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Englisch Vokabeln (Subject) / India - History and politics (Lesson)
Abi Workshop Englisch - Thematic vocabulary (5 Seiten)
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- aufgeben; aussetzen to abandon [to abandon a way of life/an idea/ship/a child]
- Gesetz act [a law passed by the government]
- Verwaltung administration [The town council is a boar of local administration.]
- helfen; unterstützen to aid [to help, to support, to give assistance]
- bereitstellen, zuteilen to allocate [→allocation (n) The Red Cross have to allocate food to the whole country after the flood.]
- vorhersehen; vorwegnehmen to anticipate [The Viceroy did not anticipate the terrible riots that would follow Partition.]
- bewaffnet armed [carrying weapons]
- demzufolge as a result [They talked to each other again after a long time, and as a result managed to become reconciled.]
- ermorden, ein tödliches Attentat auf jmdn verüben to assassinate sb [Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968.]
- angreifen; einen Anschlag verüben to assault [→assault (n): verbal/physical assault]
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- Versammlung assembly [One of the basic civil rights is the right of assembly.]
- abordnen; zuordnen to assign [to delegate]
- Machtergreifung; Machtübernahme assumption of power [to assume power = to take over power]
- Versuch attempt [to make an attempt at sth/to do sth→to attempt (v) to do sth]
- Gegenreaktion; Gegenbewegung backlash [When you atack another person you often provoke a backlash.]
- verbannen; verbieten; ausschließen to ban [He was banned from the party because he had publicly disowned its policies.]
- basieren auf to be based on [Our interpretation is based on strong evidence.]
- begrenzt sein auf to be confined to [to be restricted to]
- etw. beherrschen to be in control of sth. [to have power over sth]
- beteiligt sein an to be involved in [to contribute to]
- jmdn für etw. verantwortlich machen; jmdn beschuldigen to blame sb for sth [They blamed her for spoiling the show.They blamed it on her.They put the blame (n) on her.]
- aufhören to cease [to stop]
- herausfordern, in Frage stellen to challenge [He challenged all the moral values of his father and tried to live according to his own principles.]
- aufeinanderprallen; zusammenstoßen to clash [to confront, to conflict, to collide]
- zeitlich zusammenfallen; sich überschneiden to coincide [to happen at the same time]
- zusammenbrechen; scheitern to collapse [to break down, to fall down/apart]
- kolonial colonial [→colony (n), colonist (n)]
- Gemeinsamkeit, Allgemeinheit commonality [→to have sth in common (adv)The two parties have to focus on their commonalities, otherwise they will never find a consensus]
- Landsmann, Landsmännin (Plural: Landsleute) compatriot [→patriot (n), patriotism (n)Frank and Sue both come from Ireland, so they are compatriots.]
- Kongress; Kongresspartei (Indien) congress [congress: conference, conventionCongress: Indian National Congress]
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- Zustimmung; Übereinstimmung consent [In the UK, you can marry at the age of 16 with your parents' consent.]
- Folge, Konsequenz consequence [result, implication]
- bestehen aus to consist of [to be made up of]
- hinzuziehen; um Rat fragen to consult [The situation was so serious that the Queen consulted all the important leaders to resolve the conflict.]
- beitragen to contribute [to add]
- Kontrollgremium; Aufsichtsbehörde control board [to set up/install a control board]
- überzeugen to convince [He tried to convince the others that only nonviolence would bring about peace in the end.]
- Rat, Ratsversammlung council [a group of people who are elected to run a town, a city or a country, or an organisation]
- Ratgeber/in; Berater/in counsellor [sb whose job it is to give advicecounselor (AE)]
- besiegen, schlagen to defeat [The Anglo-Saxons were defeated by the Normans at Hastings in 1066.]
- anprangern; verurteilen to denounce [She publicly denounced the country's immigration policy.]
- jmdn etw. berauben to deprive sb of sth [The members of the old ruling class were deprived of all their rights by the new government.]
- Loslösung; Abkoppelung disengagement [a process by which sb gradually stops being involved in sth]
- Desillusionierung; Ernüchterung disillusionment [a feeling of disappointment at finding out that sth is not as good as expected]
- verleugnen; sich lossagen von; verstoßen to disown [to reject, to abandon, to dismissShe disownedand disinherited her eldest son because of his intention to marry a woman of lower caste.]
- Ungleichheit; Verschiedenheit disparity [imbalance]
- (sich) auflösen to dissolve [Sugar dissolves in water.in the UK, Parliament can be dissolved by the monarch.]
- teilen; aufteilen to divide [to partition]
- Dominanz; Vorherrschaft dominance [power or control over sb else]
- dominieren to dominate [The Indian National Congress dominated the elections in the early years of the Republic of India.]
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