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Daily Wordlist 26-Dec-09

	26-Dec-09 Daily Wordlist cupidity [ kyoo-PID-i-tee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. excessive desire for riches 2. avarice or greed for riches   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   When the banks foreclosed on his loan, he realised that it was his cupidity that landed him in trouble.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The navy's management of the ferry, they say, was loose, the vessel was overloaded with people and freight, and there was negligence and cupidity. BBC, Senegal navy head sacked, 15 October 2002.   anathema [ uh'-NATH-uh'-muh' ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a person or object loathed 2. a curse of divine punishment 3. a person who is damned   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The topic of religion was anathema to the atheist.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The very thought that parents may know best is anathema to this Government, which insists that one system suits all. The Telegraph, The man in Whitehall doesn't know best about education, 29 November 2009.   intoxicate [ v. in-TOK-si-keyt; adj. in-TOK-suh'-kit ]   [ adjective, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to temporarily affect with diminished capacity by means of alcohol or drugs 2. (tr. v.) to exhilarate or enthuse 3. (intr. v.) to cause or produce diminished capacity 4 (adj.) stupefied   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The rich old man was completely intoxicated and had to be carried home.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts are among those who create such a genial air in the interrogation room, they intoxicate the reporter. BBC, What really goes on in star interviews, Robert Nisbet, 4 April 2003.   discrepancy [ di-SKREP-uh'n-see ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. difference 2. an instance of inconsistency or disagreement   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   There was a huge discrepancy in the profit statement presented by the CFO at the shareholders meeting and the auditors report.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Underlying this variety of experience was the discrepancy between the limited economic opportunities available on the land and the attractions of the towns or colonies. BBC, The Rural Exodus, Mike Winstanley, 5 November 2009.   doctrinaire [ DOK-truh'-NAIR ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1.(n.) an impractical theorist 2. (n.) a person who tries to apply some doctrine or theory without sufficient attention to its practicality 3. (adj.) fanatical or dogmatic   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The doctrinaire project manager was driving the engineers crazy with his impractical plan of action.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Doctrinaire Marxists, of whom there were many in the Labour Party, regarded the nuclear family as a doomed bourgeois institution. The Telegraph, At last, a common-sense approach to family values from David Cameron's Conservatives, 9 October 2009.   Spelled Pronunciation Key Stress marks: [ CAPS ] indicates the primary stressed syllable, as in newspaper [NOOZ-pey-per ] and information [ in-fer-MEY-shuh' n ] CONSONANTS [b] boy, baby, rob [d] do, ladder, bed [f] food, offer, safe [g] get, bigger, dog [h] happy, ahead [j] jump, budget, age [k] can, speaker, stick [l] let, follow, still [m] make, summer, time [n] no, dinner, thin [ng] singer, think, long [p] put, apple, cup [r] run, marry, far, store [s] sit, city, passing, face [sh] she, station, push [t] top, better, cat [ch] church, watching, nature, witch [th] thirsty, nothing, math [th'] this, mother, breathe [v] very, seven, love [w] wear, away [hw] where, somewhat [y] yes, onion [z] zoo, easy, buzz [zh] measure, television, beige   VOWELS [a] apple, can, hat [ey] aid, hate, day [ah] arm, father, aha [air] air, careful, wear [aw] all, or, talk, lost, saw [e] ever, head, get [ee] eat, see, need [eer] ear, hero, beer [er] teacher, afterward, murderer [i] it, big, finishes [ahy] I, ice, hide, deny [o] odd, hot, woffle [oh] owe, road, below [oo] ooze, food, soup, sue [oo'] good, book, put [oi] oil, choice, toy [ou] out, loud, how [uh] up, mother, mud [uh'] about, animal, problem, circus [ur] early, bird, stirring   FOREIGN SOUNDS [a*] Fr. ami [kh*] Scot. loch, Ger. ach or ich [œ] Fr. feu, Ger. schön [r*] Fr. au revoir, Yiddish rebbe [uh*] Fr. oeuvre [y*] Fr. tu, Ger. über   SAMPLE NASALIZED VOWELS [an*] Fr. bien [ahn*] Fr. croissant [awn*] Fr. bon [œn*] Fr. parfum [in*] Port. Principe

Daily Wordlist 23-Dec-09

	23-Dec-09 Daily Wordlist stellar [ STEL-er ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. like the stars or consisting of stars or pertaining to the stars 2. outstanding   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Everyone was impressed by the stellar ambience of the new restaurant.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   British canoeist David Florence, who learned just before the Beijing Olympics that he had failed in his application to become a European Space Agency astronaut, produced a stellar performance to claim Britain's fourth medal of the Games on the white-water slalom course at Shunyi. The Telegraph, Canoeing: Britain's David Florence has stellar run to take silver - Beijing Olympics 2008, Simon Hart, 12 August 2008.   mirage [ mi-RAHZH ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. an optical illusion 2. an illusory phenomenon usually in the desert or at sea   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was disappointed when they told him that the city of gold was just a mirage.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He also said the Heritage Lottery Fund does not provide money for the private sector and English Heritage grants "are as ephemeral as a mirage in the desert". BBC, Barns: to save or not to save, 30 November 2009.   victuals [ VIT-l ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) provisions for human beings or food 2. (tr. v.) to provide with food 3. (intr. v.) to get food 4. (intr. v.) to eat   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The hikers had to carry victuals as there were no shops on their route.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The problem of providing victuals for a vast army and keeping the population fed proved enormous. BBC, War and revolution in Russia, 2 November 1998.   exonerate [ ig-ZON-uh'-reyt ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to excuse from fault or blame 2. to excuse or relieve 3. to discharge or free from   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was exonerated after the real culprit was apprehended.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Mr Salahi told NBC's Today show there was more to their side of the story – an explanation that would exonerate them from allegations of misconduct in the breach of White House security. The Telegraph, Salahis deny gatecrashing Obama White House dinner, 1 December 2009.   ingenue [ AN-zhuh'-noo; Fr. an-zhey-NY ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the actress who plays the part of an artless, innocent, unworldly girl or young woman 2. a naive, innocent girl or young woman   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She had the perfect profile to act as an ingenue in the pantomime.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   But with its carefully choreographed gravitas, this trip will go some way to reassuring US voters that he is not the foreign policy ingenue his critics claim he is. BBC, Is Obama's trip a hit back home? Jack Izzard, 24 July 2008.   Spelled Pronunciation Key Stress marks: [ CAPS ] indicates the primary stressed syllable, as in newspaper [NOOZ-pey-per ] and information [ in-fer-MEY-shuh' n ] CONSONANTS [b] boy, baby, rob [d] do, ladder, bed [f] food, offer, safe [g] get, bigger, dog [h] happy, ahead [j] jump, budget, age [k] can, speaker, stick [l] let, follow, still [m] make, summer, time [n] no, dinner, thin [ng] singer, think, long [p] put, apple, cup [r] run, marry, far, store [s] sit, city, passing, face [sh] she, station, push [t] top, better, cat [ch] church, watching, nature, witch [th] thirsty, nothing, math [th'] this, mother, breathe [v] very, seven, love [w] wear, away [hw] where, somewhat [y] yes, onion [z] zoo, easy, buzz [zh] measure, television, beige   VOWELS [a] apple, can, hat [ey] aid, hate, day [ah] arm, father, aha [air] air, careful, wear [aw] all, or, talk, lost, saw [e] ever, head, get [ee] eat, see, need [eer] ear, hero, beer [er] teacher, afterward, murderer [i] it, big, finishes [ahy] I, ice, hide, deny [o] odd, hot, woffle [oh] owe, road, below [oo] ooze, food, soup, sue [oo'] good, book, put [oi] oil, choice, toy [ou] out, loud, how [uh] up, mother, mud [uh'] about, animal, problem, circus [ur] early, bird, stirring   FOREIGN SOUNDS [a*] Fr. ami [kh*] Scot. loch, Ger. ach or ich [œ] Fr. feu, Ger. schön [r*] Fr. au revoir, Yiddish rebbe [uh*] Fr. oeuvre [y*] Fr. tu, Ger. über   SAMPLE NASALIZED VOWELS [an*] Fr. bien [ahn*] Fr. croissant [awn*] Fr. bon [œn*] Fr. parfum [in*] Port. Principe