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Английский язык для магистратуры
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ighting The Hydra
Ex. 6. For each word given below find at least four words from the box that can go 
with it. Some words from the box can go into several groups. Can you continue the 
lists? Use the expressions in sentences of your own.
acute
cause 
comprehension 
confidence 
economic 
explanation 
extremism
flaws 
logic 
meaning 
smb to danger, 
stereotypes 
terrorist networks
the ideas of democracy 
to cause
to cope with 
to leave behind 
to sink into 
to suffer 
utter 
values 
views
violence 
Western art and music 
to defy
to espouse
despondency
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to expose
deprivation
to imbue
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Ex. 7. Suggest stylistically neutral synonyms for the following words. 
Supply contexts to bring out the difference between synonyms 
in each pair.
in 
accord 
with 
to 
engage 
forbearance
to 
espouse 
populace 
buddy
Ex. 8. Express the same idea using the words and phrases from Ex. 4 instead of the 
underlined parts.
1. 
All rogue states must come to the negotiating table voluntarily and unconditionally, not only 
after certain conditions are met. 
2. Anti-abortionists have launched a vigorous campaign to give support to the constitutional 
ban on abortion. 
3. The Taliban does not seem very attractive due to their ethnicity, geography and the recent 
memory of their brutal, reactionary misrule.
4. The risk direct contact with chemical agents which could be used in terrorist acts is real.
5. While Eritrea has been accused of influencing several conflicts and supporting terrorism, it 
also poorly performed in the field of human security.
6. Some hoped that elections will actually moderate or transform Hamas by fostering adher-
ence of its members to more democratic values.
7. At the beginning of July 2009, another terrorist network was uncovered, when the Egyptian 
security forces arrested 25 armed men, most of them engineers.
8. Most terrorists have no criminal background of any kind that could bring them to the atten-
tion of authorities.
9. At the UN, the US, United Kingdom, and France backed resolution calling for Iran to halt its 
nuclear activities was met with opposition from other countries, notably Russia and China.

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