| word | meaning in English | meaning in German |
|---|---|---|
| GIFT | a present | poison |
| DANK | chilly wet | gratefulness, thanks |
| STARK | bare, grim, harsh | strong |
| KIND | nice, generous | a child |
| HUT | small building | a hat |
| ROCK | a stone; to move back and forth | a skirt |
| STOCK | a share in a company | a cane |
| MITTEN | a glove | in the middle |
| SAGE | a wise person | say [first person, present tense]; also a saga |
| LINKS | plural of link, connections | left [opposite to right] |
| TOLL | a charge for road usage | fantastic |
| BOOT | a tall shoe | boat |
| LUNGE | a sudden thrust | lung |
| GUT | intestine or stomach | good |
| MIST | light fog | dung, manure |
| NOT | in no way | an emergency |
| LAST | at the end | freight, burden |
| HANDY | easy to handle | cellular phone [new word] |
| MOST | superlative of many | apple cider [Southern Germany, Austria] |
| RIND | a tough outer covering, of cheese for example | an individual of cattle |
| LOT | a considerable quantity | a plumb |
| TALK | speak | talc |
| BAD | evil, harmful | bath |
| RAT | a rodent | advice |
| TRUNK | the nose of an elefant | a drink (together with some people) |
| LIED | past tense of "to lie" | a song |
| HALL | a large room | a short echo |
| FAST | quickly | almost |
| BRIEF | short | a letter |
| SAME | identical, e.g., at the same time | a seed |
| BALD | lacking of natural covering, e.g., hair | soon |
| SOLD | past tense of "to sell" | a soldier's salary |
| LAG | to fall behind | past tense of "legen" (intransitive verb, i.e., lie) |
| GLUT | an oversupply | embers |
| LACK | to be deficient | lacquer |
| WAR | an armed conflict | past tense of "sein" (to be) |
| TOT | a small child | dead (adverb) |
| TOTE | to carry by hand as in tote-bag | dead (adjective) |
| GRAB | to seize | a grave |
| LIST | a sequence | craftiness |
| JAMMER | one that jams | misery |
| KIPPER | a fish cured in salt | a dump truck |
| STERN | firm and unyielding | a star |
| DICK | short form of Richard; colloquial for penis | stout, corpulent |
| SEE | to behold with your eyes | a lake |
| ART | The production of beautiful forms of sound or shape | a species |
| ANGEL | a spiritual being attendant upon God | a fishing rod |
| BAT | A flying mammal; a wooden club | past tense of "bitten" (to ask for something) |
| HAT | a head covering | third person present tense for "haben" (to have) |
| MUTTER | to speak indistinctly in a low voice | mother |
| LEG | a lower extremity in a human | imperative for "legen" (to lay) |
| LOG | the fallen trunk of a tree | past tense of "lügen" (to lie) |
| TEE | a t-shaped peg to place a golf ball on | tea |
| MADE | past tense of "to make" | a maggot |
| SUCH | As in "such as" | imperative for "suchen" (to search) |
| LURCH | to roll or pitch suddenly | a salamander |
| MARK | a sign or visible impression | marrow (like "Knochenmark" bone-marrow) |
| QUALM | a sensation of doubt, uneasiness ("to have no qualms about it") | thick smoke |
| MAUL | to bruise or tear ("mauled by a wild animal") | the mouth of an animal ("das Maul halten" to shut up) |
| WELT | a ridge or bump raised on the skin by a lash or blow | the world |
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