Daily Word List – 29th June 2018 Meaning, Pronunciation

indigent [ IN-di-juh ’nt ]
[noun,adjective]
MEANING:
1. (adj.) lacking or in need of basic needs; impoverished
2. (adj.) (archaic) lacking something that is most essential; deficient
3. (n.) one who is in need; a destitute
USAGE EXAMPLE 1:
The number of indigent people in our country is shocking and outrageous.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2:
Rothgery’s lawyers argued Texas should provide a defence lawyer for indigent clients once they’ve made a first appearance before a magistrate, even if no prosecutor was present.

megalomania [ meg-uh’-loh-MEY-nee-uh’ ]
[noun]
MEANING:
a mental ailment characterized by delusions of wealth, power or greatness
USAGE EXAMPLE 1:
It would probably be correct to arrive at the conclusion that most great men suffer from a sense of megalomania.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2:
“Could we have a better definition of derangement and megalomania than the case of a dictator who overrules his own generals and invades Russia in wintertime … ?

sophist [ SOF-ist ]
[noun]
MEANING:
1. a philosopher, thinker or scholar
2. one who is skilled at reasoning or arguing adroitly or speciously
3. a teacher or philosopher in ancient greece who reasoned out or argued or speculated on theology, metaphysics, and the sciences
USAGE EXAMPLE 1:
He considered himself to be a sophist.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2:
The reduction of the manpower in infantry battalions has been justified by the budgetary sophists in a number of ways.
daub [ dawb ]
[noun,intransitive verb,transitive verb]
MEANING:
1. (tr.v.) to cover or coat with soft adhesive matter such as plaster, grease or mud
2. (tr.v.) to apply colouring material unskilfully
3. (intr.v.) to apply colours crudely or unskilfully
4. (n.) a crude, amateurish painting
5. (n.) inferior material used for daubing walls
USAGE EXAMPLE 1:
The medicinal paste was daubed over the wound.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2:
Walls around the ground were daubed with slogans

proletarian [ proh-li-TAIR-ee-uh’n ]
[noun,adjective]
MEANING:
1. (n.) a person belonging to the working class of society
2. (n.) the poorest class of people
3. (adj.) belonging to the working class of society
2. (adj.) pertaining to the poor or the lowest class of people in society
USAGE EXAMPLE 1:
The merchants always took advantage of the proletarians.
USAGE EXAMPLE 2:
It was largely a proletarian religious movement in significant alliance with that class’s new literacy and sense of a power to make itself heard and, moreover, to remake the world.