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