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Read the text below and translate the collocations in bold into Ukrainian in written form.
From "On the history of collective nouns"
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/index.htm
People often write in about the conventional terms for groups of animals and people, especially birds, such as parliament of rooks or murder of crows. Many of these, including tiding of magpies, murmuration of starlings, unkindness of ravens, and exaltation of larks, are poetic inventions that one can trace back to the fifteenth century.
Some are witty comments on daily life, such as drunkship of cobblers and eloquence of lawyers. A few are apparently self-mocking, like superfluity of nuns. This gently humorous approach has continued down the years, and updated examples frequently emerge from the fruitful imaginations of jokesters even today, such as intrigue of politicians, tedium of golfers, addition of mathematicians, expense of consultants, or clutch of car mechanics. Type "collective nouns" into any Web search engine: you'll find dozens of sites featuring them, though the level of wit is sadly variable.
We've got to make a distinction, of course, between these fanciful or poetic collective names and the many examples we use every day, like pride of lions, pack of dogs, flight of stairs, flock of birds, string of racehorses, and gaggle of geese. These are common and unremarkable, though in some cases hardly less exotic and mysterious in origin.
Translate the collective nouns in their collocations into Ukrainian in written form.
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An abandonment of orphans |
A cloud of bats |
A heap of trash |
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An agenda of tasks |
A clump of freshmen |
A heard of blind people |
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An amble of walkers |
A cluster of computers |
A herd of elephants |
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An ambush of widows |
A clutter of cats |
A hive of bees |
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An annoyance of mobile phones |
A clutter of starlings |
A huddle of lawyers |
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An archive of programmers |
A colony of ants |
A kindle of kittens |
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An army of frogs |
A colony of gulls |
A leap of hares |
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An array of luminaries |
A congregation of worshipers |
A leash of foxes |
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An assemblage of jigsaw puzzlers |
A constellation of satellites |
A mob of kangaroo |
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An assembly of toys |
A convocation of eagles |
A nest of mice |
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An asylum of managers |
A crush of shoppers |
A nest of wasps |
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An atlas of maps |
A crowd of onlookers |
An orchestra of crickets |
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A babble of words |
A culture of bacteria |
An order of waiters |
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A ballet of swans |
A cupful of starlets |
A pack of hounds |
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A band of gorillas |
A descent of woodpeckers |
A pad of paper |
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A band of men |
A dray of squirrels |
A patch of flowers |
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A battery of tests |
A drift of icebergs |
A plague of locusts |
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A bed of snakes |
A dropping of pigeons |
A pride of lions |
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A belt of asteroids |
A field of racehorses |
A raft of ducks |
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A bevy of beauties |
A fistful of dollars |
A range of mountains |
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A billow of smokers |
A flap of nuns |
A ream of bureaucrats |
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A blur of bicyclists |
A fleet of ships |
A ring of keys |
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A body of pathologists |
A flight of swallows |
A round of drinks |
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A boo of surprises |
A flock of sheep |
A school of fish |
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A bridge of admirals |
A flock of tourists |
A sheaf of reports |
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A brood of hens |
A gaggle of geese |
A slate of candidates |
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A bunch of grapes |
A gam of whales |
A staff of employees |
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A calendar of saints |
A giggle of girls |
A strangle of bad laws |
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A cast of actors |
A grist of bees |
A swarm of cockroaches |
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A cavalcade of horsemen |
A grove of trees |
A tribe of goats |
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A chain of islands |
A hamper of helpers |
A troupe of performers |
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A chorus of angels |
A hand of bananas |
A wealth of information |
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A class of students |
A hassle of errands |
A wedge of swans |