🇩🇪 German Vocabulary — 17 Jul 2026

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GUARDIAN V
verwechseln

to make something unclear or confusing

"Instead of offering smoking-gun evidence, the release seemed to be a return to a classic Trump strategy of flooding the zone with information in an attempt to muddy the waters and make uncertain what was true."

confuse obscure cloud
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GUARDIAN V
überwältigend

overwhelming or inundating with information

"In July 2022, flooding from heavy rain led to the deaths of 38 people in eastern Kentucky."

overwhelming inundating swamping
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GUARDIAN ADJ
gefälscht

not lawful or legitimate

"The incident did not result in illegitimate ballots being cast and was caught by the local clerk."

fake unlawful invalid
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GUARDIAN V

to cause something to become unstable or uncertain

"Donald Trump used the imprimatur of the presidency and United States intelligence agencies to try to undermine confidence in American elections in a presidential address on Thursday that seemed bluntly aimed at laying the groundwork for further destabilizing the electoral system before November’s midterm elections."

disrupt upset unbalance
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GUARDIAN V
zensiert

edited or censored to remove sensitive or confidential information

"But the documents were heavily redacted, making it hard to assess what exactly they said."

censored edited expurgated
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GUARDIAN V
versteckt

prevented from being known or expressed

"The PM declared a climate emergency on one hand and suppressed the climate solution on the other."

hidden concealed withheld
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GUARDIAN N
Genehmigung

an official endorsement or approval

"Donald Trump used the imprimatur of the presidency and United States intelligence agencies to try to undermine confidence in American elections in a presidential address on Thursday that seemed bluntly aimed at laying the groundwork for further destabilizing the electoral system before November’s midterm elections."

endorsement sanction blessing
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GUARDIAN N
nachweisen

conclusive or irrefutable evidence

"Instead of offering smoking-gun evidence, the release seemed to be a return to a classic Trump strategy of flooding the zone with information in an attempt to muddy the waters and make uncertain what was true."

proof evidence testimony
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GUARDIAN V

causing something to become unstable or uncertain

"Donald Trump used the imprimatur of the presidency and United States intelligence agencies to try to undermine confidence in American elections in a presidential address on Thursday that seemed bluntly aimed at laying the groundwork for further destabilizing the electoral system before November’s midterm elections."

disrupting upsetting unbalancing
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GUARDIAN ADV
direkt

in a direct and straightforward manner

"Donald Trump used the imprimatur of the presidency and United States intelligence agencies to try to undermine confidence in American elections in a presidential address on Thursday that seemed bluntly aimed at laying the groundwork for further destabilizing the electoral system before November’s midterm elections."

frankly honestly openly
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GUARDIAN N
Charge

a portion or share of something

"The latest tranche of declassified documents has not only pulled the curtain further away from his crimes, it has also shone a spotlight on the profound moral rot that seems to prevail among the global elite."

batch portion installment
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GUARDIAN ADJ
bedrohlich

giving an impression of evil or menace

"But here too Tel Aviv has sinister plans; it reportedly wants to ease the exit of Palestinians from Gaza, but make their re-entry to their homeland from Egypt increasingly difficult."

menacing ominous foreboding
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GUARDIAN ADV
illegal

in a way that is against the law

"China, he claimed, had illicitly acquired voter information on 220 million Americans (many states allow anyone to buy voter roll information; Trump did not say the means by which the nation acquired the data)."

unlawfully wrongfully criminally
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GUARDIAN N

the act of soliciting votes or opinions

"Trump also claimed that FBI officials had investigated a voter-canvassing operation in Muskegon, Michigan, in which canvassers admitted they had submitted voter-registration applications with fake names."

soliciting petitioning campaigning
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