DAILY WORDLIST =========== trough ###################################### MEANING : 1. an open boxlike receptacle used chiefly to hold water or food for animals 2. the lowest point in an economic cycle 3. a conduit or channel for conveying water 4. a long depression between two consecutive ridges or waves USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : The horses trotted up to the trough to have a drink of water. USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : The brewery produces about four-and-a-half gallons of waste beer and I simply pour it in the trough and the cattle drink it, said Mr Humphreys, who farms 200 acres at Upper Bryntalch. bric-a-brac ################################### MEANING : an assortment of small articles collected chiefly for decoration or sentimental value USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : The hosts sitting room was full of expensive bric-a-brac that he had assiduously collected over the years. USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : Need to dust that collection of glass animals or other delicate items? Put on some fabric gloves -- the softer the better -- to clean your bric-a-brac thoroughly. soporific #################################### MEANING : 1. (adj.) causing or tending to cause sleep 2. (adj.) of or pertaining to sleep or drowsiness 3. (n.) something that causes sleep USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : For a generation brought up on a diet of T20 cricket, a test match could prove to be positively soporific. USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : His lecture is titled Meaning in American Politics, but it might have been better titled Dreaming in American Politics, for it proves a powerful soporific. dissimulate ################################## MEANING : 1. (tr.v.) to conceal, disguise or hide ones true motives or feelings by using a false appearance 2. (intr.v.) to dissemble or conceal ones true motives by means of a pretence or disguise USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : He dissimulated information because he was working undercover. USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : Those who know not how to dissimulate, know not how to rule. scarify ##################################### MEANING : 1. to make superficial or shallow incisions or cuts 2. to lacerate or criticise severely USAGE EXAMPLE 1 : While getting a tattoo, the skin has to be scarified making it a painful process. USAGE EXAMPLE 2 : In the Gulf of Mexico, trawlers ply back and forth year in year out, hauling vast nets that scarify the seabed and allow no time for plant and animal life to recover.
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