Englisch Vokabeln (Fach) / XXIII (Lektion)
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XXIII
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- severely [sewIrly], harshly, painfully, streng
- violation an action which breaks a law or an agreement (They violated the agreement)
- sincere [ßinzIr] aufrichtig, ernstgemeint
- 5 Kinder, von denen die meisten Schue trugen 5 children, many of whom wore shoes.
- dosis, überdosis dose, overdose
- berauscht intoxicated, druggy
- to adore vergöttern, anhimmeln, adorable = bezaubernd
- ausdehnen to extend (in 1 direction, contract), to expand (in many directions, fill a vacuum)
- to do list shot list
- to coincide with to happen at the same time (The worldcup coincided with an abnormally warm period), coincidence, coincidental, it goes along with
- Ebbe, Flut low tide, high tide
- to diminish verkleinern, make sth smaller or weaker, It diminished the power of the Empire, diminutive=Verniedlichung [dimIniutiff]
- Längengrad, Breitengrad longitude, latitude, The 0 degree longitude
- Umfeld environment, atmosphere, milieu [miljÖ]
- reconciliation Versöhnung, after having been enemies, conciliation = das selbe, to reconcile
- Kolonie colony [kOloni], colonialism [kolOUnielism]
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- to promote befördern ; to help to advance (they promoted reconciliation among rivals)
- to distort to falsify, to deform (If you hold a pencil in a glass of water, the water distorts the appearence of the pencil) [distOrt]
- to allocate to to give out different amounts for different purposes; to assign (zuweise) , to divide among (Many career women who employ a nanny have to allocate virtually their entire wage to paying their nanny.)
- commodity Wirtschaftsgut , sth that can be bought and sold
- to accumulate to gather sth, Over several generations they accumulated vast wealth
- affluence wealth, Reichtum, Wohlstand. (He grew up amid affluence) [Effluenz]
- to impoverish to make sth poor
- to prosper to succeed, Erfolg haben, voran kommen, to flourish, to thrive (Alexander, a younger son, was able to prosper by making very advantageous marriages.)
- Arbeitergesellschaft -> Mittelstand working class -> middle class
- to acquire to get or to buy, but it implies that it has a special meaning or value
- to assess at to evaluate, to determine, to estimate (The building was assessed at 1.3$mn. ; assessment
- Verantwortlichkeit liability, liable (Before rafting you sign a document which releasing the leaders from liability in case of injury)
- enterprising creative in thinking of ways to make money (The business was started by a couple of enterprising young women.)
- fleißig industrious, industriousness (hardworking,)
- merit value, success based on one's work, not on luck (Pay raises are based on merit)
- Sehr zum Nachteil von Much to the disadvantage of
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- seniority rank in organization due to length of service, (Some workers depended on seniority for promotion instead of merit)
- entrepreneurial unternehmerisch denkend
- to haggle over/about to argue back and forth about a price, feilschen
- intrepid [intrEpid] fearless
- to shuttle to move back and forth often between two places. They shuttled between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore)
- bei 3 on the count of 3
- court, pitch, track (tennis, basketball) (baseball, soccer) (horse, motorsport) (
- less in rank (synonym and opposite) inferior, superior