| dinghy [ DING-gee ] | | | [ noun ] | | | MEANING : | | | 1. any small boat for use as a tender or lifeboat
2. an inflatable life raft
3. a small rowing or sailing boat | | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | | They rowed the dinghy to the centre of the lake to do their fishing.
| | | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | | On March 22, 2008, Brian Lewis, 50, scuttled the Jubilee in the Puget Sound Bay, then rowed a borrowed dinghy back to shore, according to court documents filed in February by prosecutors in King County, Washington.
CNN, Seattle man accused of sinking his own yacht, Mayra Cuevas-Nazario, 22 February 2009. | | | | larder [ LAHR-der ] | | | [ noun ] | | | MEANING : | | | 1. a place where food is stored
2. a supply of food | | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | | They survived the winter because of the well stocked larder.
| | | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | | The winter has indeed passed but the larder which was stocked up last autumn would, come May, have been close to empty.
BBC, NOT a Manx tradition, 23 december 2009. | | | | decimate [ DES-uh'-meyt ] | | | [ transitive verb ] | | | MEANING : | | | 1. to destroy a large proportion of
2. to kill every tenth person of a group
3. to cause great damage or destruction to | | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | | The population on the island was decimated by a contagious disease.
| | | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | | Worldwide nuclear fallout would decimate forests and sea life, and the "roar of a wave" is probably the sound of the bomb itself.
BBC, Dylan song adopted by climate summit: Your views, 5 December 2009. | | | | garbled [ gahr-buh'l-d ] | | | [ adjective ] | | | MEANING : | | | 1. distorted to such an extent so as to be misleading
2. scrambled or incomprehensible | | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | | A garbled statement was all the victim was capable of due to the extreme trauma that he had suffered.
| | | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | | The trouble with Some Sort Of Beautiful was the technique was used to such extreme effect that much of the play seemed garbled, stilted and confusing.
BBC, Oxford Stage - Some Sort Of Beautiful, 26 February 2005 | | | | quietude [ KWAHY-i-tood ] | | | [ noun ] | | | MEANING : | | | 1. the state of being calm and quiet
2. tranquillity | | | USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : | | | The quietude that suddenly descended upon the valley was a premonition that something weird was about to happen.
| | | USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : | | | I find in the quietude of still life objects complicity with the endlessly patient processes of carving.
BBC, 'Still Life: Sculptures by Fred Watson', 30 December 2009. | | |
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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