| pillory [ PIL-uh'-ree ] | | | [ noun, transitive verb ] | | | MEANING : | | | 1. (n.) a device consisting of two parallel wooden boards with holes to lock the hands and legs of criminals and subject them to public scorn
2. (n.) a means for subjecting to public humiliation
3. (tr. v.) to subject to punishment by placing in a pillory
4. (tr. v.) to subject to public humiliation or abuse | | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | | It is probably necessary to pillory the United States for not signing the Kyoto protocol.
| | | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | | Did the government eventually agree to a mention of the "centrality" of the Kashmir issue and was it scotched at the last minute? is another loaded question that continues to hang in the air. There are no answers to these in the pronouncements of those who now pillory Pakistan for the failure of the summit.
The Times of India, Summitas Entertainment: The great Indian soap trick, Shastri Ramchandran,TNN, 20 Jul 2001 | | | | eviscerate [ v. i-VIS-uh'-reyt; adj. i-VIS-er-it, -uh'-reyt ] | | | [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ] | | | MEANING : | | | 1. (tr.v.) to disembowel or remove or take out entrails from
2. (tr.v.) to remove or deprive of vital or essential organs or parts
3. (tr.v.) to remove some contents of an organ surgically
4. (intr.v.) to protrude through an incision surgically made or through a deep wound | | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | | His modus operandi included eviscerating his victims.
| | | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | | This action eviscerates key protections that have helped safeguard and recover endangered fish, wildlife and plants for the past 35 years.'
CNN, Environmentalists blast changes to Endangered Species rules, From Erika Dimmler, December 12, 2008 | | | | xenophobia [ zen-uh'-FOH-bee-uh' ] | | | [ noun ] | | | MEANING : | | | an abnormal hatred or fear of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange | | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | | Some of the tribesmen who suffered from acute xenophobia attacked the luxury bus in which the foreign tourists were travelling.
| | | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | | South Africa's government has denied claims that little has been done to tackle xenophobia a year after a deadly wave of attacks on migrants began.
BBC, South Africa appeal on xenophobia, 11 May 2009 | | | | annotate [ AN-uh'-teyt ] | | | [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ] | | | MEANING : | | | 1. (tr. v.) to give explanatory notes or comment upon in notes
2. (tr. v.) to provide critical commentary
3. (intr. v.) to gloss a text or interpret a text | | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | | The teacher explained to the students how they should annotate the lesson.
| | | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | | He annotated both the invoice and his expenses claim form to suggest that he had paid the tree surgeons' bill on April 21, 2008.
The telegraph, MPs' expenses: James Arbuthnot claimed £2,750 for tree surgery at £2m home, Jon Swaine, 11 December 2009. | | | | flux [ fluhks ] | | | [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ] | | | MEANING : | | | 1. (n.) continuous change or movement
2. (n.) a current or the flowing of a tide
3.(n.) a force field in an area
2. (tr. v.) to fuse or melt
3. (intr. v.) to flow or become fluid | | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | | The economy of the country was in a state of flux brought about by a bountiful harvest negated by bad resource management.
| | | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | | If it's an amendment to the Senate bill, and it passes, that could throw the whole complicated but carefully choreographed process of passing health care into flux.
CNN, Abortion again an issue in health care debateFrom Dana Bash, Evan Glass and Deirdre Walsh, 19 March 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. Principe | | |
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