Daily Wordlist 20-Sep-09

	20-Sep-09 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist malign [  muh'-LAHYN  ]   [ adjective, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) say wicked things about someone 2. (adj.) evil temperament   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The journalist maligned the politician in his article that was to be published in the newspaper.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Something strange strayed into Hammer Horror territory, as a young couple decamp to a picture-postcard English village only to find their unbaptised baby the target of malign rural elves. The Telegraph, Grimeborn, review, Rupert Christiansen, 28 August 2009   mesmerize [  MEZ-muh'-rahyz  ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to hypnotize 2. (tr. v.) to put into a trance 3. (tr. v.) to captivate the senses   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The dancer's grace mesmerized the members of the audience.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Cryptic sea dragons ghost in and out of the fronds and giant cuttlefish mesmerize their prey with fantastic light displays. BBC, Science and Nature:TV and Radio follow-up, 9 September   morose [  muh'-ROHS  ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) sullen or gloomy 2. (adj.) characterised or marked by a gloomy or sullen disposition   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was too morose to do his work the other day.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   As she took the class on a morose trudge through various aspects of the Bill, telling us that immigration has brought us economic benefits "but it should not be a substitute for upskilling the domestic workforce", we remembered why she was always such a dull teacher. The Telegraph, MPs' expenses: School bell sounds early for overjoyed Miss Smith, Andrew Gimson, 3 June 2009   opprobrious [  uh'-PROH-bree-uh's  ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) scurrilous, scornful or abusive 2. (adj.) infamous, shameful or disgraceful   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The man's habit of using opprobrious words to describe all and sundry was detested by everyone.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   For them the faithful have coined a new term, "global warming deniers", almost as opprobrious, it seems, as "Holocaust deniers". The Telegraph, End column, Peter Simple, 5 December 2003   palpability [  PAL-puh'-buh'l-it-ee  ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) the act of sensing by touch   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Many people prefer reading a book to an e-boo to appease their sense of palpability.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The reader yearns for the spirit to be allowed to inform artistic endeavour, and not be forced into doing so by an insistence on the palpability of the spirits at the expense of the fleshy and earthy. The Telegraph, A parable the size of a housebrick, 16 August 2007   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