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n. контакт the ability to do the right thing without making anyone unhappy; sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty


Spelling Word: tact
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v. зараза contaminate; cause to lose purity; affect with or as if with a disease; corrupt morally


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v. подсчет record by making a mark; reckon or count; keep score


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n. кисточкой male hawk; a kind of bur used in dressing cloth; flower or head of some plants, as when pendent; a narrow silk ribbon


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n. темперамент person's normal manner of thinking, behaving, or reacting; tendency to become irritable or angry


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ad. временно for a limited time only


Spelling Word: temporarily
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a. Тендер easily crushed or bruised; fragile; easily chewed or cut


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v. трос tie with rope; fasten or restrict with rope or chain


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a. обидчивый tending to take offense with slight cause; oversensitive; requiring special tact or skill in handling


Spelling Word: touchy
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a. прозрачные easily detected; permitting light to pass through freely


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