HC -6

Construct a glossary of Content words in the target language using synonyms and
illustrations.

INTRODUCTION

A glossary (from Ancient Greek: glossa; language, speech, wording) also

known as a vocabulary or clavis, is an alphabetical list of terms in a
particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms.
Traditionally, a glossary appears at the end of a book and includes terms within
that book that are either newly introduced, uncommon, or specialized. While
glossaries are most commonly associated with non-fiction books, in some
cases, fiction novels may come with a glossary for unfamiliar terms.

To understand the glossary definition, it's helpful to first understand jargon.

Jargon is a series of technical terms used in a specific profession. A heart
doctor, for example, may use specific jargon such as "tachycardia" and
"echocardiogram." While these terms may be well-known by doctors, patients
may have difficulty understanding them. Difficulty understanding topical jargon
is the problem glossaries help solve. A glossary is an alphabetical list of
technical terms and definitions customized to a specific subject. Usually found
at the end of a textbook or textbook chapter, glossaries contain sets of words
narrowly geared toward the book's subject matter. A medical textbook, then,
may contain a glossary defining the medical jargon foreign to normal speech.
The term "glossary" comes from the Greek root "glossa," meaning "tongue" or
"language."

PURPOSE OF GLOSSARY

The purpose of a glossary is to make content-specific words easily accessible to

the reader. Encountering many unfamiliar industry-specific words may be
overwhelming for readers. This is why authors provide definitions for words
related to the topic within a glossary. In an Algebra textbook, terms like linear,
variable, coefficient, and laws of exponents may be part of a glossary. These are
key terms and integral concepts when it comes to understanding algebra. As
such, the author will provide a list of these important words, amongst many
others, so students can easily obtain them. On the other hand, terms that are not
specific to algebra, such as add and subtract, will not be included in an algebra
glossary. A glossary is then used by the reader to gain a better understanding of
the subject matter.
IMPORTANCE OF HAVING A GLOSSARY

1. A glossary simplifies your work and saves you time

An elaborated glossary may significantly increase the your work effectiveness,

primarily when you work on translations of documents from technical, law,
or medical fields or texts requiring exact terminology. As the saying goes, time
is money. Thanks to your glossary, you won’t have to spend your time looking
up the same term again and again.

2. A glossary improves translation quality

If there’s a term from the glossary in the text, the CAT tool glossary will offer a
suitable and exact equivalent. The use of glossaries prevents translating one
term in two different ways. Your translations will be more consistent, which
you’ll appreciate especially when translating long documents or in regular
updates of texts.
The glossaries represent an effective tool to help you succeed in the market
thanks to the correct and exact terminology.

3. It’s easy to create one

You don’t have to worry over building a glossary. Whether you want to create a
simple bilingual glossary in Excel, or work with CAT tools and use the glossary
in those, all it takes is your time and your will.
In case of Excel or similar programmes (OpenOffice, Google Docs and others),
we recommend a three-column table for a bilingual glossary, which will
contain: source language and target language columns, and column for notes.
Notes may consist of explanations or links for related terms, information about
the context in which the term is used, date of update, etc. A list created in this
way can be arranged in alphabetical order for easier usage, or you can even
create various categories for particular terms (e.g. according to the specialities
of criminal law, civil law, etc.).
With CAT tools, work with a glossary is even easier. The terminology may be
quickly added using keyboard shortcuts, e.g. in SDL Trados Studio or memoQ.
All you need to do is add the created glossary to your project. A CAT
tool will automatically offer a translation of a given term in a particular
language, and also flag the sentences where the appropriate translation was
not used.
Another advantage of a glossary created in a CAT tool is the possibility to add
and manage multiple languages within one glossary. You can also
add forbidden terms, which are unacceptable for your client’s translations
because of inaccuracy or individual preference. It is even possible to add terms
which are never to be translated (e.g. names of products).

4. A glossary is priceless

Glossaries may have great value – let’s quantify that. “Research” of the correct
terminology for a glossary could take some time, but this time investment is
sure to pay off in the future.
The theoretical value of the glossary could be calculated like this: If your
hourly rate is €12, then your glossary has a theoretical value of almost €100.
Let’s say you create a glossary with 100 terms, and looking up and verifying
one term takes 5 minutes. Imagine the value of highly elaborated glossaries
which may consist of 1,000 or even 20,000 or more terms. This calculation may
seem improbable, since most clients are not willing to pay for glossary creation.
But the value of the glossary doesn’t change over time, and in some situations
in translation practice, its value is worth its weight in gold.

5. Term base for sale: great condition, heavily used

Glossaries can be shared or exchanged but also sold, which brings us back to
the previous point. Apart from being great tools for translators, glossaries may
also be useful for clients and language service providers who order translations.
There are in fact clients willing to pay for creation and maintenance of a
glossary. They may create a glossary to finally make their corporate
terminology consistent. The previous translations may come in handy and later
on save them both time and money – especially if they produce several hundred
pages of important documentation daily. Another plus is that any following
translations won’t have to be changed because of incorrect terminology.

6. A glossary as a tool for professional growth

Over time, glossaries must be updated: new words have to be added, and old,
unnecessary or outdated terms have to be deleted. But there is a positive side to
this – deepening your knowledge about particular issues, learning new things
and improving your vocabulary. The newly acquired knowledge becomes a
new entry in the glossary. You can also choose to commit to adding a few new
terms to your glossary every day. Your glossary or glossaries will soon become
an irreplaceable tool, not only for you but also for your clients.
SYNYOMS

A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the

same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example,
in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all
synonyms of one another: they are synonymous.

The standard test for synonymy is substitution: one form can be replaced by
another in a sentence without changing its meaning. Words are considered
synonymous in only one particular sense: for example, long and extended in
the context long time or extended time are synonymous, but long cannot be used
in the phrase extended family. Synonyms with exactly the same meaning share
a seme or denotational sememe, whereas those with inexactly similar meanings
share a broader denotational or connotational sememe and thus overlap within
a semantic field. The former are sometimes called cognitive synonyms and the
latter, near-synonyms.

TARGET LANGUAGE
The target language is one of the most important element of the translation
process. By definition, the target language is the language which a written text
is translated into in final language. It is also the term for a language that a non-
native speaker is in the midst of learning.

CONSIDERATIONS TO BE MADE WHILE CHOOSING THE TARGET

LANGUAGE

 Who is the target audience?

 Does the language use technical details?
 Does the text use industry-specific lingo?
 How can the original message be preserved?

The target Language chosen for this Paper is English and the Glossary of
words that have been sought out are Positive feeling words.
CONSTRUCTING A GLOSSARY OF CONTENT WORDS IN TARGET
LANGUAGE ALONG WITH TEIR SYNONYMS

1. Strong
2. Creative
3. Love
4. Beautiful
5. Positive
6. Champion
7. Courageous
8. Delectable
9. Divine
10. Ecstatic
11. Enticing
12. Fashionable
13. Humanitarian
14. Intellectual
15. Jovial
16. Judicious
17. Luminous
18. Motivated
19. Noble
20. Observant
21. Philanthropic

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-thesaurus/ecstatic

STRONG
DEFINATION: HAVING PHYSICAL POWER

SYNONYMS
Powerful: he had a deep, powerful voice
Muscular: He has tanned muscular legs
Tough: He's small, but he's tough, and I expect him to do well in the match.
Strapping: He was a bricklayer - a big, strapping fellow.
Sturdy: She was a short, sturdy woman in her early sixties.

CREATIVE
DEFINATION: imaginative or inventive

SYNONYMS
Imaginative: hundreds of cooking ideas and imaginative recipes
Artistic : They encourage children to be sensitive and artistic.
Inventive: It inspired me to be more inventive with my cooking.
Fertile: a product of his fertile imagination
Ingenious: a truly ingenious invention

LOVE
DEFINATION : to have passionate desire for someone

SYNONYMS
Adore: She adored her parents and would do anything to please them.
Treasure: She treasures her memories of those joyous days.
Prize: These items are greatly prized by collectors.
Worship: The musician's fans worship her.
Idolize: Naomi idolized her father as she was growing up.

BEAUTIFUL
DEFINATION: being very attractive to look at

SYNONYMS
Attractive: We are often drawn to attractive people.
Stunning: A stunning display of fireworks lit up the sky.
Tempting: Resisting tempting goodies becomes a measure of your success.
Magnetic: the magnetic pull of her looks
Alluring: People found his unflappable and cool persona alluring.

POSITIVE
DEFINATION: tending to emphasize what is good

SYNONYMS
Optimistic: Michael was in a jovial and optimistic mood.
Hopeful: Surgeons were hopeful of saving her sight.
Upbeat: Neil's colleagues say he was actually in a joking, upbeat mood.
Buoyant: She was in a buoyant mood.
Sanguine: He's remarkably sanguine about the problems involved.

CHAMPION
DEFINATION: a person, plant, or animal that has defeated all others in a
competition

SYNONYMS
Winner: She will present the trophies to the winners.
Hero: the goalscoring hero of the Indian hockey team
Victor: to the victor the spoils
Conqueror: Alexander the Great, conqueror of the known world
Warrior: the 13th century warrior, Genghis Khan

COURAGEOUS
DEFINATION: showing courage

SYNONYMS
Brave: brave people who dare to challenge the tyrannical regimes
Bold: She becomes a bold, daring rebel.
Plucky: The plucky schoolgirl amazed doctors by hanging on to life.
Valiant: valiant attempts by neighbours and firefighters to rescue them
Lion-Hearted: He came back to produce a lion-hearted performance in the 200
metres.

DELECTABLE
DEFINATION: delightful or very attractive

SYNONYMS
Delicious: a wide selection of delicious meals to choose from
Inviting: The February air was soft, cool and inviting.
Enjoyable: the most enjoyable part of the holiday
Scrumptious: a scrumptious apple pie
Toothsome: toothsome honey-sweetened gingerbread

DIVINE
DEFINATION: of God or a god

SYNONYMS
Heavenly: heavenly beings whose function it is to serve God
Celestial: gods and other celestial beings
Godlike: They seemed godlike in their wisdom and nobility.
Cherubic: the toddler's beaming, cherubic face
Angelic: angelic choirs

ECSTATIC
DEFINATION: in the sense of rapturous

SYNONYMS
Joyous: a joyous celebration of life
Elated: I was elated by my success.
Over the Moon: We were both over the moon to hear the news.
Delirious: He was delirious with joy.
Fervent: a fervent admirer of her work

ENTICING
DEFINATION: the sense of attractiveness

SYNONYMS
Appealing: That's a very appealing idea.
Inviting: The February air was soft, cool and inviting.
Charming: I found her a delightful and charming young woman.
Intriguing: This intriguing book is both thoughtful and informative.
Beguiling: an immaculately dressed 60-year old with a beguiling smile
FASHIONABLE
DEFINATION: popular among well-off or famous people

SYNONYMS
Cool: He was trying to be really cool and trendy.
Happening: the most happening place at the moment, the Que Club
Smart: I was dressed in a smart navy-blue suit.
Stylish: a very attractive and stylish woman of 27
Chic: Her gown was French and very chic.

HUMANITARIAN
DEFINATION: having the interests of mankind at heart

SYNONYMS
Compassionate: My father is a deeply compassionate man.
Charitable: He made large donations to numerous charitable organizations.
Humane: Their aim is for a more just and humane society.
Benevolent: a most benevolent employer
Altruistic: motives that are not entirely altruistic
INTELLECT
DEFINATION: the ability to understand, think, and reason

SYNONYMS
Intelligence: She's a woman of exceptional intelligence.
Mind: an excellent training for the young mind
Reason: a conflict between emotion and reason
Understanding: They have to have a basic understanding of computers.
Sense: When he was younger he had a bit more sense.

JOVIAL
DEFINATION: Happy & Cheerful

SYNONYMS
Cheerful: They are both very cheerful in spite of their circumstances.
Jolly: She was a jolly, kindhearted woman.
Airy: He sailed past, giving them an airy wave of the hand.
Convivial: Enjoy simple but satisfying food in the bistro's convivial atmosphere.
Merry: He was much loved for his merry nature.

JUDICIOUS
DEFINATION: having or showing good judgment

SYNONYMS
Reasonable: He's a reasonable sort of chap.
Politic: Many people found it politic to change their allegiance.
Shrewd: She's a shrewd businesswoman.
Prudent: We believed ours was the prudent and responsible course of action.
Expediant: It might be expedient to keep this information to yourself.
LUMINOUS
DEFINATION: The sense of bright

SYNONYMS
Brilliant: The event was held in brilliant sunshine.
Shining: shining brass buttons
Glowing: stained glass in rich, glowing colours
Radiant: Out on the bay the morning is radiant.
Resplendent: She was resplendent in royal blue velvet.

MOTIVATE
DEFINATION: to give a reason or inspiration for a course of action to
someone

SYNONYMS
Inspire: The car's effortless handling inspires confidence.
Drive: Curiosity drove me to probe into what they worked on together.
Stimulate: I was stimulated to examine my deepest thoughts.
Induce: an economic crisis induced by high oil prices
Actuate: They were actuated by desire.

NOBLE
DEFINATION: having or showing high moral qualities

SYNONYMS
Worthy: They are the worthy members of the society.
Generous: He was not generous enough to congratulate his successor.
Upright: he is a very Upright, trustworthy man.
Honourable: Being a doctor is a very Honourable profession.
Virtuous: The president is portrayed as a virtuous family man.

OBSERVANT
DEFINATION: quick to notice details around one

SYNONYMS
Attentive: I wish you would be more attentive to detail.
Alert: He had been spotted by an alert neighbour.
Careful: One has to be extremely careful when dealing with these people.
Vigilant: Police warned the public to be vigilant and report anything suspicious.
Mindful: We must be mindful of the consequences of selfishness.
PHILANTHROPIC
DEFINATION: in the sense of humanitarian

SYNONYMS
Generous: You're very generous with your money.
Charitable: He made large donations to numerous charitable organizations.
Benevolent: a most benevolent employer
Humane: Their aim is for a more just and humane society.
Public-Spirited: Thanks to a group of public-spirited citizens, the garden has been
preserved.

CONCLUSION