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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