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	11-Nov-11 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists haughty [ HAW-tee ]   [ adjective ]   MEANING :   1. proud, snobbish or arrogant 2. (archaic) dignified, exalted or noble   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The haughty secretary, with ice in her voice and a pseudo Oxbridge accent was an intimidating figure.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Rampant corruption can easily be blamed on the East India Company, the violence of Gujjars can be pinned on haughty ICS officers who classified the community as a "criminal tribe" and the distortions in our education can be attributed to Lord Macaulay's infamous put-down of Indian culture. THE TIMES OF INDIA, Run over by life? Get streetsmart, 16 Dec 2007, Bachi Karkaria   ameliorate [ uh'-MEEL-yuh'-reyt, uh'-MEE-lee-uh'- ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr.v.) to make better; improve 2. (intr.v.) to grow better; meliorate   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Obama's new road map is specifically structured to help ameliorate the critical economic conditions in USA.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   American financiers and impersonal global forces are now responsible, in ministerial rhetoric, for the limited effect of measures designed to ameliorate the recession, as well as for causing it in the first place. Economist, Year of judgment, Jan 8th 2009   ferocity [ fuh'-ROS-i-tee  ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   fierceness, vehemence or savageness   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Her ferocity was compared to a lioness defending her cubs.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Like Belfast in the 1970s, the ferocity of the violence that was unleashed last week was appalling. Telegraph, As China reels from 184 deaths in Urumqi riots, a beaten woman fears for her husband, David Eimer, 11 July 2009   misdemeanor [ mis-di-MEE-ner ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1.(n.) a misdeed 2. (n.) an instance of misbehaviour 3. (adj.) a minor misdeed which is not as serious as a felony   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The teacher gave him the benefit of the doubt and did not report the misdemeanor to the principal.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   When motoring offences and rubbish-bin misdemeanours are worth the same as convictions for murder, it is easy to see how we have slipped into mass criminalisation. The Telegraph, Surge in convictions among over-40s as police 'chase crime targets', 27 October 2009.   nuance [ NOO-ahns, Fr. ny-AHNZ ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a very slight or subtle difference in meaning or expression 2. a slight degree of difference or variation in tone, shade or colour   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   They were supposed to pay attention to the finer nuances of the accent pertaining to each of the specified regions.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Full of charming detail, emotional nuance, wit and movement, this should keep three to eight year-olds busy for hours. The Telegraph, The best books for all ages, Dinah Hall, 4 April 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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