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
VIDEO:
Some great Jeeves & Wooster
links CARTOONS:
Lords & gentlemen
X
sound: Noel
Coward,The Stately Homes of England.mp3 text:
The
Stately Homes of England
X
sound: Noel
Coward,Mad Dogs and Englishmen.mp3 text:
Mad
Dogs and Englishmen
P. G. Wodehouse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse
Noel Coward: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward
plus: Monty Python,
Upperclass Twit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSqkdcT25ss
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