bookish russian

• кни́жный

  book-, of books, bookseller's

  bookish, literary, abstract

  bookshop, bookstore

• равнове́сие

  (science/bookish/technical) equilibrium/balance

• вои́стину

  truly (bookish and outdated)

• служе́ние

  service (bookish)

• предугада́ть

  (bookish) to guess in advance

• досяга́емость

  (bookish/outdated) reach

• совершенноле́тний

  (bookish/legal/formal) adult/of the full legal age (adj)

• озари́ть

  (bookish) to light up or illuminate

• уга́снуть

  (bookish) to fade away/to lose strength/burn out

• угаса́ть

  (bookish) to fade away/to lose strength/burn out

• круши́ть

  (bookish/poetic/outdated) to destroy/break

• смире́нный

  (bookish/outdated) humble/submissive (adj)

• привилегиро́ванный

  (bookish) privileged

• заинтересо́ванность

  (bookish) interest

• изнурённый

  exhausted (bookish)

• совоку́пность

  (bookish) totality

• изнеможе́ние

  (bookish) exhaustion

• озаря́ть

  (bookish) to light up or illuminate

• порица́ть

  (bookish) to condemn/judge/express negative attitude toward

• не́друг

  (bookish) enemy foe

• предуга́дывать

  (bookish) to guess in advance

• расточи́тельство

  (bookish) a waste/ruinous spending of something

• ниц

  (outdated/bookish) face down or touching the ground with face

• произво́дный

  (bookish) derivative

• безмо́лвие

  (bookish) undisturbed silence

• изнуря́ть

  to exhaust (bookish)

• безо́бразный

  (Bookish) Not having a clear appearance

• изнемога́ть

  (bookish) to grow weak/lose power/exaust

• сокруша́ть

  (bookish) to crush smash overwhelm destory

• преры́вистый

  intermittent, broken or interrupted (having gaps) (bookish)

• превозмо́чь

  (outdated and bookish) to surmount overcome

• полномо́чный

  (bookish) полномочие - authorized

• совоку́пный

  (bookish) combined joint aggregate

• огорчи́тельный

  (bookish) upsetting

• прости́тельный

  (bookish) forgivable (adj)

• любова́ние

  (bookish) admiring or admiration

• изнури́ть

  to exhaust (bookish)

• великовозра́стный

  (bookish/outdated) A person who has passed school age/is older than it should be for a given state or position

• тожде́ственный

  identical (bookish)

• безмо́лвствовать

  (bookish) to remain completely silent not to say a word

• побуди́тельный

  (bookish) urging or motivating

• изнемо́чь

  (bookish) to grow weak/lose power/exaust

• расточи́тель

  (bookish) He who is excessively wasteful/squanders/spends recklessly

• изнуре́ние

  exhaustion (bookish)

• привилегиро́ванность

  (bookish) privilege

• одина́ковость

  (bookish) sameness or similarity

• примири́тель

  (bookish) reconciler conciliator peace-maker

• ни́щенство

  (bookish) begging/collection of alms by the poor as a means of subsistence

• равнове́сный

  (science/bookish/technical) equilibrium/balance (adj)

• смежи́ть

  (bookish) to close bring together or connect edges (about eyes)

• изнуря́ться

  to be exhausted (bookish)

• прикоснове́нный

  (bookish and official) related concerned or involved

• изнурённость

  exhaustion (bookish)

• сопря́чь

  to connect or bind (bookish)

• грохота́нье

  (bookish) rumbling

• изли́шествовать

  (bookish/outdated) to indulge in excesses

• прикоснове́нность

  (outdated bookish) concern touch involvement

• начётничество

  dogmatism, bookish pedantry, rote book-learning

  scholasticism, sterile hairsplitting

Examples

• Э́то сло́во всегда каза́лось мне книжным и архаи́чным. Кто-то из вас употребля́л его в повседневной жи́зни?

  This word always struck me as bookish and archaic. Has anyone here ever used it in everyday life?