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  Academic Words Level 1 - 2 - Matching Quizzes
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critical  Speak Example sentences
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[хост] great number; person entertaining guests
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[захватить] take or grasp suddenly; snatch; capture
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[критических] urgently needed; absolutely necessary; essential; acute; crucial; decisive
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[выставки] the show, make visible or apparent
crystal  Speak Example sentences
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[кристалла] quartz; glassware made of quartz; high-quality, clear, colorless glass
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[шторм] powerful wind; a gust of wind; emotional outburst as laughter or tears
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[свечения] shine with intense or white heat; give forth vivid light and heat; exhibit a strong, bright color
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[выставки] the show, make visible or apparent
despise  Speak Example sentences
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[класса] step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing
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[презирают] dislike intensely; regard with contempt or scorn
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[смертельно] fatal; lethal; causing or tending to cause death
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[отчаянные] having lost all hope; dangerous; extremely intense
drama  Speak Example sentences
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[драмы] play; literary work intended for theater
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[зависть] malice; ill will; discontent or uneasiness at another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with hatred
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[благодарности] state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; thankfulness
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[авария] smash; collision; falling down or in pieces with a loud noise of breaking parts
envy  Speak Example sentences
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[зависть] malice; ill will; discontent or uneasiness at another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with hatred
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[сущность] a most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
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[платье] loose, flowing upper garment; ordinary outer dress of woman; official robe of certain professional men
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[обхода] move slowly, as people or animals with the body near the ground
episode  Speak Example sentences
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[эпизод] a brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series
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[ярость] extreme anger; raging; full of activity; energetic or rapid
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[пожертвование] grant; an act of giving to a fund or cause
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[шторм] powerful wind; a gust of wind; emotional outburst as laughter or tears
establish  Speak Example sentences
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[фактор] anything that contributes causally to a result; element; variable
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[создание] set up or found; build
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[Форт] a fortified defensive structure; permanent army post
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[круиз] sail back and forth on the ocean; sail as for the protection of commerce, in search of an enemy, or for pleasure
esteem  Speak Example sentences
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[критических] urgently needed; absolutely necessary; essential; acute; crucial; decisive
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[Форт] a fortified defensive structure; permanent army post
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[достоинства] regard with respect; favorable regard
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[участия] act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into the contest; state of being in gear
execution  Speak Example sentences
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[файл] line; proceed in one line
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[исполнения] accomplishment; putting into practice;  putting a person to death
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[экзотические] from another part of the world; foreign; strikingly strange or unusual
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[достоинства] regard with respect; favorable regard
faint  Speak Example sentences
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[ярость] extreme anger; raging; full of activity; energetic or rapid
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[слабый] lacking strength or vigor; weak
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[Аппаратное обеспечение] mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system
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[слияния] union; an act of melting together by heat