Daily Wordlist 30-Nov-09

	30-Nov-09 Daily Wordlist tribulation [ trib-yuh'-LEY-shuh'n ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) serious trouble or suffering 2. (n.) distress or hardship   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The tribulations faced by the families of the freedom fighters are often not known.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   No one's immune to the trials and tribulations of life. CNN, Vick pleads not guilty, 26 July 2007.   fleck [ flek ]   [ noun, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a speck 2. (n.) a spot or small patch 3. (tr. v.) to mark with a spot   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She did a thorough job of cleaning the kitchen and not a fleck of dust was left.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   In late spring bluebells fleck the woodland floor with shimmering blue and the white flowers of wild garlic give the air a pungent smell BBC, Pwll-y-wrach, 11 November 2009.   acclaim [ uh'-KLEYM ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to applaud or praise joyfully 2. (tr. v.) to declare with joyous approval 3. (intr. v.) to make welcome with shouts of praise   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The book was acclaimed to be a best seller.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   But in Brownland all is going well for the Government, a grateful people acclaim Mr Brown and it is the Opposition which is in desperate trouble. The Telegraph, Brownland - a strange country where Gordon Brown is still doing well, Andrew Gimson, 11 November 2009.   purveyor [ per-VEY-er ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a person who provides or supplies 2. (n.) a person who supplies provisions   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was the purveyor of rations to the poor villages.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He had delivered countless grams in the last few weeks; he hated being the purveyor of the bad news they contained. The dreaded telegram, William, 03 2009   parquet [ pahr-KEY ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) a floor composed of short strips of wood forming a pattern 2. (n.) the entire main floor of a theatre   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He wanted the marble floor in the bedroom to be replaced by parquet.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Nicole Farhi sought to recapture her home's past, exposing the beautiful molding and parquet floors CNN, London designer's relaxed style extends to her home, 15 December 2000.   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