Daily Wordlist 21-Oct-09

	21-Oct-09 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist regicide [ REJ-uh'-sahyd ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. the slaying of a king 2. one who slays a king   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The regicide of the King of Nepal by the crown prince seemed to defy logic.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   After the shock of the Kennedy regicide, some young turks such as Nick Clegg, who calculated their best chance would come when they had engineered themselves a higher media profile, organised Sir Menzies's succession. The Telegraph, Sir Menzies's choice: go now or be sacked, Andrew Pierce, 16 October 2007   retrospective [ re-truh'-SPEK-tiv ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) thinking of past events 2. (n.) an exhibition of an artists achievements   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His retrospective thoughts brought to light a number of tiny details that he hadn't considered as important.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Having moved from penury to tax exile in a villa on Ibiza, he celebrated a grand retrospective show at the Centre Pompidou in 1983 by treating everyone in his foundry – and his local publican – to an all-expenses-paid weekend in Paris. The Telegraph, Barry Flanagan, 14 September 2009   secular [ SEK-yuh'-ler ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) of or relating to worldly things or matters 2. (adj.) promoting secularism 3. (adj.) occurring but once in a century 4. (n.) a layperson   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He claimed to be a truly secular person and paid scant attention to spiritual matters.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The programme's mix of sacred and secular includes songs by King Henry himself, and settings of texts in his honour by leading composers of the day. BBC, What's On / Proms by Day, 20 July 2009   slur [ slur ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to utter indistinctly 2. (tr. v.) to slander 3. (tr. v.) to not give proper consideration to 4. (n.) a slanderous remark 5. (n.) an unclear tone of voice   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   After imbibing three pegs of whiskey, he would slur and so nobody was able to understand what he said.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Klein said that when Jackson came to his office the week of his death, there were no indications anything was wrong: no "problems of slurred speech, shorten movement or anything." CNN, Dermatologist doesn't think he's Jackson kids' dad, Alan Duke, 8 July 2009   stickler [ STIK-ler ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a person who insists on something steadfastly 2. any confusing or complicated problem.   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The school's new principal had the reputation of being a stickler for rules and regulations.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Cronkite was a stickler for journalistic neutrality. The Telegraph, Walter Cronkite, legendary US newsreader, dies aged 92, Philip Sherwell, 18 July 2009   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