amerikanische literatur (Fach) / english final (Lektion)

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  • animosity n Excitement of feeling against someone
  • bellicose adj inclined to fighting
  • cantankerous adj quarrelsome muerrisch gelaunt
  • captious fault finding adj
  • polemical adj streitlustig searching for an argue
  • altruistic adj benevolent uneigennuetzig
  • largess n generosity grosszuegigkeit
  • magnanimous adj easy in forgiving, noble in purpose
  • prodigal adj verschwenderisch, wastful
  • squander v verschwenden to waste
  • alleviate v to lighten / render more tolerable erleichtern
  • ameliorate v to better   to improve
  • appease v to bring to peace to calm
  • mediate to act as intermediary verhandeln
  • quell v to cushion unterdruecken
  • affable adj easy of conversation
  • amicable adj friendly / kind
  • convivial adj sociable hostible
  • gregarious adj being good company
  • levity n lightness of mind lack of appropriate seriousness
  • avaricious adj desirous of accumulating wealth
  • frugal adj careful of using goods or money
  • mercenary adj only working for money
  • parsimonious adj tight fisted geizig
  • penurious adj in  need, poor
  • Adversity n trial, misfortune, challenge  
  • confounding adj puzzling, irritating, challenging
  • Debacle n unexpected failure, disaster
  • Enigma n smth unexpected, extremely puzzlingen, a mistery
  • Quagmire n swamp of problems
  • brevity n being short in speech
  • laconic adj brief, introductive, not mentioning everything
  • pithy adj full of concentrated meaning
  • succinct adj expressed in few words
  • reticent adj disinclined to speak freely
  • bombastic inflated, pretentious
  • colloquial adj informal
  • digress v to deviate from the subject
  • eloquence n the act of expressing something with fluency, moving the feelings, convincing
  • loquacious adj talkative
  • braggart n someone who brags much boasts about achievements
  • arrogant adj too strong sense of one-selfs qualities and achievements
  • complacent adj selfstatisfied
  • contemptuous adj showing your own superior
  • swagger v to walk or behave in a superior or overconfident way
  • banal adj lack originality
  • cliche n overused phrase or opinion no original thought
  • derivative adj not original
  • platitude n remark/statement/opinion which is not interesting anymore -> used too often
  • vapid adj offering nothing challenging