Word bank

Abandon 

• Detachment from each other, leaving 

NL: verlaten

Account, an 

• A description or a report of something that happened

NL: verslag

Acquisition 

•  Possession or use of property

NL: verwerving

Advanced 

•  To move forward

NL: vooruitgaan

Affluent 

•  A person who has a good life at home

NL: welgesteld

Ancestors 

• A person who was a member of one’s family a long time ago and from whom one is descended

NL: voorouders

Ancestry 

•  The generation of ancestors

NL: voorgeslacht

Announcement 

• You make an announcement when you want to tell something

NL: aankondiging

Anxiety 

• When you’re scared of something or someone

NL: angst

Assertion 

•  A logical expression specifying a program state that must exist or a set of conditions that program variables must satisfy at a particular point during program execution

NL: uitspraak

Barest 

•  The only you need

NL: strikte

Chart 

•  A map of part of the sea

NL: zeekaart

Circumnavigate 

•  To sail round (especially the world)

NL: omvaren

Clergyman 

•  A priest

NL: priester

Commemorates 

•  To serve as a memorial to (someone or something)

NL: herdenken

Consent 

•  When you agree with something or someone, agreement

NL: toestemmen

Contemporaries 

•  People who life lived in same the time

NL: tijdgenoten

Cutthroat 

•  Murderer, killer

NL: geweldpleger, moordenaar

Depredations 

•  Harmful actions, which usually involve taking or damaging something 

NL: verwoestingen

Desolate 

•  Detachment from each other

NL: verlaten

Destroyed 

•  It’s totally damaged

NL: vernietigd

Developed 

•  Something that changed

NL: ontwikkeld

Discourage 

•  If someone says: don’t do it!

NL: afraden

Distinguishes 

•  To recognize a difference

NL: van elkaar onderscheiden

Divinity 

•  The nature or essence of god

NL: goddelijkheid

Domain 

•  A particular area

NL: gebied

Dry up 

• Drink that less that you are dying of drought

NL: uitdrogen

Elude 

•  Get away, escape from

NL: ontsnappen aan

Emerging 

•  Being in the process of emerging or developing

NL: ontwikkeling

Encountered 

•  Meet

NL: ontmoeten

Enthralling 

•  Fascinating, charming

NL: betoverend, boeiend, verukkelijk

Evidence 

•  Prove something

NL: bewijzen

Envoy 

•  Ambassador, consul

NL: (af)gezant, diplomatiek vertegenwoordiger

Exaggerated 

•  Blow up, make a big thing of something

NL: overdreven

Exploits 

•  To use a person unfairly for one’s own advantage

NL: uitbuiten

Feared 

•  For example a person to be afraid of

NL: gevreesd

Finch 

•  A type of a bird

NL: vink

Forgery 

• The fabrication of information by one individual, entity, or process and the claim that such information was received in a communication from another individual, entity or process

NL: imitatie

Forthcoming 

•  Happening or appearing soon

NL: op komst zijnd

Gathering 

•  Collect information

NL: verzameling

Genesis 

•  The beginning of something

NL: ontstaan

Ghost-writer 

•  An anonymous writer, who writes in

NL: anoniem schrijver in opdracht van een ander

Hitchhiking 

•  Ask people if they can bring you somewhere

NL: liften


Hunters 

•  Men primarily hunts animals

NL: jagers


Inherited 

• Stuff you get when someone related dies. It can also mean that you gave quality’s to your child

NL: geërfd

Initially 

•  The first

NL: eerste

Invented

•  Create, come up with something

NL: verzinnen

 (to) Jog his memory 

•  Activate/stimulate his memory

NL: zijn geheugen opfrissen

Latitude 

•  The distance, measured in degrees on the map

NL: breedte

Lonely 

•  If someone gets lonelier and lonelier

NL: vereenzamen

Longitude 

•  The distance, measured in degrees on the map

NL: lengte

Mastery 

•  Control, great skill or knowledge

NL: beheersing

Medieval 

•  A person who lived in The Middle Ages

NL: middeleeuwer

Merchant 

• The ships of a country that are employed in trading and their crews

NL: koopvaardij

Merchant

•  A trader

NL: koopman, handelaar

Negated 

•  Something that doesn’t count anymore

NL: teniet gedaan

Neglected 

•  Not paying attention at somebody

NL: verwaarloosd

Occurring 

•  Something that happened often

NL: voorkomend

Patriarch 

• The first one who came up whit an idea or theory for example

NL: grondlegger

Perilous 

•  Dangerous, unsafe, risky

NL: levensgevaarlijk

Piecemeal 

•  Allocation of emission rights country by country

NL: stukje bij beetje toedelen

Prevailing 

•  A powerful person or religion

NL: heersende

Quarry 

•  Like wild as living in nature

NL: wild

Rarely 

• It’s infrequent

NL: zelden

Received 

•  If you have got something that someone else had sent

NL: ontvangen

Reinforced 

•  Make something stronger

NL: versterkt

References 

• If they refer them to you 

NL: referenties


Reminiscences 

•  Things you remember from, memoires

NL: herinneringen, memoires

Remote 

• The distance between you and the other is huge

NL: afgelegen

Resemblance 

•  Similarity

NL: gelijkenis, overeenkomst

Reverently 

•  Showing great respect

NL: eerbiedig

Revisionism 

•  To correct faults and make improvements in

NL: herziening

Rewarded 

•  A sort of payment

NL: beloond

Riddles

•  A question to think about

NL: raadsels

Roamed 

•  Wander around

NL: rond zwerven

Savages 

•  Cruel or violent people

NL: barbaren

Savings 

•  Money you saved

NL: spaargeld


Scientifically proven 

• Something that is proven in the world of science

NL: wetenschappelijk bewezen

Secure 

•  If there is protection

NL: veiligheid

Sequence 

• A series of events etc following one another in a particular order

NL: reeks

Shooter 

• Men primarily hunt animals

NL: jager


Spawn 

•  Give rise to, generate

NL: voortbrengsel, product

Spectrograph 

• An apparatus for determining spectra. The spectrograph provides a permanent record

NL: spectograaf

Stampede 

•  Rush, flight

NL: wilde vlucht

Starvation 

Eat so less that you are dying from hunger

NL: verhongering

Suffering 

• As you have much pain

NL: lijden

Thorough 

•  With great care, attending to every detail

NL: nauwgezet

Trail 

• As example following a footprint

NL: spoor

Tramp 

• People with no home

NL: zwerver

Truculent 

• Very shocking

NL: heftig

Unanimous 

•  Having, or showing, complete agreement

NL: eensgezind

Unfold 

•  Open out, spread out, unroll

NL: zich uitvouwen, opengaan

Unify 

•  Unite, bring togehter, join

NL: zich verenigen

Unprecedented 

•  Something with a huge impact

NL: ongekend

Urged 

•  Recommend, advance

NL: verzoeken

Vagabond 

• People with no home

NL: zwerver

Vehemently

•  Very powerful

NL: krachtig

Vessels

•  Boats, ships

NL: schepen