Daily Wordlist 06-Dec-09

06-Dec-09 Daily Wordlist ken [ ken ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) understanding 2. (n.) mental perception 3. (n.) range of sight 4. (intr. v.) to have knowledge of 5. (tr. v.) to know about or be acquainted with   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   It was beyond the ken of the simple village folks why anyone would want to destroy their crops.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Spinoza sought not to limit God to the attributes which come within the ken of man although he believed man's knowledge of God and the world to be true so far as it goes. Informations, Spinoza as educator, Rabenort, William Louis, b. 1870   commune [ v. kuh-MYOON; n. KOM-yoon ]   [ noun, intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr. v.) to converse intimately 2. (intr. v.) to be in rapport with nature 3. (n.) an interchange of ideas 4. (n.) a close-knit group of people who share common interests   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He communed with people from all walks of life making him very popular.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Most communes were disbanded years ago as China's leaders began to turn the country's planned economy into one governed by the market. BBC, Life in one of China's last communes, 29 September 2009.   detonation [ det-n-EY-shuh'n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. an explosion 2. the act of blowing up or exploding   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Before the detonation of the explosives, the workers had to evacuate the danger zone.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   A council spokesman said the area should re-open as planned following the controlled detonation on Tuesday afternoon. BBC, Live mine detonated at Daedalus, 3 October 2006.   extraneous [ ik-STREY-nee-uhs ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. not belonging or coming from an external source 2. not essential or unrelated to 3. nonessential or superfluous   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The professor weeded out all extraneous references and examples from the lecture.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   I try to fill the frame with essential elements of the picture and crop out all extraneous matter at the time of taking if possible or otherwise in the darkroom when preparing the prints. BBC, Pictures paint a thousand words, 10 March 2004   cede [ seed ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to surrender or yield 2. to grant or transfer to   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The King ceded a small part of his territory to put an end to the onslaught of the invaders.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   If that flawed government falls, the vacuum it leaves would cede power to the Taliban and dangerously de-stabilise Pakistan, bringing to an end its hunting down of insurgents. The Telegraph, In Afghanistan hope starts here, down a dirt track on the edge of Taliban country, Mary Riddell, 23 November 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