Daily Wordlist 28-03-11

identikit [ ahy-DEN-ti-kit, i-DEN- ]
	[ noun ]
	MEANING :
	(trademark) a kit that contains transparencies or pictures of several variations of different facial features that are used to reconstruct a person's face based on the description of the eyewitness
	USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
	The witnesses description of the assailant enabled the police to make an identikit which matched closely with the actual person who had committed the crime.
	USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
	The clue came late on Friday when Nair’s relatives visited the ‘Missing Persons Bureau’ in Delhi and stumbled upon a computer identikit of Nair, as one who had been found lying dead on railway tracks leading to the New Delhi railway station. The Times Of India, Missing Malaysian NRI found dead in New Delhi, Mohit Dubey, 15 Jun 2003, TNN
flamboyant [ flam-BOI-uh' nt ]
	[ noun, adjective ]
	MEANING :
	1. (adj.) ornate, showy or florid 2. (adj.) richly colourful, brilliant or flame like 3. (adj.) pertaining to the french gothic architecture of the 15th and 16th century that had characteristic flame like forms and wavy lines 4.(n.) another name for the royal poinciana tree
	USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
	Her flamboyant personality made her famous.
	USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
	Flamboyant costumes for this year's Notting Hill Carnival are being put on show at Alexandra Palace, north London. BBC, Carnival costumes go on display, 17 August 2008
beatify [ bee-AT-uh'-fahy ]
	[ transitive verb ]
	MEANING :
	1. to make blessedly, supremely or blissfully happy 2. to pronounce one who has deceased to be blessed and thus worthy of being venerated
	USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
	They were beatified as per the decision taken by the Vatican.
	USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
	Cardinal John Henry Newman, the most famous British convert to Catholicism, could be beatified this year, the Vatican has said, setting him on a path to become the first British saint for 40 years. Telegraph, Vatican to make Cardinal Newman a saint, By Malcolm Moore in Rome, 10 Jan 2008
callus [ KAL-uh's ]
	[ noun, intransitive verb ]
	MEANING :
	1. (n.) a spot on the skin which is thickened 2. (intr. v.) to form or develop into thickened skin
	USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
	He was a labourer with rough, callused hands.
	USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
	When the skin on your toes gets inflamed, a callus can develop, causing more pressure on the ingrown nail. CNN, Why your feet hurt, Sally Wadyka, 20 July 2009.
cascade [ kas-KEYD ]
	[ noun, verb ]
	MEANING :
	1. (n.) a waterfall or a series of waterfalls descending over a steep, rocky surface 2. (n.) a succession of stages, processes, operations, or units 3. (n.) like a waterfall 4. (n.) an arrangement of a lightweight fabric in folds falling one over another at random 5. (tr. v.) to cause to descend like a waterfall 6. (intr. v.) to fall in a steady flow
	USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :
	The tour leader stopped bus so that the tourists could take photographs of the beautiful cascade.
	USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :
	The whole cascade relies on each of the six patients being in good health at the same time.  The Telegraph, First three-way kidney transplants carried out in Britain, Rebecca Smith, 8 March 2010.