It was their job to take [потерявшихся, брошенных животных] to the city Pound.

strays

The jungle was alive with moths and [бабочками] .

butterflies

We try to [повторно использовать] all our cans and bottles here in Hampshire.

recycle

That type of fire can be put out with a hand-held [пенным] extinguisher.

foam

The [распространение] of hunger-related diseases can be stopped.

transmission

Our children are always under adult [наблюдением, надзором] .

supervision

This is a useful book of famous [цитаты] .

quotations citations

We made some lovely [варенье] from last year's strawberries.

jam

Info: "Jelly" would have no fruit in it, for example grape jelly.

He muttered and [ворчал] , but he finally agreed to do it.

grumbled groused

Mellanie batted her [веки] at her boyfriend, who pretended not to notice.

eyelids eyelid

Info: The singular is only used with “an”, not the possessive pronoun.

Small [круги] on the surface suggested that the fish were feeding.

ripples rings

Be sure to keep the [квитанцию, чек] , in case we have to return it.

receipt

Throughout history, [казни] have been a public spectacle.

executions

The [коренное] population settled the island in the 1500s.

native indigenous aboriginal

Remember to mark the package [хрупким] .

fragile

They were at the [пороге] of a major medical breakthrough.

threshold

We wanted to visit the old [монастырь] .

abbey monastery cloister nunnery

Info: "Abbey" is most common, followed by "monastery".

The astronauts' oxygen supply was [уменьшалось, сокращалось] at an alarming rate.

Hint: Use the progressive here.

dwindling decreasing diminishing

Hybrids often fail to prove [плодородными] .

fertile

It was the [унижение] he couldn't take.

humiliation