German C1 — Advanced Vocabulary
Formal, academic and specialized words — the hard-to-find advanced vocabulary. · 2,114 words.
2,114 C1 words
| German word | English meaning |
|---|---|
| ungeachtet | regardless of |
| ungemein | immense / tremendous |
| die Ungereimtheit | inconsistency |
| das Ungestüm | impetuousness |
| der Unglücksrabe | an unlucky thing / wretch |
| unheilschwanger | portentious / ominous |
| unheilvoll | portentous / ominous |
| unmerklich | imperceptible |
| unnachgiebig | unyielding / adamant |
| die Unnachgiebigkeit | intransigence / inflexibility = refusal to change one's views or to agree about something |
| unrechtmäßig | wrongful / unlawful |
| unsäglich | untold / unspeakable |
| die Unschärfe | a blur |
| die Unsichtbarkeit | invisibility |
| die Unsittlichkeit | immorality / indecency |
| untadelig | blameless |
| die Unterbelichtung | underexposure |
| unterbreiten | to bring forward / present |
| der Unterfang | an undertaking / venture |
| untergetaucht | submerged |
| untergliedern | to subdivide |
| unterheben | to fold in |
| unterjochen | to subjugate |
| die Unterkühlung | hypothermia |
| der Unterlass | cease and desist |
| die Untermauerung | underpinning / support |
| die Unterredung | talks / discussion |
| unterschwellig | subliminal |
| die Unterstellung | an insinuation |
| untertan | subservient |
| die Unterwerfung | subjection / subjugation |
| das Untier | monster / brute |
| unverhandelbar | non-negotiable |
| unverhohlen | unconcealed / overt / undisguised |
| unverwandt | unblinking / steady |
| unverwüstlich | indestructable / resilient |
| unverzagt | unflinching with courage / unshrinking |
| unverzüglich | unhesitating |
| unweigerlich | invariably / inevitably |
| unwiderruflich | irrevocable / irreversible |
| unwirsch | gruff / brusque / testily / short-temperedly |
| die Unzulänglichkeit | inadequacy |
| die Urangst | a primal fear |
| die Urheberrecht | a copyright |
| die Ursachenforschung | root cause analysis |
| die Urteilsfähigkeit | capacity to judge/legal capacity |
| das Urteilsvermögen | discernment / judgement |
| die Validität | validity |
| die Varianz | variance |
| die Vene | a vein |
| die Veranlagung | predisposition / disposition / nature |
| verätzt | corroded |
| verbarrikadieren | to barricade |
| die Verbissenheit | doggedness (ruggedness / determination) |
| die Verblendung | facing/cladding |
| verbluten | to bleed to death / spend |
| die Verbüßung | serving (a sentence) |
| die Verdammnis | damnation |
| die Verdichtung | condensing / compression |
| verdrießen | to annoy / irritate / irk |
| verdrießlich | morosely / sullen / sourly |
| die Verdrossenheit | disgruntlement / displeasure |
| vereidigen | to swear in |
| die Vereidigung | a swearing-in |
| vereinfachungshalber | for the sake of simplicity |
| die Verelendung | impoverishment |
| verewigen | to perpetuate / immortalize |
| verfangen | to catch on / entangle |
| verfassungsmäßig | constitutional |
| der Verfassungsschutz | constitutional protection / domestic intelligence |
| verfassungswidrig | unconstitutional |
| die Verfassungswidrigkeit | unconstitutionality |
| der Verfechter | advocate / proponent / champion |
| verfestigen | to solidify / freeze |
| verfinstern | to overcloud / darken / eclipse |
| verflüssigen | to liquify |
| der Verfolgungswahn | paranoia (wenig benutzt) |
| verfrachten | to ship off / bundle off |
| vergänglich | evanescent / transient |
| die Vergasung | gassing |
| vergegenwärtigen | to visualize / imagine |
| die Vergeltung | retribution / retaliation |
| die Vergessenheit | oblivion |
| vergilben | to yellow (e.g., a tree in fall) |
| verglühen | to burn up |
| vergöttern | to idolize / deify / adore |
| verharren | to remain / stay / pause |
| verheddern | to tangle up / foul (wenig benutzt) |
| verheißen | to promise / augur (augur = a sign of what will happen in the future) |
| die Verherrlichung | glorification |
| verhohlen | concealed / secret / supressed (wenig benutzt) |
| die Verifizierung | verification |
| verinnerlichen | to internalize |
| die Verjährungsfrist | statute of limitations |
| verkehren | to consort / have intercourse |
| verkeilen | to wedge |
| verklingen | to die away / fade away |
| verkniffen | pinched |
| verkohlen | to char / burn to a cinder |
| verkrüppeln | to cripple / grow stunted |
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