Daily Word List – 21st April 2018 Meaning, Pronunciation | Free PDF

bailiwick [ BEY-luh’-wik ]

[noun] 
MEANING:

1. the area or district of jurisdiction of a bailiff or a bailie
   2. one’s area of specialization, interest or authority

USAGE EXAMPLE 1:

The Key West islands were Ernest Hemingway’s bailiwick.

apostate [ uh’-POS-teyt, -tit ]

[noun,adjective]
MEANING:

1. (n.) one who has forsaken or abandoned one’s religion, faith, party or cause
   2. (adj.) pertaining to or characteristic by apostasy.

USAGE EXAMPLE 1:

He was termed an apostate, for having forsaken his religion and his family in order to remarry.

valiant [ VAL-yuh’nt  ]

[noun,adjective]
MEANING:

1. (adj.) possessing courage
   2. (adj.) marked by bravery
   3. (n.) a courageous person

USAGE EXAMPLE 1:

The novel was about the crusades and the valiant battles that were fought by the knights.

furor [ FYOO’R-awr ]

[noun]
MEANING:

1. a general disorder or general commotion
   2. violent anger
   3. a public outburst of excitement or ecstasy or a state of intense enthusiasm
   4. a craze or fad. (Also, especially British, furor)

USAGE EXAMPLE 1:

The poison pen letters circulating the campus created a furor among the students and had to be suppressed.

sluice [ sloos ]

[noun,intransitive verb,transitive verb]
MEANING:

1. (n.) an artificial channel fitted with a gate for conducting and regulating the flow of water
   2. (n.) a channel or drain for surplus water
   3. (n.) a stream of surplus water
   4. (tr. v.) to drain the water from
   3. (tr. v.) to flush or cleanse with a rush of water
   4. (intr. v.) to flow through

USAGE EXAMPLE 1:

When the water in the dam reached the overflow mark they opened all the sluices for the water level to subside.

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