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a. невозмутимым wooden; impersonal; deliberately impassive or expressionless, as face or look


Spelling Word: deadpan
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a. выводимых capable of being derived by reasoning from known principles or facts


Spelling Word: deducible
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v. отступать annul in part; repeal partly; restrict; limit the action of


Spelling Word: derogate
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n. пустыня an area with little or no vegetation; forsake; abandon


Spelling Word: desert
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a. окольными departing from the correct and accepted way; misleading; not straightforward


Spelling Word: devious
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v. отвлекаться turn aside, especially from the main subject in writing or speaking


Spelling Word: digress
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n. разведение process of making weaker or less concentrated; decrease in the equity position of a share of stock


Spelling Word: dilution
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n. панихида a piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; funeral hymn


Spelling Word: dirge
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n. ученик follower; adherent; a person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others


Spelling Word: disciple
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v. уныние discourage; cause to lose courage or hope


Spelling Word: dishearten