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English Wörter


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This set of flashcards helps university-level students learn English. It focuses on expanding vocabulary with words like "fundamental," "facilitate," and "external," while also covering related terms and usage examples. The platform supports backward learning, allowing users to study from the target language to the source language. Ideal for advanced learners, this flashcard set aids in improving fluency and understanding complex concepts.
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Langue
Anglais
Catégorie
Anglais
Niveau
Université
Créé / Mis à jour
30.04.2017 / 06.06.2017

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adjustad

einstellen

Related to adjust:

alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard; make correspondent or conformable; decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim; adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions

1. adapt
2. align
3. conform
4. set
5. Aline
6. line up

alter

 

ändern

Related to alter:

remove the ovaries of; make an alteration to; make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; cause to change; make different

1. change
2. vary
3. interpolate
4. falsify
5. neuter
6. spay

amend

ändern

Related to amend:

make amendments to; to make better; set straight or right

1. rectify
2. improve
3. remedy
4. ameliorate
5. meliorate
6. better

aware

bewusst

Related to aware:

bearing in mind; attentive to; aware or knowing

1. cognizant
2. mindful
3. informed
4. conscious
5. careful
6. alert
7. knowledgeable
8. knowing
9. cognisant
10. awake
11. heedful
12. alive
13. witting
14. sensible
15. reminiscent
16. redolent
17. remindful
18. evocative
19. redolent of
20. reminiscent of

capacity

Kapazität

Related to capacity:

a specified function; the maximum production possible; tolerance for alcohol; ability to perform or produce; the power to learn or retain knowledge

1. capability
2. capacitance
3. content
4. electrical capacity
5. mental ability

challenge

Herausforderung

Related to challenge:

a demand by a sentry for a password or identification; questioning a statement and demanding an explanation; a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror

1. gainsay
2. dispute
3. take exception

clause

Klausel

Related to clause:

(grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence; a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will)

1. article

compound

Verbindung

Related to compound:

an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient); a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts; (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements

1. complex
2. conjugate
3. pinnate
4. trifoliate
5. lobate
6. Ternate
7. palmate
8. intensify
9. combine
10. lobed
11. heighten
12. cleft
13. deepen
14. colonial
15. bipartite
16. incised
17. abruptly-pinnate
18. bilobate
19. bilobated
20. bilobed
21. binate
22. bipinnate
23. bipinnatifid
24. chemical compound
25. decompound
26. even-pinnate
27. imparipinnate
28. odd-pinnate
29. palm-shaped
30. palmatifid
31. paripinnate
32. pedate
33. pinnated
34. pinnatifid
35. pinnatisect
36. quinquefoliate
37. trifoliated
38. trifoliolate
39. trilobate
40. trilobated
41. trilobed
42. tripinnate
43. tripinnated
44. tripinnatifid
45. dissected
46. parted

conflict

Konflikt

Related to conflict:

an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); an incompatibility of dates or events; opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings

1. dispute
2. struggle
3. battle
4. engagement
5. fight
6. difference
7. contravene
8. infringe
9. run afoul
10. difference of opinion

consult

konsultieren

Related to consult:

advise professionally; seek information from; when planning or deciding something; get or ask advice from; have a conference in order to talk something over

1. refer
2. confer
3. confabulate
4. look up
5. confab
6. confer with
7. take counsel

contact

Kontakt

Related to contact:

 close interaction; the act of touching physically; (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact

1. touch
2. liaison
3. link
4. reach
5. middleman
6. impinging
7. get hold of
8. inter-group communication
9. get through
10. striking
11. tangency

decline

Ablehnen

Related to decline:

change toward something smaller or lower; a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current; a downward slope or bend

1. diminution
2. fall
3. wane
4. decay
5. worsen
6. downslope
7. descent
8. reject
9. declivity
10. refuse
11. go down
12. turn down
13. pass up

discrete

Diskret

Related to discrete:

constituting a separate entity or part

1. distinct
2. separate

draft

Entwurf

Related to draft:

the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling; a dose of liquid medicine; a preliminary sketch of a design or picture; a regulator for controlling the flow of air in a fireplace

1. blueprint
2. outline
3. conscription
4. selective service
5. rough
6. drawing
7. enlist
8. draught
9. gulp
10. muster
11. swig
12. tipple
13. air current
14. bill of exchange
15. draft copy
16. muster in
17. order of payment
18. potation
19. rough drawing

enable

aktivieren, ermöglichen

Related to enable:

render capable or able for some task

energy

Energie:

Related to energy:

an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); enterprising or ambitious drive; an exertion of force; (physics) the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs

1. vitality
2. vigor
3. vim
4. push
5. department of energy
6. vigour
7. energy department
8. get-up-and-go

enforce

erzwingen

Related to enforce:

ensure observance of laws and rules;; compel to behave in a certain way

1. implement
2. impose
3. apply

entity

Entität, Objekt, Wesen

Related to entity:

that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving);

1. something

equivalent

Gleichwertig

Related to equivalent:

the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen; a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect 

1. equal
2. same
3. like
4. Eq
5. combining weight
6. equivalent weight

evolve

entwickeln, sich entwickeln

Related to evolve:

undergo development or evolution; work out; gain through experience

1. develop
2. work out

expand

erweitern

Related to expand:

extend in one or more directions; become larger in size or volume or quantity; make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity; expand the influence of; exaggerate or make bigger; grow stronger

1. enlarge
2. extend
3. prosper
4. amplify
5. thrive
6. flourish
7. inflate
8. dilate
9. expound
10. expatiate
11. boom
12. elaborate
13. flesh out
14. get ahead
15. spread out
16. blow up

expose

Expose, aussetzen

Related to expose:

expose or make accessible to some action or influence; expose to light, of photographic film; to show, make visible or apparent; abandon by leaving out in the open air; disclose to view as by removing a cover

1. uncover
2. reveal
3. discover
4. unmasking
5. debunk
6. endanger
7. disclose
8. impart
9. divulge
10. scupper
11. declare
12. peril
13. break
14. exhibit
15. display
16. queer
17. bring out
18. give away
19. let on
20. let out

external

Äusserlich

Related to external:

coming from the outside; happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface; purely outward or superficial; from or between other countries

1. exogenous
2. foreign
3. extraneous
4. extrinsic
5. International
6. outward
7. outer
8. outside

facilitate

erleichtern

Related to facilitate:

make easier; physiology: increase the likelihood of (a response); be of use

1. help
2. alleviate
3. ease

fundamental

Grundlegend

Related to fundamental:

being or involving basic facts or principles; far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something; serving as an essential component

1. basic
2. underlying
3. profound
4. important
5. key
6. significant
7. rudimentary
8. primal
9. Central
10. cardinal
11. first harmonic
12. fundamental frequency
13. of import

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