WS 2006                        Preuß Texterschließung                       Text 6: word list

1) initial/ly
2) striking
3) noun: feature     verb: to feature
4) void
5) to be filled with whatever myths the present cares to contrive* →                       cf.* word list 5, #5
6) to set up
7) as a group to be despised                                                                                  adj. despìcable
8) a vast body
9) outside* the pale                        usually: to be beyond* the pale

10) to be devoted to
11) province (here)
12) laconic thrust
13) eventual:  FALSE FRIEND!
14) supporter
15) all happily ready to
16) to destroy the past because it is  the past
17) the mixed mythology of Mao,  Che Guevara ....
18) it is the prospect of revolution that counts

19) with its connotation of
20) liquidation
21) to strike sb. as
22) ignorant
23) to scrutinize     noun: the scrutiny
24) those sifted nuggets (!!!)
25) to add up to
26) to extol                                                                                  from Latin “ex-tollere”: heraus-heben
27) pure bestial subsistence
28) alas

29) theocentric
30) to rest on an assumption
31) to cherish
32) aggregate                                                                                sports: “Manchester United won 4-2  on aggregate.”
33) that approaches the divine condition
34) God is one and single and separate
35) and so is a man or a woman/... and so is man
36)  freedom (of speech/from fear/to do sth.)     ↔    liberty  ((of doing sth.))
36) hoary
37) topic    ↔    theme
38) to animate    noun: animation      BUT: animated cartoon: Zeichentrickfilm         [German “animieren”: to encourage etc.]
39) insight
40) St. Augustine: 354 - 430, one of the Latin fathers in the early Christian Church, bishop of Hippo in North Africa
41) Pelagius: 360? – 420?, English monk and theologian who lived in Rome and whose teachings were opposed by #40
42) John Milton: 1608 – 1674, English poet (“Paradise Lost”, “Paradise Regained”, “Samson Agonistes”)
43) predestination
44) pundit
45) to affirm
46) adj.: omniscient                   noun: omniscience                cf. omnivorous, omnipotent, omnipresent
47) to validate
48) act                                                                                     (an) act of  God  ≈   force majeure
49) foreknowledge
50) deliberate/ly (adj./adv.)  to deliberate (verb)     deliberation (noun)   [deliberately  ≈  on purpose  ↔  by mistake]

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