4000 CPE Vocabulary List

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a. кощунственным acting or speaking very disrespectfully toward what is held to be sacred; violating sacred things; profane

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v. жечь burn superficially;  parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; affect painfully with heat; burn

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a. семенной influential in an original way; providing the basis for further development; creative

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n. оболочка protective covering for a knife or sword; dress suitable for formal occasions

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n. катер single-mast sailing boat

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v. усмешкой show contempt by turning up the nose or by a particular facial expression; speak derisively; show mirth awkwardly

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a. пространственной relating to space; existing in or connected with space

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n. старая дева a woman who has remained single beyond the conventional age for marrying; one whose occupation is to spin

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a. спонтанного arising without external cause; growing without cultivation or human labor

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n. пребывание length of time spent in a particular way; allotted amount; limitation or restriction