Vocab

Question 1

ashtray

Answer 1

-a small metal or glass bowl for the ash from cigarettes

Question 2

boiler

Answer 2

-a big metal container with a fire, used to provide hot water

Question 3

clerk

Answer 3

-a person who works in a bank, office, or store

Question 4

coroner

Answer 4

-an official responsible for the investigation of violent or
sudden deaths
->Gerichtsmediziner

Question 5

cripple

Answer 5

-someone who cannot move their body properly because

of an injury, illness, or disease

Question 6

crutch

Answer 6

-a long stick placed under the arm to help a person who has difficulty in walking

Question 7

duchess

Answer 7

-the wife or widow of a duke

Question 8

executed put to death as a punishment

Answer 8

-put to death as a punishment

Question 9

flashlight

Answer 9

• an electric torch

- > Taschenlampe

Question 10

fool

Answer 10

• deceive

- >täuschen

Question 11

governess

Answer 11

-a woman employed by a family to educate their children

Question 12

graze

Answer 12

• a scratch or slight injury to the skin

- >schürfe

Question 13

gutting

Answer 13

• robbing, often accompanied by burning and destroying

- >ausnehmen, zerstören

Question 14

rifle

Answer 14

• a kind of long gun, usually held against the shoulder

Question 15

ruffle

Answer 15

-to push a hand quickly and gently through someone’s hair
(often to show fondness for that person)
->zerzausen

Question 16

sane

Answer 16

• not mad

- >vernünftig

Question 17

inquest

Answer 17

• the official inquiry to find out the cause of someone’s death
• > gerichtliche Untersuchung

Question 18

lawn

Answer 18

• an area of short, regularly cut grass in a garden or park

- >Rasen, Wiese

Question 19

mourning

Answer 19

-showing great sadness and wearing dark clothes
because of someone’s death
->Trauer

Question 20

mugging

Answer 20

-a street robbery


Question 21

nursery

Answer 21

-a children’s room


Question 22

package

Answer 22

• a parcel

- >Paket, Päckchen

Question 23

parking-lot

Answer 23

• a car park

Question 24

pier

Answer 24

• a platform of wood or metal, built out into the sea

- >Seebrücke

Question 25

pump

Answer 25

-to force liquid, air, etc. into or out of something


Question 26

purse

Answer 26

• a woman’s handbag


- >Geldbörse

Question 27

radiator

Answer 27

• something used to heat a room; part of a heating system

- >Heizung, Heizgerät

Question 28

range

Answer 28

-a place where people can practice shooting guns

Question 29

wig

Answer 29

-covering for the head made of false hair

Question 30

trigger

Answer 30

-the part of a gun which you pull to fire it

Question 31

trailer

Answer 31

• a caravan

- >Wohnwagen

Question 32

stern

Answer 32

• the back of a boot

- >Heck