筹建设立－chou jian she li - prepare to establish (this is all super-boring news reading, so bear with me).
心力衰竭－xin li shuai jie - heart failure (what Pinochet died of).
确凿发展－que zuo fa zhan - "real development" - what the South Koreans are hoping this round of six-party talks will bring.
轨道－gui dao - orbit. What "发现号“ (Discovery) is currently in.
赔偿－pei chang - compensation.
压倒多数－ya dao duo shu - absolute majority.
辱骂－ru ma - curse. (what the Sunnis were doing to the Shiites, and vice versa, on the streets of Beirut last week).
疏散－shu san - evacuate.
独裁者－du cai zhe - dictator. I don't know why, but I have a really hard time remembering this word...
故意－gu yi - intentionally.
涉嫌 － she xian - suspected.
醜 traditional equals 丑 simplified. It is a HUGE pain to have to remember both writing systems (they're both going to appear on the test) - most of the characters are pretty much equivalent, but a few aren't - chou (ugly) is one of the bad ones. It has a ghost 鬼 - gui - radical in it - I just have to remember that ghosts are ugly.
震撼人心－zhen han ren xin - thrilling, exciting (refers to U.S. plans to build a space station on the moon by 2020).
殖民－zhi min - colonize (refers to foreign colonial rule of China, also refers to the U.S. colonizing the moon).
抵制 - dǐ zhì - resistance; refusal (to cooperate); boycott.
暗示－an shi - imply.
旷日持久－kuang ri chi jiu - prolonged.
袭击 ／襲擊 - xi ji - attack. Another simplified/traditional pair I need to remember. The traditional ji is another one I don't like...
陷入－xian ru - to sink into. Combined with 内战（nei zhan - civil war) it refers to Iraq. 派系－pai xi - factions - is another good term here.
即使－ji shi - even if. This is one I really shouldn't forget, but always do. ji shi = even if. ji shi = even if. ji shi = even if.
蒙上阴影－meng shang yin ying - uncertainties arise.
大赦－ da she - amnesty.
得罪－de zui - offend.
ugh. I can't bear to look at any more news articles. more tomorrow... i guess....
