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

нескл**а**дный

Answer 25

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

Question 26

скл**а**дный

Answer 26

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

Question 27

созв**у**чный

Answer 27

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

Question 28

мещ**а**нство

Answer 28

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

Question 29

бездух**о**вный

Answer 29

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

Question 30

смехов**о**й

Answer 30

humorous, funny [смешно, смех]

Question 31

сгущ**а**ть/сгуст**и**ть

Answer 31

to thicken, to condense [густой]

Question 32

содерж**а**ние

Answer 32

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

Question 33

преим**у**щество

Answer 33

1) advantage (condition, etc. favorable to success) 2) exclusive right or privilege to something syn. [превосх**о**дство] - (1) - superiority syn. [привил**е**гия] - (2) privilege [преим**у**щественно] - primarily, predominantly, mostly

Question 34

превосх**о**дство

Answer 34

1) superiority 2) excellence

Question 35

привил**е**гия

Answer 35

privilege (benefit, advantage, or favor)

Question 36

рассм**а**тривать/рассмотр**е**ть

Answer 36

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

Question 37

просм**а**тривать/просмотр**е**ть

Answer 37

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

Question 38

регламент**а**ция

Answer 38

regulation

Question 39

соотнош**е**ние

Answer 39

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

Question 40

подт**а**чивать

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

насек**о**мое

Answer 41

insect [бук**а**шка] - 1) bug, insect 2) someone insignificant [коз**я**вка] - 1) bug, insect 2) little child, baby, toddler 3) booger

Question 42

изнутр**и**

Answer 42

from within, from the inside

Question 43

обол**о**чка

Answer 43

cover, envelope, shell (various senses)

Question 44

несклад**у**ха

Answer 44

absence of necessary order [нескладный]

Question 45

горл**а**нить

Answer 45

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

Question 46

плясов**о**й

Answer 46

cheerfully, quickly [пл**я**ска] - dance

Question 47

завер**е**ние

Answer 47

assurance, pledge

Question 48

п**о**длинный

Answer 48

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