Daily Word List – 10th May 2018 Meaning, Pronunciation | Free PDF

blazon [ BLEY-zuh’ n ]

[noun,transitive verb]

MEANING:

1. (tr.v.) to depict a coat of arms with proper form and colour
2. (tr.v.) to adorn or embellish showily
3. (n.) a coat of arms
4. (n.) ostentatious display

USAGE EXAMPLE 1:

Blazoned on his door was his coat of arms which read, ‘S’ Rioghal mo dhream’.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2:

Blazoned day-by-day in the local media, it is the world’s highest battlefield, with troops stationed higher than most North American, European or African mountains.

galvanize [ GAL-vuh’-nahyz ]

[intransitive verb,transitive verb]

MEANING:

1. (tr.v.) to stimulate or spur by applying electric current
2. (tr.v.) to excite, stimulate or startle
3. (intr.v.) to react in a manner as though stimulated by means of electrics shocks

USAGE EXAMPLE 1:

The people were galvanized into action on hearing the speech

USAGE EXAMPLE 2:

Meyer also held up a length of heavy, galvanized metal chain she said circus handlers employ to restrain the elephants.

dissemble [ di-SEM-buh’ l ]

[intransitive verb,transitive verb]

MEANING:

1. (tr.v.) to disguise or conceal or hide behind a false appearance
2. (tr.v.) to feign or simulate
3. (intr.v.) to feign or hide behind a false appearance

USAGE EXAMPLE 1:

The boisterous behaviour of the youth was dissembled by his innocent face.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2:

It should be apparent that a regime which would declare the election to be free and fair is precisely the sort to string us along in fruitless negotiations and dissemble about its current behavior and future aspirations.

heresy [ her-uh’-see ]

[noun]

MEANING:

opinion or doctrine at variance with the orthodox or accepted doctrine of a religious system.

USAGE EXAMPLE 1:

He was arrested for propagating heresy which was a crime in the Victorian Era.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2:

It astonished his imagination but repelled and frightened him with its tempting heresy of Manichaean dualism – the idea that a creator might be evil.

protuberance [ proh-TOO-ber-uh’ns ]

[noun]

MEANING:

1. a projection
2. the condition or state of extending
3. the part that sticks out

USAGE EXAMPLE 1:

They nicknamed him hunchback because of the protuberance at the back of his left shoulder.

USAGE EXAMPLE 2:

Most dangerously, a massive German counter-attack through the Ardennes forest in December 1944 led to ‘the battle of the Bulge’, so called because of the protuberance it caused in the Allied line, which threatened to drive a wedge between the British and American armies, and possibly even allow the Wehrmacht to recapture Antwerp.

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