Daily Wordlist 19-Oct-09

	19-Oct-09 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist reconcile [ REK-uh'n-sahyl ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to cause to become friendly 2. (tr. v.) to force oneself to accept a situation which one does not like 3. (intr. v.) to become amicable   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The directors agreed that they would reconcile their differences and work for the common good of the company.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The pair had split in November after two years of dating, but reconciled shortly after finding out she was pregnant. CNN, Kourtney Kardashian agonized over whether to keep baby, David Caplan, 19 August 2009   resuscitation [ ri-SUSH-i-tey-shuh'n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the act of reviving from unconsciousness   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Artificial resuscitation is sometimes required when a patient's respiratory illness becomes chronic.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Aggressive treatments such as machine ventilation and resuscitation keep the patients alive, but they ultimately don't cure them. CNN, Religious patients more likely to get intensive life-prolonging care, Madison Park, 18 March 2008   scribble [ SKRIB-uh'l ]   [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to write fast and carelessly 2. (tr. v.) to cover with meaningless writing 3. (intr. v.)to write in a fast and careless manner 4. (intr. v.) to make meaningless notations 5. (n.) writing that has little or no meaning 6. (n.) writing which is illegible   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He would scribble notes in his rough pad during the lectures.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   By their second birthday, many children will be able to copy you as you scribble 'round and round' in a circular pattern, and, soon after, to copy as you draw a vertical or a horizontal stroke. BBC, Learning to Draw   slake [ sleyk ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to satisfy 2. (tr. v.) to quench 3. (tr. v.) to reduce the intensity of 4. (intr. v.) to undergo the quenching process   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   They found themselves in an arid wasteland and had no water to slake their thirst.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   You can slake your thirst with Somerset and Devonshire ales (Otter and Branscombe), local organic soft drinks, Devon cider or the most fabulous Phillips of Bristol old English lovage and brandy cocktail. The telegraph, Somerset Pub Guide: Lord Poulett Arms, Hinton St George, Belinda Richardson, 21 March 2008   stanch [ stawnch ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. to stop the flow of blood from a wound 2. steadfast or resolute   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The doctors stanched the profuse bleeding by tying a tourniquet around his leg just above the gash.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   By the time they had stanched the flow, he had less than two pints of blood left. CNN, For amputees, an unlikely painkiller: Mirrors, Saundra Young, 19 March 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