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Group 3 - Matching Quizzes
masquerade 
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 | (панегирик) formal or high praise; formal eulogistic composition intended as public compliment |
| (тщательно) excessively careful; marked by extreme care in treatment of details |
| (Маскарад) assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions; dramatic performance by actors in masks |
| (прелюдией) introduction; forerunner; preliminary or preface |
misnomer
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| (мирской) belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly; concerned with commonplaces; ordinary |
| (неправильно) error in naming person or place; name wrongly or unsuitably applied to a person or an object |
| (меандр) follow a winding and turning course; move aimlessly and idly without fixed direction |
| (пектиновых) stubbornly or perversely persistent; unyielding; obstinate |
mundane
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| (парадокс) something apparently contradictory in nature; statement that looks false but is actually correct |
| (мирской) belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly; concerned with commonplaces; ordinary |
| (начинающих) beginner; person new to a field or activity |
| (монолог) speech uttered by a person alone; dramatic soliloquy |
oblivion
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| (якобы) put forth or held out as real, actual, or intended; proper or intended to be shown |
| (парадокс) something apparently contradictory in nature; statement that looks false but is actually correct |
| (забвение) condition or quality of being completely forgotten; official overlooking of offenses; amnesty |
| (плагиат) theft of another's ideas or writings passed off as original |
obsolete
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| (знакомиться) read or examine, typically with great care |
| (панегирик) formal or high praise; formal eulogistic composition intended as public compliment |
| (устаревших) no longer useful; outmoded; antiquated |
| (педантичным) marked by narrow focus on or display of learning, especially formal rules and trivial points |
panacea
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| (пристрастие) condition of favoring or liking; tendency towards; preference |
| (плебейской) crude or coarse; unrefined or coarse in nature or manner; common or vulgar |
| (панацеей) remedy for all diseases, evils, or difficulties; a cure-all |
| (неустойчивой) uncertain; risky; dangerously lacking in security or stability |
parody
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| (ранней) advanced in development; appearing or developing early |
| (пародии) work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony; make fun of |
| (одержимость) compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion |
| (неправильно) error in naming person or place; name wrongly or unsuitably applied to a person or an object |
peremptory
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| (императивной) offensively self-assured; dictatorial; not allowing contradiction or refusal |
| (вредоносных) deliberately harmful; spiteful; proceeding from extreme hatred |
| (плагиат) theft of another's ideas or writings passed off as original |
| (грешок) slight offense; small sin or fault |
pertinacious
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| (знакомиться) read or examine, typically with great care |
| (пектиновых) stubbornly or perversely persistent; unyielding; obstinate |
| (злоба) enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another |
| (мыс) natural elevation, especially a rock that projects into the sea; cliff; headland; high cape |
peruse
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| (ранней) advanced in development; appearing or developing early |
| (неустойчивой) uncertain; risky; dangerously lacking in security or stability |
| (Перефразируя) restate text in one's own words, especially to clarify thought of others |
| (знакомиться) read or examine, typically with great care |