Говори и пиши как The Eсonomist

America cannot ram this idea down Arab throats — вбивать, вдалбливать.

One Toxteth mother, whose teenage son left a gang a year ago, says he was recently rammed by a rival gang in a car — таранить, врезаться (куда-л.) с силой.

The smiles will be wooden, the backs ramrod straight — словно аршин проглотил.

Police and university officials offered no clues as to exactly what set Mr. Cho off on the deadliest shooting rampage; rampant anti-Ame­ricanism — ярость; буйство.

Lax security at the ramshackle academy allowed a dozen mili­tants to rampage among 800 or more mostly unarmed police recruits — ветхий, дряхлый.

Saakashvili's high-profile rambunctiousness — шумливый, шумный.

For weeks he ate only ramen noodles and coffee ice cream, until he developed scurvy — лапша быстрого приготовления.

The federal government spends $18 billion a year manning the ramparts — бастион; защита, оплот.

In such a transition, rancor seems to be only natural — злоба, озлобленность.

America wants to keep China to ransom — выкуп.

Highway bills are a notorious source of rancid pork — прогорклый.

NATO's solidarity with Turkey has rankled Russia, which could intensify bombing of Syrian rebels with ties to Turkey — озлоблять, раздражать.

Party bosses in Heilongjiang will get their knuckles rapped by leaders in Beijing — выговор, замечание.

Lula had a unique rapport with ordinary Brazilians — понимание; согласие.

Last year a UN special rapporteur criticised the government of Shinzo Abe — докладчик.

That he was a portrait photographer before he became a filmmak­er shouldn't be surprising, given the rapt stillness of his feature films — восхищенный, восторженный.

The US also doesn't give a rat's ass

about gas pipelines into Ukraine for the EU — it doesn't ship our gas so what's in it for the US? — наплевать.

Or reward students who rat out their roommates with extra help­ings in the dining hall? — предавать, истреблять крыс.

As a result, he decided reluctantly to step aside in favour of his party's ravenously ambitious new leader, Matteo Renzi — жадный, алчный.

limitations of the antitrust apparatus raise the question of com­petition to the political sphere — currently, alas, a realm well supplied with blunderbusses and axes wielded haphazardly and at the wrong tar­gets — сфера, область.

Farmers rear animals and then harvest their flesh, eggs and milk for humans to eat — воспитывать, растить.

In March two students died when their small car was rear-

ended by a Mercedes travelling at top speed — врезаться в машину сзади.

But there is no getting around the fact that Kraus's work is rebar- bative today — отталкивающий, противный.

So China may feel it has to start punishing Taiwan for its recalci­trance — упрямство, упорство.

A writer's recantation highlights the intellectual failures of the Latin American left — отречение, отказ.

Well, anyone who has ever pored over a scientific research pa­per will recall its recondite jargon; Shakespeare emerges from all this more ingenious and recondite than one can quite believe — сложный для понимания.

Most Germans will resist EU risk-sharing schemes without clear commitment to fiscal rectitude among euro delinquents — честность, правильность, нравственность.

Arguably that has happened already, thanks to its recision of

gun control in Washington, DC and Chicago in 2008 and 2010 — аннули­рование, отмена.

That too is a good thing, for partisanship and recrimination will not solve anything here — встречное обвинение, контробвинение.

So, in those cases, avoiding punishment allowed the recrudesce of violence — рецидивировать.

The asylum-seekers' centre in Rijswijk, a suburb of The Hague, is clean, rectilinear

and well-organised — прямолинейный.

The recrudescence of Islamic fundamentalism — be it Salafism, Wahabism — is related to the 'retreat cycle' of the West — повторное воз­никновение.

Since that awful night, she has been living in the rectory attached to her local church — дом приходского священника, пастора.

Critique was Jimmy Carter redux; Berlusconi redux — вернувший­ся, возвращающийся (употребляется после определяемого слова).

It engaged in tricks redolent of mischievous charcters in Bulga­kov's "The Master and margarita" — вызывающий воспоминания.

The rebels' last big redoubt has now been cut almost in half —

редут.

He sees Sarah Palin as the "reductio ad absurdum" of the Ameri­can conservatism — доведенное до абсурда.

China is keen to redress past injustices; The right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances — компенсация (убытка, ущерба); сатисфакция.

They made employees redundant — излишний, избыточный.