WS 2010/2011                         exam translation (advanced)                       text #3: word list

1) “finest hour”                                                         FINEST HOUR: www.wepsite.de/Churchill,finest_hour.htm 
2) compelling                                                            
3) unresolved                                                            MORE SPEECHES: http://www.fiftiesweb.com/great-speeches.htm
4) the jury is still out on sb.
5) judicious                                                                                                  
6) fair-minded                                                                                             
7) shortcomings
8) to view sth. in … perspective                                                                   
9) by contrast, COMMA                                                                              
10) unashamed(ly)
11) prosecuting counsel
12) to find fault with
13) to demolish (or: explode) a myth
14) to assess/the assessment
15) to be out of sympathy with
16) subject (here)  
17) insufferably  
18) self-centered
19) consistent    inconsistent
20) eugenicist
21) elitist
22) for personal gratification                                                            IMPROVE YOUR WORDPOWER: gratuitous”

23) (with) cavalier indifference
24) by turns
25) (to be) economical with the truth
26) (to be) profligate with falsehoods                                                IMPROVE YOUR WORDPOWER: “prodigal” [not ”prodigious”]
27) verdict    sentence
28) industry (here)
29) belligerent             
30) to run … affairs                                                                         DROPPING THE PILOT (original cartoon):
31) to be acclaimed as                                                                      Emperor William II dismisses Bismarck
32) with flaws and faults to match                                                     (cartoon by Sir John Tenniel, Punch, 1890)
33) in an era of decline

“DROPPING THE PILOT”: Churchill loses the general election in 1945

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