WS 2005/2006                        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

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                                                                         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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