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Literature (17 Cards)

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makellos
flawless, impeccable, immaculate, perfect
speckless, spotless, stainless, taintless
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Bruchbude
a dump (coll, pej.)

a ramshackle (baufällig) hut
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gleissend
glistening, glittering
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Verheissung
promise
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locken
to allure, to attract,
to entice so, to lure so
to bait, to bribe (bestechen, schmieren)
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Machbarkeit
feasibility
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Pleite; pleite (adj.)
crash, bust, fizzling, wash-out (also: washout)


bankrupt, broke, down and out, on the rocks, skint
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Untergang
decline, demise, downfall, doom, ruin, sinking
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schliesslich
after all, in the end
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Ganove
crook (=criminal)
racketeer
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damals
back then,
at that time
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Zwänge
necessity
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auf den Hund kommen
to go down the drain
(in schlimme Umstände geraten)
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Überlebenskampf
struggle for survival
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allenthalben
everywhere
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schroff
abrupt, brusque, cliffy, cragged, craggy, gruff/y: person, jagged, precipitous, shortly
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Prügel
basting (ugs.)
beating
cudgel
floggings (eine Tracht Prügel: smacking, pounding, spanking, drubbing)
trouncing
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Author: kitty
Main topic: Englisch
Topic: Fortgeschrittener Wortschatz
Published: 10.05.2010
 
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