| germinate [ JUR-muh'-neyt ] | | | [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ] | | | MEANING : | | | 1. (intr.v.) to form, evolve or develop
2. (intr.v.) to sprout or put forward shoots
3, (tr.v.) to produce or develop | | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | | The seeds germinated beginning the process of development.
| | | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | | Foresters have learned that forests need fires to clear out the brush and even to get seeds to germinate.
Economist, Wiping the slate dirty, Mar 6th 2008 | | | | reciprocate [ ri-SIP-ruh'-keyt ] | | | [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ] | | | MEANING : | | | 1. (tr.v.) to give and take or interchange mutually or return a favour
2. (tr.v.) to change one's position by alternating back and forth
3. (intr.v.) to give back or return esp. a favour of some sort
4. (intr.v.) to move back and forth and interchange positions | | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | | He reciprocated their actions by writing them thank you notes.
| | | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | | Civil aviation minister Praful Patel had earlier appealed to airlines to cut fares and reciprocate the measures taken by the government to help the ailing industry.
The Times of India, Air India fuel surcharge to fall by Rs 400 from Dec 2, December 1, 2008 | | | | construe [ v. kuh'n-STROO or, especially Brit., KON-stroo; n. KON-stroo ] | | | [ noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb ] | | | MEANING : | | | 1. (tr. v.) to explain the meaning or intention of
2. (tr. v.) to interpret or deduce by inference
3. (tr. v.) to analyze the syntax of or to arrange syntactically words or phrases
4. (intr. v.) to be subject to grammatical analysis
5. (n.) an interpretation or translation
3.(n.) the act of explaining | | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | | People construed that he was antisocial by the glowering look on his face.
| | | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | | A minute ago, you alluded to the fact that the new version of "The Truth" could conceivably be construed as a breakup ballad between two men.
CNN, Kris Allen addresses controversy about 'The Truth', Michael Slezak, 6 May 2010. | | | | sodden [ SOD-n ] | | | [ adjective ] | | | MEANING : | | | 1. (adj.) soggy, saturated or moisture-laden
2. (adj.) expressionless, unintelligent or dull caused by indulgence in alcoholic beverages
3. (adj.)torpid or listless
4. (tr.v.) to become or be made sodden
5. (intr.v.) to become or be made sodden | | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | | Her sodden garments were not fit to be reused.
| | | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | | Unfortunately, it is the half-drunk, not the drink-sodden, who experience the heightened excitement of intoxication—who throw themselves out of windows in the expectation of flying, in preference to falling downstairs in a heap on the way out.
Chronicles Magazine, Liberalism as Addiction, by Chilton Williamson, Jr. | | | | precursor [ pri-KUR-ser, PREE-kur- ] | | | [ noun ] | | | MEANING : | | | 1. predecessor or forerunner
2. a harbinger or indicator of someone's arrival
3. (chemistry) a compound formed as a result of a chemical reaction that during the course of the reaction changes into another compound
4. (biology) a substance that gives rise to another substance | | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | | The dark clouds were a precursor to an early monsoon.
| | | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | | The study was led by investigators from the University of Toronto, who randomly assigned 440 postmenopausal women with osteopenia, the precursor to full blown osteoporosis, to either a high dose of vitamin K1 daily or a placebo for comparison purposes.
The Times of India, 'Vitamin K may not prevent bone loss', 14 Oct 2008 | | |
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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