Vocabulary 005 Flashcards by Helen Hagels

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Centre, middle (Zentrum)

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Epicentre

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Core, centre (Mittlepunkt)

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Hub

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To deform (verzehrt)

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To distort

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Overcrowding, traffic jam (der Stau, die Stauung)

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Congestion

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Keeping to themselves (verschlossen)

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Insular

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Ungelöst

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Unresolved

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Umsiedelung

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Relocation

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Dynamic (lebhaft)

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Vibrant

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To increase (steigen)

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To soar

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Waste

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Litter

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Damaged injured (die Narbe)

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Scarred

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To do well economically

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Flourish

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To gather (versammeln)

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To flock

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To remain, to stay

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To linger

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Tugend

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Virtue

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Laster

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Vice

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Dutifully (gehorsam)

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Obedient, obediently

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Anflehen

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To urge

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Das Bedürfniss

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The urge

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Einmischen

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Interfear

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Von der Stange

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Off the peg

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Etwas für sich beanspruchen

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Hogging

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Hausarbeit

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Chores

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Sympathisch

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Likeable

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Murren

Demurr

Erben

Inherit

Zu einem hohen Preis

High price tag

Unpolitisch

Apolitical

Die Beschwerde

Complaint

Anonym

Anonymous

Without a clear shape

Amorphous

Awkward, difficult

Cumbersome

Ordinary people at the local level

Grassroots

Irresponsible, nicht verantwortlich für...

Unaccountable ≠ accountable

Father-like

Paternal

Mother-like

Maternal

Souverän

Sovereign

Loyalität, loyal

Devotion, to be devote

Gutartig

Benign

Bösartig

Menign

To become King/Queen, Thron besteigen

On acceding the throne

Schwur, Eid, binding promise

Take/ break an oath

To promise

Pledge

Freundlichkeiten, nettigkeiten

Niceties

Sonnenaufgang

Dawn

Wandteppich

Tapestry

Mitleid haben

To habe pity, to pity someone

Das Mitleid

Pity

Genug von etwas haben

Ad nauseam

Peraonifikation

Personification

Jedes gesetzt was man ihr vorlegt

Every law put befor her

Einmischung ins Privatleben

Invasion of personal privacy

Nicht erlaubt irgendeine Ansicht/Meinung zu haben

Not allowed to have any view of any kind

Konstitutionelle Monarchie

Constitutional Monarchy

Versprechen ein Lebenlang den eigenen Leute zu dienen

Pledged a lifetime of service to your people

To have a/the right

To be entitled to do

Welfare payments to cover rent

Housing benefit

Ablehnung

Resentment, to resent

Overly confident and relaxed, selbstgefällig

Complacent

Von oben herab, condescending snobbish

Patronising

Hope to improve one's life Ergeiz

Aspiration

Gemeinde, the local governing authority of a town

Council