WORD LIST (3)         exam translation WS 2009/2010           Text 3

1) conscious                       FALSE FRIEND: self-conscious

2) given

3) circulation
4) to fall decidedly short of a million                        cf. "nothing short of"
5) to contrive/contrived                                          noun: contrivance
7) to persist/persistent/persistence
8) letter page    letter(s) to the editor
9) the  review/to review
10) such reviewing as it does (irony!)
11) to dismiss as
12) to serve a function/purpose etc.
13) caprice

14) canny                       uncanny                              BUT: cunning

15) in the world of triumphant modernity
16) quantity-addicted
17) I mean = I mean to say
18) to discern                                                          adj. discerning: a discerning art critic

19) genuine
20)
MISPRINT: the guide[s] disappears too

21) to respond to/response

22) to appeal to/the appeal/appealing
23) effectively    in effect
24) to look after                       
                               BUT: to look for
25) high-brow [or: highbrow]         middlebrow       lowbrow
26) aegis
27) a reading from St Matthew
28) distinctive
29) to go about one's business
30) The Times Literary Supplement = TLS                                    cf: The Times Educational Supplement = TES
31) as I write
32) to make a point of      ...ing

33) to testify

34) the late (!) W.H. Auden  [W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden: 1907 – 1973: English poet in the U.S.]
35) (to give) a full account of
36) plight                                                                                          
   BUT: blight
37) constatation: VERY RARE!!!                                                      
cf. German: “konstatieren”
38) by reason of
39) daily/dailies    weekly/weeklies      fortnightly/fortnightlies         monthly/monthlies
40) formidable
41) to portend (formal)       noun: the portent (literary)
42) to tell (here)
43) to prompt
44) disposition (here: legal)
45) cogency/cogent
46) implicit(ly)                                                                                       cf. to imply/implication
47) to repudiate        noun: repudiation
48) both …. and
49) touch (here)
50) sensibility                                                      sensitivity                      sensible   sensitive

some links:  a) http://newslink.org  [newspapers, magazines worldwide]   b) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_Kingdom
                     
c) www.guardian.co.uk    d) www.timesonline.co.uk
   e) www.independent.co.uk/   f) www.telegraph.co.uk/     g) www.private-eye.co.uk/  
MURDOCH TABLOID SPECIAL (sorry!): a) www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/   b) www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/                
                     h) www.nytimes.com         i)
www.washingtonpost.com    j) www.newyorker.com       k) US college paper: www.bsudailynews.com/  
      
 Fake edition of The New York Times: http://gawker.com/5084164/fake-new-york-times-declares-iraq-war-over-heres-who-did-it   

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