WS 2005/2006           Texterschließung Preuß                           Text 8: word list

1) notion

2) bias/biased

3) elevation/to elevate/elevator AmE ↔ lift BrE/elevated railway etc.

4) perpetuation/to perpetuate

5) leisured elite

6) gentility

7) blight/blighted                                                                                                                 But: plight

8) genesis

9) accommodation (!)/to accommodate (!)

10) in the period

11) implicit assumption

12) professional class: “profession”

13) Civil Service: Home and Indian, civil servant

14) the overhaul/to overhaul

15) public school (AGAIN!)

16) geared to

17) appeal (noun)

18) to attain/attainability                                                              IMPROVE YOUR WORD POWER:

19) to transcend                                                                        penetrant: penetrating, pungent, overpowering

20) penetration/to penetrate                                                      aufdringlich: obtrusive, insistent, pushing, pushy

      CARTOON: “Concept of the aristocrat” taken to its ludicrous extreme
Text 9: “…. The man of noble birth was a gentleman by right, as was the army officer, the member of Parliament. But between these and other time-honoured ranks, and those who aspired to the status lay the assumption that the importance of gentlemanliness transcended rank because it was a moral and not just a social category. This made it open to redefinition in a way that the concept of the aristocrat was not, …….”

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