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дотошный;(adj.) extremely careful with details (The ornate needlework in the bride’s gown was a product of meticulous handiwork.)

дерзкий;(adj.) rude, insolent (Most of your comments are so impertinent that I don’t wish to dignify them with an answer.; It was impertinent of him to behave like that.)

поспешный, безрассудный;(adj.) hasty, incautious (It’s best to think things over calmly and thoroughly, rather than make rash decisions.)

кумулятивный, накапливающийся, суммарный;(adj.) developing or increasing gradually as a result of more and more additions (We studied the cumulative effect of long periods of stress on the body.)

ненавидеть;(v.) to hate, detest (Because he always wound up getting hit in the head when he tried to play cricket, Marcin began to abhor the sport).

оставлять, отвергать, покидать;(v.) to give up, renounce (farsaken archer; I won't forsake my conservative principles.)

аберрация;(n.) something that differs from the norm (In 1974, Poland won the World Cup, but the success turned out to be an aberration, and Poland have not won a World Cup since).

уступать, молча соглашаться;(v.) to agree without protesting (Though Mr. Pospieszny wanted to stay outside and work in his garage, when his wife told him that he had better come in to dinner, he acquiesced to her demands.)

готовность(как ответная реакция на предложение);(n.) eagerness, speed (For some reason, Simon loved to help his girlfriend whenever he could, so when his girlfriend asked him to set the table he did so with alacrity.)

умиротворять;(v.) to calm, satisfy (When Jerry cries, his mother gives him chocolate to appease him.)

тайный;(adj.) obscure, secret, known only by a few (The professor is an expert in arcane Kashubian literature.)

задобрить;(v.) to urge(побуждать), coax(уговаривать) (Magda's friends cajoled her into drinking too much.)

откровенность;(n.) honesty, frankness (We were surprised by the candor of the politician’s speech because she is usually rather evasive.)

осмотрительный;(adj.) cautious (Though I promised Marta’s father I would bring her home promptly by midnight, it would have been more circumspect not to have specified a time.)

тайный;(adj.) secret (Announcing to her boyfriend that she was going to the library, Maria actually went to meet George for a clandestine liaison.)

скромный;(adj.) quiet, modest, reserved (Though everyone else at the party was dancing and going crazy, she remained demure.)

красноречивый;(adj.) expressive, articulate, moving (The best man gave such an eloquent speech that most guests were crying.)

эрудированный;(adj.) learned (My English teacher is such an erudite scholar that he has translated some of the most difficult and abstruse Old English poetry.)

тайный;(adj.) secretive, sly (Claudia’s placement of her drugs in her sock drawer was not as furtive as she thought, as the sock drawer is the first place most parents look.)

ненасытный;(adj.) incapable of being satisfied (My insatiable appetite for blondes was a real problem on my recent holiday in Japan!)

переменчивый;changing your mind and being unpredictable: "Politicians can be fickle when it suits them!"

дерзкий;(adj.) casually rude, insolent, impertinent (The impudent young woman looked her teacher up and down and told him he was hot.)

надменный;(adj.) disdainfully proud (The superstar’s haughty dismissal of her co-stars will backfire on her someday.)

непримиримый;(adj.) incapable of being appeased(успокаивать, умиротворять) or mitigated (Watch out: once you shun Grandmother’s cooking, she is totally implacable.)

ленивый;(adj.) lazy (Why should my indolent children, who can’t even pick themselves up off the sofa to pour their own juice, be rewarded with a trip to Burger King?)

неуместный;(adj.) not suitable or capable, unqualified (She proved how inept she was when she forgot two orders and spilled a pint of cider in a customer’s lap.)

бесстрашный, неустрашимый;(adj.) brave in the face of danger (After scaling a live volcano prior to its eruption, the explorer was praised for his intrepid attitude.)

заядлый;(adj.) stubbornly established by habit (I’m the first to admit that I’m an inveterate cider drinker—I drink four pints a day.)

независимый человек, индивидуалист(n.) an independent, nonconformist person (John is a real maverick and always does things his own way.)

угрюмый;(adj.) gloomy or sullen (David’s morose nature made him very unpleasant to talk to.)

несметное число;(adj.) consisting of a very great number (It was difficult to decide what to do on Saturday night because the city presented us with myriad possibilities for fun.)

упадок, деградация, ант(зенит);(n.) the lowest point of something (My day was boring, but the nadir came when my new car was stolen.)

угодливый;(adj.) excessively compliant(податливый) or submissive(покорный) (Donald acted like Susan’s servant, obeying her every request in an obsequious manner.)

тупой;(adj.) lacking quickness of sensibility or intellect (Political opponents warned that the prime minister’s obtuse approach to foreign policy would embroil the nation in mindless war.)

склонность;(n.) a tendency, partiality, preference (Fiona’s dinner parties quickly became monotonous on account of her penchant for Indian dishes.)

изобилие;(n.) an abundance, excess (The wedding banquet included a plethora of oysters piled almost three feet high.)

отвергать;(v.) to reject, refuse to accept (Tom made a strong case for an extension of his curfew, but his mother repudiated it with a few biting words.)

бросающийся в глаза, выдающийся, выступающий;(adj.) significant, conspicuous (One of the salient differences between Alison and Helen is that Alison is a couple of kilos heavier.)

алчность, жадность;(n.) excessive greed (The banker’s avarice led him to amass an enormous personal fortune.)

лицемерие;(n.) behaviour in which someone claims to have certain moral principles or beliefs but behaves in a way that shows they are not sincere (Once the politician began passing legislation that contradicted his campaign promises, his hypocrisy became apparent.)

сдержанный, уравновешенный;(adj.) sedate, serious, self-restrained (The staid butler never changed his expression no matter what happened.)

врожденный;(adj.) inborn, native, inherent (His incredible athletic talent is innate, he never trains, lifts weights, or practices.)

медный, бесстыдный; Made of brass(латунь, жёлтая медь), (adj.) Marked by flagrant(скандальный) and insolent(нахальный) audacity(дерзость). (Critics condemned the writer’s brazen attempt to plagiarise Frankow-Czerwonko’s work.)

обжорство;(n.) overindulgence in food or drink (Helen’s fried chicken tastes so divine, I don’t know how anyone can call gluttony a sin.)

избыточный;(adj.) exceeding what is necessary (Samantha had already won the campaign so her constant flattery of others was superfluous.)

расхищать;(v.) to steal money by falsifying records (The accountant was fired for embezzling €10,000 of the company’s funds.)

препятствовать, задерживать;(v.) to prevent, restrain, stop (When I told you I needed the car last night, I certainly never meant to inhibit you from going out.)

принуждать;(v.) to make somebody do something by force or threat (The court decided that David Beckham did not have to honor the contract because he had been coerced into signing it.)

начинающий;(n.) a beginner, someone without training or experience (Because we were all novices at archery, our instructor decided to begin with the basics

привлекательный своей оригинальностью или старомодностью, причудливый;(adj.) charmingly old-fashioned (Mary was delighted by the quaint bonnets she saw in Romania.)