perquisite [ PUR-kwuh'-zit ] | | [ noun ] | | MEANING : | | 1. a benefit, privilege or incidental payment 2. a payment or benefit over and above regular salary 3. a demand or something due as a particular privilege | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | He said that the salary he received from the company was not so high but the perquisites were generous.
| | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | For a liberal Virginian to win a Southern red state signaled that cherished Republican majorities in both House and Senate, plus all the perquisites they entail, could be lost in 2006. CNN, The impact of Virginia, 10 November 2005. | | sequester [ si-KWES-ter ] | | [ transitive verb ] | | MEANING : | | 1. (tr.v.) to separate or segregate 2. (tr.v.) to withdraw or remove 3. (law) to confiscate or take possession of temporarily 4. (intr.v.) to undergo separation or sequestration | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | She was sequestered from her friends as a part of her punishment.
| | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | The country is not awash with petrodollars because the state taxes its energy earnings heavily, and sequesters its dollar takings in its central-bank reserves and its Stabilisation Fund. The Economist, A taxonomy of trouble, Oct 23rd 2008 | | ichthyology [ ik-thee-OL-uh'-jee ] | | [ noun ] | | MEANING : | | a branch of zoology that is concerned with the study of fishes | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | He was an avid reader in the field of ichthyology.
| | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | Monod finally returned to Paris in 1965, to take up a chair of African Ichthyology at the Museum d'histoire naturelle. Telegraph, Theodore Monod, 23 Aug 2001 | | vanquish [ VANG-kwish ] | | [ transitive verb ] | | MEANING : | | 1. to conquer or overcome in battle 2. to defeat in a conquest, competition or conflict 3. to overpower | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | The English vanquished the Indian rebellion during the war of 1857.
| | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | Victory is achieved once all the enemies have been vanquished. CNN, Web video game aim: 'Kill' Bush characters, 18 September 2006 | | seminary [ SEM-uh'-ner-ee ] | | [ noun ] | | MEANING : | | 1. a school, especially one providing education in theology the training of ministers, priests, or rabbis 2. a place of origin and propagation 3. a high grade school for young women | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | The couple proudly announced that their son had entered the seminary to train for priesthood.
| | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | The Mercaz Harav seminary is a well-known center for Jewish studies. BBC, In pictures: Israel seminary attack, 6 March 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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