🇩🇪 German Vocabulary — 29 Jun 2026

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GUARDIAN N

a close and personal relationship

"Whatever his role, what matters is the performance of connection, the theatre of intimacy."

closeness familiarity warmth
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GUARDIAN ADJ
vertretbar

able to be defended or maintained

"Robert had moved into his teenage son’s bedroom but the situation was untenable: the couple fought and Jane spent much of the time crying."

defensible justifiable viable
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GUARDIAN ADJ
einschüchternd

frightening or intimidating

"The task before them now – which will be led by their diaspora of players in the main – is daunting, with Uruguay, Saudi Arabia and European champions Spain, lying in wait in the group stage."

intimidating discouraging overwhelming
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GUARDIAN N
Ereignis

a situation or fact that is observed to exist or to be happening

"Rabies spread is a ‘mammal to mammal’ phenomenon and health experts believe that immunising 70pc of street dogs can ward off a looming crisis."

occurrence happening event
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GUARDIAN N
Dilemma

a situation in which a person is trapped by conflicting circumstances or rules

"But the catch-22: financial pressures can also make separation financially impossible."

dilemma quandary predicament
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GUARDIAN ADJ
gesamt

relating to the overall structure or pattern of something

"“There are two elements to it,” Renfrey says. “One are external economic factors and macro factors of lack of supply and high cost, but the other is the lack of financial certainty until there is a resolution on the split of wealth.”"

overall broad general
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GUARDIAN V
bewegen

moving slowly and aimlessly

"MARCH has offered an early glimpse of the climate Pakistan is drifting towards."

moving floating wandering
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GUARDIAN V
erweitert

extended or expanded to the limit

"Hospitals are stretched thin, struggling to meet rising demand with limited resources."

extended expanded strained
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GUARDIAN N
Zyklus

a situation or place where people or things are drawn into a cycle of trouble or difficulty

"But Pakistan cannot afford to get sucked into the Gulf vortex, and risk its fragile internal stability."

whirlpool maelstrom cycle
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GUARDIAN ADV
friedlich

in a friendly and peaceful way

"The arrangement was surprisingly amicable: some nights they even sat and watched television together."

peacefully harmoniously friendly
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GUARDIAN ADJ

extremely painful or unpleasant

"“If one person says, ‘Well, we’re separated, so I’m going online and I’ll be dating and if I’m out overnight you should tolerate that because we’re separated’, that can be excruciating,” says Shaw."

agonizing torturous unbearable
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GUARDIAN ADJ
freundlich

not romantic or sexual

"“We had had such a platonic marriage for such a long time,” Mary-Ann says."

friendly non-romantic chaste
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GUARDIAN ADJ

showing negative feelings indirectly

"“We had clients who were living under the same roof and he would walk in the hallway and turn the lights on every time he’d go in, and she would walk in the hallway the next minute and turn the lights off – it was this kind of passive aggressive kind of thing,” Houseman says."

indirect covert backhanded
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