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  Academic Words Level 2 - 4 - Matching Quizzes
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relieve  Speak Example sentences
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[облегчить] free from a burden; alleviate; save from ruin
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[представление] act of representing; standing in for someone or some group and speaking with authority on their behalf
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[строгости] strictness or severity, as in temperament, action, or judgment; something hard to endure
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[стремятся] make a tender of; be disposed or inclined; move or extend in a certain direction
responsibility  Speak Example sentences
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[лес] small forest; woodland; a dense collection of trees covering a relatively small area
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[ответственность] duties; obligation; state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable
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[облегчить] free from a burden; alleviate; save from ruin
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[выбор] choice; variety; collection
restraint  Speak Example sentences
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[подсолнечник] a plant having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays
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[сдержанность] moderation or limitation; controlling force; loss of freedom; control of feelings
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[Вайн] a weak-stemmed plant that derives support from climbing
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[условие] provision; an agreement made by parties in a judicial proceeding
rotation  Speak Example sentences
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[вращения] revolution; an act of rotating as if on an axis
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[сдержанность] moderation or limitation; controlling force; loss of freedom; control of feelings
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[представление] act of representing; standing in for someone or some group and speaking with authority on their behalf
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[сенсационные] arousing or intended to arouse strong curiosity, interest, or reaction
roughly  Speak Example sentences
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[избегать] avoid deliberately; keep away from
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[ответственность] duties; obligation; state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable
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[удовлетворение] fulfillment or gratification of a desire, need, or appetite; source or means of gratification
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[примерно] approximately; more or less
satisfaction  Speak Example sentences
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[Уэйд] paddle; walk through relatively shallow water
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[добровольцев] a person who performs or offers to perform a service voluntarily
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[липкие] glutinous; adhesive; covered with an adhesive agent; humid; stiff
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[удовлетворение] fulfillment or gratification of a desire, need, or appetite; source or means of gratification
scene  Speak Example sentences
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[соблазнять] give rise to a desire by being attractive
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[сцена] a structure on which something is shown; place, time, or circumstance in which anything occurs
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[искры] flash; sparkle; emit or produce sparks
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[Торн] something that causes irritation; a sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf
sensational  Speak Example sentences
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[сенсационные] arousing or intended to arouse strong curiosity, interest, or reaction
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[условие] provision; an agreement made by parties in a judicial proceeding
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[застенчивый] timid; bashful; easily startled; distrustful
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[обман] pretend; put on a false appearance of; feign
strand  Speak Example sentences
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[решительным] firm, unyielding,  or determined; having decided purpose
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[больной] affected with the disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health
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[нити] a complex of fibers that twisted together to form a cable, rope, thread; land bordering a body of water; single filament
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[искры] flash; sparkle; emit or produce sparks
suppose  Speak Example sentences
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[беспрецедентного] having no previous example; novel; unparalleled
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[соблазнять] give rise to a desire by being attractive
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[Пусть] imagine or admit to exist; assume to be true; believe or receive as true
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[Телескоп] a magnifier of images of distant objects