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lubricant
Schmiermittel
substance on surface in order to help moving more easily on another one
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truth bias
Wahrheitsvoreingenommenheit
wanna believe that sth is true
prejudice/
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accretion
gradual growth by addition of new parts or layers
Wertsteigerung
increase/ climb layer
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hideous
ugly/terrible
grässlich
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-
mimicking
copying/imitate
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ossify
become bone/ become inflexible
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patter
tapsen
taking small steps
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craic
feeling: more than fun
very enjoyable amusement
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small potatoes
small matter, small pint
not important
Kleinigkeit
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watchword
slogan, catchword
"yes, we can!"
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wielded like a battleaxe
spread everywhere
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jauntiness
happyness, brightness, cheerfulness
Fröhlichkeit, Unbeschwertheit
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people smugglers
take people secretly out of/ into a country
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prey-drive behaviour
animal hurting another
jagdinstinkt folgend
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entrenched
so fixed that it can't be changed
rooted/fixed
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cattle restraint
limit/ hold back cows
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hyper-vigilant
extremely watchful, careful
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baulk
show fear
shrink / start back
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gerbil
small mouse living in deserts, jumping
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chute
way for animals in slaughterhouses
Rutsche
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to assimilate
to become similar to sth (in Einklang bringen)
to integrate
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transmissibility (of law)
permeability
passing from one place/ person to another
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bequeathing of property
give property after death
hinterlassen
to give inheritance
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barren
- unable to give birth
- impotent
- childless
-
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to primp
zurechtmachen
- to put on make-up
- to do hair
- waxing
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rejuvenation activities
make feel younger, healthier
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to long for sth.
desire, yearn
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to be not long for this world
have to die soon
-
succumb
to give in/ to surrender
-
-
to spearhead sth
- to be in forefront
- to lead
- to command
-
to conflate
- zusammenführen
- to associate
- (to combine)
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slander
- defamation (Rufmord)
- damaging reputation
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fringe
marginalized, minority groups
Randgruppe
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to demonize
- make sth/sb seem evil
- to condemn
verteufeln
-
off-colour
politically incorrect
-
to perpetrate
to commit a crime
-
-
torrent
- large amount
- (stream)
- load
- mass
-
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Hezbollah
Anti-Jewish Islamist group
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hijab
traditional head covering of muslim women
-
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to take a toll on sb
cause suffering
seinen Tribut fordern
-
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retail therapy
to buy things in order to feel better
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dump
place to leave rubbish
-
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meritocracy
achievement-orientated society
-
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oligarchy
government by a small group of powerful people
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road kill
animals killed on roads
-
in the wake of sth
- consequenty
- as the result of..
-
philistine
uninformed in certain areas of knowledge
-
-
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to conduct
- to carry (out)
- to lead (out)
führen
-
to subscribe
- to sign sth
- to arrange offer
-
backlash
adverse (negative) reaction
-
to ward/ hold/ stave off
- to keep away
- to prevent
- to resist
-
-
run amuck (amok)
- spread like wildfire
- behave uncontrollably
-
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to make up a story on the fly
- spontaneous
- to do sth off the cuff
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