Daily Wordlist 08-Sep-09

	Daily Wordlist verve [ vurv ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. vigour, spirit or enthusiasm 2. vivacity or vitality 3. (archaic) talent or aptitude   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He completed all the tasks assigned to him with a lot of verve.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   These particular police were indeed heavily armed with energetic vocal and a real verve that hooked the crowd through their onstage interaction. BBC, Rhythms of the World, 4 September 2009   vindictive [ vin-DIK-tiv ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. vengeful or inclined to exact revenge 2. spiteful or intended to hurt   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The vindictive woman avenged her defeat in the contest by murdering the victor.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In both cases, Serbia was treated, with vindictive disdain, as an untrustworthy, disruptive and fundamentally illegitimate entity. The Chronicles Magazine, The E.U.'s Double Game in the Balkans, Srdja Trifkovic, 25 April 2008   vivacious [ vi-VEY-shuh's ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   lively, sprightly or highly spirited   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The vivacious, little girl won the 100-metre sprint.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The music runs its relentlessly vivacious course before ending in an exultant blaze of trumpets and drums. BBC, More information about the Mozart pieces..., 17 January 2009   warrant [ WAWR-uh'nt ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a sanction or an authorisation esp. one given by a superior 2. (n.) grounds or justification for beliefs 3. (tr.v.) to sanction or authorise 4. (tr.v.) to vouch for or guarantee the reliability or accuracy of   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   A warrant was issued in his name by the police when he was accused of plundering his employer's house.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   More than 1,000 arrest warrants have been issued this year against officials suspected of corruption, including 52 in senior posts. The Maimi Herald, Iraqi deputy minister arrested in corruption sting, Sameer N. Yacoub, 3 September 2009   intransigent [ in-TRAN-si-juh'nt ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) unbending 2. (adj.) steadfast in one's opinion 3. (n.) a person who is adamant   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His intransigent ways made him very difficult to work with.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Relations continued to deteriorate and the American resistance became more intransigent. BBC, Was the American Revolution Inevitable? Francis D Cogliano, 5 September 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