divest [ di-VEST ] | | [ transitive verb ] | | MEANING : | | 1. (tr. v.) to sell off or dispose of 2. (tr. v.) to strip or deprive | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | Some of the directors secretly divested their holding in the company when they learnt that the workers planed to go on strike.
| | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | Lloyds will divest 600 branches--4.6 percent of its total--all over the next 4 years in the latest bail-out saga. The Telegraph, The staggering price of bailing out the banks, 3 November 2009. | | crypt [ kript ] | | [ noun ] | | MEANING : | | 1. an underground burial chamber or vault beneath a church 2. a slender pit or a small glandular cavity | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | They found maps and other notations on parchments in the crypt.
| | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | Michael Jackson's body has been moved to a basement to prevent grieving fans from breaking in to the crypt near Los Angeles where it was first hidden. The Telegraph, Heidi Blake, 14 July 2009. | | gauche [ gohsh ] | | [ adjective ] | | MEANING : | | lacking social grace or civility; tactless; crude | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | The exquisite manners of most Europeans make many Americans feel gauche.
| | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | Other critics find the association's fundraising efforts gauche, while some graduate students are concerned the campaign against using adjunct faculty will leave them with no jobs at all. USA Today, 'Tenured radical' tries to revive professors group, By Justin Pope | | referendum [ ref-uh'-REN-duh'm ] | | [ noun ] | | MEANING : | | 1. the practice of referring proposed measures of a legislative body to the vote of the electorate for approval or rejection 2. the result of a vote or the submission of a proposed public measure to a direct popular vote 3. a note from a diplomat to his government requesting instructions | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | The referendum advocating the construction of a mall on the vacant plot which was at present being misused as a dump was rejected.
| | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | Colombia's constitutional court has blocked a referendum that would allow the president a third consecutive term. CNN, Uribe denied another term, 27 February 2010. | | qualm [ kwahm, kwawm ] | | [ noun ] | | MEANING : | | 1. an abrupt onset of dizziness or sickness, as of nausea 2. a sudden feeling of discomfort or pang felt esp. when not sure that one's actions is morally or socially acceptable 3. a sudden uneasy or disturbing feeling; sudden apprehension | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | He felt a sudden qualm when he saw the corpse lying on the road.
| | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | President Bush cannot be a nationalist, they argue, because he has no qualms about the destruction of the American, the shipping of U.S. jobs overseas, the tearing down of what remains of our borders, the demographic transformation of the United States Chronicles Magazine, His God Is Marching On, by Scott P. Richert | |
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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