misogynist [ mi-SOJ-uh'-nest ] | | [ noun, adjective ] | | MEANING : | | 1. (n.) one who detests or hates women 2. (adj.) characterised by a feeling of hatred towards women | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | He turned into a misogynist after his wife left him for another man.
| | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | Suddenly Mitch is a raving misogynist who has wandered into this movie from the set of a Neil LaBute film. CNN, Review: 'Enough' is too much of a bad thing, Paul Clinton, 24 May 2002 | | dolt [ dohlt ] | | [ noun ] | | MEANING : | | a dunce or stupid person | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | He was termed a dolt.
| | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | Then there's the other character, maybe you, who made a ton of money but ended up with considerably less than the dolt down the street. abcNEWS, You Don't Have to Be Smart to Be Rich, By LEE DYE, May 16, 2007 | | wary [ WAIR-ee ] | | [ adjective ] | | MEANING : | | 1. watchful, careful or cautious 2. characterized or marked by utmost caution | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | The wary child did not approach the stranger.
| | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | As wary Americans cut spending, ticket sales have softened, and donations have slowed. CNN, Tough times for musicians mean silent nights, By Karin Caifa, December 22, 2008 | | anachronism [ uh'-NAK-ruh'-niz-uh' m ] | | [ noun ] | | MEANING : | | 1. an error in chronology when a person or event in history is placed at a wrong period of time 2. something that is incorrect in a historical or chronological order | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | The committee set out to find the reason behind the anachronism.
| | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has dismissed the old policy as an "anachronism" based on an "outdated concept". The Times of India, India & the Tibet card, Shobhana Saxena, 23 November, 2008 | | impute [ im-PYOOT ] | | [ transitive verb ] | | MEANING : | | 1. to ascribe, assign, attribute or credit 2. to blame, charge with, accuse | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | He was imputed to complete the task.
| | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | The difficulty is that it's very hard to impute any precise financial figure for benefits to a city. BBC, The Olympics and the need to make money, By Stephen Evans, 6 July, 2005 | |
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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