C1 — advancedabstract40 words
Abstract & reasoning (advanced)
| Serbian | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pretpòstaviti | to assume, to suppose (perfective) |
| prȅtpostāvka | an assumption, a supposition; a premise (what is taken as given) |
| tvŕditi | to claim, to assert (imperfective) |
| tvŕdnja | an assertion, a claim |
| zakljúčiti | to conclude (an inference or a contract; perfective; imperfective zaključivati) |
| záključak | conclusion |
| dokázati | to prove |
| potkrépiti | to back up, to substantiate (a claim with evidence) |
| ospòriti | to dispute, to contest (perfective; imperfective osporavati) |
| pòbiti | to refute (an argument; osporiti is weaker); to kill (many people) |
| porícati | to deny (imperfective; perfective poreći) |
| prìznati | to admit, to acknowledge (perfective; imperfective priznavati) |
| òprāvdati | to justify; to live up to (expectations; perfective; imperfective opravdavati; to acquit is osloboditi optužbe) |
| nàvēsti | to cite, to give (an example), to state (perfective of navoditi) |
| implikácija | an implication; consequences (in the plural) |
| nijànsa | a nuance, a shade (of colour or of meaning) |
| podrazumévati | to imply, to take as given (with se: it goes without saying) |
| proizláziti | to follow, to result (from something; imperfective) |
| uslovljávati | to condition, to make conditional (imperfective) |
| rázlikovati | to distinguish, to tell apart (one from another: od + Gen.) |
| uòpštiti | to generalise (perfective) |
| svȅsti | to reduce (to something: na + Acc.); to settle (accounts) |
| izvèsti | to take out; to derive (a conclusion); to perform (a piece); to carry out (works) (perfective; imperfective izvoditi) |
| ublážiti | to soften, to mitigate (a wording, a judgement, pain) |
| prèterati | to exaggerate, to overdo it, to go too far (perfective; imperfective preterivati) |
| naglásiti | to emphasise (perfective; imperfective naglašavati; naglašen, stressed, of a syllable) |
| ìstaći | to point out, to highlight (perfective; imperfective isticati; with se: to stand out) |
| tumáčiti | to interpret (a text, a law; imperfective) |
| protumáčiti | to interpret, to explain (perfective of tumačiti) |
| odbáciti | to reject, to dismiss (an argument); to cast aside; to give a lift (colloquial) |
| prìhvatiti | to accept (perfective; imperfective prihvatati) |
| suprotstáviti se | to oppose, to stand up to (+ Dat.) |
| vàljan | well-founded, valid (of a reason; for documents, važeći); decent, worthwhile |
| utèmeljen | substantiated, well-founded (in facts, evidence) |
| dòsledan | consistent (in reasoning or conduct) |
| protivréčnōst | a contradiction (feminine) |
| nedòslednōst | inconsistency (feminine) |
| argumentácija | reasoning, argumentation (a line of reasoning built step by step) |
| dvòsmislenōst | ambiguity (feminine) |
| jasnòća | clarity (from jasan) |
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