Reading2 Vocabulary4 Flashcards
Alienated?
-feeling separate or unwelcome
Bland?
-not interesting, lacking of strong flavor
Countless?
-very many
Diminish?
-to reduce in size or importance
Dismiss?
- to decide that something is not worth considering
- entlassen
Distinct?
-separate; clearly different
Distribute?
-to spread over a large are
Erosion?
-the gradual weakening or wearing away of something
Icon?
-a famous person or thing that represents something of importance
Incrementally?
-happening in a series of small steps
Inevitably?
- certainly; impossible to avoid or prevent
- zwangsläufig, unweigerlich
Influx?
- the arrival of a large amount of things or people
- Zustrom, Zufluss
Intricate?
- having a lot of small parts arranged in a very complicated way
- kompliziert, verwickelt
Profanity?
- offensive, or bad, language
- Fluch, Gotteslästerung
Profound?
-felt or experienced strongly
Relegate?
- to put someone or something at a lower rank (-degradieren)
- verweisen, verbannen
Static?
-not changing; remaining the same
Unfounded?
- not based on facts; untrue
- unbegründet, grundlos
Cultural leveling
-culture that were once distinct become increasingly similar
Proximity?
-nearness in space or time
Accused?
- charged(beschuldigt) with a crime
- angeklagt
Flawed?
- an imperfection, damaged, defective
- > fehlerhaft
Originated?
- to come or bring into being
- >entstehen
Imprinted?
- to produce (a mark or pattern) on a surface by pressure
- bedrucken, prägen
Intrinsic?
- relating to the essential nature of a thing
- >inner, wesentlich
