3500 ACT Vocabulary

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neonate  Speak Example sentences
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(новорожденных) newborn infant, especially one less than four weeks old
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(возможность) favorable or advantageous circumstance; chance for progress or advancement
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(одиозных) hateful; arousing strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure
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(подобострастно) slavishly attentive; attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
nihilist  Speak Example sentences
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(перевешивают) go beyond; surpass; exceed
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(нигилист) one who believes traditional beliefs to be groundless and existence meaningless; absolute skeptic
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(обязать) force; bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted; do a service or favor for
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(тупого) lacking in insight or discernment; stupid
noisome  Speak Example sentences
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(вредный) foul-smelling; offensive by arousing disgust; harmful or dangerous
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(всеядны) eating both plant and animal food; devouring everything; having interest in a variety of subjects
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(олигархии) government by a few persons, especially by a small faction of persons or families
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(окостенеть) change or form into bone; become set in a rigidly conventional pattern; change from soft tissue to hard bony tissue
nondescript  Speak Example sentences
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(невзрачный) dull and uninteresting; lacking distinct or individual
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(самоуверенность) excessive confidence; total certainty
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(овальные) elliptic; rounded like an egg
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(упрямый) hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; not giving in to persuasion
notably  Speak Example sentences
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(в частности) especially; in a notable manner; remarkably; particularly
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(свадебный) relating to marriage or wedding ceremony
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(хам) person regarded as stupid or awkward
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(некромантия) belief in magical spells to produce unnatural effects; practice of supposedly communicating with spirits of dead ones to predict future
notoriously  Speak Example sentences
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(акушер) physician specializing in delivery of babies
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(заведомо) in notorious manner; ; publicly; openly; plainly
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(хам) person regarded as stupid or awkward
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(опалесцирующая) varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles; lustrous
nuptial  Speak Example sentences
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(координации) act of admitting to holy orders; disposition as in ranks or rows; formal arrangement
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(обременительным) burdensome or oppressive; not easily borne; wearing
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(свадебный) relating to marriage or wedding ceremony
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(аннулирования) make invalid; make null; invalidate; counteract force or effectiveness of
oblige  Speak Example sentences
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(обязать) force; bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted; do a service or favor for
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(вредный) foul-smelling; offensive by arousing disgust; harmful or dangerous
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(орнитология) branch of zoology that deals with the study of birds
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(некромантия) belief in magical spells to produce unnatural effects; practice of supposedly communicating with spirits of dead ones to predict future
obliterate  Speak Example sentences
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(уничтожить) destroy completely; do away with completely so as to leave no trace
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(перехитрить) outsmart; trick; beat through cleverness and wit
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(новорожденных) newborn infant, especially one less than four weeks old
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(хам) person regarded as stupid or awkward
oligarchy  Speak Example sentences
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(крапива) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; vex
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(олигархии) government by a few persons, especially by a small faction of persons or families
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(отрицать) cancel out; make ineffective or invalid; deny
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(кумовство) favoring of relatives or friends because of their relationship rather than their abilities