Daily Wordlist 26-Dec-09

	26-Dec-09 Daily Wordlist cupidity [ kyoo-PID-i-tee ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. excessive desire for riches 2. avarice or greed for riches   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   When the banks foreclosed on his loan, he realised that it was his cupidity that landed him in trouble.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The navy's management of the ferry, they say, was loose, the vessel was overloaded with people and freight, and there was negligence and cupidity. BBC, Senegal navy head sacked, 15 October 2002.   anathema [ uh'-NATH-uh'-muh' ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a person or object loathed 2. a curse of divine punishment 3. a person who is damned   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The topic of religion was anathema to the atheist.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The very thought that parents may know best is anathema to this Government, which insists that one system suits all. The Telegraph, The man in Whitehall doesn't know best about education, 29 November 2009.   intoxicate [ v. in-TOK-si-keyt; adj. in-TOK-suh'-kit ]   [ adjective, intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to temporarily affect with diminished capacity by means of alcohol or drugs 2. (tr. v.) to exhilarate or enthuse 3. (intr. v.) to cause or produce diminished capacity 4 (adj.) stupefied   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The rich old man was completely intoxicated and had to be carried home.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts are among those who create such a genial air in the interrogation room, they intoxicate the reporter. BBC, What really goes on in star interviews, Robert Nisbet, 4 April 2003.   discrepancy [ di-SKREP-uh'n-see ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. difference 2. an instance of inconsistency or disagreement   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   There was a huge discrepancy in the profit statement presented by the CFO at the shareholders meeting and the auditors report.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Underlying this variety of experience was the discrepancy between the limited economic opportunities available on the land and the attractions of the towns or colonies. BBC, The Rural Exodus, Mike Winstanley, 5 November 2009.   doctrinaire [ DOK-truh'-NAIR ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1.(n.) an impractical theorist 2. (n.) a person who tries to apply some doctrine or theory without sufficient attention to its practicality 3. (adj.) fanatical or dogmatic   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The doctrinaire project manager was driving the engineers crazy with his impractical plan of action.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Doctrinaire Marxists, of whom there were many in the Labour Party, regarded the nuclear family as a doomed bourgeois institution. The Telegraph, At last, a common-sense approach to family values from David Cameron's Conservatives, 9 October 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