Half the fuss, twice the fun: Paranoid Park Vocab Challenge

Winfriedschule Fulda – English E-L1 mh

1. accomplishment Winning the Skaters’ Cup was my greatest Errungenschaft

accomplishment.

2. ahead Driving along the road, Rick saw a police car vor uns
up ahead. (= He saw it in front of him.)

3. arson There was a fire in an office building last Brandstiftung

week, but it wasn’t an accident. – It was
arson.

4. assault A guy stole your camera? – Yes, and it was Übergriff, Angriff, Tätlichkeit
assault, too, because he pulled a gun on me.

5. awkward Ed always calls me at the most awkward ungünstig, ungeschickt,

times – when I’m in class or when I’m unbeholfen; peinlich
playing with the band.

6. barely - barely = hardly kaum, gerade (noch)

- After her accident Denise could not walk.
In fact, she could barely stand.

7. chest Is there anything wrong with your heart? Do Brust (-korb)

you have pains in your chest?

8. coat In the cold weather many people wear a Mantel

warm coat over their other clothes.

9. constant Can’t you two stop shouting? I’m tired of ständig

your constant arguments!

10. container Don’t leave your garbage lying around here. Container
Put it in the container. That’s what it’s for.

11. dread = fear Angst, Furcht

12. envelope Write your letter on a piece of paper, then Umschlag

put it in an envelope

13. frantic Tracy’s parents get really frantic if she verrückt

doesn’t call them every hour.

14. glove You wear shoes on your feet and gloves on Handschuh
your hands.

15. grain Bread is made from different kinds of grain. Getreide(korn)

16. gravel Railroad tracks are usually put down on Schotter, Kies
gravel, not on sand.

17. headlight Scheinwerfer

18. immediately sofort, gleich

19. in case The police told me to stay in town in case für den Fall, dass …
they needed to talk to me again.

20. in use Do trains still stop at this station? – No, it Einsatz, Gebrauch
isn’t in use any more.

21. insane =crazy verrückt, irre, wahnsinnig;

unsinnig
22. ladder Firefighters use ladders to rescue people Leiter
from buildings which are on fire.

23. meanwhile währenddessen, mittler-

weile, in der Zwischenzeit

24. narrative technique The expression ‘narrative technique’

describes the way in which a story is told.

25. out of my league nicht meine Kragenweite

26. property damage Sachschaden, -beschädigung

27. regret Bedauern, Reue

28. responsible verantwortlich, -ungsvoll

29. rib bone which builds the chest Rippe

30. rough/rude 1 Watch the pronunciation! grob, rau, derb;

2 There’s a lot of violence round here ungefähr
because it’s a rough area of town.

31. scar Louise was in a bad car accident last year. Narbe
That’s why she has that scar on her face.

32. security If customers start causing trouble, we Sicherheit, Schutz;

always call security. Wachdienst

33. self-defense (AE) Selbstverteidigung

34. theft - theft > thief Diebstahl

- Theft is the crime of stealing something.

35. to account for Clothes account for a lot of the money spent ausmachen, betragen
by students in our class.

36. to accuse s.o. of sth. He accused his friends of stealing his laptop, (jmdn. einer Sache)
but in fact his sister had borrowed it. beschuldigen; anklagen

37. to avoid ausweichen, (ver-)meiden,

aus dem Weg gehen

38. to back away If you want to move away from sth. & watch zurückweichen
it at the same time, you must back away.

39. to be to blame for It was Jim who actually stole the money, but
his friends were also to blame.

40. to circle around When you circle around, you walk/drive (herum)kreisen
round and round the same place.

41. to commit a crime to commit a crime = to do something illegal

42. to crackle When you burn wood on a fire, the fire knistern
makes a crackling noise.

43. to crawl She screamed when she saw the spider krabbeln
crawling up her leg.

44. to deny If you deny something, you say you didn’t

do or say it. He denied breaking in.

45. to drag If something is too heavy to carry, you have schleifen, ziehen, schleppen
to drag it along the floor.
46. to duck through He was too big to duck through the hole, so hindurch schlüpfen
he had to climb over it.

47. to face sth The hotel has a café which faces the street. gegenüber sein

48. to face the consequences die Konsequenzen tragen

49. to flood When he was in safety at last, a feeling of (über)fluten,

happiness flooded into his heart. überschwemmen

50. to freak out Have you heard the news? I almost freaked ausrasten
out when Steve told me.

51. to freeze, froze, frozen - to freeze = to stay completely still. erstarren, sich nicht
- When she heard the scream, she froze bewegen
with shock.

52. to get away from sb Sue is looking for a job in another town sich von etwas entfernen,
because she wants to get away from her flüchten
family.

53. to go off At 7.15 a bomb went off and destroyed the explodieren
building.

54. to grind There are special machines which grind zermahlen, schleifen
rocks and boulders into very small pieces
for road building.

55. to hang off Where’s the instructions brochure for the herunterhängen (von)
dishwasher? – It’s hanging off the shelf.

56. to insist on I didn’t want to give up my weekend job, but bestehen auf, insistieren
my parents insisted.

57. to keep up (with) Slow down! You’re running too fast. I can’t mithalten
keep up with you.

58. to linger It was time to go, but she lingered for one schlingern, unentschlossen
last moment before she left. sein, zögern

59. to make one’s point seinen Standpunkt deutlich

machen

60. to process I just can’t believe we’ve broken up. I guess I verarbeiten, aufbereiten;
need more time to process the situation. verstehen

61. to reach He reached around with his hand, trying to herumtasten

find his gun.

62. to resist I shouldn’t spend so much money but I can’t widerstehen

resist the attraction of new clothes.

63. to roll up We were getting our living room ready for a zusammenrollen, aufrollen,
party, so the carpet was rolled up on one aufkrempeln
side of the room.

64. to secure When you go rock climbing, you must

secure all the ropes.

65. to skip Sometimes people skip along instead of hüpfen

walking because they feel very happy.

66. to slam He slammed the knife into the door. = He heftig zuschlagen
pushed the knife into it as hard as he could.
67. to snatch (up) 1 to snatch up sth = to pick up sth quickly aufraffen, an sich reißen
2 He snatched up the money from the table
before anybody else could...

68. to sneak into When you sneak into a house, you go in hereinschleichen
quietly so that nobody sees you.

69. to struggle kämpfen, Mühe haben,

ringen, sich anstrengen

70. to stuff I was in a hurry to catch my plane, so I stopfen

quickly stuffed some clothes into my bag.

71. to stumble People who find it difficult to walk (because taumeln, stolpern
they are ill or drunk) often stumble and
then fall over.

72. to swear, swore, sworn You can believe me. I’m telling the truth, I schwören, fluchen
swear!

73. to talk sb into sth She didn’t want to steal from the store, but jmd. zu etwas überreden
finally her friends talked her into it.

74. to tear oneself loose sich losreißen

75. to touch to have contact anfassen, berühren

76. to trespass unbefugt betreten, ein-

dringen, überschreiten

77. to tumble - to tumble = to fall over stolpern, purzeln

- The box fell off the truck and tumbled
down the hill.

78. to weigh What are the advantages and disadvantages abwägen

of the different plans? Weigh the pros and
cons before you decide.

79. vulnerable Young people are particularly vulnerable to verletzlich, verwundbar;

clever advertising. gefährdet, anfällig

80. weed They don’t look after their garden very well. Pflanze, auch: Pot
There are weeds growing everywhere.

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Judgment Day
Paranoid Park Vocab Test
Friday, 10 September 2010
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