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	19-Jan-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists potentate [ POHT-n-teyt ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   1. a powerful personality who rules others, an emperor or sovereign 2. a dominant person, leader of a group or venture   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Obama, a charismatic potentate, is renowned for his calm mannerisms   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The coastline of South Africa, stretching 1,740 miles (2,800 kilometers) from Mozambique to Namibia, is presided over by two great oceanic systems: a powerful current on one side of the continent and a strong upwelling on the other. Like potentates, they control what happens in their respective realms. National Geographic, Oceans of Plenty , By Kennedy Warne   probity [ PROH-bi-tee, PROB-i- ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   honesty, fidelity or integrity   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   His probity was never in question but his actions seemed suspicious.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   Mr Begich touts his own probity, giving links to dozens of financial-disclosure reports on his website. The Economist, The challenger, Sep 4th 2008   propitiate [ pruh'-PISH-ee-eyt ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. to reconcile, appease, pacify or mollify   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   A treaty ensured that the warring sides propitiated and peace ensued.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   To suggest audibly that officials should give the benefit of any doubt to Budge in order to propitiate the demonstrative crowd was not calculated to bring favour, though, being familiar with champions who talk to themselves on the court, I did not share their indignation. Telegraph, Fred Perry sets up American record, By A. Wallis Myers, 08 Sep 2008   truism [ TROO-iz-uh'm ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a cliché or an obvious truth   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   She liked to include truisms in her speech.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   It seems almost as a truism, which everyone who cares for the value of openness deems to be self-evident. Oxford, Are Network Neutralists Legal Positivists? (Part I), by Marcelo Thompson, June 12th, 2008   palliate [  PAL-ee-eyt  ]   [ transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (tr. v.) to make a misdeed seem less severe 2. (tr. v.) to relieve the symptoms of an illness   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   He palliated his errors by getting rid of half the evidence.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   By the year 2020 cancer survivors will be living in these houses as a result of implemention of integrated treatment by oncologists and bone marrow transplanters to indeed cure instead of palliate and provide freedom of life instead of capture by disease. CNN, Just Imagine - Living Space: Your views, 27 November 2007   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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