German C1 — Advanced Vocabulary
264 C1 words in “Work & Education”.
Work in progress. The C1 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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264 C1 words in “Work & Education”
| German word | English meaning |
|---|---|
| die Habilitationsschrift | habilitation thesis |
| habilitieren | to pursue post-doctoral qualification |
| die Haftung | liability |
| der Haftungsausschluss | a disclaimer |
| der Handlanger | henchman / handy-man |
| die Hauptplatine | a motherboard |
| der Hauptspeicher | main memory / RAM |
| der Hauptspiegel | primary mirror |
| die Hermeneutik | hermeneutics |
| die Heuristik | heuristic |
| der Historiograf | historian / chronicler |
| die Historiographie | historiography |
| die Homogenisierung | homogenization / standardization |
| die Hypothesenprüfung | hypothesis testing |
| die Implementierung | an implementation |
| das Induktionsverfahren | inductive reasoning |
| induzieren | to induce |
| die Inferenz | inference |
| die Interdisziplinarität | interdisciplinarity |
| die Interoperabilität | interoperability |
| die Kalibrierung | calibration |
| der Kanon | canon |
| die Kanonisierung | establishment as canon |
| die Kanzlei | an office / chancellory / chambers |
| der Kernel | kernel |
| die Klapsmühle | a loony bin / nuthouse |
| kodifizieren | to codify |
| die Kohlefaser | carbon-fiber |
| die Kohortenstudie | cohort study |
| das Kolloquium | colloquium / research presentation |
| der Kompetenzerwerb | competency acquisition |
| die Komprimierung | compression |
| das Konfidenzintervall | confidence interval |
| konfiszieren | to confiscate |
| die Konfliktforschung | conflict research / study of disputes |
| die Konfundierung | confounding |
| die Konsistenz | consistency |
| die Konsolidierung | consolidation |
| das Kontrollelement | control element |
| die Kontrollgruppe | control group |
| die Konzeptionalisierung | conceptualization/framing |
| konzessioniert | licensed (wenig benutzt) |
| die Korrelation | correlation |
| die Kräuterkunde | herbology |
| der Kundschafter | a scout / spy |
| die Kunstfertigkeit | skillfullness / craftsmanship |
| die Latenz | latency |
| die Legierung | an alloy |
| der Lehrbeauftragter | contract lecturer |
| die Leistungsfähigkeit | efficiency / productivity / capability |
| die Leiterplatte | a circuit board |
| der Lernzuwachs | learning gain/progress |
| der Logopädin | speech pathologist |
| die Longitudinalstudie | longitudinal study |
| die Luftverkehrswirtschaft | aviation industry |
| die Magd | a wench / maid |
| das Mapping | mapping |
| der Maskenbildner | a makeup artist |
| die Maßregelung | a reprimand / discipline |
| das Messinstrument | measurement instrument |
| die Metaanalyse | meta-analysis |
| die Metadaten | metadata |
| das Metadatum | metadata |
| die Metakognition | metacognition |
| die Methodik | methodology |
| die Methodologie | methodology |
| das Metier | a metier / profession / job metier = a trade, profession, or occupation |
| die Middleware | middleware |
| das Narrativ | narrative |
| das Natrium | Sodium |
| die Normalisierung | normalization |
| die Normalverteilung | normal distribution |
| die Objektivität | objectivity |
| das Okular | an eyepiece |
| die Operationalisierung | operationalization |
| ordinieren | to ordain |
| der Overhead | overhead |
| der p-Wert | p-value |
| die Parabel | a parable / parabola |
| das Paradigma | paradigm |
| die Parallelisierung | parallelization |
| der Payload | payload |
| das Peer-Review | peer review |
| die Pensionierung | retirement (less common) |
| das Pensum | a workload / task / quota |
| postulieren | to postulate |
| das Prekariat | precariat / working poor |
| das Priestertum | priesthood |
| der Proband | experimentee / guinea pig |
| die Problemumgehung | a workaround |
| die Propädeutik | introductory course/preliminary study |
| proprietäre | proprietary |
| das Prozessrecht | procedural law |
| der Prüfstand | a test bench / test stand |
| die Quantifizierung | quantification |
| die Quellenforschung | source research |
| das Quellenmaterial | source material |
| die Querschnittsstudie | cross-sectional study |
| die Reakkreditierung | re-accreditation |
| recherchieren | to do research |
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und sie haben es in dieser Maschine gezüchtet
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machine · engine · device
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