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	22-Oct-11 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists gibe [ jahyb ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr. v.) to jeer or ridicule 2. (tr. v.) to sneer, taunt or scoff 3. (n.) a taunt or sarcastic remark   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   There is probably no truth to the gibe that a certain community in our country is Pro-Pakistani when it comes to the issue of Kashmir.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   There is this much truth – and no more – in the gibe that pluralism is just another form of monist intolerance: as a second-order, meta-ethical view pluralism does not exemplify the same restrictiveness as a monism claiming that all men should subscribe to a particular, definite morality. OXFORD, Taking Pluralism Seriously, By Henry Hardy   alter ego [ AWL-ter EE-goh, eg-oh, AL- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. another aspect of one's self; a second self 2. an inseparable friend or a constant companion   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Sydney Sheldon used the concept of alter ego in a few of his novels.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Batman's alter ego Bruce Wayne has apparently been killed off in the latest issue of the superhero comic. BBC, Comic Batman reaches end of road, 28 November 2008   fatuous [ FACH-oo-uh' s  ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. inane, silly, stupid or foolish 2. unreal or illusory   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   People did not take him seriously owing to his fatuous nature.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   As usual this is a completely fatuous pollitical slant on what should be a non political argument. BBC, Coughing up to curb climate change, Peter Lilley, 25 November 2008   exonerate [ ig-ZON-uh'-reyt ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to excuse from fault or blame 2. to excuse or relieve 3. to discharge or free from   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He was exonerated after the real culprit was apprehended.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Mr Salahi told NBC's Today show there was more to their side of the story – an explanation that would exonerate them from allegations of misconduct in the breach of White House security. The Telegraph, Salahis deny gatecrashing Obama White House dinner, 1 December 2009.   amok(amuck) [ uh'-MUHK, uh'-MOK  ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a psychic disturbance characterized by depression followed by a manic urge to murder (Southeast Asian cultures)   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The executive who ran amok and strangled his boss has been apprehended by the police.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Obama warned that if Congress rejects his plan, "the insurance industry will continue to run amok." CNN, Obama targets insurers in final health care push, 19 March 2010.   Spelled Pronunciation Key Stress marks: [ CAPS ] indicates the primary stressed syllable, as in newspaper [NOOZ-pey-per ] and information [ in-fer-MEY-shuh' n ] CONSONANTS [b] boy, baby, rob [d] do, ladder, bed [f] food, offer, safe [g] get, bigger, dog [h] happy, ahead [j] jump, budget, age [k] can, speaker, stick [l] let, follow, still [m] make, summer, time [n] no, dinner, thin [ng] singer, think, long [p] put, apple, cup [r] run, marry, far, store [s] sit, city, passing, face [sh] she, station, push [t] top, better, cat [ch] church, watching, nature, witch [th] thirsty, nothing, math [th'] this, mother, breathe [v] very, seven, love [w] wear, away [hw] where, somewhat [y] yes, onion [z] zoo, easy, buzz [zh] measure, television, beige   VOWELS [a] apple, can, hat [ey] aid, hate, day [ah] arm, father, aha [air] air, careful, wear [aw] all, or, talk, lost, saw [e] ever, head, get [ee] eat, see, need [eer] ear, hero, beer [er] teacher, afterward, murderer [i] it, big, finishes [ahy] I, ice, hide, deny [o] odd, hot, woffle [oh] owe, road, below [oo] ooze, food, soup, sue [oo'] good, book, put [oi] oil, choice, toy [ou] out, loud, how [uh] up, mother, mud [uh'] about, animal, problem, circus [ur] early, bird, stirring   FOREIGN SOUNDS [a*] Fr. ami [kh*] Scot. loch, Ger. ach or ich [œ] Fr. feu, Ger. schön [r*] Fr. au revoir, Yiddish rebbe [uh*] Fr. oeuvre [y*] Fr. tu, Ger. über   SAMPLE NASALIZED VOWELS [an*] Fr. bien [ahn*] Fr. croissant [awn*] Fr. bon [œn*] Fr. parfum [in*] Port. 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