Recurrent wiederkehrend
wiederkehrend
dormantinaktiv
Inaktiv, ruhend, schlafend
nosy
neugierig
devoid of
frei von
sullenmürrisch
mürrisch, düster, übellaunig
To skid
Rutschen, ausrutschen
To revise
überarbeiten, korrigieren
To Pose sth.
Etwas darlegen, sich für jemanden ausgeben
arbitrary
willkürlich, beliebig
crockery
Geschirr
diluted
verdünnt
distorted
verzerrt
encroachingsich
sich unkontrolliert ausbreiten, eingreifend
hazywaage
wage, unklar, nebelig
To emit
Ausstoßen, abgeben
reprehensible
verwerflich
AppropriationAneignun
Aneignung
To faciliate
erleichtern, ermöglichen
extortion
Erpressung
deity
Gottheit
To displace
Verdrängen, ersetzen
To enable
Ermöglichen
pervasive
Weit verbreitet
To unnerve
verunsichern
imdifference
Desinteresse, Gleichgültigkeit
laudible
Lobenswert
menacing
Bedrohlich, drohend
To contemplate
Nachdenken, erwähnen
Brevity
Kürze
To defy
Trotzen, etwas herausfordern
To plummet
Abstürzen (Kurse etc.)
To elicit something
Hervorrufen, auslösen
circuitry
Kreislauf, Schaltungsanordnung
Commodity
Any useful or valuable Thing (clothes, food, electronics)
To exploit
To make good use of somenthing = to exploit natural resources
cultivate
To prepare and use land for crops or gardening
To develop or improve something = relationship
demise
The end of something = medial, legal = formal language
Bsp.
The demise of a company/relationship
prosperity
The state of being successful, especially financially
In the US, the decades after WW2 were characterized by rising prosperity, with large numbers of people moving into the middle class.
prosperous
financially successful
Alteration
A change or modification
intermittently
From time to time, periodically
Something that starts, than stops, than starts off again
You studied intermittently = sometimes you studied, but sometimes you took breaks
extensive
Covering a large area = extensive road repairs, grounds, agriculture
Having a great range
An event gets extensive coverage in the newspapers = many people are writing about it
Sophisticated
Complicated, intricate
The inner workings of a computer are sophisticated = it is difficult to understand them unless you are a computer expert.
high school math is a lot more sophisticated than grammar school math.
coerce
To force someone to do something against their will = a person to do something/ a decision/ Confession from a person
retreat
to go away from a place or person to escape from fighting or Dinger
Lizards retreating into shade
Retreating shares of company
supersede
To replace or surpass something
supersede a law/record
they still used stone tools similar to those superseded in Europe by metal tools thousands of years ago = replaced
To flourash
To grow or develop successfully = countries, computer technology, companies, cultural life ….
To decay
To rot or become weaker = building, relationship
Venice's role as a storage and distribution center for spices, silk and gold decayed
Carbon decays in living things = as something radioactive
rigid
stiff or fixed, something that can't be moved or bent
depletion
The act of reducing or using something up = of recources, soil depletion
To divert
To change the direction or course of something
The police will divert traffic if there has been an accident
divert your income into a savings accoount
To emerge
To appear, to come out = details/theories/patterns/trends/differences/person
To escalate
To become greater or more serious
The situation started to escalate around noon
the credit crisis is escalating as expected
surplus
Something extra or left oder = surplus money/food/supplies
If your tree produces more apples than you can eat, you can make applesauce with the surplus of apples
To optain
To get something = degree/information/job/permission/approval
Obligatory/mandatory/compulsary
Something you must do because of rules/laws
This is mandatory to help prevent fraud.
Registration was obligatory, but voting was optional.
The study skills courses were almost always compulsory.
To disparage
Abwerten
Impairing
Beeinträchtigend
Mode of transport
Beförderungsart = mit was für einem Verkehrsmittel man fährt
detrimental
schädlich
anechoic
“without echo”
To shun
“avoid, ignore or reject something or someone” meiden, ausgrenzen
affluent
Wohlhabend
distitute
verarmt, mittellos
Wohlstand
deprived
beraubt, benachteiligt
hardship
Not, Elend
to plunge
stürzen, tauchen, stoßen
tauchen, stoßen
soaring
hochfliegen
stagger
taumeln, wanken
wanken
acquire
erwerben, gelangen
attain
erreichen, erlangen
accustomed
gewohnt
Zuletzt geändertvor einem Monat