Helga Schäferling(*1957), deutsche Sozialpädagogin

Definition: (adjective) Being an imitation or a substitute, usually an inferior one; artificial. Synonyms: imitation. Usage: He was fairly sure that no coffee beans had been involved in its production, but he was tired enough to drink the ersatz coffee anyway. Discuss

noun: 1. Injustice (a shortened usage of “travesty of justice”). 2. Mockery; a debased or grotesque imitation. verb tr.: 1. To represent in a false or absurd manner. 2. To caricature or parody.

Deutsches Sprichwort

Definition: (noun) An unbroken view of an entire surrounding area. Synonyms: vista. Usage: The panorama from the summit, with glistening lakes and green forests in every direction, is unmatched in the east. Discuss

verb tr.: 1. To remove, give up, or sell off. 2. To take away or deprive. 3. To strip of clothing, ornament, etc.

«Come diceva la filosofa Rosa Luxemburg: dare il giusto nome alle cose è un atto rivoluzionario.» (Gianrico Carofiglio)

Jakob Bosshart(1862 – 1924), Schweizer Schriftsteller und Philologe

Definition: (noun) Mental responsiveness; discernment; awareness. Synonyms: aesthesia. Usage: After nine months in a coma, the patient began to exhibit sensibility. Discuss

verb tr.: To remove from a position of authority, privilege, etc.

«Sono molto concentrata sul lavoro. Io creo in continuazione. Sono una ragazza molto occupata. Vivo e respiro il mio lavoro. Amo quello che faccio. Credo nel messaggio che mando. Non conosco soste. Non ho creato la fama, la fama ha creato me.» (Lady Gaga)

Ernst Reinhardt(*1932), Dr. phil., Schweizer Publizist und Aphoristiker

Definition: (noun) A small thin piece of metal, plastic, bone, or similar material, used to pluck the strings of certain instruments, such as the guitar or lute. Synonyms: pick. Usage: When he first struck the guitar's strings with his plectrum, we knew we were in for a great performance. Discuss

«Lei gli diceva: "Se tu m'amassi…". Poi gli scriveva: "Se tu m'amassi…". Gli sussurrava: "Se tu m'amassi…". Lui le rispose: "Ma no che non t'amasso!".» (Enzo Iacchetti)

Martin Gerhard Reisenberg(*1949), Diplom-Bibliothekar und Autor

Definition: (adjective) Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree. Synonyms: dreary, woeful, morose, funereal, doleful. Usage: He was so lugubrious that he could find melancholy in a child's birthday party. Discuss

«Quando il cervello subisce un forte trauma psicologico, entra in uno stato di stress molto intenso e crea dei meccanismi di difesa per garantirsi la sopravvivenza e contenere il dolore. Uno di questi meccanismi è la dissociazione: il cervello finge che quell’esperienza non gli sia mai capitata e cerca di negarla, di dimenticarla, di nascondere…

Martin Luther(1483 – 1546), deutscher Theologe und Reformator

Definition: (noun) One that serves as a pattern or model. Synonyms: epitome, prototype. Usage: Their company is a paradigm of the small high-tech firms that have recently sprung up in this area. Discuss

verb intr.: To laugh in a derisive manner. noun: A mocking look.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe(1749 – 1832), gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Repräsentanten deutschsprachiger Dichtung

verb intr.: To quibble. noun: A subtlety or quibble.

Definition: (verb) To use evasions or ambiguities; to change sides. Synonyms: equivocate, prevaricate, palter. Usage: She refused to tergiversate on the subject, stating her opinion concisely and openly. Discuss

«La cultura è il miglior antidoto contro la tirannia… specialmente in tempo di guerra, con la conoscenza si riesce a ragionare e a frenare le brutture della storia.»

Carl Ludwig Schleich(1859 – 1922), deutscher Arzt, Erfinder der Anästhesie und Schriftsteller

Definition: (noun) The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others. Synonyms: domination. Usage: Many great works of art were created during the hegemony of Athens in Greece. Discuss

KarlHeinz Karius(*1935), Urheber, Mensch und Werbeberater

Definition: (adjective) Tapering from a rounded base toward an apex. Synonyms: lancelike. Usage: The bush had lanceolate leaves with sharp tips that could sting unwary passersby. Discuss

«I diritti umani e soprattutto la loro violazione, devono stringere il mondo intero nella solidarietà.» (Ban Ki-moon)

verb intr.: 1. To go to or live in the country. 2. To live or spend time in seclusion. verb tr.: 1. To send to the country. 2. To suspend (a student) from a university as a punishment. 3. To make rustic or rural. 4. To make something, such as a masonry surface, rough, textured,…

Hans-Jürgen Quadbeck-Seeger(*1939), Prof. Dr., deutscher Chemiker, Mitglied der Enquête-Kommission für Gentechnik des Deutschen Bundestages, wurde für sein Engagement mit dem Bundesverdienstkreuz ausgezeichnet

Definition: (noun) A hawker of quack medicines who attracts customers with stories, jokes, or tricks. Synonyms: charlatan. Usage: Walking down the street, they saw a mountebank beguiling his audience with tales of miracles achieved through his remedies. Discuss

«L'unica possibilità di vincere la Terza Guerra Mondiale è quella di prevenirla.» (Dwight Eisenhower)

«I diritti umani e soprattutto la loro violazione, devono stringere il mondo intero nella solidarietà.»

Erwin Koch(*1932), deutscher Aphoristiker

Definition: (noun) A person wearing ragged or tattered clothing. Synonyms: ragamuffin. Usage: It was a crew of tatterdemalions that limped and straggled and wandered back into Barnesdale that day. Discuss

«Gli italiani invecchiano e non fanno figli, hanno un'economia che versa in condizioni drammatiche, un debito pubblico esorbitante e non investono nell’esercito. Come se non bastasse, la fine della Guerra fredda ha privato l’Italia del ruolo importantissimo che un tempo svolgeva in seno alla Nato grazie al suo territorio proteso nel Mediterraneo.» (Alessandro Orsini)

Hugo von Sankt Viktor(um 1097 – 1141), christlicher Theologe des Mittelalters

Definition: (noun) A large leather suitcase that opens into two hinged compartments. Synonyms: Gladstone. Usage: With both sides stuffed to capacity, he needed to sit on top of the portmanteau in order to close it. Discuss

noun: 1. A mole (the animal). 2. A cyst.

Peter Adrian Zirn(*1952), Pensionist und Fotograf

Definition: (noun) A person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion. Synonyms: abstainer. Usage: His rough clothes and starved frame gave him the look of an ascetic, and he refused the food they tried to give him. Discuss

«Quando il mondo diventa un pasticcio enorme con nessuno al timone, è il momento per gli artisti di lasciare il segno.»

noun: A short wooden match.

Timm BächleBankkaufmann

Definition: (verb) To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe. Synonyms: alleviate, relieve, palliate. Usage: Food, however, became scarce, and I often spent the whole day searching in vain for a few acorns to assuage the pangs of hunger. Discuss

«L’Europa non è un soggetto, è un oggetto, in quanto non esiste una nazione europea. Le nazioni sono un’altra cosa. Esiste una sorta di volontà di non farsi troppo male tra i popoli europei. Fortunatamente abbiamo imparato a convivere senza amarci, ma oramai il passo verso una collaborazione sembra sempre più lontano. Queste generazioni e…

«Tutti parlano di pace ma nessuno educa alla pace. A questo mondo, si educa per la competizione, e la competizione è l'inizio di ogni guerra. Quando si educherà per la cooperazione e per offrirci l'un l'altro solidarietà, quel giorno si starà educando per la pace.»

noun: A cave, cavern, cavity, etc.

Roland Morgenstern(*1938), Werkzeugmacher und Maschinenbau-Ingenieur. Mitglied des Schreiber-Netzwerks.

Definition: (noun) Crudely or irregularly fashioned verse, often of a humorous or burlesque nature. Synonyms: jingle. Usage: I want the man I love and honor to be something finer and higher than a perpetrator of jokes and doggerel. Discuss

“Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.”

Unbekannt

Definition: (noun) Grandiloquent, pompous speech or writing. Synonyms: claptrap, fustian. Usage: He found that he could look back upon the brass and bombast of his earlier gospels and see them truly. Discuss

“Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.”

Gerhart Hauptmann(1862 – 1946), deutscher Schriftsteller und Dramatiker, Nobelpreisträger für Literatur 1912

Definition: (verb) To buoy up or hearten. Synonyms: boost. Usage: Visitors bolstered the patient's morale. Discuss

«Non ho mai conosciuto una guerra che non fosse maledetta, che non portasse lutti e dolori senza fine. » (Valerio Massimo Manfredi)

adjective: Terrible; repulsive. noun: Any of various corals having a hard, treelike skeleton.

Prof. Querulix(*1946), deutscher Aphoristiker und Satiriker

Definition: (noun) Defiant or swaggering behavior. Synonyms: bluster. Usage: In a moment it was hand-to-hand fighting, and Trent was cursing already the bravado which had brought him out to the open. Discuss

«Non abbiamo paura. Abbiamo già dimostrato al mondo che sappiamo difenderci. Ma siccome parlate di paura, ho una cosa da dirvi: non siamo noi a doverci sentire intimoriti, bensì i politici di tutto il mondo. Voglio dire, tutti coloro che oggi guardano all’Ucraina e si chiedono: anche il mio Paese rischia l’invasione? Quello che la…

«Non ho mai conosciuto una guerra che non fosse maledetta, che non portasse lutti e dolori senza fine. »

adjective: 1. Relating to volcanoes. 2. Fiery; explosive; full of anger, energy, etc.

Peter Hohl(*1941), deutscher Journalist und Verleger, Redakteur, Moderator und Aphoristiker

Definition: (adjective) Attracting attention in a vulgar manner. Synonyms: flashy, garish, gaudy, tawdry, trashy, tacky. Usage: The town's tasteful welcome sign was replaced with a meretricious monstrosity, a blinking neon tower. Discuss

noun: 1. A sudden violent gust of wind, typically accompanied by rain, snow, or sleet. Also known as a squall. 2. A bad spell; something unproductive, especially a mine (the opposite of bonanza).

Timo Krall(*1988), Student Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik

adjective: 1. Of great power, strength, size, etc. 2. Relating to or made of the element titanium.

Definition: (adjective) Of a healthy reddish color. Synonyms: rubicund, ruddy. Usage: He had a sanguine complexion that was matched by his cheerful outlook. Discuss

noun: Something, such as a food or drug, that increases sexual desire. adjective: Arousing sexual desire.

Stefan Rogal(*1965), Autor, Herausgeber und Kolumnist

Definition: (verb) To give notice to; inform. Synonyms: notify, advise. Usage: During the drive home from the airport, they had time to apprise her of everything that had changed since she had been gone. Discuss

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach(1830 – 1916), Marie Freifrau Ebner von Eschenbach, österreichische Erzählerin, Novellistin und Aphoristikerin

Definition: (adjective) Being at once opportune and to the point. Synonyms: relevant, timely. Usage: His book about safe investment, published right before the stock market crash, was more apropos than he expected. Discuss

Erhard Horst Bellermann(*1937), deutscher Bauingenieur, Dichter und Aphoristiker

Definition: (adjective) Causing harm, ruin, or death; harmful. Synonyms: pernicious, pestilent, deadly. Usage: He instructed him in the poisonous qualities of arsenic, and furnished him with an ample supply of that baneful drug. Discuss

«In guerra, la verità è la prima vittima.»

noun: 1. The act of guiding, leading, or introducing. 2. Something that guides, leads, or introduces.

Guido Peters(1866 – 1937), österreichischer Komponist und Pianist

Definition: (adjective) Marked by a disposition to find and point out trivial faults. Synonyms: faultfinding. Usage: She found the new professor to be captious, marking all the grammatical errors in her essays while ignoring the points she had tried to make. Discuss

adjective: 1. Clumsy; awkward. 2. Left-handed.

Definition: (noun) A deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect. Synonyms: insult. Usage: Your deliberate implication that I stole the money is an affront to my character. Discuss

«Sono un sostenitore della libertà di scelta, di religione, di parola. Sempre e comunque libertà. Piuttosto sparatemi, ma alla libertà non volto le spalle.» (Mikhail Gorbaciov)

Paul Nikolaus Cossmann(1869 – 1942), deutscher politischer Schriftsteller und Redakteur

Definition: (noun) Foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness. Synonyms: audaciousness, audacity. Usage: Everyone was shocked at her temerity in addressing the king in such a manner. Discuss

adjective: 1. Tough; aggressive. 2. Energetic; enthusiastic. 3. Using both hands.

Definition: (noun) Anything that precedes something similar in time. Synonyms: forerunner. Usage: This era is one of heedless consumption, but perhaps you can blame that on its antecedent. Discuss

«Ho giocato a calcio per quarant'anni, di cui undici di fila, senza riposarmi mai, nemmeno per una domenica, nemmeno con la febbre e con gli acciacchi. Quarant'anni trascorsi con la faccia affondata nell'erba, o nel fango, o sulle righe di gesso dell'area di rigore, con gente pronta a staccarti la testa pur di arrivare un…

«Nulla è perduto con la pace. Tutto può esserlo con la guerra. Ritornino gli uomini a comprendersi.»