Daily Wordlist 12-Oct-09

	12-Oct-09 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist rarefy [ RAIR-uh'-fahy ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to cause to become less dense 2. (tr. v.) to make pure 3. (intr. v.) to become less dense   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The air was so rarefied at the top of the mountain that the mountaineers suffered from laboured breathing.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   During the occlusion of the stop, pulling the glottis downward rarefies the air in the vocal tract. Wikipedia, Implosive consonant   repel [ ri-PEL ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to ward off 2. (tr. v.) to keep at bay 3. to turn down 4. (intr. v.) to cause hatred   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was not a likeable person and repelled any overtures of friendship.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The researchers found that these compounds, known as ketones, repel mosquitoes. The Telegraph, Sweet smelling sweat keeps mosquitoes at bay, Richard Gray, 5 September 2009   sanguine [ SANG-gwin ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) lively and hopeful or optimistic 2. (adj.) reddish or like blood 3. (n.) a red oxide crayon used for marking   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   It was his sanguine belief that a search party would be sent out to rescue them.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   If that seemed a remarkably sanguine assessment, it should be remembered that Button was not able to keep his cool all weekend. The Telegraph, Jenson Button shunted out of Belgian Grand Prix but result is huge let-off in title race, Tom Cary, 30 August 2009   shard [ shahrd ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a small piece of broken metal, glass or earthenware 2. the hard exterior shell or scale   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The old woman swept the shards of broken earthenware out of her shop.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Scattered around the ship are shards of pottery, animal bones, and thousand-year-old clamshells. CNN, Tunnel links continents, uncovers ancient history, Ivan Watson, 21 September 2009   sophistry [ SOF-uh'-stree ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a tricky, seemingly plausible method of reasoning that is actually misleading 2. believable but fallacious argumentation   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The glib executive would indulge in sophistry to justify his actions.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran lived up to his reputation for assertiveness and sophistry during an address last week to the United Nations General Assembly, a prickly interview on CNN, and a stilted exchange with about two dozen members of the Council on Foreign Relations. CNN, Highlights from the world's press, Ravi Agarwal, 25 September 2006   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