2Reading Vocabulary5 Flashcards
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Absolute
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-complete, without limit or the largest degree possible
2
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Amass
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- to gather a large amount of something, especially money, by collecting it over time
- > anhäufen, ansammeln
3
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Capacious
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- having a lot of space and able to contain a lot
- >geräumig, weit, fassend
4
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Compound
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- to make something worse by increasing or adding to it
- >verschlimmern/ zusammengesetzt, kompliziert
5
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Constraint
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- something that limits the range of a person’s actions or freedom
- > Beschränkung, Einschränkung
6
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Contract
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- to catch or become ill with a disease
- >annehmen, zusammenziehen, schrumpfen
7
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Correlate
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- to have a connection between two or more things
- >zusammenhängen, beziehen
8
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Critique
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- a report that discusses a situation or the writings or ideas of someone and offers a judgement about them
- > Kritik, Rezension
9
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Discoverable
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- able to be found or learned for the first time
- >entdeckter, feststellbar
10
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Exponentially
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-if something increases exponentially, it increases at a quicker and quicker rate as the thing that increases becomes larger
11
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Imperative
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- extremely important or urgent (dringend, eilig)
- >zwingend, unerlässlich, unumgänglich
12
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Increment
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- one of a series of amounts that increase a total
- > Zuwachs, Erhöhung, erhöhten, steigern
13
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inexplicable
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- that cannot be explained or understood
- >unerklärlich, unfassbar
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Information overload
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- a situation in which you receive too much information at one time and cannot think about it in a clear way
- > Datenflut, Informationsüberflutung
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Inhibitor
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- something that stops or slows down a process
- >Hemmstoff, Hemmer
