величие] nobility; greatness and dignity of a sovereign; royal personage
masonry  Speak Example sentences
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[шлейфа] feather, especially soft, downy, long, or handsome feather; a token of honor or achievement
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[осадков] unexpected acceleration or hastening; the quantity of water falling to earth
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[кладка] the craft of a construction worker;  structure built of stone or brick
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[председательства] office and function of the president; tenure of a president
maxim  Speak Example sentences
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[примирение] act of reconciling, or state of being reconciled; reconcilement; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship
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[Максим] proverb; formulation of fundamental principle or general truth
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[веселье] gladness and gaiety, especially when expressed by laughter
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[опыляют] fertilize by transferring pollen
methodology  Speak Example sentences
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[веселье] gladness and gaiety, especially when expressed by laughter
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[методологии] system of methods followed in a particular discipline
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[трапезы] food eaten or provided at a meal; feast; banquet
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[блестящие] giving out or shedding light, as sun or fire; reflecting light; having a brilliant surface
millennium  Speak Example sentences
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[осадков] unexpected acceleration or hastening; the quantity of water falling to earth
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[иглы] long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing such as sewing, or knitting
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[тысячелетий] a span of one thousand years; a thousandth anniversary
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[напоминание] a message that helps to remember something
oscillate  Speak Example sentences
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[колеблются] swing back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm; vibrate pendulum-like; waver
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[запретительные] tending to discourage; prohibiting; forbidding
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[сверстников] a person who has equal standing with another or others, as in rank, class, or age
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[ниц] put or throw flat with face down;  cause to lie flat
plume  Speak Example sentences
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[благочестивых] devout; religious; exhibiting a strict, traditional sense of virtue and morality
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[шлейфа] feather, especially soft, downy, long, or handsome feather; a token of honor or achievement
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[величие] nobility; greatness and dignity of a sovereign; royal personage
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[слоя] bend; lay on closely, or in folds; work upon steadily, or with repeated acts; press upon
ply  Speak Example sentences
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[проблематичным] open to doubt; unsettled; questionable; difficult to solve
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[слоя] bend; lay on closely, or in folds; work upon steadily, or with repeated acts; press upon
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[ниц] put or throw flat with face down;  cause to lie flat
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[лава] hot liquid rock from a volcano that becomes solid as it cools