Vocabulary Training

12. Read and remember the following words and word combinations:

erect – возводить

nomad – кочевник

original – первоначальный

jail – тюрьма

denomination – конфессия

mansion – дворец

recede – отступать, удаляться

13. Read the words and their explanations:

Kyrgyz – a member of a Mongoloid people of central Asia, inhabiting Kyrgyzstan and a vast area of central Siberia;

armoury – a secure place for the storage of weapons;

commandant – an officer commanding a place, group, or establishment;

mosque – a Muslim place of worship;

synagogue – a building for Jewish religious services.

Read a joke and suggest the ideas on what it means.

Ink was joked to have been sold by the buckets.

15. Find in the text the English equivalents to the words or word combinations given: