SS 2011                     exam translation (advanced)                  additional text #4: word list

1) agenda

2) insistent ↔ instant

3) to blacken/blackening

4) is painted

5) darkly (governed by)

6) hood/hooded (HERE) Inquisition                                           Monty Python: the Spanish Inquisition

7) populace

8) serf

9) touched by

10) at every turn

11) devious ↔ devilish                                                                  Monty Python: “Mr Devious”

12) assassin of Collins

13) deliberately crafted

14) grim                                                                                         the “Grim Reaper”

15) “repressive”

16) ardent(ly)

17) passionate(ly)

18) fierce(ly)

19) to curry favour with

19) to reckon

21) revenue

22) library committee

23) in their thousands

24) to submit

25) Censorship Board

26) in the public realm

27) calumny                                                                                     verb: to calumniate (formal!)

28) baloney

29) ever (underlined)

30) trading and working exchanges

31) salient aspect(s)/point(s)                                                                 from Latin: “salire”

32) free-floating

33) to settle on

34) crystal-gazing

35) tree-hugging

36) consumerism

37) eventually (FALSE FRIEND)

38) nerve (HERE)

39) affirmation                                         cf: affirmative action ~ “positive discrimination” // (to answer etc.) in the affirmative

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