Daily Wordlist 16-Sep-09

16-Sep-09 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist insensible [ in-SEN-suh'-buh'l ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. not capable of being emotional 2. without physical feeling   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The officer was too insensible to understand the plight of his secretary.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   If people drink themselves insensible they alone must bear responsibility for the consequences. BBC, Teenage murderer jailed for life, 25 June 2009.   irate [ ahy-REYT, AHY-reyt ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. furious 2. pertaining to anger   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The irate customer yelled at the poor customer service executives.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The furor surrounding Ovrebo is not the first time -- and will certainly not be the last -- a referee has found himself or herself in the firing line from irate players and fans. CNN, Controversial refereeing decisions, Mike Steere, 8 May 2009   wend [ wend ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to direct or proceed along (one's way) 2. (intr.v.)to proceed or travel 3. (n.) one of the Slavic people of Lusitania   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He wended his way through the jungle to get to the city.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   On Wednesday night, senators voted 90-9 to include the provision to the $440 billion Defense Department spending bill now wending its way through Congress. CNN, Senate ignores veto threat in limiting detainee treatment, 6 October 2005   loll [ lol ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr. v.) to recline in a lazy way 2. (tr.v.) to sag or hang down loosely 3. (n.) the manner of lazing(archaic)   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He lolled the whole day at home while his wife worked hard in the office as well as at home.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Shops are open, restaurants full and men loll on the pavements eating sweets to recuperate from daylight fasting. The Telegraph, Muammar Gaddafi hits out on 40th anniversary of Libyan coup, Damien McElroy, 1 September 2009, 8 September 2009.   nexus [ NEK-suh' s ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a link or connection 2. a series or group that is connected 3. the core or focus   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   They had a direct nexus to the underworld through the local goon.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The vast corporate nexus of the oil, automobile, and petrochemical industries -- enabled by the military and political power of the American imperial state -- constitutes the system of addiction. CNN, The price of our oil addiction, By Michael Watts, November 10, 2008   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