Encountered Words 1

Question 1

частушечный

Answer 1

related to [частушка] - a kind of low-brow folk music/poetry from the 1870s

Question 2

приверженец

Answer 2

adherent, follower, partisan

Question 3

скабрёзность

Answer 3

from [скабрёзный] - indecent or obscene in content or meaning

Question 4

утрировать

Answer 4

to exaggerate
[утрированный] - exaggerated

Question 5

изысканный

Answer 5

1) elegant, refined
2) choice, exquisite

Question 6

изыскивать/изыскать

Answer 6

to find, discover through diligent searching
[изыщу, изыщешь, изыщуть]

Question 7

пустяк

Answer 7

trifle
[пустячок]

Question 8

трактовка

Answer 8

interpretation, treatment, version

Question 9

вводить/ввести

Answer 9

1) to introduce
2) to bring in, usher in
3) to input
[введённый] - participle

Question 10

восприятие

Answer 10

perception (individual, conscious understanding of something

Question 11

воспринимать/воспринять

Answer 11

1) to perceive, apprehend
2) to appreciate, take in (be aware of)

Question 12

углублять/углубить

Answer 12

1) to deepen
2) to extend, intensify
3) aggravate
[углублённый] - participle

Question 13

оттенок

Answer 13

1) shade, tinge, tin, nuance, hue (of a color)
2) inflection, nuance

Question 14

примета

Answer 14

omen, sign, token

Question 15

почерпнуть

Answer 15

to get, draw (from), derive

Question 16

намерение

Answer 16

intention, intent, purpose
[намеренный] - intentional, deliberate

Question 17

сближать/сблизить

Answer 17

to draw, bring together

Question 18

сближение

Answer 18

convergence

Question 19

пропажа

Answer 19

loss

Question 20

фиоритура

Answer 20

ornamental, virtuosic passage accompanying or adorning the melody (music)

Question 21

нарочито

Answer 21

1) specially, expressly
2) deliberately, intentionally

Question 22

распевать/распеть

Answer 22

1) to spend time singing (coll.)
2) to sing loudly (coll.)
3) to rehearse (a song)

Question 23

рубить/по-

Answer 23

to axe, chop, fell, cut (with an axe)
[рубленный] - participle

Question 24

напев

Answer 24

melody, tune

Question 25

нескладный

Answer 25

1) ungainly, awkward, gawky, clumsy
2) absurd
3) incoherent, inarticulate
3) inharmonious

Question 26

складный

Answer 26

1) well-built, well-made, well-proportioned (of a person or object)
2) fluent, smooth (speech, writing)
3) harmonious, coherent

Question 27

созвучный

Answer 27

1) harmonious, assonant
2) in accordance with (+ dat)

Question 28

мещанство

Answer 28

1) petite bourgeoisie, urban lower middle class (in the Russian Empire)
2) narrowmindedness (fig.)
[мещанский] - narrowminded, vulgar (or relational)

Question 29

бездуховный

Answer 29

characterized by poverty of the spiritual world, low level morality or intellectual needs, etc.

Question 30

смеховой

Answer 30

humorous, funny
[смешно, смех]

Question 31

сгущать/сгустить

Answer 31

to thicken, to condense
[густой]

Question 32

содержание

Answer 32

1) keeping
2) upkeep, maintenance
3) content, substance

Question 33

преимущество

Answer 33

1) advantage (condition, etc. favorable to success)
2) exclusive right or privilege to something
syn. [превосходство] - (1) - superiority
syn. [привилегия] - (2) privilege
[преимущественно] - primarily, predominantly, mostly

Question 34

превосходство

Answer 34

1) superiority
2) excellence

Question 35

привилегия

Answer 35

privilege (benefit, advantage, or favor)

Question 36

рассматривать/рассмотреть

Answer 36

1) to look at, peruse, examine
2) regard, consider

Question 37

просматривать/просмотреть

Answer 37

1) to look over, look through, glance over, look over (not very deeply)

Question 38

регламентация

Answer 38

regulation

Question 39

соотношение

Answer 39

1) correspondence (agreement of situations with an expected outcome)
2) correlation, ratio

Question 40

подтачивать

Answer 40

1) to sharpen, make sharper
2) to gnaw at the base of something or in places (of rodents, insects)
3) destroy, blur gradually
4) undermine, weaken, degrade

Question 41

насекомое

Answer 41

insect
[букашка] - 1) bug, insect
2) someone insignificant
[козявка] - 1) bug, insect
2) little child, baby, toddler
3) booger

Question 42

изнутри

Answer 42

from within, from the inside

Question 43

оболочка

Answer 43

cover, envelope, shell (various senses)

Question 44

нескладуха

Answer 44

absence of necessary order
[нескладный]

Question 45

горланить

Answer 45

to scream, shout, sing at the top of one’s lungs (low coll.)

Question 46

плясовой

Answer 46

cheerfully, quickly
[пляска] - dance

Question 47

заверение

Answer 47

assurance, pledge

Question 48

подлинный

Answer 48

1) original, authentic, genuine
2) true, real, pure