Солярис

Question 1

кстати

Answer 1

1) by the way, incidentally
2) at the right time, with good timing [вовремя]
3) [очень кстати] - useful, handy, helpful, convenient
4) to the point, apropos, relevant [к месту]
5) decently, appropriately, properly (dated) [прилично, пристойно]

Question 2

экипаж

Answer 2

1) crew (aviation, military, nautical)
2) horse-drawn carriage (equipage) (hist.)

Question 3

плёнка

Answer 3

film, tape

Question 4

новшество

Answer 4

innovation, novelty

Question 5

высадка

Answer 5

1) landing, debarkation, disembarkation (navy, aviation)
2) transplanting

Question 6

глиссер

Answer 6

speedboat

Question 7

взвесь

Answer 7

suspension, dredge
(in the sense of particles being suspended in a gas or liquid)

Question 8

коллоидный

Answer 8

glue-like, gelatinous
(relational from [коллоид] – colloid: a mixture in which one substance consisting of microscopically dispersed insoluble particles is suspended throughout another substance)

Question 9

липкий

Answer 9

adhesive, sticky

Question 10

обороты

Answer 10

скорость вращения (only in the plural; technical, aviation)
[У меня упали обороты и я начал терять высоту]

Question 11

выскакивать/выскочить

Answer 11

1) to jump out, to leap out
2) to appear, come up (of a sore, pimple, etc.)
3) to drop out, fall out

Question 12

ил

Answer 12

silt, clay, mud, ooze, sludge

Question 13

пениться

Answer 13

to foam
[пена] - foam, froth, etc.

Question 14

слизь

Answer 14

mucus, slime

Question 15

комок

Answer 15

1) lump, wad
2) (fig.) spasm in the throat or chest

Question 16

изгородь

Answer 16

light fence, barrier
[живая изгородь] - hedge (wall or fence of shrubs/bushes)

Question 17

акация

Answer 17

acacia (shrub or tree)

Question 18

гипс

Answer 18

1) gypsum
2) plaster cast (medicine)

Question 19

трескаться/по

Answer 19

to crack, chap
[трещать/треснуть, треск]
[весёлым треском трещит затопленная печь]

Question 20

расщелина

Answer 20

1) cleft, crevice, fissure (crack in rock or ice)
2) crack

Question 21

выдавливать/выдавить

Answer 21

to squeeze out, press out

Question 22

биоток

Answer 22

biocurrent, bioelectrical current

Question 23

отверстие

Answer 23

1) opening, aperture, hole, perforation

Question 24

комбинезон

Answer 24

overalls (clothing in which pants and torso are together)

Question 25

развор**а**чивать/разверн**у**ть

Answer 25

1) to unroll, unwind, unwrap 2) to show, display 3) to start (up) 4) to widen, expand, broaden 5) to deploy, extend, expand (into) (military) 6) to turn, swing about, make a U-turn [развёртывать] - alt. imperfective

Question 26

засед**а**ние

Answer 26

session, meeting

Question 27

омерз**и**тельный

Answer 27

disgusting, loathsome, sickening, revolting

Question 28

помрач**е**ние

Answer 28

1) darkening 2) exceeding, overshadowing (fig.) 3) obscuring (fig.) 4) saddening (fig.) 5) darkness, gloom

Question 29

кор**а**

Answer 29

1) bark (of trees) 2) crust (of the earth, planets) [кора (больших полушарий) головного мозга] = cerebral cortex

Question 30

доброс**о**вестный

Answer 30

conscientious, fair

Question 31

пор**о**г

Answer 31

1) doorstep, threshold 2) rapid (i.e., in a river)

Question 32

топт**а**ться

Answer 32

1) shift one's feet 2) hang about, idle about, loiter 3) dillydally, dawdle [топтаться на месте] - to make no headway, mark time

Question 33

разр**о**зненный

Answer 33

1) odd, incomplete 2) separate, uncoordinated

Question 34

вт**и**скивать/вт**и**снуть

Answer 34

(coll.) to squeeze (in, into), to cram (in, into)

Question 35

вырожд**а**ться/в**ы**родиться

Answer 35

1) to degenerate 2) to disappear, to be lost over time

Question 36

куст

Answer 36

bush, shrub

Question 37

р**а**порт

Answer 37

report [доклад, донесение]

Question 38

возраж**а**ть/возраз**и**ть

Answer 38

1) to object, to mind, to protest [если ты не возражаешь,...] - if you don't mind,...

Question 39

предвз**я**тый

Answer 39

biased, prejudiced

Question 40

опроверг**а**ть/опров**е**ргнуть

Answer 40

1) to refute, disprove 2) to deny, disclaim

Question 41

повид**а**ть

Answer 41

(colloquial, perfective. imperfective [вид**а**ть] has slightly different semantics) 1) to see, to get to see 2) to visit (fig.)

Question 42

отпир**а**ть/отпер**е**ть

Answer 42

to unlock perf. [отопр**у**, отопрёшь]

Question 43

рентг**е**новский

Answer 43

(relational) X-ray, radiographic [рентг**е**н] - X-ray

Question 44

подверг**а**ть/подв**е**ргнуть

Answer 44

to subject (to), expose (to) (что, чему)

Question 45

завяз**а**ть/зав**я**знуть

Answer 45

1) to stick (in), sink (in) 2) to get stuck (in) (coll.) not to be confused with [зав**я**зывать/завяз**а*ть] - to tie up, fasten

Question 46

завещ**а**ть

Answer 46

to bequeath, to will [завещение]

Question 47

парш**и**вый

Answer 47

1) scabby, mangy 2) nasty, rotten, mean

Question 48

избавл**е**ние

Answer 48

1) cure 2) salvation (religion) [избавлять, избавить]

Question 49

щек**о**тно

Answer 49

ticklish [щекот**а**ть]

Question 50

взъер**о**шенный

Answer 50

rumpled, tousled, ruffled [ерошить/взъ] - rumple, ruffle, etc.

Question 51

люк

Answer 51

1) hatch, hatchway 2) port

Question 52

па**я**сничать

Answer 52

to clown around (coll.)

Question 53

верёвка

Answer 53

rope, line

Question 54

черн**и**льница

Answer 54

inkwell, inkpot [чернила]

Question 55

пуск

Answer 55

launch

Question 56

пуч**о**к

Answer 56

1) bundle, bunch, sheaf (any collection of things bound together)

Question 57

зонд**и**ровать/про-

Answer 57

1) to probe, search, sound (research) 2) to probe, find out beforehand

Question 58

ш**о**рок

Answer 58

rustle (soft, crackling sound)

Question 59

силов**о**е поле

Answer 59

force field

Question 60

отрезвл**я**ть/отрезв**и**ть

Answer 60

to sober up (literal and figurative) [трезв**е**ть/от-] - synonyms? [тр**е**звый] - sober

Question 61

вскр**ы**тие

Answer 61

1) opening, unsealing 2) dissection, autopsy

Question 62

пристр**а**стие

Answer 62

1) addiction, predilection (for), propensity 2) passion (for), weakness (for) 3) bias (towards), partiality (to/for)

Question 63

кал**е**ка

Answer 63

cripple (a crippled person)

Question 64

подкладн**о**е с**у**дно

Answer 64

bedpan [судно] - also a ship or vessel

Question 65

мор**о**чить/об

Answer 65

to fool, trick, dupe [морочить голову] - pull someone's leg

Question 66

пр**о**поведь

Answer 66

1) sermon, homily 2) propagation (of ideas), advocacy

Question 67

кис**е**ль

Answer 67

1) the drink 2) a weak-willed person (coll.)

Question 68

шант**а**ж

Answer 68

blackmail

Question 69

препар**а**т

Answer 69

1) a prepared specimen; specimen mounted on a microscope slide 2) medicine, drug, preparation (prepared medical substance)

Question 70

ук**о**л

Answer 70

1) prick, pricking 2) injection, shot 3) provoking remark (fig.)

Question 71

в**и**димость

Answer 71

1) visibility 2) outward appearance, semblance

Question 72

вин**о**вник

Answer 72

culprit

Question 73

хлам

Answer 73

1) trash, rubbish 2) craft, junk

Question 74

см**а**хивать

Answer 74

to look like, resemble, smack (of) [смахивает на смерть]

Question 75

рв**а**ться

Answer 75

1) to break, burst, be torn (intransitive) 2) to strive, long, be dying to do something [рв**у**щийся к чему]

Question 76

досто**е**вщина

Answer 76

1) contradictory feelings, mental instability, suffering and doom (as in Dostoevsky characters) 2) characteristics of socio-political psychological atmosphere; such atmosphere itself; moral and ideological phenomenon

Question 77

блажь

Answer 77

whim, caprice, fancy, folly

Question 78

к**и**снуть/с

Answer 78

1) to turn sour (e.g., milk) 2) to become sad or depressed [кислый] [кис, к**и**сла] [скис**а**ть] - alt. imperfective

Question 79

р**о**зга

Answer 79

birch rod, cane (for whipping)

Question 80

высек**а**ть/в**ы**сечь

Answer 80

1) to hew, carve, sculpt, cut 2) to whip (as a punishment)

Question 81

нам**е**рен

Answer 81

(short adjective) going to, intending to [что ты намерен делать?]

Question 82

ст**а**скивать/стащ**и**ть

Answer 82

1) to drag off, drag down, pull down, pull off 2) drag into, pull into 3) (perf. only, coll.) to steal, swipe, filch

Question 83

альк**о**вный

Answer 83

1) alcove (relational) 2) romantic, erotic (about a plot, work, etc.)

Question 84

опустош**а**ть/опустош**и**ть

Answer 84

1) to devastate, ravage, lay waste 2) to empty (coll.) 3) to drain someone's spirit, have a devastating effect (on) (also as a reflexive verb)

Question 85

п**о**просту

Answer 85

1) simply, merely, just 2) simply (without ceremony) 3) plainly, simply (put simply/directly)

Question 86

г**о**рстка

Answer 86

1) handful 2) small group

Question 87

всп**ы**шка

Answer 87

1) flash 2) outbreak