Vocabulary Unit 4 and 5

Addiction (n)

Sucht

Aggression

Aggressionen

Artery

Die Schlagader

Baldness

Kahlheit

Be in two minds

To be unable to decide what you think about sb/sth, or whether to do sth or not

Bone

Knochen

Brain

Gehiern

Break sb’s heart

Jemandem das Herz brechen

Burden

Last

Cause

Ursache

Change your mind

To change a decision or an opinion

Come to your senses

Cause someone to think and behave reasonably after a period of folly or irratioality

Cross your mind

To come into your mind

Deafness

Taubheit

Depression

Depressionen

Dig your heels in

To refuse to do sth or to change your mind about sth

Disability

Behinderung

Dismally adj

Causing or showing sadness

Engineer n

Ingenieur

Flowing

Fließt; hanging or draping loosely and gracefully (hair or clothing)

Give sb a piece of your mind

To tell sb that you disapprove of their behaviour or are angry with them

Go out of your mind

To be unable to think or behave in a normal way

Hard to swallow

Difficult to accept or not easy to believe

Heart

Herz

Imperfection

Unvollkommenheit

Keep in mind

To remember

Lifeless

Leblos

Liver

Leber

Lung

Lungen

Make up your mind

To decide sth

Mind

Verstand

(There is) more to sb than meets the eye

A person or thing is more complicated or interesting than you might think at first

Obesity

Fettleibiggkeit

Pearly

Perlig

Rib

Rippe

Screen

Bildschirm

Shift

To move, or move sth, from one position or place to another

Short-sighted

Kuerzsichtig

Shrivelled

Geschrumpft

Skin

Haut

Skull

Schädel

Slip your mind

To forget sth

(Have) sth on your mind

If sb/sth is on your mind, you are thinking and worrying about them/ it a lot

Spine

Wirbelsäule

Stomach

Magen

Take your mind off sth

To make you forget about sth unplleasant for a short time

Vein

Vene

Warts and all

Including all the bad or unpleasant features of sb/sth

Watery

Wässerig

(A) weight off your shoulders

To rellieve yourself of a burden, normally sth that has been troubling/ worrying you

Abuse

Missbrauch

Add on

Make an addittion to

As far as I know

Soweit ich weiss

As soon as possible

So bald wie möglich

At some point

Irgendwannn

Back over

Back part of the cover of a book or maazine

Bibliography

A list of books, etc. That have been used by sb writing an article, etc.

By the way

übrigens

Carry on

To continue without stopping

Cheer on

Anfeuern

Chilling

Frightening,usualy because it is connected with sth violent or cruel

Cling on

Festklammern an

Come on

Used in order to tell sb to hurry or to try harder

Complex

Komplex

Contents page

Inhaltsangabe

Dust jacket

A paper cover on a book that protects it but that can be removes

Empower

To give sb the power or authority to do sth

Enable

Ermöglichen

Enclose

To build a wall, fence, etc.around sth

Encourage

Ermutigen

Enlarge

Vergrößern

Ensure

Dafür sorgen

Entitle

To give sb the right to have or to do sth

Entrust

To make sb responsibe for doing sth or taking care of sb

Expressive

Ausdruckksvoll

For what it’s worth

Used to emphasize that what you are saying is only your own opinion or suggestion and ay not be very helpful

For your information

Used to tell sb that they are wrong about sth

From my point of view

Aus meiner Sicht

Front cover

A book cover is any protective covering used to bind together the pages of a book

Glossary

Glossar

Go on

To continue

Gripping

Packend

Hardback

A book that has a stiff cover

Index

Index

Insightful

Aufschlusreich

Intricate

Kompliziert

Keep on

Mach weiter

Laugh out loud

Extremely funny

Live on

To have enough money for the basic things you need to live

Meaningful

Sinnvoll

Move on

Mach weiter

Moving

Causing you to have deep feelings of sadness or sympathy

On the point of

At the moment immediately before a specified condition,action, etc, is expected to begin

In my humble opinion

Meiner bescheidenen Meinung nachp

Paperback

A book that has a thick paper cover

Perceptive

Having or showing the ability to see or understand things quickl

Pinnacle

Höhepunkt

Point out

Hinweisen

Perface

An introduction

Protagonist

The main character in a play, film or book