Daily Wordlist 18-Oct-09

	18-Oct-09 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist recompense [ REK-uh'm-pens ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.)to award compensation to 2. (tr. v.)to award compensation for 3. (n.) payment for work done 4. (n.) compensation paid for damage or loss   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The company recompensed the accountant with a huge amount for manipulating the accounts of the company.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   You do realise, don't you, that there are still people who do things with no thought of reward or recompense? The telegraph, Property in France: c'est la folie, Michael Wright, 6 August 2009   resilience [ ri-ZIL-yuh'ns, -ZIL-ee-uh'ns ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the ability to recover from or adapt to adverse circumstances 2. the ability to return to its original shape after being stretched or extended   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His resilience held him in good stand during those trying times when he was shunned by his family.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The whole team has a resilience, they fight to the last second. BBC, Arsenal resilience pleases Wenger, 15 August 2007   scorch [ skawrch ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to burn slightly so as to cause discolouration 2. (tr. v.) to wither with heat 3. (tr. v.) to subject to severe criticism censure; excoriate 4. (intr. v.) to become singed 5. (intr. v.) to move at a very fast pace 6. (n.) the mark left by a slight burn   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The Arabs wear a keffiyeh to prevent being scorched by the heat of the desert sun.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Of course the fires still happen, but instead of being small and their effects being benign, they scorch the earth, and damage the capacity of the soil to function again. The Telegraph, How's your carbon footprint doing? Goeffrey Lean, 4 September 2009   slack [ slak ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) loose or weak 2. (adj.) slow or not brisk 3. (adj.) negligent 4. a loose state   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The staff would take advantage of the slack manager by having frequent breaks..   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   But their opener in the 10th minute was gifted by slack defending by England as Dirk Kuyt cut out Rio Ferdinand's weak pass and rounded goalkeeper Robert Green before sending a right foot shot past captain John Terry on the line. CNN, Defoe double rescues England in Amsterdam, 12 August 2009   squat [ skwot ]   [ adjective, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr. v.) to sit in a crouching position with the legs drawn up 2. (intr. v.) to sit on ones haunches 3. (intr. v.) to illegally occupy land in order to acquire a title to it 4. (tr. v.) to settle upon as an illegal occupant 5. (n.) the act of crouching 6. (n.) an exercise in which one sits on one's haunches then stands while holding a weighted barbell   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   When on a camping trip you have to learn to squat as there are no chairs in the jungle.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   As for squatting, that will have to be option. I can't even bend over to touch me knees, never mind a squat. BBC, Ouch! It's a disability thing!   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