German C1 — Advanced Vocabulary
604 C1 words in “Society & Abstract”.
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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604 C1 words in “Society & Abstract”
| German word | English meaning |
|---|---|
| unaufhaltsam | unstoppable |
| unausweichlich | inescapable |
| unbeschadet | regardless of / without prejudice |
| unbestreitbar | undeniable / indisputable |
| das Unbewusste | the unconscious / subconscious |
| uneinnehmbar | impregnable |
| unentbehrlich | indispensable / essential |
| unerheblich | irrelevant / negligible |
| unerlässlich | essential / vital / requisite |
| ungeachtet | regardless of |
| die Ungereimtheit | inconsistency |
| das Ungestüm | impetuousness |
| unmerklich | imperceptible |
| unrechtmäßig | wrongful / unlawful |
| unsäglich | untold / unspeakable |
| die Unsichtbarkeit | invisibility |
| die Unterbelichtung | underexposure |
| der Unterfang | an undertaking / venture |
| unterjochen | to subjugate |
| der Unterlass | cease and desist |
| die Untermauerung | underpinning / support |
| unterschwellig | subliminal |
| untertan | subservient |
| die Unterwerfung | subjection / subjugation |
| das Untier | monster / brute |
| unverhandelbar | non-negotiable |
| unweigerlich | invariably / inevitably |
| unwiderruflich | irrevocable / irreversible |
| die Unzulänglichkeit | inadequacy |
| die Urteilsfähigkeit | capacity to judge/legal capacity |
| das Urteilsvermögen | discernment / judgement |
| die Vene | a vein |
| die Verbüßung | serving (a sentence) |
| die Verdammnis | damnation |
| die Verelendung | impoverishment |
| verfassungsmäßig | constitutional |
| der Verfassungsschutz | constitutional protection / domestic intelligence |
| verfassungswidrig | unconstitutional |
| die Verfassungswidrigkeit | unconstitutionality |
| der Verfechter | advocate / proponent / champion |
| verfestigen | to solidify / freeze |
| vergänglich | evanescent / transient |
| die Vergasung | gassing |
| die Vergeltung | retribution / retaliation |
| die Verherrlichung | glorification |
| verhohlen | concealed / secret / supressed (wenig benutzt) |
| die Verleumdung | slander (defamation / libel) |
| das Vermächtnis | legacy |
| die Vermessenheit | presumptuousness |
| der Vernichtungslager | an extermination camp |
| die Verquickung | an amalgamation |
| verschachtelt | encapsulated |
| die Verschleppung | protraction / spreading / delay protraction = the action of prolonging something or the state of being prolonged |
| versklaven | to enslave |
| verwirken | to forfeit |
| verwitmet | widowed |
| die Vielschichtigkeit | complexity (wenig benutzt) |
| vogelfrei | outlaw (adj) |
| der Völkermord | genocide |
| die Volkssouveränität | popular sovereignty |
| die Vollendung | consummation / completion / perfection |
| die Vollstreckung | enforcement / execution / carrying out |
| der Vollzug | enforcement / implementation / penal system |
| der Vorbote | harbinger / precursor / herald |
| vorherrschend | prevalent / predominant |
| die Vorhut | vanguard (opposite of rear guard) |
| der Vorkämpfer | a champion / pioneer |
| die Vorsehung | providence / destiny |
| das Vorsitzrecht | right to chair / right of presidency |
| die Vorstrafe | prior conviction/criminal record |
| das Votum | vote / judgment |
| die Vulnerabilität | vulnerability |
| wächsern | waxen / waxy |
| der Wassermensch | a merman |
| die Wechselwirkung | interaction / interplay |
| die Weihe | sanctification / consecration = the act of making / declaring something sacred |
| die Weitblick | vision / foresight |
| der Widerling | a creep |
| die Widrigkeiten | adversity |
| die Wiederaufnahme | reopening of proceedings |
| wiedererstehen | to rise again / resurrect |
| die Willensfreiheit | free will / freedom of choice |
| der Wohlfahrtsstaat | welfare state |
| die Wölbung | curvature / arch |
| die Wortbildung | word formation |
| der Wulst | a bead / bulge / bulb |
| die Zäsur | a break / cesura = any interruption or break |
| der Zehnte | a tithe |
| der Zenit | a zenith |
| die Zentnerlast | a heavy burden |
| der Zepter | a scepter |
| das Zerrbild | distorted image / caricature |
| der Zirkelschluss | circular reasoning / logic |
| zubilligen | to grant / allow (wenig benutzt) |
| das Zuchthaus | penitentiary / prison (old word) |
| das Zugeständnis | a concession (less common) |
| zugrunde liegenden | underlying |
| zur Vergeltung | in retaliation |
| zurechnungsfähig | of sound mine / sane |
| zusehends | appreciably / visibly / noticeably |
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