German B2 — Upper-Intermediate Vocabulary
144 B2 words in “Nature & Weather”.
Work in progress. The B2 list is curated and still growing — new words are added regularly. Because B2 and C1 have no official fixed word list, levels here are graded automatically, so a word can occasionally sit a level either way.
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144 B2 words in “Nature & Weather”
| German word | English meaning |
|---|---|
| der Schadstoff | pollutant |
| der Schall | sound Think physics |
| schäumend | foaming / frothy |
| der Schiefer | slate / shale |
| das Schneegestöber | snow flurry |
| der Schwall | surge / gush / flood |
| die Schwerkraft | gravity |
| schwirren | to buzz / whir / whiz |
| die Seekuh | manatee |
| der Seewespe | box jellyfish / sea-wasp |
| der Splitt | grit / stone chips |
| sprießen | to sprout / spring up / shoot |
| spröde | brittle |
| der Spross | a sprout / offshoot |
| der Stachelrochen | stingray |
| stauen | to dam / stop the flow |
| der Stickstoff | nitrogen |
| die Stoßwelle | a shock wave |
| die Strahlung | radiation |
| stromlinienförmig | streamlined |
| die Sturzflut | a flash flood |
| die Tarantel | tarantula (common) |
| das Treibhausgas | greenhouse gas |
| der Treibsand | quicksand |
| die Trockenheit | drought / aridity |
| die Umlaufbahn | orbit |
| umpflanzen | to transplant |
| unberührt | untouched / unaffected / unspoiled / pristine |
| das Unterholz | undergrowth / brush |
| unwirtlich | inhospitable |
| verdampfen | to evaporate |
| die Verschmutzung | pollution |
| versteinert | petrified / fossilized |
| der Waldbestand | forest stock |
| die Waldrodung | deforestation |
| das Waldsterben | forest dieback |
| der Wasserstoff | hydrogen |
| das Weltraumteleskop | a space telescope |
| der Windpark | wind farm |
| der Wipfel | treetop / top |
| wuchern | to proliferate / grow profusely |
| die Wucht | brunt / force / impact |
| der Zerfall | decay / disintegration |
| der Zufluss | inflow / influx / supply |
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und sie haben es in dieser Maschine gezüchtet
and they grew it inside this machine
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machine · in context
noun
machine · engine · device
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