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bait  Speak Example sentences
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оживленная marked by speed, liveliness, and vigor; energetic; swift; keen or sharp in speech or manner
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мягкий mild and pleasant; fragrant
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приманка harass; tease; lure, entice, or entrap
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даровать give as a gift; present
bandleader  Speak Example sentences
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оркестра leader of a dance band; a musician who leads a band of musicians
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баржа flatboat; long, large boat for transporting freight that is unpowered and towed or pushed by other craft
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шантажа extortion of money or value from a person by threat of exposing a criminal act or discreditable information
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отверстие drill; make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill
barge  Speak Example sentences
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баржа flatboat; long, large boat for transporting freight that is unpowered and towed or pushed by other craft
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бальные large room used mainly for dancing
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пряжки fold or collapse; bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
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блокбастер something, such as a film or book that sustains widespread popularity; high-explosive bomb
bestow  Speak Example sentences
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шантажа extortion of money or value from a person by threat of exposing a criminal act or discreditable information
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приманка harass; tease; lure, entice, or entrap
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"шведский стол" table with food set out for people to serve themselves; meal at which people help themselves to food that's been set out
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даровать give as a gift; present
bile  Speak Example sentences
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Барб sharp projection from fishhook; openly cutting remark
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желчи yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver; the bitterness of temper
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вопиющим flagrant; conspicuously obvious; loudly offensive
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грубая not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence
bizarre  Speak Example sentences
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оживленная marked by speed, liveliness, and vigor; energetic; swift; keen or sharp in speech or manner
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странное fantastic; violently contrasting; strangely unconventional in style or appearance
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Бент determined to do or have
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партия quantity of bread baked at one time; a collection of things or persons to be handled together
blizzard  Speak Example sentences
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ошибка general name applied to various insects
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букет small cluster or arrangement of flowers; an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present
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метель a severe snowstorm with strong winds
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валун a rounded rock lying on the surface of ground or embedded in soil
blockbuster  Speak Example sentences
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получатель a person entitled to benefits or proceeds of an insurance policy or will
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значок a distinctive mark, token, or sign worn on the person
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баллада popular kind of narrative poem adapted for recitation or singing
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блокбастер something, such as a film or book that sustains widespread popularity; high-explosive bomb
bore  Speak Example sentences
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получатель a person entitled to benefits or proceeds of an insurance policy or will
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партия quantity of bread baked at one time; a collection of things or persons to be handled together
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метель a severe snowstorm with strong winds
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отверстие drill; make a hole in or through, with or as if with a drill
brisk  Speak Example sentences
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приманка harass; tease; lure, entice, or entrap
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оживленная marked by speed, liveliness, and vigor; energetic; swift; keen or sharp in speech or manner
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ошибка general name applied to various insects
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получатель a person entitled to benefits or proceeds of an insurance policy or will