Words Flashcards
Wisp
Прядь (волос)
Perpetrate
- perpetrate atrocities
совершать
matrimonial
related to marriage or people who are married
cohabit (cohabitation)
If two people cohabit, they live together and are sexual partners but are not married.
сожительствовать
fidget
- to keep making small movements with your hands or feet because you are nervous or bored
- ерзать
- She fidgeted all the way through the job interview.
pathetic ( /pəˈθetɪk/)
- жалкий
- He made a rather pathetic attempt to apologize.
You’re too frightened to speak to her? Come on, that’s pathetic!
It was a pathetic performance.
chastise
to criticize or punish someone
критиковать, наказывать
circuit
/ˈsɜːkɪt/
a path, route, or sports track that is shaped like a circle
круговая дорожка, круг
clemency
a decision by a judge, king, etc not to punish someone severely although they have committed a crime
милосердие
- There is therefore some element of intelligent clemency.
cloying
– tasting or smelling too sweet and therefore unpleasant:
— надоедлевый избыточный
This is a wonderful wine - honeyed and rich without being remotely cloying.
The room was filled with the cloying scent of lilies.
The pie filling is rich and dark without the cloying qualities of mincemeat.
Although the perfume is intense, it is far from cloying.
coagulate
/kəʊˈæɡ.jə.leɪt/
– to change from liquid to a more solid-state, or to cause something to do this:
– сворачиваться
The sauce coagulated as it cooled down.
The venom of this snake coagulates the blood.
virgin
- someone who has never had sex:
- She remained a virgin until she was over thirty.
Do you think he’s still a virgin?
indomitable
- used to say that someone is strong, brave, determined, and difficult to defeat or frighten:
- неукротимый
The indomitable Mrs Furlong said she would continue to fight for justice.
trim
- to cut a small amount from something to make it tidy or to remove parts that you do not need
- подравнивать, подстригать, подрезать
I’ve had my hair trimmed.
Trim the fat off the meat.
ailment
- an illness
- недомогание
Treat minor ailments yourself.
conduce
- to help make a particular situation happen or help produce a particular result:
- способствовать
the belief that technological progress conduces to human happiness
(un) congenial
- friendly and pleasant:
- congenial company/surroundings
tumult
- a loud noise, especially that produced by an excited crowd, or a state of confusion, change, or uncertainty:
- You couldn’t hear her speak over the tumult from the screaming fans.
adobe
house
roving eyes
бегающие глаза
bleach = whiten
отбеливать
susceptible ( /səˈseptəbl/)
- easily influenced or harmed by something
- восприимчивый, впечатлительный
- )Older people are more susceptible to the virus.
a susceptible young teenager
exhort
exhortation
to strongly encourage someone to do something
призывать
supercilious
/ˌsuː.pəˈsɪl.i.əs/
- behaving as if you are better than other people, and that their opinions, beliefs, or ideas are not important:
- He spoke in a haughty, supercilious voice.