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 5000 Words Level 4 - 3 - Matching Quizzes
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knotty  Speak Example sentences
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[узловатые] tied in knots; covered with knots or knobs; difficult to understand or solve
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[пористых] full of pores; able to absorb fluids; full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through
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[разборчиво] readable; distinct; plainly discernible; apparent
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[осматривать достопримечательности] look on or treat a person as a celebrity; visit famous places in order to revere them
leaven  Speak Example sentences
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[похвальные] deserving of praise; worthy of high praise
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[Пандемия] widespread; affecting majority of people
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[закваски] cause to rise, especially by fermentation; add a rising agent to
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[мятежных] unruly; rebellious; turbulent and uncontrollable
lionize  Speak Example sentences
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[осматривать достопримечательности] look on or treat a person as a celebrity; visit famous places in order to revere them
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[мания величия] mental disorder  with delusions of grandeur
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[навязчивой] inclined to intrude or thrust one's self or one's opinions upon others; enter uninvited; forward; pushing; intrusive.
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[патина] the green crust on old bronze works; tone slowly taken by varnished painting
mordant  Speak Example sentences
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[претензии] advancing of a claim; assertion; a false or unsupportable quality
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[кинетической] relating to, or produced by motion; dynamic
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[закваски] cause to rise, especially by fermentation; add a rising agent to
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[протрава] bitingly painful; harshly ironic or sinister; serving to fix colors in dyeing
nostrum  Speak Example sentences
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[Nostrum] patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable; quack medicine
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[первобытных] ancient; primitive; belonging to the first or earliest age; original or ancient
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[предположительный] supposed to be accurate; reasonable as a supposition
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[вялый] lacking in spirit or energy to exert effort
obtrusive  Speak Example sentences
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[навязчивой] inclined to intrude or thrust one's self or one's opinions upon others; enter uninvited; forward; pushing; intrusive.
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[обратная] opposite; reversed in order, nature, or effect; turned upside down
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[патина] the green crust on old bronze works; tone slowly taken by varnished painting
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[Папский] pertaining to bishop or pope; having dignity or authority of the bishop
ostensible  Speak Example sentences
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[щедрые] very liberal in giving; showing great generosity
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[устранить] bypass requirement or make it unnecessary; get rid of
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[якобы] put forth or held out as real, actual, or intended; proper or intended to be shown
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[патриция] belong to noble origin; having high birth
pandemic  Speak Example sentences
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[Пандемия] widespread; affecting majority of people
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[первобытных] ancient; primitive; belonging to the first or earliest age; original or ancient
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[ненависть] strong dislike, contempt, or aversion; hatefulness; disrepute
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[похвальные] deserving of praise; worthy of high praise
pervade  Speak Example sentences
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[вялый] lacking in spirit or energy to exert effort
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[пронизывают] pass or flow through, as an aperture; permeate; pass or spread through the whole extent of
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[пористых] full of pores; able to absorb fluids; full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through
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[разборчиво] readable; distinct; plainly discernible; apparent
pesticide  Speak Example sentences
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[пестицидов] a chemical used to kill pests
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[патина] the green crust on old bronze works; tone slowly taken by varnished painting
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[пасквиль] ridicule; subject to abusive ridicule expressed in work of art
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[обратная] opposite; reversed in order, nature, or effect; turned upside down