3 the hero dispatched a host of villains: kill, put to death, take/end the life of; slaughter, butcher, massacre, wipe out, exterminate, eliminate; murder, assassinate, execute; informal: bump off, do in, do away with, take out, blow away, ice, rub out, waste; literary: slay. 

noun
1 files ready for dispatch: sending, posting, mailing, e-mailing.
2 efficiency and dispatch: promptness, speed, speediness, swiftness, rapidity, haste, hastiness; literary: fleetness, celerity.
3 the latest dispatch from the front: communication, communiqué, bulletin, report, statement, letter, message; news, intelligence; informal memo, info, story, lowdown, scoop; literary: tidings.
4 the capture and dispatch of the rogue bull: killing, slaughter, massacre, extermination, elimination; murder, assassination, execution; literary: slaying.

verb: tourney, fight, clash, spar, tilt

noun: tournament, tourney; combat, contest, fight, battle, clash; historical: tilt

Wohlgefälligkeit, Selbstzufriedenheit, Gleichgültigkeit

noun
the complacency he felt as a math student was abruptly shaken when he took his first calculus exam: smugness, self-satisfaction, self-congratulation, self-regard; gloating, triumph, pride; satisfaction, contentment.

1 very congenial people: hospitable, genial, personable, agreeable, friendly, pleasant, likable, amiable, nice; companionable, sociable, sympathetic, comradely, convivial, simpatico; like-minded, compatible, kindred, well-suited.

antonym: disagreeable.

2 a congenial environment: pleasant, pleasing, agreeable, enjoyable, pleasurable, nice, appealing, satisfying, gratifying, delightful, relaxing, welcoming, hospitable; suitable, well-suited, favorable.

antonym: unpleasant.

gewähren; beraten

verb
1 she went to confer with her colleagues: consult, talk, speak, converse, have a chat, have a tête-à-tête, parley; informal: have a confab, powwow.
2 she conferred a knighthood on him: bestow on, present to, grant to, award to, decorate with, honor with, give to, endow with, extend to.

anstrengend, beschwerlich; begeistert, emsig

(ardent = begeistert, brennend, leidenschaftlich)

adjective
an arduous journey: onerous, taxing, difficult, hard, heavy, laborious, burdensome, strenuous, vigorous, back-breaking; demanding, tough, challenging, formidable; exhausting, tiring, punishing, grueling; uphill, steep; informal killing; toilsome.

antonym: easy.

angeschwollen, aufgedunsen, schwülstig

adjective
1 his turgid prose: bombastic, pompous, overblown, inflated, tumid, high-flown, puffed up, affected, pretentious, grandiose, florid, ornate, grandiloquent, orotund; informal highfalutin, purple. antonym: simple.
2 the tissues become turgid: swollen, distended, tumescent, engorged, bloated, tumid, turbid (confused).

entmutigt, mutlos, niedergeschlagen, verzagt

adjective
our disheartened soccer team: discouraged, dispirited, demoralized, deflated, disappointed, let down, disconsolate, despondent, dejected, cast down, downcast, depressed, crestfallen, dismayed, low-spirited, gloomy, glum, wretched, morose, dismal, woebegone, dejected, depressed, pessimistic, despondent, forlorn, unenthusiastic; daunted, intimidated, cowed, crushed; informal: down in/at the mouth, down in the dumps, unenthused; antonym: hopeful, cheerful

we audited their books: inspect, examine, survey, go through, scrutinize, check, probe, vet, investigate, inquire into, assess, verify, appraise, evaluate, review, analyze, study; informal give something a/the once-over, give something a going-over.

Bilanzprüfung, Abschlussprüfung, Revision

Konten, Kontenblatt, Kassenbuch

noun
a sales ledger book, account book, record book, register, log, accounts; records, books; balance sheet, financial statement.

Reue, Gewissen(sbisse)

noun
have you no remorse for what you did to your friends?: contrition, deep regret, repentance, penitence, guilt, compunction, remorsefulness, ruefulness, contriteness; pangs of conscience, self-condemnation, self-reproach.

compunction: noun
she had no compunction about deceiving them: scruples, misgivings, qualms, worries, unease, uneasiness, doubts, reluctance, reservations; guilt, regret, contrition, self-reproach. 

unverbesserlich

adjective
an incorrigible flirt: inveterate, habitual, confirmed, hardened, dyed-in-the-wool, incurable, chronic, irredeemable, hopeless, beyond hope; impenitent, unrepentant, unapologetic, impenitent, unashamed; bad, naughty, terrible. antonym: repentant.

anflehen, ersuchen, flehentlich bitten

verb literary
we beseech your help in permitting us the right to live in a country where human rights are respected: implore, beg, entreat, importune, plead with, appeal to, exhort, call on, supplicate, importune, pray to, ask, request, petition; rare: obtest, impetrate, obsecrate. 

Angeber, Aufschneider, Prahler, Großmaul

noun
Jeff is a prodigious braggart and a liar: boaster, bragger, swaggerer, egotist; informal: big head, loudmouth, show-off, showboat, blowhard.

anspruchsvoll, kritisch, scharfsichtig

adjective
some real treasures for the discerning collector: discriminating, judicious, shrewd, clever, astute, intelligent, sharp, alert, canny, insightful, sage, kenn, cultivated, cultured, selective, sophisticated, tasteful, sensitive, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, wise, aware, knowing; informal: clueful.

abtrünnig, Abtrünniger, Überläufer

noun
1 he was denounced as a renegade: traitor, defector, deserter, turncoat, rebel, mutineer.
2 archaic : a religious renegade apostate, heretic, dissenter.

adjective
1 renegade troops: treacherous, traitorous, disloyal, treasonous, rebel, mutinous. antonym: loyal.
2 a renegade monk apostate, heretic, heretical, dissident.

Einsiedler

noun
1 a religious recluse: hermit, ascetic, eremite, marabout; historical anchorite, anchoress.
2 a natural recluse. loner, solitary, lone wolf, troglodyte; misanthrope; rare solitudinarian, solitarian.

Freidenker, Freigeist, Wüstling

noun
an unrepentant libertine: philanderer, playboy, rake, roué, Don Juan, Lothario, Casanova, Romeo; lecher, seducer, womanizer, adulterer, profligate, dissolute, sybarite, voluptuary, debauchee, profligate, wanton; informal: skirt-chaser, ladykiller, lech, wolf; formal: fornicator.

(Phanto)Mime

flegelhaft, rüpelhaft

adjective
we will not tolerate such boorish behavior from our officers: coarse, uncouth, rude, ill-bred, ill-mannered, uncivilized, unrefined, rough, thuggish, loutish, oafish, lubberly, lumpen; vulgar, unsavory, gross, brutish, Neanderthal; informal: cloddish. antonym: refined.

Taktlosigkeit, Unanständigkeit

indelicate
adjective
1 an indelicate question: insensitive, tactless, inconsiderate, undiplomatic, impolitic. antonym: tactful.
2 an indelicate sense of humor: vulgar, rude, crude, tasteless, bawdy, racy, risqué, ribald, earthy, indecent, improper, naughty, indecorous, off-color, dirty, smutty, raunchy. antonym: polite, clean.

launisch, eigensinnig, missraten, unberechenbar

adjective
a wayward child: willful, headstrong, stubborn, obstinate, obdurate, perverse, contrary, disobedient, insubordinate, undisciplined; rebellious, defiant, uncooperative, recalcitrant, unruly, wild, unmanageable, erratic; difficult, impossible; formal: refractory. antonym: docile.

lockend, reizend, verführerisch

adjective
an alluring hostess: enticing, tempting, attractive, appealing, inviting, captivating, fetching, seductive; enchanting, charming, fascinating; informal: come-hither.

plump, unbeholfen

adjective
they were as ungainly as fifth-grade boys taking dance lessons in a foot of snow: awkward, clumsy, klutzy, ungraceful, graceless, inelegant, gawky, maladroit, gauche, uncoordinated; archaic: lubberly. antonym: graceful.

graceful
adjective
our dancers must be both muscular and graceful: elegant, fluid, fluent, natural, neat; agile, supple, nimble, light-footed.

unbedeutend

adjective
a trifling matter: trivial, unimportant, insignificant, inconsequential, petty, minor, of little/no account, of little/no consequence, footling, pettifogging, incidental; silly, idle, insipid, superficial, small, tiny, inconsiderable, nominal, negligible, nugatory; informal: piddling; formal: exiguous. antonym: important.

drollig, komisch, lustig, skurril

adjective
a droll remark that started everyone laughing: funny, humorous, amusing, comic, comical, mirthful, hilarious; clownish, farcical, zany, quirky; jocular, lighthearted, facetious, witty, whimsical, wry, tongue-in-cheek; informal: waggish, wacky, side-splitting, rib-tickling. antonym: serious.
 

begeistert, begierig, eifrig

adjective
an avid reader of science fiction: keen, eager, enthusiastic, ardent, passionate, zealous, hard-core; devoted, dedicated, wholehearted, earnest.

antonym: apathetic.

abgedroschen, banal

adjective
critics were put off by the trite dialogue: banal, hackneyed, clichéd, platitudinous, vapid, commonplace, stock, conventional, stereotyped, overused, overdone, overworked, stale, worn out, timeworn, tired, hoary, hack, unimaginative, unoriginal, uninteresting, dull; informal: old hat, corny, cornball, cheesy, boilerplate. antonym: original, imaginative.

bedeutungsschwer; unheilvoll

adjective
1 portentous signs: ominous, warning, premonitory, threatening, menacing, ill-omened, foreboding, inauspicious, unfavorable.
2 portentous dialogue: pompous, bombastic, self-important, pontifical, solemn, sonorous, grandiloquent.

Fröhlichkeit, Geselligkeit, Gastlichkeit

noun
the staff at the inn got an excellent rating for their helpfulness and conviviality: friendliness, geniality, affability, amiability, bonhomie, congeniality, cordiality, warmth, good nature, sociability, gregariousness, cheerfulness, good cheer, joviality, jollity, gaiety, liveliness.

Grobheit...

adjective
I was hoping you'd be less uncouth in public: uncivilized, uncultured, uncultivated, unrefined, unpolished, unsophisticated, bush-league, common, plebeian, low, rough, rough-hewn, coarse, loutish, boorish, oafish, troglodyte; churlish, uncivil, rude, impolite, discourteous, disrespectful, unmannerly, bad-mannered, ill-bred, indecorous, crass, indelicate; vulgar, crude, raunchy. antonym refined.

gewandt, höftlich, kultiviert, urban, weltgewandt, weltmännisch

adjective
the urbane English professor: suave, sophisticated, debonair, worldly, cultivated, cultured, civilized, cosmopolitan; smooth, polished, refined, self-possessed; courteous, polite, well-mannered, mannerly, civil, charming, gentlemanly, gallant. antonym: uncouth, unsophisticated.

rachsüchtig

adjective
in her memoirs she revealed that Drake had been a vindictive ex-lover: vengeful, revengeful, unforgiving, resentful, acrimonious, bitter; spiteful, mean, rancorous, venomous, malicious, malevolent, nasty, mean-spirited, cruel, unkind; informal: catty. antonym: forgiving.

geldgierig, gewinnsüchtig, Söldner-

adjective
1 mercenary self-interest: money-oriented, grasping, greedy, acquisitive, avaricious, covetous, bribable, venal, materialistic; informal: money-grubbing.
2 mercenary soldiers: hired, paid, bought, professional.

verb

bedrängen, schikanieren

Streit, Schwierigkeiten

noun
1 parking is such a hassle: inconvenience, bother, nuisance, problem, trouble, struggle, difficulty, annoyance, irritation, thorn in one's side/flesh, fuss; informal aggravation, stress, headache, pain, pain in the neck.
2 she got into a hassle with that guy: quarrel.

verb
they were hassling him to pay up: harass, pester, nag, keep on at, badger, hound, harry, bother, torment, plague; informal bug, give someone a hard time, get on someone's case, breathe down someone's neck.

eine Predigt halten

Moral-/Strafpredigt, Tirade, Worterguss

noun
a ten-minute harangue: tirade, diatribe, lecture, polemic, rant, fulmination, broadside, attack, onslaught; criticism, condemnation, censure, admonition, sermon; declamation, speech; informal: blast; literary: philippic.

verb
he harangued his erstwhile colleagues: rant at, hold forth to, lecture, shout at; berate, criticize, attack; informal: sound off at, mouth off to.

schelten

verb
he wasn't expecting her to chide him right there in front of everyone: scold, chastise, upbraid, berate, reprimand, reprove, rebuke, admonish, censure, lambaste, lecture, give someone a piece of one's mind, take to task, rake/haul over the coals; informal: tell off, dress down, bawl out, blow up at, give someone an earful, give someone a roasting, give someone a tongue-lashing, come down on someone like a ton of bricks, slap someone's wrist, rap over the knuckles, give someone hell, take to the woodshed, have a go at, give someone what for, chew out, ream out; formal: castigate; archaic chasten; rare reprehend. antonym: praise.