Daily Wordlist 25-Jan-10

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	Daily Wordlist shirk [ shurk ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to evade 2. (tr. v.) to avoid or neglect 3. (intr. v.) to avoid one's duty   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was dedicated and never shirked his responsibilities.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He has never shirked a challenge and some of our best known companies have benefited from his leadership and guidance. The Telegraph, Telegraph award: industry acclaim for Sir Philip Hampton, a businessman for all seasons, Roland Gribben, 11 November 2009.   impudence [ IM-pyuh'-duh'ns ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. insolence or the act of being offensively bold 2. impertinent behaviour   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The impudence of the team leader only served to provoke a non-cooperative attitude from the team.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Kisumu, which is dominated by the Luo tribe, voted overwhelmingly for Raila Odinga, Mr Kibaki's defeated challenger, and the authorities, they said, were punishing them for their impudence. The Telegraph, Inside Kenya: The tribal slaughter, Adrian Blomfield, 1 January 2008   metamorphosis [ met-uh'-MAWR-fuh'-sis ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a profound change in form from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism 2. a complete change in the character, appearance or circumstances 3. a transformation by magic or sorcery   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The documentary film was about the metamorphosis of a tadpole into a frog.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Arthropod hatchling vary from miniature adults to grubs and caterpillars that lack jointed limbs and eventually undergo a total metamorphosis to produce the adult form. BBC, Arthropods   conjecture [ kuh'n-JEK-cher ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a guess 2. (n.) a theory without sufficient evidence or proof 3. (tr. v.) to guess or infer from evidence that is inconclusive 4. (intr. v.) to make a guess   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was not clairvoyant though his predictions which were based on conjecture sometimes turned out to be true.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   There was much conjecture on Wednesday about how good sales at Marks & Spencer really were over Christmas. The Telegraph, Look past M&S's sales semantics, James Hall, 6 January 2010.   atavism [ AT-uh'-viz-uh'm ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the reappearance of characteristics of some remote ancestor, in an individual, that have been absent for some generations 2. a throwback or a reversion to an earlier type   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The proud father explained to his wife that the sixth toe on the left foot of their baby was due to atavism.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Murray is neither sentimental nor whimsical when he writes about this atavism on the edge of our world; as a Hebridean native himself, he understands the culture as a living and changing thing, mourning the loss of people first, and folk-ways only in as much as they form part of a holistic system. The Telegraph, The Guga Hunters by Donald S Murray - review, Will Self, 26 November 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