board of directors.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
The Airbus A330-200 has a "rudder limiter"
which constricts how much the rudder - which
is attached to the vertical stabilizer - can move
at high speeds.
Telegraph, Air France crash: Investigators
recover 29 bodies in total, 09 Jun 2009
plight
[
plahyt
]
[
noun, transitive verb
]
MEANING :
1. (n.) an unfortunate situation
2. (n.) a situation or predicament
3. (tr. v.) to pledge or to bind by a pledge
USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
People donated in cash and kind after hearing
of the sorry plight of the victims of the
tsunami.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
He describes the plight of villagers who lost
everything to the floods.
BBC, India floods: 'Misery everywhere', 5
October 2009.
whorl
[
hwurl, hwawrl, wurl, wawrl
]
[
noun
]
MEANING :
1. a circular arrangement of like parts around a
point on an axis
2. shaped like a coil or spiral
3. a circular ridge or convolution of a
fingerprint
USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
Fresh flowers were affixed to the backdrop in
decorative whorls.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
It hides under bracken, and has finished
flowering now, but the leaves were quite
distinctive, an untidy whorl of bright green
smooth leaves.
BBC, Botany, 30 June 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]
b
oy,
b
a
b
y, ro
b
[d]
d
o, la
dd
er, be
d
[f]
f
ood, o
ff
er, sa
f
e
VOWELS
[a]
a
pple, c
a
n, h
a
t
[ey]
ai
d, h
a
te, d
ay
[ah]
a
rm, f
a
ther, ah
a
