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🖋️ condiment - приправа, специи, соус

He got up and headed in the direction of the condiments bar.
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🗣 extemporaneous speech - импровизированная речь

One extemporaneous speech would have been way too many.
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👃nose around - любопытствовать, вынюхивать, выведывать

While nosing around in the drawer of his dad's bedside table, Sam found a phone.
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by a factor of - в ... раз больше

It was too much food by a factor of ten.
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🤪 preposterous - нелепый, абсурдный

I pay him a preposterous shitload.
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🤭 inane - бессмысленный, глупый

How many hours did I spend online, rewatching inane videos?
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✒️ discern - различать, разглядеть, распознавать

By the time he was finished preparing his new house for the boys, he had made half a dozen trips to IKEA and even then he couldn't discern if, on balance, he loved or loathed it.
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📋 to harbour - вынашивать

I had long harboured a half-formed urge to experience what life was like in such a remote place.
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