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провокативный adjective | provocative(tending to provoke strong negative feeling) |
провокатор noun | agent provocateur(a person who disrupts a group's activities from within) |
провокатор noun {m} | provocateur [provocateurs](one who engages in provocative behavior) |
провокационный adjective | loaded((of a question) designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap) provocative(tending to provoke strong negative feeling) |
провокационный вопрос noun {m} | wife-beating question(loaded question) |
провокация noun {f} | entrapment [entrapments](action by law enforcement personnel to lead an otherwise innocent person to commit a crime) provocation [provocations](act of provoking) |
проволока noun {f} | wire [wires](thin thread of metal) |
проволока взрывателя noun {f} | tripwire(a passive triggering mechanism) |
проволочка noun {f} | procrastination(act of postponing, delaying or putting off) reprimand [reprimands](severe, formal or official reproof) |
проволочная нить-растяжка noun {f} | tripwire(a passive triggering mechanism) |
проволочный ёж noun {m} | caltrop(weaponry) |
проворно adverb | deftly(in a deft manner) dexterously(in a dexterious manner) |
проворность noun {f} | dexterity [dexterities](skill in performing tasks, especially with the hands) |
проворный adjective | active(quick in physical movement) agile(having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs) dexterous(skillful with one's hands) fleet(swift in motion) nimble(quick and light in movement or action) prompt [prompter, promptest](quick) quick [quicker, quickest](lively, witty) |
проворство noun {n} | agility(quality of being agile) alacrity(promptness) dexterity [dexterities](skill in performing tasks, especially with the hands) |
провоцировать verb | foment [fomented, fomenting, foments](to incite or cause) |
провоцировать verb {imPlf} | provoke [provoked, provoking, provokes](to cause to become angry) tease [teased, teasing, teases](to provoke or disturb) tempt [tempted, tempting, tempts](to provoke) urge [urged, urging, urges](to provoke) |
провялить verb {Plf} | cure [cured, curing, cures](to prepare for keeping or use) |
прог-рок noun {m} | progressive rock(rock subgenre) |
прогибаться verb | cave in(to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.) |
проглатывать verb {imPlf} | ingest [ingested, ingesting, ingests](to take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal) |
проглотить verb {Plf} | glug(to quickly swallow liquid) swallow [swallowed, swallowing, swallows](to cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach) |
проглотить горькую пилюлю verb {Plf} | eat crow(to recognize that one has mistaken) |
проглотить пилюлю verb {Plf} | eat crow(to recognize that one has mistaken) |