2011 EBS 수능특강 외국어영역 고난이도 어휘 9과 총정리

* EBS 수능특강 외국어영역 어휘 중, 알아야할 어휘 & 고난이도 어휘들을 직접 선별하여 정리했습니다.

1. skillful a. 숙련된, 솜씨 좋은
We all know that art is the skillful and imaginative creation of objects that interpret experience and, in so doing, produce a
definite aesthetic response.
* definite 명확한, 정확한

2. opaque a. 불투명한, 명료하지 않은 (고난이도)
John Dewey, for whom works of art function best when they “idealize qualities found in common experience,” thus defines art as an act of expression and the artist as one with the power to clarify an initially opaque emotion into such an expressive act through both a capacity of individual vision and technical skill.
* as, as 가 병렬로 연결되고 있다.
* quality 가 특질, 속성의 뜻으로 사용되었다.

3. militate[mílitéit] v. 작용하다, 영향을 미치다 (고난이도)
Furthermore, the idea that the introduction of a language into a particular ecology of languages may have serious effects on those languages is a powerful argument that militates against any simple view that one more language might not make a difference.

4. draw a parallel 유사하다, 평행이 되다
This image then allows us to draw a parallel between the environmental ecology and the language ecology.

5. folly n. 어리석음, 어리석은 짓
6. kind n. 종 (our kind 인류)
7. comparatively ad. 비교적, 상당히
8. pardonable a 용서할 수 있는.
Seen through the sleepy eyes of half-past nine, however, the follies of our kind seem comparatively remote and pardonable errors.

9. apoplexy n. 뇌졸중, 중풍
If the Morning Post came out in the afternoon, it would produce an epidemic of apoplexy in the clubs.

10. hearty a. (식사나 식욕이) 푸짐한, 왕성한 (heartiest는 최상급 형태) (고난이도)
Brought out in the half-awake hours of the morning, it does not disturb the digestion of a single one of the heartiest eaters in England.

11. agent n. 대행자, 행위를 하는 사람
Some of the direct main agents for this linguistic genocide are parts of what we call the consciousness industry: formal education and the mass media, including television.
* main agent = 주범

12. indigenous a. 토착의, 원주민의
13. monolingual a. 1개 언어를 하는
Today it is formal education that makes indigenous or minority children, who come to school speaking their own language and possibly knowing a bit of the dominant language, leave school virtually monolingual in the dominant language.

14. take one’s place 있어야 할 곳에 가다, 존재를 인정받다 (고난이도)
E-books have been quietly taking their place beside more traditional materials, and many academic libraries now count hundreds of thousands of electronic books as part of their collections.

15. mutilate v. (저작물 따위)를 훼손하다, 못 쓰게 만들다 (고난이도)
E-books offer many advantages; they cannot be lost, stolen, or mutilated, and they are particularly valuable to distance-learning students, 24 hours a day.

16. rhetoric n. 수사법, 수사학, 미사여구 (고난이도)
Technologies often tend to develop faster than the rhetoric evaluating them, and we are still in the process of developing descriptions for art using digital technologies as a medium.

17. assign v. (가치·기능 등을) 부여하다
18. clarification n. 설명, 해명
19. carry a meaning 의미를 지니다, 의미를 가지고 있다
The characteristics commonly assigned to the digital medium need some further clarification since they are often used in such a general way that they hardly carry any meaning.

20. end[end] n. (양쪽 진영 중) 한쪽 편
Ultimately, any experience of an artwork is interactive, relying on a complex interplay between contexts and productions of meaning at the recipient’s end.

21. sham[∫æm] n. 가짜, 엉터리, 허풍
There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth, and ambition therefore a sham.

22. count for ~ ~의 가치가 있다 (고난이도)
But even the most cynical secretly admit that success exists; that achievement counts for a great deal; and that the true myth is that the actions of men and women are useless.

23. deranging a. 미치게 하는, 어지럽히는 (고난이도)
To believe otherwise is to take on a point of view that is likely to be deranging