Set 5

Question 1

луч света

Answer 1

a shaft of light

Question 2

любезный

pleasant and friendly

Answer 2

amiable

/ˈeɪmiəbl/

an amiable young man

Question 3

темница

a dark, underground prison, used in the past

Answer 3

dungeon

/ˈdʌndʒən/

Question 4

not expected or planned

Answer 4

adventitious

/ˌæd.vənˈtɪʃ.əs/

an adventitious event/situation

Question 5

искусный

very skilful and quick in the way you think or move

Answer 5

adroit

/əˈdrɔɪt/

• an adroit reaction/answer/movement of the hand
• She became adroit at dealing with difficult questions.

Question 6

завуалированный

said so that the true meaning or purpose is not clear

Answer 6

veiled

/veɪld/

veiled criticism

Question 7

неумолимый, беспощадный

never stopping or getting any less extreme

Answer 7

relentless

/rɪˈlentləs/

relentless criticism

Question 8

a person who behaves in an extremely stupid way

Answer 8

imbecile

/ˈɪm.bə.siːl/

What an imbecile that boy is!

Question 9

босой

not wearing any shoes or socks

Answer 9

barefoot

/beəˈfʊt/

They ran barefoot along the wet beach.

Question 10

выщелачивать, вымывать

When a chemical substance leaches or is leached from a material, especially soil, it is removed by the action of water passing through the material

When soil, etc. has been leached, it has had chemical substances removed from it

Answer 10

leach

/liːtʃ/

• The calcium, potassium, and magnesium ions are leached or washed out of the top soil into lower inaccessible subsoil.*
• The soil has been so heavily leached through intensive farming that it is no longer fertile.*

Question 11

увечить, уродовать
to damage someone’s body violently and severely, often by cutting off a part of it

Answer 11

mutilate

/ˈmjuːtɪleɪt/

a mutilated body/corpse

Question 12

сложный, замысловатый

complicated, detailed, or made carefully from many parts

Answer 12

elaborate

/ɪˈlæbərət/

• an elaborate system/scheme*
• an elaborate design*

Question 13

предотвратить

to prevent something from happening by acting first

Answer 13

forestall

/fɔːˈstɔːl/

The company executives forestalled criticism by inviting union leaders to meet

Question 14

безрассудство

stupid behaviour that will have bad results

Answer 14

lunacy

/ˈluːnəsi/

It was lunacy spending all that money.

Question 15

отказываться от чего-либо

to decide not to have or do something you want

Answer 15

forego

/fɔːˈɡəʊ/

Question 16

гонг

a metal disc that makes a loud sound when you hit it with a stick

Answer 16

gong

/ɡɒŋ/

Question 17

вечный

continuing forever, or seeming to continue forever

Answer 17

eternal

/ɪˈtɜːnəl/

eternal youth

Question 18

мягкий, теплый (о погоде)

Answer 18

mild

/maɪld/

a mild winter

Question 19

наемник

someone who has been persuaded by an offer of money to do an unpleasant or unpopular job

Answer 19

hireling

/ˈhaɪə.lɪŋ/

He’s not the boss, he’s just a hireling employed to do the dirty work.

Question 20

месть, возмездие

the act of doing something bad to someone who has done something bad to you, or the feeling of wanting to do this

Answer 20

vengeance

/ˈvendʒəns/

an act of vengeance

Question 21

лживость

Answer 21

falseness

Question 22

промах

a serious and often stupid mistake

Answer 22

blunder

/ˈblʌndər/

a series of financial blunders

Question 23

общаться, разговаривать

to have a conversation with someone

Answer 23

converse

/ˈkɒn.vɜːs/

She’s so shy that conversing with her can be pretty hard.

Question 24

гибкий

able to bend or move easily

Answer 24

supple

\/ˈsʌpl/

a supple body

Question 25

обнимать, сжимать

to hold something or someone tightly

Answer 25

clasp

/klɑːsp/

He clasped his daughter in his arms.

Question 26

крытая аркада

a covered stone passage around the edges of a garden in a church or religious building

Answer 26

cloister

/ˈklɔɪstər/

Question 27

метель

a storm with strong winds and snow

Answer 27

blizzard

/ˈblɪzəd/

Question 28

мрачный, зловещий

worrying and bad

Answer 28

grim

/ɡrɪm/

• grim news*
• The future looks grim.*

Question 29

цепляться, держаться, прилипать

to hold someone or something tightly, especially because you are frightened

to stick to something

Answer 29

cling

/klɪŋ/

• She was found clinging to the ledge*
• I clung on to his hand in the dark*
• His damp hair clung to his forehead*

Question 30

беспрерывный

continuous

Answer 30

ceaseless

/ˈsiːsləs/

the ceaseless movement of the sea

Question 31

грызть, покусывать

to eat something by taking very small bites or to bite something gently

Answer 31

nibble

/ˈnɪbl/

• He was nibbling a biscuit.*
• She nibbled playfully at his ear.*

Question 32

очаг

the floor around a fireplace

Answer 32

hearth

/hɑːθ/

Question 33

наносить ущерб

to cause a lot of damage or harm

Answer 33

wreak

/riːk/

Floods have wreaked havoc in central Europe.

Question 34

самозванство

the act of pretending to be someone else in order to deceive others

Answer 34

imposture

/ɪmˈpɒs.tjər/

Question 35

превращать, преобразовывать

to change something completely, especially into something different and better

Answer 35

transmute

/trænzˈmjuːt/

• A few centuries ago alchemists thought they could transmute lead into gold.*
• Plutonium transmutes into/to uranium when it is processed in a nuclear reactor.*

Question 36

уплетать, проглатывать, жрать

to eat food very quickly

Answer 36

gobble

/ˈɡɒbl/

Question 37

обманчивый, лживый

seeming to be right or true, but really wrong or false

Answer 37

specious

/ˈspiː.ʃəs/

• a specious argument/claim
• specious allegations/promises

Question 38

высокое положение

Answer 38

eminence

/ˈemɪnəns/

Question 39

неумелый, неспособный

unable to do something well

Answer 39

inept

/ɪˈnept/

• socially inept
• She was totally inept at telling jokes.

Question 40

чуждый, инопланетный

strange and not familiar

relating to creatures from another planet

Answer 40

alien

/ˈeɪliən/

• The custom was totally alien to her.
• an alien spacecraft

Question 41

кружка (пивная)

a large drinking cup, usually made of metal, with sloping sides, a handle, and sometimes a lid, mainly used for drinking beer

Answer 41

tankard

/ˈtæŋ.kəd/

Question 42

усиливать

to make a sound louder using electronic equipment

to make a feeling or opinion stronger or clearer

Answer 42

amplify

/ˈæmplɪfaɪ/

Question 43

изворотливость, хитрость

the quality of being dishonest or tricking people, but often also being clever and successful

Answer 43

deviousness

/ˈdiː.vi.əs.nəs/

• This is a movie that explores the deviousness of human nature.
• Lucy’s deviousness hurt Lem deeply.
• She’s demonstrated deviousness and a total lack of willingness to accept responsibility for her own mistakes.
• He reluctantly admired their deviousness.
• He shook his head at the sheer extent of human deviousness.

Question 44

придворный

a companion of a queen, king, or other ruler in their official home, especially in the past

Answer 44

courtier

/ˈkɔː.ti.ər/

Many of the courtiers were strongly wedded to traditional ways of doing things

Question 45

порхать (перепархивать)

to fly or move quickly from one place to another

Answer 45

flit (flit about/around/in and out)

/flɪt/

Birds were flitting from tree to tree.

Question 46

неисчислимый

too big to measure

Answer 46

incalculable

/ɪnˈkælkjələbl/

The cost in human terms is incalculable.

Question 47

румяный

Answer 47

ruddy

/ˈrʌdi/

ruddy cheeks

Question 48

ресницы

the small hairs on the edges of your eye

Answer 48

lashes

/ˈlæʃɪz/

Question 49

мрачный, унылый, темный

sad and serious

dark and without bright colours

Answer 49

sombre (US somber)

/ˈsɒmbər/

• a sombre expression/mood
• a sombre colour

Question 50

мягкость, скучность

the quality of not having a strong taste or character or not showing any interest or energy

Answer 50

blandness

/ˈblænd.nəs/

• He made a joke about the blandness of the food.
• The characters are familiar to the point of blandness.
• The office is a model of blandness.
• Hospital food, once mocked for its blandness, has gone upscale.
• My usual enthusiasm for life was replaced by blandness.