4000 CAE Vocabulary List

изгнать drive out; drive away; compel to depart; dispel

ракета-носитель device for increasing power or effectiveness; enthusiastic promoter, as of a sports team or school

даровать give as a gift; present

бекон back and sides of a pig salted and smoked

стеб good-humored, playful conversation

лампа the rounded part of a cylindrical structure; electric lamp consisting of a glass ball

просмотреть graze; skim or glance at casually

приманка harass; tease; lure, entice, or entrap

Брошь ornamental clasp;  decorative pin worn by women

бальные large room used mainly for dancing

Балерина principal woman dancer in a ballet company; woman ballet dancer

мрачная cold or cheerless; unlikely to be favorable

бекон back and sides of a pig salted and smoked

алкоголь drink greedily or immoderately, especially alcoholic liquor

бальные large room used mainly for dancing

получатель a person entitled to benefits or proceeds of an insurance policy or will

изгнать drive out; drive away; compel to depart; dispel

метель a severe snowstorm with strong winds

жестокость quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness

береза tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula

банкротом penniless, without any money; financially ruined

Брошь ornamental clasp;  decorative pin worn by women

просмотреть graze; skim or glance at casually

блокбастер something, such as a film or book that sustains widespread popularity; high-explosive bomb

стеб good-humored, playful conversation

драка fight; noisy quarrel or fight; loud party

плотный husky; muscular and heavily built

получатель a person entitled to benefits or proceeds of an insurance policy or will

безграничной being without boundaries or limits; infinite; vast

береза tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula

хвастливые exhibiting self-importance

сарай an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals

Балерина principal woman dancer in a ballet company; woman ballet dancer

безграничной being without boundaries or limits; infinite; vast

баржа flatboat; long, large boat for transporting freight that is unpowered and towed or pushed by other craft

шантажа extortion of money or value from a person by threat of exposing a criminal act or discreditable information

хвастливые exhibiting self-importance

стеб good-humored, playful conversation

лезвие the flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants; cutting part of an instrument

блокбастер something, such as a film or book that sustains widespread popularity; high-explosive bomb