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  • clique a small group of friends who are unfriendly to people outside the group. to form a clique [klIk]
  • exclusive restricted, keeping out all but a few people (The most exclusive universities accept only a small percentage of people who want to attend)
  • to fluctuate to change, to vary (It fluctuates between warm and cold periods)
  • to confide to confide in so. = sich jmdn anvertrauen, to tell very personal things (Teenagers are more willing to confide in a friend than in parents) confidence,  to confide sth to so = jmdn etwas anvertrauen ; to entrust
  • adolescence Jugendalter, Entwicklungsalter (Teens go through the various crisis of adolescence) an adolescent ; an adolescent way
  • despondent niedergeschlagen (After his girlfriend left him, he was despondent), depressed
  • engender erzeugen (The news engendered fear)
  • passion strong emotion (She complained that there was no passion in their marriage)
  • proliferation [prolIfereischen]  increase (The proliferation of fast-food restaurants has made it harder for Americans to eat healthy lunches)
  • reciprocity Gegenseitigkeit, interchange, doing as much for another as he or she has done for you (He gave her a lot of attention, but he felt no reciprocity in their relationship)
  • sympathetic mitfühlend (concerned) ; sympatisch (friendly)    sympathy towards, antipathy towards
  • to berate to criticize hatefully (The teacher lost his job, because he cruelly berated students who made mistakes)
  • contemptuous arrogant, having no respect (Scientists are often contemptuous of reports that aliens exists), geringschätzen, contempt = Geringschätzung
  • obnoxious unausstehlich, stronger than annoying (My obnoxious neighbor keeps talking to me while I'm trying to read in my backyard) [obnOkschiss]
  • to stigmatize (so as sth) to mark with a visible feature (His tattoos and beard stigmatized him as a bad match for Wall Street, so he couldnt find a job) to brand, to label, stigma
  • vitriolic giftig, beißend, harsh (The vitriolic attacks made him sound unreasonable)
  • autonomy freedom to make one's decisions (Parents have to give their children some degree of autonomy by the time they reach their teens) autonomous
  • später (at a later stage) A failure of one plant could cause a series of failures down the line
  • dire extremly bad (They were in dire economic circumstances) common construction + circumstances
  • to embrace to hold tightly in one's arms ; etwas begrüßen, begeistert annehmen (eine Position) (She embraced the position as a good opportunity)
  • to hover [hower] nicht von der Seite weichen = to hover over/near so (The teacher hovered near the group, trying to hear what they say) ; über jmdn schweben = to hover above so
  • novice a beginner without experience, just learning it
  • overwhelming überwältigend, to large to control (Suddenly getting thousands of visitors, the website found its popularity overwhelming - far more than its server could handle) to overwhelm
  • to plummet to fall a long way in a short time (The price of stocks plummeted yesterday)
  • verhüllen to cloak (TV cloaks an ugly reality)
  • die Beherrschung verlieren to lose one's temper
  • mit typen wie du bin ich durch I'm way past guys like you
  • sich frisch machen to freshen up
  • Zuckerguss frosting
  • to conflict with in Gegensatz zu etwas stehen (A teenager's need for security can conflict with his desire for independence from his family)
  • delinquency serious misbehavior (Because of this laziness and delinquency, he was an unreliable friend), delinquent= Täter, to be delinquent =auf die schiefe Bahn geraten ; also against the law i.e. not paying credit card bill on time
  • fringe Rand, fringe area (Punk music got its start at the fringe of Londos's rock music culture)
  • hypocritically in a way that accuses other people of weaknesses that the speaker also possesses (He spent 2500€ on a new suit and then hypocritically accused me of spending too much money on clothes)
  • to rebel gegen etwas rebellieren (to rebel against) [tu rebEll] the rebel [rEbell]
  • sich etwas einfallen lassen to think of sth (Lets maintain the status quo until we think of a better way)
  • to depict bildlich darstellen [dipIct] (Michelangelos painting depicts nine scenes from the Bible), describe with pictures
  • portrait Porträt [pOrtreit]
  • spectrum Bandbreite ; color spectrum (sprectrum = the colors that human eyes can see)
  • connotation´ the meaning implied, not stated directly (When my boss says "Thank you" the connotation is that she is done and I should leave) to connote
  • to decipher [dißAIfer] entschlüsseln was in einem Code geschrieben wurde, cipher = Code (They helped him decipher ancient Egyptian writing.)
  • to denote kennzeichnen [dinOUt] , An "X" next to a name on the list denotes a person who has been chosen for the soccer team, denotation
  • illiterate unable to read, analphabetisch [illIterate], an illiterate, illiteracy
  • ingenious very clever and imaginative, innovativ, erfinderisch [She thought up an ingenious way to ...] ingenuity
  • inscription something written into a piece of rock or metal [The inscription of my ring says ".."] to inscribe, to engrave
  • cast Besetzung im Film/Theater
  • skit Sketch
  • zeal Begeisterung, Eifer, enthusiasm [siel] (His zeal to become an actor distracted him from his studies) zealot, zealous
  • bulk the size, largeness of a heavy appearence (The bulk of Kevin's athletic body was to great for one small chair) bulky
  • capricious unberechenbar [kaprIschiös], [He made capricious jumps from one major to another] given to sudden behaviour change
  • cumbersome sperrig, hinderlich, difficult to wear or to carry because of its weight or shape [The dumped their cumbersome tents to make it to the top of the mountain], clumsy