2Reading Vocabulary5 Flashcards
Absolute
-complete, without limit or the largest degree possible
Amass
- to gather a large amount of something, especially money, by collecting it over time
- > anhäufen, ansammeln
Capacious
- having a lot of space and able to contain a lot
- >geräumig, weit, fassend
Compound
- to make something worse by increasing or adding to it
- >verschlimmern/ zusammengesetzt, kompliziert
Constraint
- something that limits the range of a person’s actions or freedom
- > Beschränkung, Einschränkung
Contract
- to catch or become ill with a disease
- >annehmen, zusammenziehen, schrumpfen
Correlate
- to have a connection between two or more things
- >zusammenhängen, beziehen
Critique
- a report that discusses a situation or the writings or ideas of someone and offers a judgement about them
- > Kritik, Rezension
Discoverable
- able to be found or learned for the first time
- >entdeckter, feststellbar
Exponentially
-if something increases exponentially, it increases at a quicker and quicker rate as the thing that increases becomes larger
Imperative
- extremely important or urgent (dringend, eilig)
- >zwingend, unerlässlich, unumgänglich
Increment
- one of a series of amounts that increase a total
- > Zuwachs, Erhöhung, erhöhten, steigern
inexplicable
- that cannot be explained or understood
- >unerklärlich, unfassbar
Information overload
- a situation in which you receive too much information at one time and cannot think about it in a clear way
- > Datenflut, Informationsüberflutung
Inhibitor
- something that stops or slows down a process
- >Hemmstoff, Hemmer
Interrelated
- connected in such a way that each thing has an effect on the others
- > zusammenhängend, in gegenseitiger Beziehung
Mash up
- to combine information or technology from different sources
- > vermischen, vermanschen
Open-ended
- without an end date or planned way of ending
- >ergebnisoffen, offen, unbefristet
Oppressive
- causing people to feel worried and uncomfortable; cruel, and unfair
- > bedrückend, erdrückend, gewaltsam
Pare down
- to reduce something to a level at which only what is absolutely necessary left
- > auf ein (Minimum) beschänken
Promulgate
- to spread beliefs or ideas among a lot of people
- >verkünden, veröffentlichen
Relevant
- related to a subject or to something happening or being discussed
- > passend, wichtig, bedeutungsvoll
Tantamount
- equal
- >gleichbedeutend, gleichwertig
Traverse
- to move or travel through an area
- >durchqueren, durchlaufen, durchziehen
Widespread
- existing or happening in many places or among many people
- >umfassend, weitverbreitet
