abandon
(отказаться) lacking restraint or control; feeling of extreme emotional intensity; unbounded enthusiasm
Show examples and contexts abbreviate
(сокращения) make shorter; reduce to shorter form intended to represent full form, as for word or phrase
Show examples and contexts abnegation
(отказ) repudiation; self-sacrifice; renouncing your own interests in favor of interests of others
Show examples and contexts accident
(авария) event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; sudden, and unexpected event
Show examples and contexts accidentally
(случайно) inadvertently; by chance; casually; fortuitously; not essentially or intrinsically
Show examples and contexts accommodate
(размещения) do a favor or service for; provide for; supply with; make suitable; adapt; allow for
Show examples and contexts achievement
(достижения) feat; accomplishment; award for completing a particular task or meeting an objective
Show examples and contexts adumbrate
(предвещать) give hint or indication of something; disclose partially or guardedly; overshadow; shade
Show examples and contexts affirmation
(утверждения) positive assertion; confirmation; solemn pledge by one who refuses to take an oath
Show examples and contexts agenda
(Повестка дня) items of business at a meeting; list or program of things to be done or considered
Show examples and contexts aggrandize
(возвеличивать) increase scope of; extend; intensify; make greater in power, influence, stature, or reputation
Show examples and contexts aggressive
(агрессивного) making assaults; unjustly attacking; combative; hostile; tending to spread quickly
Show examples and contexts aggressiveness
(агрессивности) feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack; quality of being bold and enterprising
Show examples and contexts alien
(чужеродн��е) dissimilar, inconsistent, or opposed in nature; very different place, society, or person
Show examples and contexts allegory
(аллегории) symbolic representation of abstract ideas or principles in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form
Show examples and contexts alternate
(альтернативных) happening or following in turns; succeeding each other continuously; substitute
Show examples and contexts ambivalence
(амбивалентность) state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes, such as love and hate
Show examples and contexts amenable
(поддаются) responsive to advice or suggestion; responsible to higher authority; willing to comply with; agreeable
Show examples and contexts anarchist
(анархисты) person who seeks to overturn established government; advocate of abolishing authority
Show examples and contexts anecdotal
(анекдотических) having the character of an anecdote; of short story of interesting or humorous incident
Show examples and contexts annuity
(ренты) annual payment of allowance or income; periodical payment, amounting to a fixed sum in each year
Show examples and contexts anoint
(помазать) apply oil or similar substance to; put oil on during religious ceremony as a sign of sanctification or consecration.
Show examples and contexts anomaly
(аномалии) irregularity; person or something that is unusual; departure from normal or common order
Show examples and contexts antecedents
(прошлое) preceding events or circumstances that influence what comes later; ancestors or early background
Show examples and contexts anticlimax
(разочарование) letdown in thought or emotion; decline viewed in disappointing contrast with previous rise
Show examples and contexts aphorism
(афоризм) definition or concise statement of principle; tersely phrased statement of truth or opinion
Show examples and contexts apiary
(пасека) place where bees and beehives are kept, especially where bees are raised for their honey
Show examples and contexts apologist
(апологет) person who argues in defense or justification of something, such as doctrine, policy, or institution
Show examples and contexts apotheosis
(апофеоз) elevation to godhood; fact or action of becoming a god; an ideal example of something
Show examples and contexts apprehension
(опасение) fearful or uneasy anticipation of the future; act of seizing or capturing; understanding
Show examples and contexts apprenticeship
(обучение) term during which one learns a trade from skilled worker; service or legal condition of an apprentice
Show examples and contexts architecture
(архитектура) art and science of designing and erecting buildings; buildings and other large structures
Show examples and contexts arid
(засушливых) dry; lacking moisture, especially having insufficient rainfall to support trees or plants
Show examples and contexts ascribe
(приписывают) inscribe or dedicate; attribute to a specified cause, source, or origin; assign as a quality
Show examples and contexts aspect
(аспект) distinct feature or element in a problem; a way in which something can be viewed by the mind
Show examples and contexts astringent
(вяжущее) causing contraction; having the effect of drawing tissue together; stern or austere
Show examples and contexts atavism
(атавизм) resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents; deformity returning after passage of two or more generations
Show examples and contexts atavistic
(атавистические) displaying characteristics of previous cultural era or of previous ancestral form
Show examples and contexts atrophy
(атрофия) wasting away; decrease in size; reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease
Show examples and contexts attached
(вложенный) fastened together; joined by wall, especially by sharing a wall with another building; not freestanding
Show examples and contexts attract
(привлечения) draw to, or cause to tend to; engage or fix, as the mind, attention; invite or allure
Show examples and contexts attrition
(истощение) gradual decrease in numbers; reduction in work force without firing employees; wearing away of opposition by means of harassment
Show examples and contexts auroral
(авроральной) characteristic of dawn; dawning, eastern, like new beginning; relating to the atmospheric phenomenon auroras
Show examples and contexts authority
(власть) jurisdiction; power to enforce laws, exact obedience, command, determine, or judge; government
Show examples and contexts aversion
(отвращение) firm dislike; turning away; avoidance of a thing, situation, or behavior because of dislike
Show examples and contexts avocation
(призвание) activity taken up in addition to one's regular work or profession, usually for enjoyment
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