English words to expand my vocab

Apparel

Clothing (formal)

Apprehensive

Bezorgd

Affliction

A cause of pain or distress

Appointed

Vastgesteld/aangewezen

Ambiguous

Open to multiple interpretations

Auspicious

Conductive to succes: favourable

Altitude

Great height/height of an object in relation to sea or ground level

Audacious

Showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks/showing an impudent lack of respect

Allegiance

Loyalty or commitment to a superior group or cause

Allude

Suggest or call attention to indirectly, hint at/mention without discussing at length

Admission

Acknowledging the truth of something, admit/the process or fact of entering or being allowed to enter a place or organization

Annunciation

The announcement of something (aankondiging)

Amenities

Voorzieningen

Banish

Send someone away as a punishment

Ballistic

Become extremely angry or upset

Benevolent

Well-meaning and kindly

Berserk

Crazy and out of control

Bane

A cause of great distress or annoyance (esp in the phrase ‘the bane of one’s life’

Charade

Trying to appear respectable

Crock

Pot

Coarse

Rough/vulgar speech

Convey

Overbrengen

Cavern

A chamber in a cave

Callus(es)

Eelt

Cerebral

Intellectual rather than emotional

Carnage

Great destruction of life (slaughter)

Consensus

A general agreement

Consecutive

Opeenvolgend

Complacency

Satisfaction with ones achievements

Cynicism

Beliefwpeople are motivated by self-interest

Crux

The decisive or most important point at issue

Conductive

Making a situation or outcome more likely

Conjure

Cause something to appear with magic

Conferred

Have discussions

Coercion

Dwang

Contention

A heated argument

Contempt

The feeling of someone being beneath consideration or worthless/disregard for something that should be considered

Compel

Force or oblige to do something

Consummate

Make (a marriage or relationship) complete by having sexual intercourse/complete

Commoner

One of the ordinary people, as opposed to the aristocracy or royalty/a person with a right over another’s land

Cadence

A modulation or inflection of the voice/sequence of notes or chords comprising the close of a musical piece

Chives

Bieslook

Duality

Having oppositie qualities (tweevoudig)

Detestable

Afschuwelijk

Disruptive

Verwoestend

Drafty

Tochtig

Deviant

Behaviour outside social norms

Detrimental

Tending to cause harm

Desecrate

Treat something sacred disrespectfully

Docile

Ready to follow instruction

Drought

Droogheid (klimaat)/thirst

Drab

Saai, kleurloos

Digress

Afdwalen

Dazzle

Blind temporarily

Debunk

Ontkrachten

Disdain

The feeling that someone is unworthy of one’s consideration or respect

Divert

Cause to change course or turn from one direction to another/draw (the attention) of someone from something

Exacting

Veeleisend

Enstrangement

No longer being in a social group

Escapade

An act involving adventure

Effusive

Overdreven hartelijk

Encapsulate

Express essential features

Exhilterating

Opwindend

Embark

Aan boord gaan

Eject

Force or throw out in a violent or suffen way/compel someone to leave a place

Engross

Absorb all the attention or interest of

Exertion

Physical or mental effort, inspanning/the application of a force, influence, or quality

Famine

Extreme scarcity of food

Funnel

Trechter

Faculty

Members of profession/school staff

Fortified

(Of a place) provided with defensive works as protection against attacks

Fiscal

Relating to government revenue, especially taxes

Frisky

Playful and full of energy

Frisking

Fouilleren

Galvanize

Get someone to take action

Hostile

Vijandig/unfriendly

Hiatus

A break

Hustle

Move quickly

Ignite

Catch on fire/inflame emotions

Inflame

Provoke

Indefinitely

Unspecified period of time

Innate

Aangeboren

Integrated

Formed or united into a whole

Intermittent

Occuring at irregular intervals

Inundate

Overwhelm with things to be dealt with

Incapacitated

Deprived of strength or power

Impose

Force an unwelcome decision or ruling on someone

Impudent

Not showing due respect for another person

Impertinent

Not showing proper respect

Insidious

Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way but with very harmful effects

Instigate

Itinerary

A planned route or journey

Inquest

Mercurial

Unpredictable changes of mood or mind

Marquee

Large tent for social functions

Mediterranean

Middellands (zee)

Maternal

Moederlijk

Mortgage

Hypotheek

Oscillate

Move back and forth

Obliterate

Destroy utterly: wipe out

Premature

Done before the usual time: too early

Prerogative

An exclusive right, power or privilege

Perpetuate

Make something continue indefinitely

Patronize

Helping but with superiority

Pivotal

Of crucial importance in success

Profane

Not relating to anything sacred

Profound

Very great or intense/diepgaand

Persuasion

Overtuiging

Plausible

Seeming reasonable or probable

Preoccupied

Engrossed in thought, distracted/bezorgd

Rugged

Tough, uneven, stern

Reciprocate

Give back in the same quantity

Retaliation

Counter attack/revenge

Rogue

A dishonest, untrustworthy person

Reception

Receiving something/formal social occasion

Recess

Schoolpauze

Resonance

The quality in sound being deep, full and reverberating

Reverberating

(Of a loud noise) be repeated several times as an echo

Revenue

Inkomsten

Redundant

Overtollig

Salient

Most noticable or important

Solace

Troost (consolation by a person)

Syndicate

Businesses working together

Susceptible

Vatbaar

Sentience

The ability to experience feelings

Substancial

Of considerable importance (degelijk)

Scorn

An expression of contempt or disdain for something or someone.

Strenuously

In a way that requires great physical exertion/with great effort and determination

Tawdry

Showy but cheap and of poor quality

Treasury

The funds or revenue of a state, institution or society/a place or building where treasure is stored

Testify

Give evidence as a witness in a law court

Verbatim

Word for word

Vernacular

Language or dialect spoken in a region

Vacant

Not filled or occupied

Virtue

Behaviour showing moral standards (deugd)

Vigorously

In a way that involves physical strength, effort or energy, strenuously/forcefully

Visceral

Relating to the viscera/relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect