Daily Wordlist 01-Nov-09

01-Nov-09 Daily Wordlist substantiation [ suh'b-STAN-shee-a-shuh'n  ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the establishment of facts 2. the affirmation of an idea through action   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He is merely making wild accusations without any substantiation.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The regulator found that the Duchy Originals advert breached the code in four areas including substantiation, truthfulness and medicinal claims. The telegraph, Prince of Wales's Duchy Originals herbal remedy claims were 'misleading', Urmee Khan, 6 May 2009   supine [ adj. soo-PAHYN; n. SOO-pahyn ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) lying on the back or lying face up 2. (adj.) inactive 3. (n.) the simple infinitive when a verb is preceded by to   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was relaxing by the pool in a supine posture.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In addition, further efforts to educate child care providers about the importance of supine sleep for infants must be ongoing. BBC, Childminders 'raise cot death risks', 9 August 2000   tamper [ TAM-per ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr. v.) to interfere with 2. (intr. v.) to falsify by making changes 3. (intr. v.) to influence by illegal dealings 4. (tr. v.) to change improperly   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The accused had tampered with the evidence.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Before we visited, someone tampered with a key circuit board and that's preventing the clinic from using electricity still being stored in the batteries. CNN, Light in the darkness: Iraq's solar powered clinic, Mohammed Jamjoom, 28 September 2009,   topple [ TOP-uh'l ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to overthrow 2. (tr. v.) to shove and cause to fall over 3 (intr. v.) to stagger and fall   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The opposition claimed they would topple the weak government and take over.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He was also member of the democratic opposition to the communist regime in Poland before it was toppled in 1989. The Telegraph, Warsaw Ghetto uprising leader Marek Edelman dies at 90, 3 October 2009   truculence [ TRUHK-yuh'-luh'n-see, TROO-kyuh'- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. an inclination to fight ferociously 2. fiercely cruel actions   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   They were from a village of savaged warriors and knew of nothing other than truculence.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Bush and his aides tried to draw a distinction between Iraq and North Korea by pointing to their record of defiance: though Saddam refused for four years to allow the world to check whether he was trying to obtain nuclear weapons, North Korea, until this recent bout of truculence, had at least frozen its plutonium process. CNN, How dangerous Is North Korea? Romesh Ratnesar, 6 January 2003   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