| Term | Definition |
|---|
| dash | to run quickly (rasen) |
| hostile | from the enemy (feindlich) |
| consoling | to comfort (someone) in a time of grief, disappointment (tröstend) |
| accomodation | lodging (Unterkunft) |
| abundance | an overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; copious supply; superfluity; wealth |
| nuisance | a minor annoyance or inconvenience; a person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience |
| preceding | occuring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence |
| possession | ownership; something that is owned |
| possess | to own |
| ample | Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; |
| abundant | fully sufficient; plentiful; in copious supply; in great quantity; richly supplied -- followed by in, rarely by with |
| strenuous | requiring great exertion |
| exertion | the action of exerting; effort; action requiring physical strength (Anstrengung, Betätigung) |
| burly | well-built, muscular and hunky; to be **** strong |
| superfluity | the quality or state of being superfluous (Überfluss) |
| superfluous | more than enough, in excess of what is required or sufficient (überflüssig) |
| provocative | serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; exciting (provokant) |
| inflammatory | provocative (aufrührerisch) |
| compassion | mercy, pity (Mitgefühl) |
| rancorous | hateful (bitter, erbittert) |
| ornate | flushed, florid (kunstvoll, verschnörkelt) |
| flushed | schwülstig, überladen (auch errötet) |
| florid | schwülstig, überladen |
| be flushed | rausfliegen |
| circuitous | indirectly, Umweg machend, umständlich |
| to make a detour | not going somewhere directly riz(einen Umweg machen) |
| to say sth. in a roundabout way | jmd etwas durch die Blume sagen |
| euphemistic | beschöndigen, euphemisch |
| withdraw | zurückziehen - withdrew, withdrawn. to take back a comment |
| withdrawn | isolated, introverted |
| reclusive | preferring privacy and isolation |
| congregation | crowd of people (Versammlung, Ansammlung) |
| anonymous | not named and determined |
| far in excess of | extremely superfluous (weit über das Maß einer Sache hinaus) |
| erroneous | containing an error |
| anachronistic | erroneous in the date or set of time, out-of-date, outdated |
| enhance | erhöhen, verbessern |
| anectode | a short account of an incident, often humorous; a previously untold, secret account of an incident |
| lobbyist | persuader of legislators |
| fortuitous | lucky, fortunate, 2nd source: happening by chance, not necessarily a lucky chance; |
| opulent | wealthy, rich |
| hackneyed | repeated too often (banal, abgedroschen) zb: abgedroschene Phrase in einem Sermon |
| sermon | a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter; a lengthy speech -- usually boring |
| tedious | boring, monotonous (ermüdend, langweilig) |
| shopworn | used, as a sample item in a retail store; not fresh (leicht beschädigt, abgenutzt) |
| conformist | follower of customs |
| ostentatious | displaying wealth, excessively showing off in an attempt to impress others |
| sane | eing in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- regarding the mind |
| deranged | disturbed or upset, especially mentally; insane |
| insane | deranged |
| vulnerablility | the state of being vulnerable |
| in retrospect | it is clear now, but wasn't clear at the time (im Rückblick) |
| vulnerable | exposed to the chance of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally (angreifbar, anfällig) |
| per se | (an sich) |
| malicious | the willful or will-less behavior of one who hurts others in a mean-spirited fashion; total disrespect for all in regards to some sort of false bravado linked to "self-preservation" (bösartig) |
| envious | feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; excessively careful; cautious |
| slavish | (sklavisch) |
| inevitable | impossible to avoid or prevent; predictable, or always happening |
| gullibility | impossible to avoid or prevent; predictable, or always happening (Leichtgläubigkeit) |
| solemn | festlich, feierlich, |
| earnestness | the quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness |
| gravitas | seriousness in bearing or manner; dignity |
| entity | (Wesen, Ding, Einheit) |
| inexhaustible | (unerschöpflich) |
| obsess over | (besessen sein mit, närrisch verfolgen) |
| vacillate | (schwanken, schwingen) |
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