Daily Wordlist 18-Sep-09

18-Sep-09 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist obtrusive [ uh'b-TROO-siv ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. brash, impertinent or forward in conduct 2. protruding, thrusting out or projecting   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Her obtrusive disposition often led her colleagues to detest her.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   U.S. officials have long talked of the need to make the Army less visible and less obtrusive, particularly in the capital. CNN, Document appears to seek al Qaeda help in Iraq, February 10, 2004   ominous [ OM-uh'-nuh's  ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. foreboding, portentous or inauspicious 2. of or being a omen esp. one that is evil   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He had an ominous feeling that something was bound to go wrong ever since a black cat crossed his path early in the morning.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Roger Federer sent out an ominous message to his rivals by claiming the Masters 1000 tournament in Cincinnati with a straight sets demolition of Novak Djokovic in the final on Sunday. CNN, Federer back to his best with Cincinnati win, August 23, 2009   woo [ woo ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to seek love or affection esp. with the intention of marriage 2. (tr.v.) to solicit, urge or entreat 3. (tr.v.) to seek or try to get 4. (intr.v.) to court a woman   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The poor peasant boy wooed the rich merchant's daughter.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Libyan celebrations of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's four decades in power saw the strongman lash out at Western governments he has wooed for six years. The Telegraph, Muammar Gaddafi hits out on 40th anniversary of Libyan coup, Damien McElroy, 1 September 2009, accessed 7 September 2009.   lucubrate [  LOO-kyoo'-breyt  ]   [ intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to write in a learned manner 2. to work or study hard especially late into the night   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The critic lucubrated on all the ideas expressed in the author's book.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Under the Eisenhower program, one could lucubrate over constitutional rights and freedoms and forever abandon captured American soldiers. Editorial Reviews, Amazon.com Review   luculent [  LOO-kyoo'-luh'-nt  ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. plain and understandable 2. persuasive   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His luculent oratory skills were appreciated by one and all.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Theodoric is one of the most luculent testimonies for that blending of fact and fancy in strictly historical times which people find it so difficult to believe, but which offers the key, and the only true key, for many of the most perplexing problems, both of history and of mythology. Northvegr Foundation, The Roman and the Teuton, Charles Kingsley   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