I remember several people here (e.g. Dogboy) complained the supposed "abundance" of Russian vocabulary. As for me, I always thought it was English that was to be accused of this fault. Only the problem is that in 99,9% people use words like "get, set, have, go" that may mean everything, but 3-4 people among 1000 sometimes use words like "evict" or "epitomize", wich another 997 out of 1000 even don't know to exist. Not very long time ago I already discussed all these "foals, colts" etc. Now I have another set of words:
bog, swamp, fen, marsh, morass, quagmire, mire, slough, slew
Compare this with Russian
болото, топь, трясина.