Daily Wordlist 28-Nov-09

	28-Nov-09 Daily Wordlist vagabond [ VAG-uh'-bond ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a person who travels from place to place and has no permanent home 2. a worthless or irresponsible person 3. (adj.) nomadic or wandering without settling anywhere   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   If you want to see the world travel in style, not like a vagabond.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Such bone-headed incompetence was a great pity because Davies' revival has a wonderful vagabond spirit to it. The Telegraph, Twelfth Night, at Said Business School - review, Dominic Cavendish, 21 July 2009.   dingy [ DIN-jee ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) pertaining to dark or dull atmosphere 2. (adj.) shabby or dirty coloured 3. (adj.) lacking brightness or freshness   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The student could barely afford to pay the rent for the dingy room.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Whether you're into exclusive bars, dingy dives or the dubious pleasures of a sweaty moshpit, Seattle has plenty to keep you entertained. CNN, Seattle: Where to be seen, 5 November 2008.   sonnet [ SON-it  ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a rhapsody 2. (n.) a poem properly expressive of a single, complete thought of 14 lines   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He has the entire collection of Shakespeare's sonnets.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Writing for children is like the difference between writing a sonnet and writing a gossip column. CNN, 'Wicked' author Gregory Maguire returns to Oz, Jacque Wilson, 4 November 2008.   coalesce [ koh-uh'-LES ]   [ intransitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr. v.) to combine to form one unit 2. (intr. v.) to blend or unify 3. (intr. v.) to merge or amalgamate   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Three political parties could coalesce to form the government as none of them were able to achieve a majority independently.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   These particles may help water droplets to coalesce, and so aid the formation of clouds. BBC, More doubt on cosmic climate link, Richard Black, 18 April 2008.   demotic [ di-MOT-ik ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (adj.) pertaining to the ordinary form of a language 2. (adj.) pertaining to the common people 3. (n.) the language of Greece   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He wrote modern poetry but copied the traditional style of demotic verse.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Any Briton watching would have been reminded of the easy, demotic charm of Tony Blair. The Telegraph, Barack Obama on Jay Leno risks becoming a bore, Simon Heffer, 20 March 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