Daily Wordlist 18-Oct-11

	Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists despondent [ di-SPON-duh' nt ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. sad, hopeless or dejected 2. discouraged or disheartened   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was despondent after faring poorly in the engineering entrance examinations.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   At its worst, during late May and early June, dozens of despondent travelers were contacting me every day for help with their paperwork. CNN, Seven lessons learned from the summer of 2007, By Christopher Elliott , August 31, 2007   decrepit [ di-KREP-it ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or long use   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The decrepit house has been termed dangerous by the housing authority.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Why did it take an hour for decrepit fire engines to reach the blazing supermarket? Economist, Double trouble, Feb 5th 2009   flax [ flaks  ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a plant called linum usitatissimum that is widely cultivated and has pale blue flowers, seeds yielding linseed oil, and thin, slender stems from which fibre is obtained. 2. yarn that is produced from such fibre 3. a pale, greyish yellow colour   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He particularly grew flax because of its seeds being in high demand.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Workers made flax for weavers for more than a century at the site. BBC, Public touring 18th Century mill, 20 August 2005   stellar [ STEL-er ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. like the stars or consisting of stars or pertaining to the stars 2. outstanding   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Everyone was impressed by the stellar ambience of the new restaurant.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   British canoeist David Florence, who learned just before the Beijing Olympics that he had failed in his application to become a European Space Agency astronaut, produced a stellar performance to claim Britain's fourth medal of the Games on the white-water slalom course at Shunyi. The Telegraph, Canoeing: Britain's David Florence has stellar run to take silver - Beijing Olympics 2008, Simon Hart, 12 August 2008.   apolitical [ ey-puh'-LIT-i-kuh'l  ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. not involved in the governmental or public affairs of a state 2. having no interest in or association with governmental affairs 3. of no relevance or importance to the governing of a state   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   A famous actor claimed to be apolitical because, according to him, politics was a dirty game.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   He recently confided that he has remained so steadfastly apolitical since he became a major-general that he has not voted. The Telegraph, David Petraeus for President: Run General, run, Toby Harnden, 3 april 2010.   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. 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