Daily Wordlist 06-Oct-09

	06-Oct-09 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist puissance [ PYOO-uh'-suh'ns, pyoo-IS-uh'ns, PWIS-uh'ns ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. power 2. might   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   America's naval puissance was unparalleled.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   No European nation can alone exercise effective military puissance. The Telegraph, The West needs France to rejoin Nato. Denis MacShane, 21 September 2007   punctilious [ puhngk-TIL-ee-uh's ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. extremely attentive to detail 2. strict in the adherence to formalities   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He made a hobby of creative writing but was a punctilious author.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Literary editors of these papers learnt to tolerate her eccentrically punctilious ways, the slowness with which she turned in her carefully written pieces and the frequency with which, up to the last minute, she would make alterations. The Telegraph, Naomi Lewis, 3 August 2009   pungency [ PUHN-juh'n-see  ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. sharp to the taste or smell 2. caustically expressive 3. mentally stimulating   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The excellent taste of the curry was due to the pungency of the vinegar.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Goan food is full on flavour, pungency, colour and history. BBC, Indian food made easy   purvey [ per-VEY ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to supply provisions 2. to publicize   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Volunteers would purvey provisions and medicines to the survivors of the deluge.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   But at the same time it is bound to a method and a rhetoric that treats its public as consumers and the information it purveys as a commodity. BBC, Archbishop to attack news media, 14 June 2005   pusillanimous [ pyoo-suh'-LAN-uh'-muh's ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. having no courage 2. cowardly   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The army deserter had a weak pusillanimous character and was terrified of being shot by the enemy.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Sir Richard's insistence that men and women sent to war should be adequately equipped may have angered our pusillanimous ministers, but it endeared him to the soldiers who are his, and our, first concern. The Telegraph, Gen Sir Richard Dannatt: a soldier's soldier, 27 August 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