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a. кропотливая extremely careful and diligent work or effort; taking of pains


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a. приходских narrow in outlook; related to a local church community


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n. родословная a line of ancestors; descent; lineage; register or record of a line of ancestors


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n. маятника a body suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum


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n. многолетних lasting indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal; remaining active throughout all the time


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v. смущать confuse and worry someone slightly by being difficult to understand or solve


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a. стойких lasting for a long time or difficult to get rid of


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n. Физиология branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms


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a. пористых full of pores; able to absorb fluids; full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through


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n. предписание rule or principle prescribing particular action or conduct; authorized direction or order


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