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Tawdry
(´tɔ:drı) |
[N] безвкусные украшения дешевый шик
[A] кричаще безвкусный мишурный -He hated them for the tawdry lives they led -tawdry ornaments -tawdry jewelry -Tawdry affair with a young white house aide -Tawdry means cheap, shoddy, or tasteless. It can be used to describe almost anything from clothes to people to even events or affairs. |
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Span
(spæn) |
[N] пядь интервал миг промежуток времени пролет
[V] перекрывать соединять соединять берега -The first span of the bridge is one hundred metres long. пролёт -Seventy or eighty years is the normal span of a man's life. промежуток времени -His professional career spanned 16 years. -The batteries had a life span of six hours. -Any distance between two things is called a span. These end points can be physical, like the span of a rope between two trees, or they can be more abstract, such as the span of time between five and six o'clock. |
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Trite
(traıt) |
[A] банальный избитый затасканный
-His poetry is full of trite descriptions of nature. банальный -a trite or obvious remark -The movie is teeming with trite and obvious ideas. -When you want to indicate that something is silly or overused, you would call it trite. A love song with lyrics about holding hands in the sunshine? Totally trite. |
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Expiate
(´ekspı ̗eıt) |
[V] искупать (вину) искупить
-expiate one's sins -repentant sinners seeking to expiate their wrongdoing -He expiated his crimes two weeks ago at Fort Wilhelmina, your excellency |
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Glum
(glʌm) |
[A] мрачный угрюмый хмурый
-a glum expression. угрюмый -To be glum is to be sad. Glum is a word for being depressed, bummed out, or down in the dumps. -a glum, hopeless shrug -What are you both looking glum about? |
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Tardy
(´tɑ:rdı) |
[A] поздний запоздалый медленный медлительный
- be tardy for school -The explanation of a tardy student -the agency's tardy response to the hurricane tardy children are sent to the principal -always tardy in making dental appointments |
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Gregarious
(grı´geərıəs) |
[A] стадный живущий стаями ( стадами, обществами) общительный
- a gregarious person. общительный - Geese are gregarious. стадный -If you know someone who's outgoing, sociable, and fond of the company of others, you might want to call her gregarious -he is a gregarious person who avoids solitude -gregarious bird species |
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Intermingle
( ̗ıntər´mıŋgəl) |
[V] перемесить перемешивать смешивать смешиваться общаться
-In this part of town things were intermingled - Policemen in plain clothes intermingled with the crowd to prevent trouble during the foreign ruler's state visit. - смешивать(ся), перемешивать(ся) (with) -The two cultures intermingle without losing their identity. |
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Desist
(dı´zıst) |
[V] переставать прекращать воздерживаться
-You can use the verb desist as a way to say "stop" or "cease. -Kindly desist from making so much noise. -He was about to say something further, but he desisted. |
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Flamboyant
(flæm´bɔıənt) |
[N] огненно-красный цветок
[A] пламенеющий яркий цветистый пышный чрезмерно пышный -He wears flamboyant clothes. броский -He was a flamboyant personality -When you think of flamboyant, think of Las Vegas showgirls: feathers, sequins, three-inch heels, enough make-up to disguise any irregularity. -flamboyant handwriting |
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Headlong (´hed ̗lɔ:ŋ)
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[A] опрометчивый безудержный бурный
[ADV] головой вперед опрометью стремглав прометчиво очертя голову -a headlong rush for the exit -Do not leap headlong into decisions. -heedlessly He ran headlong for the open door. |
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Inconceivable
( ̗ınkən´sıvəbəl) |
[A] непостижимый невероятный немыслимый невообразимый необычайный
-inconceivable wickedness. невообразимый The idea was inconceivable -, it's inconceivable that you would actually eat your hat. -If something is inconceivable, it doesn’t seem possible, it’s hard to imagine, or it can’t be true. |
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Sleek
(slı:k) |
[V] наводить лоск разглаживать пригладить приглаживать сглаживать
[A] лоснящийся (о волосах) прилизанный гладкий холеный елейный -The dog has a lovely sleek coat. лоснящийся, гладкий -Siamese cat lay by the fire. ухоженный -The sleek women -sleek black fur -sleek figures in expensive clothes -If you hair is sleek, it is smooth and glossy. If your car is sleek, it's shiny and looks like it goes fast. Sleek always means smooth, glossy, and streamlined. |
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Indigenous
(ın´dıdʒənəs) |
[A] туземный местный здешний природный врожденный
-Indigenous, aboriginal and native all mean the same thing -the country's indigenous population -Indigenous, aboriginal and native all mean the same thing --Use indigenous to describe a plant, animal or person that is native or original to an area. Though Switzerland is known for its chocolates, chocolate, which comes from the cocoa plant, is indigenous to South America. |
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Irreverent
(ı´revərənt) |
[A] Непочтительный
-If you're being cheeky you're being brash or irreverent. -noisy irreverent tourists -irreverent humor. -If you are irreverent, you don’t show respect toward something, like your irreverent singing of your school's alma mater in a funny voice. |
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tycoon
(taı´ku:n) |
[N] промышленный магнат финансовый магнат
-an oil tycoon. магнат -a self-made property tycoon -The billionaire tycoon made his wealth in 1990s Moscow, making him suspect in some eyes. |
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Maul
(mɔ:l) |
[N] кувалда
[V] избивать жестоко избивать калечить терзать неумело ( грубо) обращаться жестоко критиковать -He was badly mauled by an angry lion. терзать, калечить -badly mauled by a bear - сильно помятый медведем -The troops were severely mauled before evacuating the island. -Maul is both the name of a heavy hammer, and also a verb meaning beating and scratching. Tigers, lions, bears––animals with powerful paws and sharp claws, will maul their victims. |
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Sprig
(sprıg) |
[N] веточка росток узор в виде веточки молодой человек юноша отпрыск штифт гвоздь без шляпки
[V] давать побеги украшать узором в виде веточек забивать гвозди закреплять штифтом -She was wearing her best dress- blue and white sprigged, with cape sleeves -Pack cup tightly with crushed ice; add bourbon and mint sprig. |
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Supercilious
( ̗su:pər´sılıəs) |
[A] надменный высокомерный горделивый презрительный
- a supercilious look. презрительный -curled his lip in a supercilious smile -Supercilious people think very highly of themselves, more highly than of others. Think of them as a "super silly ass," and you'll remember the basic sense of supercilious. -His manner is supercilious and arrogant. |
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Invigorate
(ın´vıgə ̗reıt) |
[V] давать силы подбадривать бодрить укреплять
-The shower invigorated her. придавать бодрость -Invigorate means to give strength or energy to something or someone. -The cold water invigorated him -Exercise is invigorating -Take a deep breath in to invigorate you. |
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Reverie
(´revərı) |
[N] мечтания мечты мечтательность
-He was lost in reverie. мечтание -pleasant reveries. фантазия; грёзы -to fall into a reverie -lost in reverie. -The voice brought him out of his reverie. -If you're relaxing on the beach, dreaming of how you will never have to get up and go back to work, you're engaged in a reverie, or pleasant daydream. |
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Nonchalant
( ̗nɒnʃə´lɒnt) |
[A] беззаботный беспечный небрежный безразличный равнодушный бесстрастный
-Just happened to be nonchalantly smoking herself -Denis tried unsuccessfully to look nonchalant and uninterested. -If your friend is acting cool, unconcerned or in an indifferent manner, call him nonchalant |
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Inexorable (ın´eksərəbəl)
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[A] неумолимый непреклонный непоколебимый безжалостный
-the seemingly inexorable rise in unemployment -When a person is inexorable, they're stubborn. When a thing or process is inexorable, it can't be stopped. -An inexorable person is hard-headed and cannot be convinced to change their mind, no matter what. You can also say that a process, like the progress of a deadly illness, is inexorable because it can't be stopped. |
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Miner
(´maınər) |
[N] горняк горнорабочий шахтер рудокоп забойщик минер
-a retired Welsh miner -Commodity prices have fallen as well, forcing miners to cut back on orders. |
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Invincible
(ın´vınsəbəl) |
[A] Непобедимый
-He was not only invincible but immoral -That general thinks that his army is invincible. непобедимый -Something invincible is victorious over everything -an invincible army -her invincible spirit |
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Spurious
(´spjʋrıəs) |
[A] поддельный ложный подложный незаконнорожденный
-a spurious work of art -Better no facts at all than spurious ones. -Something false or inauthentic is spurious. Don't trust spurious ideas and stories. Spurious statements often are lies, just as a spurious coin is a counterfeit coin — a fake. |
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Knave
(neıv) |
[N] мошенник негодяй валет [карт.] плут приятель мальчик-слуга слуга
-the knave of diamonds. валет -A therefore deals, as knave is in this game higher than ace. -You don't hear about knaves much these days: it's an older word for a rascal, a scoundrel, or a rogue. It isn't a compliment. |
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Slant
(slænt) |
[N] уклон косина скос наклонная плоскость склон точка зрения мнение подход предвзятое отношение взгляд быстрый взгляд тенденция
[V] наклонять отклонять наклоняться отклоняться искажать тенденциозно освещать [A] наклонный -The house is very old and all the floors and ceilings slant a little. наклоняться, отклоняться noun -The roof has a steep slant. уклон, скос -that picture slants to the right ― картина висит косо -he slants towards drinking too much ― он склонен к выпивке |
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Solitude
(´sɒlə ̗tu:d) |
[N] уединение уединенность одиночество уединенные ( безлюдные) места
-He saved her from solitude -Imagine long golden beaches where you can wander in solitude. -Solitude is the state of being alone. You might crave solitude after spending the holidays with your big, loud family |
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Profane
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[V] профанировать осквернять
[A] мирской светский непосвященный языческий нечестивый богохульный -Profane is the sort of language that gets bleeped on TV but it's also whenever you deeply offend people with how little respect you show something (usually religious). -profane words -profane the name of God -Churches should not be used for profane or secular purposes. |
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Rectify
(´rektə ̗faı) |
[V] исправлять поправлять улучшать очищать ректифицировать выпрямлять (ток) детектировать
-We shall rectify the error as soon as possible . исправлять -Only an act of Congress could rectify the situation. -rectify the calculation -rectify the inequities in salaries |
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Pied
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[A] пестрый разноцветный
-Pied means colorfully jumbled. -pied daisies -a bird with pied markings |
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Injustice
(ın´dʒʌstıs) |
[N] несправедливость
- He complained of injustice in the way he had been treated; They agreed that an injustice had been committed. несправедливость -They will continue to fight injustice. -Life isn’t fair, and that quality is exactly what defines injustice: something unfair that happens, often in violation of a basic human right. |
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Obedient
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[A] послушный покорный
-They were docile, obedient children. -an obedient soldier -a little man obedient to his wife -a sweet, obedient little girl -If you always do what you’re told, you can be described as obedient. Authority figures love to have obedient followers. |
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Oblige
(ə´blaıdʒ) |
[V] обязать обязыватьделать одолжение одолжить принуждать заставлять связывать обязательством угождать услуживать радеть
-She was obliged to go; The police obliged him to leave. обязывать; заставлять -Could you oblige me by carrying this, please?д елать одолжение; оказывать услугу -He is always ready to oblige journalists with information. -They obliged us by arriving early. -To oblige is to do something you have to, because you're bound by either good manners or the law. |
